Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People today spend too much time on personal enjoyment—doing things they like to do rather than doing things they should do. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Essay topics:

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

People today spend too much time on personal enjoyment—doing things they like to do rather than doing things they should do.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Submitted by Bobby1987 on Mon, 12/16/2019 - 22:45

I agree with the statement that people today prefer to spend their time doing something enjoyable to accomplishing tasks required from them. I feel this way for many reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.

To begin with, individuals have a large number of entertainment options nowadays compared to what the picture looked like in the past. Students can play video games, surf the internet, listen to music, watch movies or even text their friends instead of studying. Similarly, workers could be tempted to use their cellphone while at the workplace and on the clock and even parents may fail to take care of their children due to the overuse of these electronic devices. To illustrate more thoroughly, personal enjoyment in the past was limited to outdoor activities and to do something pleasurable, people had to go out to a movie theatre or to a museum or a park. On the other hand, present day technology allows folks to indulge in instantly rewarding behaviors at the comfort of their own house or apartment. As a result, they end up neglecting the real work that they are supposed to do since they find it boring, daunting and less interesting.

Secondly, some people around the world today opt to pay someone to do their duty rather than doing it themselves. The concept of gig economy and freelancing has provided some individuals who want to work for couple of days an opportunity to be hired by other people who are in need of their services. It's undeniable that this process help the economy grow. However, it comes with a price. For instance, employees who desire to avoid finishing the work assigned to them could simply take advantage of these applications and recruit others to do it for them. I was astonished when I heard in the news about this programmer who worked for a big corporation and who hired a foreign national through the web to complete the job duties for him so that he could enjoy his trips around the globe. Unfortunately, it did not go well since he was immediately fired and lost his position. Moreover, some students have become too lazy to write their own essays and the market was right there to satisfy their needs. Many websites offer all kinds of writings for a fee.

To sum up, I concur with the opinion that people today choose to immerse themselves in various assortments of pleasure over achieving the work demanded from them. This is mainly due to the fact that enjoyable activities are more readily available now than before and dramatic changes that are happening in the economy, such as crowdsourcing which is a simple way of connecting employers to job-seekers, have made it easy to ditch one's resposibilitites by recruiting a temporary worker to do them.

Votes
Average: 9 (1 vote)
This essay topic by users
Post date Users Rates Link to Content
2019-12-16 Bobby1987 90 view
2019-12-04 MattNewhouse96 76 view
2019-12-04 MattNewhouse96 76 view
2019-12-03 JohnSmith96 70 view
2019-09-03 Qwe 70 view
>>> More users practiced this topic >>>
Essay Categories
Independent TOEFL Writing

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 221, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... I will explore in the following essay. To begin with, individuals have a large ...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 33, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... To begin with, individuals have a large number of entertainment options nowadays compared...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 13, column 498, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...cruiting a temporary worker to do them.
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, look, may, moreover, second, secondly, similarly, so, well, while, for instance, i feel, such as, as a result, to begin with, to sum up, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 52.1666666667 150% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2270.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 470.0 407.700716846 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82978723404 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65612321451 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72626927093 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 275.0 212.727598566 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585106382979 0.524837075471 111% => OK
syllable_count: 711.0 618.680645161 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.9674940494 48.9658058833 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.473684211 100.406767564 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7368421053 20.6045352989 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.57894736842 5.45110844103 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226637643972 0.236089414692 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0668980202172 0.076458572812 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0912602203144 0.0737576698707 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150737408854 0.150856017488 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0490363001322 0.0645574589148 76% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 11.7677419355 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 58.1214874552 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.03 10.9000537634 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 86.8835125448 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

---------------------
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


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.