Today, the high sales of popular consumer goods reflect the power of advertising and not the real needs of the society in which they are sold. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Today, the high sales of popular consumer goods reflect the power of advertising and not the real needs of the society in which they are sold. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

It is true that an increase in the sales of prevalent consumer merchandises is originated from advertising rather than our real demands. There are good arguments both for and against this view, but I believe this depends on different reasons.

I completely concur with the idea that advertising leads to higher consumption of some ubiquitous consumer goods. The first prominent justification is that advertising has been manipulating the consumer behavior of consumers. It is true that advertisers strive to persuade consumers that buying a commodity will make them happier. Furthermore, the purpose of advertising is causing consumers to live in a consumer culture. This means that as soon as advertising occurred, people inclined to follow the latest trend and associate certain brands with higher status. Following latest trendy outfit is a prime example for consumerism which is simulated by advertising. Consequently, the increasing sales of some popular consumer products stem from the manipulation of advertisers.

However, I believe that some common consumer goods are also driven by the real needs of the community. First, people have more demands for some consumer goods in order to have better health. In today’s busy world, the health aspect of consumer goods plays a more vital role in our awareness. The whole food, for instance, is one of the consumer goods gaining popularity by real demands. Second, there are increasing sales of high-tech products which are indispensable for consumers nowadays. As a matter of fact, without electronic devices, people would fail to deal with a ton of tasks in work as well as daily activities. These commodities even create more real demands for people to have higher living standards.

In conclusion, while reasons can be given to justify that advertising is the reason for increasing the sales of common consumer goods rather than the real demands of people, I believe this is not an accurate statement under any circumstances.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, as a matter of fact, as well as, it is true

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1690.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 315.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36507936508 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95465691417 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542857142857 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 525.6 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.8876595507 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.4117647059 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5294117647 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.11764705882 7.06120827912 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238473429127 0.244688304435 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0848035181329 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481347958033 0.0667982634062 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144212374994 0.151304729494 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.033399386573 0.056905535591 59% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.0946893788 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => 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: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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