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 traditional beliefs and views 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 doubt the opinion that all traditional ideas are helpless.
To begin with, we have to admit that some conventional thinking and behaviors has obviously decayed and even become limits for the younger generations. For instance, in ancient China, young girls should get married before the age of 25, 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. Obviously, these conservative and outdated traditions should and will soon become history.
Of course, that is not to say that we should underestimate the value of old beliefs. Some traditional views are applicable to modern society, some are even precious. 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. In addition, although some conventions seem useless, they are the essence of our traditional culture. When combined with new thing, they may show us surprises. The adapted Chinese traditional dress -- chi-pao, which has becomes popular on an international stage, is a good example.
In all, I am personally convinced that although some old ideas are useless and even seem stupid, there still exit those of values. It is important for us to inherit the essence of traditional beliefs and improve some of them by adding new things continuously to keep human civilization dynamic and active.
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Discourse Markers used:
['conversely', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'still', 'while', 'for example', 'for instance', 'in addition', 'of course', 'such as', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.175824175824 0.247107183377 71% => OK
Verbs: 0.159340659341 0.155533422707 102% => OK
Adjectives: 0.156593406593 0.0946595960268 165% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0549450549451 0.0501214627716 110% => OK
Pronouns: 0.043956043956 0.0437548338989 100% => OK
Prepositions: 0.101648351648 0.122226691241 83% => OK
Participles: 0.0302197802198 0.0403226058552 75% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.91175453247 2.80594681477 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0302197802198 0.0326793684256 92% => OK
Particles: 0.00274725274725 0.00163938923432 168% => OK
Determiners: 0.0714285714286 0.0861772015684 83% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0247252747253 0.021408717616 115% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0164835164835 0.011925033212 138% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2017.0 1933.35771543 104% => OK
No of words: 321.0 316.048096192 102% => OK
Chars per words: 6.28348909657 6.12580529183 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.20517956788 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.392523364486 0.374742101984 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.299065420561 0.28420135186 105% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.205607476636 0.203846283523 101% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.14953271028 0.137316102897 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91175453247 2.80594681477 104% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.037074148 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588785046729 0.56093040696 105% => OK
Word variations: 65.7279632758 60.7387585426 108% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0891783567 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.8823529412 20.7743622355 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.3180160781 49.517814964 57% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.647058824 127.492653851 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8823529412 20.7743622355 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.705882352941 0.814263465372 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 48.7888949973 49.1944974215 99% => OK
Elegance: 1.1914893617 1.69124875643 70% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.392745750477 0.332605444948 118% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.063495199027 0.102741220458 62% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0406837626791 0.0668466124924 61% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.474054725906 0.534860350844 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.136491432311 0.148594505496 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1368241694 0.134430193775 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0701794637163 0.0742795772207 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.289324936098 0.324371583561 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0799323350028 0.0638462369009 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.259473209047 0.228012699653 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0722088429141 0.058150111329 124% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.68436873747 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.41683366733 88% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 5.90881763527 118% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 2.5751503006 233% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 1.9629258517 102% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 10.4468937876 144% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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