A person’s worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important.To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

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A person’s worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

In recent history, our perception of a successful and person has changed a lot. There are less and less children dreaming to become brave soldiers, firefighters, farmers or astronauts. Nowadays, if they think about their future they will most likely dream about being very rich and having very high social status, even if they have no idea on how to achieve both of these things. Therefore, I agree with an opinion of many people, that material possessions and social status are the most important things in one’s life.

In the past, the people who had great amount of wealth were usually rulers, lords or were from a royal family. They were people with power who accumulated most of the wealth from the community. There were not many ways to gain that power. You were either born as a king, or you had to slay the king and become one yourself, which was not very easy. I think that is the reason why average people did not put much thought into gaining material riches, or move up the social ranks. Sure, they feared their wealthy powerful lords, but they did not look up to them. They appreciated bravery, honour kindness and trust more than anything. Brave warriors were celebrated while people with riches were only feared by common folk.

I think these traits are also present in socialistic societies. Everyone is equal materially and socially wise; there is not much competiton between people. Nowadays, there are many ways for an average man or woman to raise their social status or gain significant amount of wealth.However, there is also more pressure on normal people to provide for existence. Everyone is chasing money and big careers, and rarely will someone pick more moral option than the more materially benefiting option. The race for success and luxury became the norm in most of the today’s world population. People look up to and respect more famous and successful people, because they inspire them. Their achievements will give average folk hope that they can succeed aswell.

In conclusion, world is getting more and more competitive. In order to succeed, there is no room to take noble traits like kindness, trust and honour into account. As some would say, it is a small puddle full of crocodiles.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 100, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun children is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
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Line 9, column 282, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, so, therefore, well, while, i think, in conclusion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 10.4138276553 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1870.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 380.0 315.596192385 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92105263158 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46456746667 2.80592935109 88% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563157894737 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 581.4 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.5156889023 49.4020404114 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.0 106.682146367 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2727272727 20.7667163134 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.63636363636 7.06120827912 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 8.67935871743 207% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => 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: 0.113140633665 0.244688304435 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0320795373177 0.084324248473 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0408495653693 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0703982867156 0.151304729494 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0316293211839 0.056905535591 56% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.0946893788 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 50.2224549098 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.3001002004 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.96 12.4159519038 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.58950901804 91% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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