These days many of us prefer to throw damaged things away, whereas in the past people used to repair damaged items and keep them for a long time.Explain why you think this change has happened.What are the effects of this change in attitude?

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These days many of us prefer to throw damaged things away, whereas in the past people used to repair damaged items and keep them for a long time.
Explain why you think this change has happened.
What are the effects of this change in attitude?

My mother’s generation had many skills that young people lack today. In the past people could mend clothes, sew on buttons and fix a broken tap, but this ¡s not true of current generations who tend to replace rather than repair. This essay will discuss why these changes have occurred and what effects this is having.

Today fashion changes quickly, but in the past ¡t changed slowly. Clothing and furniture for example would last for many years; even generations. However, these days with pervasive advertising and communication via social media, information about new items travels quickly and we tend to throw out the old to buy the new. Another reason that fashions change is that manufacturers are motivated to make goods that don’t last very long. For example cars today are built to last five to ten years. whereas in the past cars would last much longer. By having early obsolescence manufacturers can sell more goods.

This change in attitude has deskilled the public and is damaging our environment. We have lost both the skills and the will to maintain our possessions. In fact often we see it as exciting to make new purchases. Another change is that we now create more negative environmental impact because many of the goods we buy and throw out are not biodegradable. We have become a generation of consumers and we are damaging the environment. This is a huge change from the past.

In conclusion, today we tend to buy new items rather than repair older possessions. In the process most of us have lost the skills and the desire to repair older items and further consequences is that we are damaging our environment due to excess waste products.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 501, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Whereas
...ay are built to last five to ten years. whereas in the past cars would last much longer...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 501, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “whereas” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ay are built to last five to ten years. whereas in the past cars would last much longer...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, so, whereas, for example, in conclusion, in fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1397.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 285.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90175438596 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71214679318 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.561403508772 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 427.5 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.3117471941 49.4020404114 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.6111111111 106.682146367 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8333333333 20.7667163134 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.44444444444 7.06120827912 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28779748034 0.244688304435 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0925517350158 0.084324248473 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0810977746216 0.0667982634062 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164319326557 0.151304729494 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04739981162 0.056905535591 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 13.0946893788 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 50.2224549098 129% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.3001002004 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.84 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.58950901804 88% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 78.4519038076 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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