People today rarely interact with their neighbors, and this is having a harmful effect on local communities.
What are the possible causes of this trend?
What can be done to address it?
Community life has transformed significantly over the years. Unlike in the past, people nowadays rarely interact with their neighbors for obvious reasons. However, finding a solution to this problem can be tricky.
One of the reasons for a dramatic decline in interactions among neighbors is the sense of anonymity. In other words, most people, migrating to urban areas in search of a better life, rent apartments, and barely get to know the people living in the neighborhood. They, however, with the help of technology continue to keep in touch with friends and neighbors from their hometowns. This brings us to our second reason: technology. Now people spend more time socializing in the virtual world via social networking websites such as Facebook or Instagram. Apart from this, in developed countries watching TV, in particular Netflix, has reportedly gained more popularity, taking a large chunk of people’s free time.
There are a number of ways that have been suggested to boost interaction between neighbors. One such way is to organize community events such as volunteering to help build a local library or picnic in the local park. Such events are a sure way to help people get to know their neighbors. Another, perhaps, even a better solution can lie with technology, once believed to be the main culprit. A new social networking site, Nextdoor, is just like Facebook, but it helps its users to establish connections with their neighbors, instead of existing friends over a long distance. As of 2015, people from hundreds of communities across the United States were on Nextdoor, and this number is bound to increase if this project goes global.
To sum up, while urbanization and technology are the main contributory factors, the latter can be the most effective solution to reverse this trend.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, second, so, while, apart from, in particular, such as, in other words, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 7.30460921844 14% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1525.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15202702703 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81630950914 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608108108108 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9194012198 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.3125 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29939797064 0.244688304435 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0900025213479 0.084324248473 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0524193514209 0.0667982634062 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190745536419 0.151304729494 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0468499053678 0.056905535591 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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