Some parents forbid young children from owning smartphones (cell phones with Internet access), while others disagree and believe that they are important tools for keeping in touch. Which point of view do you think is better, and why?
I would side with the parents having the former point of view - young children should not be allowed to own smartphones. While the advantages smartphones offer in today’s world can not be ignored, young children (especially under the age of 15) can completely without them. Smartphones are distractive, at the least, and destructive at their worst. Children need balanced lives, with appropriate amount of physical activity and focus on skill development and academic growth. Smartphones are a hindrance to all of these activites. The addiction of social media, games, music keeps a child occupied - leaving him no time for physical activity. Easy access to solutions to their homeworks and assignments hamstrings their mental growth.
Another issue that comes with owning a smartphone is security (or its lack, thereof). There is a plethora of cybercrime and malicious users who can harm a child (and even adults) in many ways. From inappropriate information gleaning to possibly abuse and even physical harm in some cases, children are susceptible to many such possible crimes if they are not careful (and in majority of the cases, one cannot expect a 10-year old to be able to identify such crimes by himself).
Exceptions can be made for students who are living away from home and in such cases, smartphones would definitely help them to be in touch with their families, but even in those cases - perhaps the parents themselves should have control (or supervision) over the data plans, etc. that the child uses.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 277, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e age of 15 can completely without them. Smartphones are distractive, at the leas...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'if', 'so', 'while', 'in some cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.243727598566 0.229887763892 106% => OK
Verbs: 0.129032258065 0.158761421928 81% => OK
Adjectives: 0.10752688172 0.0866891130778 124% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0465949820789 0.046263068375 101% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0430107526882 0.0685040099705 63% => OK
Prepositions: 0.114695340502 0.118717715034 97% => OK
Participles: 0.0358422939068 0.0351676179071 102% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.97809511251 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0322580645161 0.0309702414327 104% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00188951952338 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.078853046595 0.0887237588012 89% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0322580645161 0.0209618222197 154% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.010752688172 0.0139019557991 77% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1522.0 2387.08602151 64% => OK
No of words: 249.0 408.028673835 61% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.1124497992 5.86048508987 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97237131171 4.48200974243 89% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.361445783133 0.338922669872 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.265060240964 0.251872472559 105% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.21686746988 0.174417080927 124% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.128514056225 0.112833075102 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97809511251 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 212.727598566 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.626506024096 0.524397521467 119% => OK
Word variations: 67.8250251852 59.2087087015 115% => OK
How many sentences: 11.0 20.6684587814 53% => OK
Sentence length: 22.6363636364 20.5533526081 110% => OK
Sentence length SD: 84.0887960422 48.84282405 172% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.363636364 120.699889404 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6363636364 20.5533526081 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.454545454545 0.644075263715 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.5376344086 66% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.54480286738 18% => OK
Readability: 49.1423877327 45.7405998639 107% => OK
Elegance: 1.80327868852 1.45489161554 124% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272826780855 0.300154397459 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0937306505757 0.103427244359 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0979011467018 0.0752933317313 130% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.484399825705 0.497263757937 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.213328998871 0.151897553556 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109622260415 0.114077575197 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0419682655328 0.0781384742642 54% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.282294522357 0.336927656856 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0102683913093 0.067059652881 15% => Paragraphs are so close to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191033669934 0.210909579961 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0299790778297 0.0618886996521 48% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 11.8870967742 34% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.86379928315 129% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.91756272401 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 2.0 8.42114695341 24% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 4.0 2.4623655914 162% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.75985663082 36% => OK
Total topic words: 7.0 13.6433691756 51% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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