Compare the celebration of New Year in Vietnam and in the United States
New Year Day is an important time for everyone regardless of their nationalities. All over the world, everybody is always eager and waits for this time in a year. However, the celebrations of New Year in each country are not nearly parallel because different cultures observe their traditional or religious New Year Day according to their own customs. In this essay, we will examine some similarities and differences between New Year’s celebration in The United States and Tet holiday in Vietnam.
In the first place, they share some similarities. Both of them have some days off. At that time, in both of these countries all businesses, schools and offices are closed and every family always gathers to take part in parties together. In addition, at New Year time, Vietnamese spend time visiting their relatives and their friends just as Americans do. Moreover, this is the moments for not only Vietnamese but also Americans to do their meaningful things such as forgiving, repairing broken relationships and thinking about the future
Despite some similarities, there are several differences in the celebrations of New Year in these countries. The first difference is the time. Americans celebrate New Year on the first day of the civil year, meanwhile Vietnamese’ Tet holiday starts on the first day of lunar year which is a month later than Americans’ celebration of New Year. Besides, the celebrations of New Year in The United States always last for about three days while Tet holiday in Vietnam usually lasts until for up to a week from 29th December to 5th January according to Lunar Calendar.
The next distinction is the preparation. In Vietnam, Tet holiday is the busiest time of the year when the whole family make up plans for cleaning the house and decorate their houses with kumquat trees and peach blossom trees. They also make a lot of traditional food such as Chung cakes, Vietnamese sausages, sticky rice, boiled chicken and spring rolls. Unlike Vietnamese people, Americans simply prepare for New Year. They do not decorate their house with kumquat trees or peach blossom trees just like Vietnamese. It can be said that, Vietnamese pay great attention to the dishes in the meals on Tet holiday; nonetheless, Americans rather focus on drinks than dishes. Some Americans even say that they can not countown to New Year without a drink in their hand. Therefore, they usually buy many their enjoyable kinds of beverage such as champagne, tequila, vodka and whiskey.
The most notable difference is the tradition. Each country has its own tradition on New Year’s Day. In this occasion, Vietnamese always go to pagodas to pray a happy, successful and lucky year but Americans always go to churches to pray. The special thing is that most Americans make New Year’s resolutions. These usually are their promises to themselves that they will improve something in their own lives. For example, they will lose weight, or stop smoking or drinking alcohol, live a healthier lifestyle even learn English. Meanwhile in Vietnam adults always give lucky money to children which is a small amount of money put in a tiny red envelope as a wish of luck and health for children
In conclusion, the celebrations of New Year in The United States and in Vietnam has some similarities such as having some days off, visiting relatives and friends and doing meaningful things. Besides, there are some obvious differences between these two cultures including the time, the preparation and the tradition. From my perspective, both two countries have interesting and unique features in the way they welcome New Year.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, moreover, nonetheless, so, therefore, while, as for, as to, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
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Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 24.0651302605 162% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 41.998997996 186% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3037.0 1615.20841683 188% => OK
No of words: 597.0 315.596192385 189% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08710217755 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94303383012 4.20363070211 118% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73095428873 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 281.0 176.041082164 160% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470686767169 0.561755894193 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 935.1 506.74238477 185% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
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Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.76152304609 231% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
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Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.118598263 49.4020404114 152% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.724137931 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5862068966 20.7667163134 99% => OK
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Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
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What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
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Sentence topic coherence: 0.0921319032983 0.084324248473 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10878928504 0.0667982634062 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.218445683784 0.151304729494 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.140052658122 0.056905535591 246% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.54 8.58950901804 88% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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