The older generations tend to have traditional ideas about how people should live, think and behave. Some people argue that these traditional ideas are not helpful in preparing the younger generations for modern life. Do you agree or disagree?

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The older generations tend to have traditional ideas about how people should live, think and behave. Some people argue that these traditional ideas are not helpful in preparing the younger generations for modern life. Do you agree or disagree?

We are living in an era where the older generation are quickly left behind by the fast-changing society. When traditions no longer suit the society, people argue that old ideas would not help the young to adapt to modern life. While I agree some traditional views are useless and even restrictive, I strongly doubt that all traditional ideas are helpless.

Undoubtedly, getting to know the traditions and old cultures is the first step to take if we want to step forward. Human development is always based on history and civilization created by our pioneers. Therefore, it is necessary for the younger generation to know the conventions in their own culture, even though they are regarded out-of-date, because people can always choose the most essential to inherit and the most promisingly valuable things to improve.

Furthermore, we have to admit that some traditional views do value, some are even precious in modern society. Although the economical and social environment is changing, something in root should remain unchanged. For example, ancient Chinese people attach great significance to working hard, which is still valuable and appreciated in today’s workplace. Other traditional characteristics in China such as politeness, honesty and good manners are still beneficial if young people can adopt them.

Of course, that is not to say that we should overestimate the effect of old values and views. Some of them has obviously decayed and become limits for the younger generation. For instance, in ancient China, young girls should get married before the age of 20, otherwise they will be criticized and despised. Conversely, today, it is not wise to choose to get married unless one has a stable income and certain amount of savings.

In all, although some old ideas are useless and even seem stupid, there still exit those of value that can be helpful in individual development. More importantly, we should recognize our capability and importance in improving old conventions and inheriting the essence of our traditional culture.

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Discourse Markers used:
['conversely', 'first', 'furthermore', 'if', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'while', 'for example', 'for instance', 'of course', 'such as']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.173441734417 0.247107183377 70% => OK
Verbs: 0.170731707317 0.155533422707 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.135501355014 0.0946595960268 143% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0758807588076 0.0501214627716 151% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0460704607046 0.0437548338989 105% => OK
Prepositions: 0.10298102981 0.122226691241 84% => OK
Participles: 0.0406504065041 0.0403226058552 101% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.92896105038 2.80594681477 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0352303523035 0.0326793684256 108% => OK
Particles: 0.00271002710027 0.00163938923432 165% => OK
Determiners: 0.0677506775068 0.0861772015684 79% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0243902439024 0.021408717616 114% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0135501355014 0.011925033212 114% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2055.0 1933.35771543 106% => OK
No of words: 328.0 316.048096192 104% => OK
Chars per words: 6.26524390244 6.12580529183 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.20517956788 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.390243902439 0.374742101984 104% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.283536585366 0.28420135186 100% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.210365853659 0.203846283523 103% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.158536585366 0.137316102897 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92896105038 2.80594681477 104% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 176.037074148 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582317073171 0.56093040696 104% => OK
Word variations: 64.9146726309 60.7387585426 107% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0891783567 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.5 20.7743622355 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.7817777852 49.517814964 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.4375 127.492653851 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 20.7743622355 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.75 0.814263465372 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38877755511 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 48.8536585366 49.1944974215 99% => OK
Elegance: 1.08333333333 1.69124875643 64% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.38479275279 0.332605444948 116% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.066361797235 0.102741220458 65% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0367000917264 0.0668466124924 55% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.554571487005 0.534860350844 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.118356089036 0.148594505496 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143696310209 0.134430193775 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631784059673 0.0742795772207 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.262425684412 0.324371583561 81% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0186945579464 0.0638462369009 29% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.241513126426 0.228012699653 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.072249519329 0.058150111329 124% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.68436873747 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.41683366733 59% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 5.90881763527 118% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 2.5751503006 194% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 1.9629258517 51% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 10.4468937876 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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