Nowadays consumer goods have become the most important part of people’s lives. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
It is true that due to consumer confidence regarding both the overall condition of the economy and their personal financial future, many parts of the world have witnessed a rise in the level of spending on consumer goods ranging from food and clothing to luxury items such as jewelry and electronics. However, notwithstanding its benefits, the effects of such a trend seem to be largely negative.
On the one hand, it is argued that high demands for consumer items could be accompanied by several favorable economic and social impacts. To begin with, boosting the production, more quest for these products could create more employment possibilities, bolstering the economy and as such, uplifting the standard of living in a country during the course of time. Hence, more people could be lifted out of poverty and into a stable middle class. In a similar way, positive social conducts would prevail in society and crime rates would be diminished accordingly, as prospering from an enhanced quality of life, individuals would have a less tendency for committing the crime and anti-social behaviors.
On the flip side, I concur with the view taken by many people that the more people spend on consumer goods, the more adverse consequences would inevitably arise. Firstly, aspiring to achieve more, individuals would tend to pursue material gains, unintentionally equating happiness with owning the latest fashion items, indulging in eating and drinking, and going on extravagant vacations. This is perhaps the biggest problem that would plague our world. Such a craving would also make people more workaholic and, in turn, bring tension and stress to people’s lives. Furthermore, consumerism would undoubtedly pose detrimental effects to the environment, as undue consumption would both accelerate natural resource depletion and make a negative contribution to climate change.
In conclusion, while the merits of spending a great deal of money on consumer goods could be recognizable, I believe that it would certainly bring more harm than doing good.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 335, Rule ID: DURING_THE_COURSE_OF[1]
Message: Use simply 'during'.
Suggestion: during
...ing the standard of living in a country during the course of time. Hence, more people could be lifte...
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Line 5, column 444, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "In a similar way" with adverb for "similar"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...poverty and into a stable middle class. In a similar way, positive social conducts would prevail...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, regarding, so, while, in conclusion, such as, it is true, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1748.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 324.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3950617284 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91105999756 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.611111111111 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 539.1 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => 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: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.9242064147 49.4020404114 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.666666667 106.682146367 137% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 20.7667163134 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.0 7.06120827912 170% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => 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: 0.135182828217 0.244688304435 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0501870638931 0.084324248473 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.050169866644 0.0667982634062 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0879935135335 0.151304729494 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0310204935947 0.056905535591 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 13.0946893788 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 50.2224549098 71% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.7 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 78.4519038076 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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