It has been argued that gift giving should not be encouraged, because money is often wasted on things that people do not like or want.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Some people have suggested that the practice of gift giving should no longer be sustained, as it entices people to spend money on items that are neither needed or desired. I largely disagree with this view and I will explain in the following essay.
It should be recognized that gift buyers do not always make the best shopping decisions. Gifts such as books, garments and jewels are widely considered as popular gift options. Owing to such ubiquity, people may buy these items, for lack of either viable options or knowledge about what could cater for the recipient's needs. In these cases, it is true that shopping for presents could result in a wasteful expenditure of money.
However, I would argue that gift exchanging is a meaningful practice that should be continued. To begin with, purchases of presents would only be meaningless if they were done arbitrarily and without consideration. In contrast, mindful gift buying with insights into what the recipient wants can lead to the giving of practical presents. Additionally, there is more to a gift than just its practical use. Albeit of little use in real life, a trinket of a region or a special local handicraft can fill a recipient with a sense of appreciation, which may strengthen their bond with the gift giver.
The last point to add is that aside for buying gifts, people can also make gifts by hand. Handmade gifts that have great sentimental values, such as scrapbooks or a memory jar, can be made without needing a great sum of money.
In conclusion, while I acknowledge that unplanned gift shopping could be a waste of money, I contend that exchanging presents should be encouraged, as long as it is done in a thoughtful manner.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, then, while, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, it is true, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 7.85571142285 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1425.0 1615.20841683 88% => OK
No of words: 291.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89690721649 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71099828418 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 176.041082164 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577319587629 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 425.7 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.437719813 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.785714286 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7857142857 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.35714285714 7.06120827912 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252908918569 0.244688304435 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0866485856025 0.084324248473 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0403891708812 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139332678539 0.151304729494 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0326285402252 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 50.2224549098 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.