Companies spend millions each year advertising online, in magazines and on billboards. These adverts can often encourage people to want and buy things that they do not need. What are the positive and negative effects of consumerism?

There are myriad ways for companies and corporations to promote their products to people, and millions of dollar have been poured into advertising via online, in magazines or on billboards, to sell any merchandise as quickly as possible. Consumers may have a strong desire to buy these advertised products which they do not not need. In this essay. I will discuss some of the positive and negative impacts of this trend of consumption on the society.

On the one hand, the upsurge of popularity of one product can significantly increase the sales of it, which is a good thing, because it is beneficial for the selling company and the current economy of that specific country. For example, a 3-in-1 juicer that any housewife in the world would be thrilled to have it in their kitchens. Furthermore, humans are unpredictable and our needs are diversified and carefully categorized. We are successively in need of new products which can satisfy us in all aspects. Advertising may help people to be able to own things that they have not acknowledged of before, catering to every particular taste of humans.

On the other hand, adverts are shown everywhere, in the back of toilet doors, on billboards or on the big TV screen in the middle of Times Square. It could be the merits of a certain shampoo or a cereal brand, and these frequent appearances might urge us to buy things that are redundant. Who would need one more square shaped bottle of shower gel when they already have ten of them with different shapes at home? Moreover, the thought of another shopping spree tempt us to buy more which may cause us big debts in our credit cards.

In conclusion, there are both upside and downside of consumerism. Personally, I think it we should only buy commodities that we need with feasible prices.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, for example, i think, in conclusion, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.3376753507 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1492.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 310.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81290322581 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77558104837 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590322580645 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.4826170036 49.4020404114 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.4666666667 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6666666667 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06120827912 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => 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: 0.219820318341 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0600775709957 0.084324248473 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.052896217691 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118788641897 0.151304729494 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0669055475538 0.056905535591 118% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 50.2224549098 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.4159519038 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => 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: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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