Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People communicate with each other less than in the past because of the popularity of television. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
I totally agree. I feel that nowadays people are talking with each other less because they are so busy watching their favorite dramas, movies, or even TV newscasts. Paying attention to what “real people” are saying is not cool anymore.
This lack of interest people have in communicating with each other has caught the attention of researchers around the world. For instance, I was watching a Ted talk made by a Psychologist who was showing the results of her research. She was trying to understand what happened to make people spend their free time watching TV instead of interacting with friends and family. The short conclusion she made was that this lack of communication has lead people to diseases like depression. She also mentions that it is likely television is guilty for this behavioural shift.
Unfortunately, kids are also being affected by this absence of communication. Some parents just put their children in front of the TV, sometimes for an entire day, and leave their kid in the care of the television. For example, Daniel is my best friend's son. He is 5 and got used to spending all his time watching TV. Now, if you remove him from in front of the television, it could be a nightmare. As a result, he does not know exactly how to play with other kids, how to start a conversation, etc. This instinctive behavior is being lost.
Currently, even older people have been affected negatively by television. An example of this is my mother. A couple of days ago, I was talking with her about my first day at work. I was discussing the qualities of the new fellowship, how friendly my colleges have been, about healthy food that I eat at lunch, etc. Actually, I was excited describing my new routine. Until, out of the blue, my mom starts talking about a character of the drama that she was watching. And I said "Mom, are you not paying attention to me??" Obviously, the answer was no! She was so focused on watching TV, that she simply did not realize that I was talking to her. Of course, I felt upset about it and unfortunately, this was not the first time that happened.
For those reasons, I feel that, our society is getting used to talk less and watch more. But, we need to struggle with this behavior. Changing them while is possible.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, so, while, for example, for instance, i feel, of course, talking about, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 15.1003584229 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 9.8082437276 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 62.0 43.0788530466 144% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1884.0 1977.66487455 95% => OK
No of words: 401.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69825436409 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73924456728 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548628428928 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 568.8 618.680645161 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 9.59856630824 219% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.9926570131 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 72.4615384615 100.406767564 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.4230769231 20.6045352989 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42307692308 5.45110844103 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.143167514423 0.236089414692 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0404286728343 0.076458572812 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0505077353332 0.0737576698707 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.094776627156 0.150856017488 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0371539866932 0.0645574589148 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.4 11.7677419355 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 73.17 58.1214874552 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 10.1575268817 67% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.68 10.9000537634 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.45 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 86.8835125448 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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