Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Life has changed dramatically during the recent decades. It is now easier and more comfortable than it was when my grandparents were children, according to the stories told by the elders and what I have seen today.

In the past, even the basic requirement for the living is hard to satisfy. When xx were still children, most people in China were living on farming. Once the production is low, people will inevitably suffer from hunger. As far as I know, there was a nationwide famine happened in the 1960s. However, nowadays in most of the cities, everyone can easily have a dinner, and no one has ever experienced starve in his/her life. Hence life in the past was much harder than it is today.

In addition to the frequent starving, people in the old days also lived a poor life. Specifically, free trading was forbidden then, which resulted in the slow growth of the economy. Plus the enforcement of the policy of equal wealth and the poverty of the whole country, people at that time were equally poor. Comparing to today, possessing a bike at that time was like possessing a luxury car today. Therefore, people today are much richer than those in the old time.

Moreover, people today live a more convenient live than before due to the improvement of science and technology. Many aspects of life are improved much, such as the public transportation, the coverage of shopping marts, schools and recreational utilities. These all make life much easier. Take the time of going to school for example. A time about tens of minutes is quite common today, but in the past, the time was hundreds of minutes, or should I say, several hours. For instance, my grandfather spent hours walking several kilometers on the mountain road to go to school. But today, for all the schools I studied, I never spent more than 30 minutes to on the way. Therefore, the life today is much more convenient than before.

In sum, according to the satisfaction of the basic living condition, the increment of the wealth of each family and the more convenient life, we are living an easier and more comfortable life than it was when my grandparents were children.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 353, Rule ID: HAVE_A_BREAKFAST[1]
Message: When we speak of types of meals, the article is not required: 'have dinner'.
Suggestion: have dinner
...most of the cities, everyone can easily have a dinner, and no one has ever experienced starve...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 424, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ver experienced starve in his/her life. Hence life in the past was much harder than i...
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, moreover, so, still, then, therefore, as for, for example, for instance, in addition, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 43.0788530466 44% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 52.1666666667 96% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1778.0 1977.66487455 90% => OK
No of words: 373.0 407.700716846 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76675603217 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39467950092 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64248524298 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 212.727598566 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.525469168901 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 561.6 618.680645161 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.0842416258 48.9658058833 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.8181818182 100.406767564 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9545454545 20.6045352989 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.63636363636 5.45110844103 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.248168782107 0.236089414692 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0749726446524 0.076458572812 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0766403887827 0.0737576698707 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172262626932 0.150856017488 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0719231976642 0.0645574589148 111% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 11.7677419355 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.09 10.9000537634 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 86.8835125448 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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