Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Success is defined by the amount of money someone earns.
Nowadays, it is a universal truth that virtually everyone would like to be successful. This is because success is associated with recognition by society, status, money, and happiness. Although many people may think that success depends on how much money you make, I disagree with this idea for several reasons which I will elaborate on in this essay.
First and foremost, I believe success is related to many factors, and not just solely with money. One of the most important factors may be how much you have achieved in your life. Stated that, we can say that success is a subjective concept. We cannot compare two individuals that have reached the same position, but come from two different backgrounds. For instance, let's suppose that two prestigious cardiologists want to compare their success. One cardiologist comes from a low-income family, and the other comes from a well-known, wealthy family of doctors in which studying medicine has been a tradition, and simply one more step in life. Of course, we can say that despite both professionals being in the same job position, the one who has humble origins has had to surpass more obstacles in life than the second, and that his life has been more successful.
In addition, another important factor which success is based is self-satisfaction. Without a doubt, everyone has different priorities in life. Some people are money-focused, so they will work assiduously in order to make as much money as they can. Others are more people-oriented, and they will be concerned about developing healthy relationships with their family and friends. And probably for the minority, their focus could be to obey God’s commandments. Obviously, these three groups of people mentioned would deem their success based on what they consider important, and what makes them happy. For instance, a young engineer who wants to be rich and for that he creates a lucrative software company which, fortunately, generates high profit in its early years, there is no doubt that this person would consider himself successful. However, if your focus is not money, but rather being a good person: generous, kind, and a devout Catholic, you will not admire that engineer who thinks that he is successful, and his money will not be important at all to you. The center of your attention will be your relationship with God, and you will base your success according to spiritual standards.
In summary, from my point of view, success is not related to money, but it is based on what you have done in your life and how content you are with your actions.
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- Advances in transportation and communication like the airplane and the telephone have changed the way that nations interact with each other in a global society. Choose another technological innovation that you think is important. Give specific reasons for 76
- Some people say that the Internet provides with a lot of valuable information. Others think access to so much information creates problems. Which do you agree with? 60
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Success is defined by the amount of money someone earns. 76
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, well, for instance, in addition, in summary, no doubt, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 15.1003584229 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 43.0788530466 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 52.1666666667 92% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2157.0 1977.66487455 109% => OK
No of words: 432.0 407.700716846 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99305555556 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55901411391 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80307825935 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523148148148 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 659.7 618.680645161 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 14.0 1.86738351254 750% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.9776574149 48.9658058833 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.85 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6 20.6045352989 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.3 5.45110844103 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.164910210888 0.236089414692 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0571098039131 0.076458572812 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0579528224867 0.0737576698707 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129622544082 0.150856017488 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0449349097814 0.0645574589148 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 10.9000537634 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 86.8835125448 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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