We often hear that new technology presents a threat to our traditions. In what ways, however, can new technologies help maintain our traditions?
Modern technologies, which develop more and more each day, can be dangerous to the traditions. The problems they cause for the traditional culture and also the ways in which they can, however, help to save them will be discussed in this essay.
Looking first at the problems, there are two main issues stemming from the technological development. First of all, new technologies enhance globalization, which is known to level out differences between cultures and peoples. For example, the majority of people all over the world follows the same fashion trends and wears almost absolutely similar clothing, while national costumes are only put on for big celebrations or displayed in museums. The other concern is that many traditions die as they cannot compete with new ways of living, brought by modern technologies. For instance, writing letters or sending postcards now appears to be quite outdated, since devices such as mobile phones have made the communication much easier and faster.
Regarding the ways how technologies can help to preserve traditions, there are two major positive sides. Firstly, traditional heritage can be digitalized and stored online for unlimited time periods. The death of a language no longer means losing it forever, as songs or folklore tales in it, if recorded, can always be brought back to life. Secondly, the information about the traditional dresses, national dishes, language peculiarities or celebrations can be rapidly spread all over the world through the Internet. The more people watch the videos of, for example, the traditional Japanese shadow theater performances, the longer it will probably exist, fueled by the people’s interest.
To conclude, although technology does pose a certain threat to the traditions by blurring out distinctions and replacing the traditional lifestyle with the new one, it can still be useful by saving the traditions in the digital form and
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, look, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, while, for example, for instance, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 24.0651302605 42% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 303.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38613861386 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95156912251 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.630363036304 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 506.74238477 99% => 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: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.6273193586 49.4020404114 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.538461538 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3076923077 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4615384615 7.06120827912 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
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: 0.203550405792 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0739942005708 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060550801754 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133775006395 0.151304729494 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0434182968389 0.056905535591 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.28 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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