Some people think that money is one of the most essential factors in promoting happiness. Do you think people can be happy without much money? What other factors contribute towards happiness?

Money is considered an essential factor for people to feel happy about their life. But we do not really need too much money to actually make us happy, because obviously there are other issues such as self-satisfaction and love from family or friends can also contribute to the happiness of an individual.

It is defiantly true that we cannot live without a reasonable level of basic materials which are purchased by money. Just imagine the daily life of a person who needs to pay for everything, without money he or she cannot even survive in modern society not to mention being happy. I think nobody would ask refugees in Syria whether they are happy or not because it is already difficult for them to survive, happiness is certainly luxury.

However, are they automatically happy when their basic needs being met? I am afraid not. Happiness was and has always been luxury for most people, it is not because the amount of money, but because the recipe of happiness is more than simply a lot of money. In fact, there are plenty of filthy rich people feel unhappy. Meanwhile thousands of ordinary people are enjoying their simple but priceless happy lives.

In my view, as long as our basic needs being met, more money would not necessarily make us happier. Indeed, factors like self- satisfaction and being loved probably have greater marginal effect. For instance, workaholic who filled their life with work would feel happier when they finished an excellent project as they got huge self-satisfaction from it. A child who experienced parents divorcing at an early age might set finding someone to set a complete family as his life goal when he grows up, because being loved is the vital thing to his happiness.

To summarize, I think people need a certain amount of money to survive before they can feel happy. Apart from that, self-satisfaction and being loved are also closely linked to individual’s happiness.

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Average: 8.4 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Meanwhile,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, really, so, while, apart from, for instance, i think, in fact, such as, i am afraid, in my view

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 13.1623246493 167% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1608.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 326.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93251533742 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7330582572 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576687116564 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 512.1 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5933693539 49.4020404114 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.5 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.375 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0625 7.06120827912 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.67935871743 173% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.311710545785 0.244688304435 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100593456584 0.084324248473 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0729833326427 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186183016277 0.151304729494 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0738229255617 0.056905535591 130% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.4159519038 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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