Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People today are much better informed about international news than they were in the past. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Well-informed vs. Money-loving
Will the result of the presidential election in the U.S. help me get a raise? Does the war in Middle East have anything to do with my life? Perhaps ordinary people living far away from places where these events take place can hardly find how they will affect them, but if I were to answer the question whether people are much better informed about international news, I would definitely say yes. And I would elaborate myself in terms of technology and human nature.
Well, let us first assume that the number of people who keep in touch with international news hasn’t changed ever since the first piece of international news came around, which I know is quite impossible, but please indulge me. People before us, no matter which period of history they lived in, didn’t enjoy the technological means to get world news as timely and convenient as we do. Caesar had to sent scouts to get him news from Gaul, General Washington had to read letters from his French ally and, merely thirty years ago, people had to leaf through the coarse pages of a newspaper or turn on a black and white television to passively get what the journalists wanted to feed them. Now look what I would do if I were to know what’s going on in the world. By simply tapping on any screen I am having with me, I am connected to the world. If I wanted to,I might get everything I need under five minutes rather than spending a whole day sifting useful information out of countless wordy documents, letters or newspapers. So, in a nutshell, if there were only two individuals, one from the past and one in our time, who pay equal attention to international news, the one in our time surely would be better informed.
After modern technology did its part, let’s talk about how human nature plays its role in this issue. Admit it or not, most things that we truly care about are those financially beneficial to us. The globalized nature of economic activity forces people to learn more about international news because their money is at stake. I can see some people are asking themselves thetwo rhetorical questions I put at beginning. Indeed, you maybe right, but remember that the world now is irreversibly on its way to a more globalized status, which means more and more people’s livelihoods are going to depend on a foreign stock market index, the fluctuating prices of raw materials extracted from another continent and whether this Covid-19 will end. When something is going to affect the size of one’s wallet, one should constantly keep an eye on it. And thanks to globalization, more are doing so.
As we can see more clearly now, people are indeed much better informed about international news, not only because technology helps us on this matter, but also because it’s part of human nature. And I believe the coming generations will be even better informed than us, since human nature will never change and only God knows what freaky technologies would come out of our greedy brains.
- News report 56
- Cars 66
- Is franchise the safer way to start a business 75
- Rome 73
- Which of the following measures would make a city safer Hiring more police officers and getting them properly trained to serve the public Increasing the number of rehab facilities to help people quit using illegal drugs Improving educational facilities to 60
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 290, Rule ID: WHETHER[5]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "the question"?
Suggestion: whether
...ll affect them, but if I were to answer the question whether people are much better informed about i...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 855, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , I
...m connected to the world. If I wanted to,I might get everything I need under five ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, may, so, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 43.0788530466 123% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 52.1666666667 138% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2489.0 1977.66487455 126% => OK
No of words: 523.0 407.700716846 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75908221797 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60996575116 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 305.0 212.727598566 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583173996176 0.524837075471 111% => OK
syllable_count: 780.3 618.680645161 126% => 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: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 82.6576415964 48.9658058833 169% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.45 100.406767564 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.15 20.6045352989 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.05 5.45110844103 38% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231912163344 0.236089414692 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0616421536152 0.076458572812 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.051049005439 0.0737576698707 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12375953839 0.150856017488 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0519925373558 0.0645574589148 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 11.7677419355 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 86.8835125448 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.