In many countries, traditional dress and costumes are considered effective ways of maintaining links with the past. How effective can traditional costumes be, in this sense? What other ways exist to help citizens connect with a country's past?
Traditions and cultural values play a major role to uphold the fabric of society. There are multiple ways to pass on social morals from one generation to the next. One particular form, traditional garment, might be a great visual reminder of one culture but it is far from being the most effective way to connect youths with previous generations.
Admittedly, traditional clothes serve as a great metaphoric presentation of a people. Vietnamese national costume, Ao Dai is well-rooted in its culture. In fact, people wear Ao Dai daily, at festivals and during historic events. Thus, any sight of Ao Dai could easily evoke memories linked to Vietnamese history. However, a part from being a reminder of Vietnam culture, not much information can be extracted from the image of Ao Dai itself.
To truly inherit the spirit of previous generations, other forms of media seem to be more effective. Take a documentary; for instance; it can describe in factual details a culture from its inception through major challenges during its forming years and up until the present; each key event could be illustrated with supporting footages or stories of people from the past eras. Similarly, books are crucial to conserve past values. While a symbolic piece of clothes might be limited in its storytelling and a movie, restricted in its duration; books can cover a subject as long as it needs. There are no restrictions in the number of words, pages in a book. If the topic is lengthy, writers can always break it into a series of books easily unlike in other forms of media where it would take a lot more time and efforts.
To sum up, even though traditional costumes can serve as a visual symbol of one culture, other forms of media such as books or movies are more effective methods to maintain cultural values.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 162, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... is well-rooted in its culture. In fact, people wear Ao Dai daily, at festivals a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, similarly, so, thus, well, while, for instance, in fact, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 7.30460921844 14% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1505.0 1615.20841683 93% => OK
No of words: 308.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88636363636 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72982834807 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 176.041082164 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 479.7 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.0999168053 49.4020404114 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.333333333 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5333333333 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.2 7.06120827912 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198387297818 0.244688304435 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0583192058705 0.084324248473 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0549338176896 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12503905176 0.151304729494 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0533106728748 0.056905535591 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.0946893788 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.4159519038 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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