Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends.

Friends and teachers are probably the people that a student meets most frequently at school. Some may think teachers have more influence on students, because of their prestige. However, the reality is usually the opposite: students are more influenced by their friends.

First of all, students are having more time with their friends than their teachers, and will thus be more influenced by their friends. Typically, they need to have 10 classes per day, each with 45 minutes, during which they usually could go nowhere but sit on their seats with their classmates. Totally, a student can spend at least near 8 hours with the classmates nearby, which encourages the development of their friendship. As a result, most of them become very good friends. Then they spend more time together, such as hanging out together on the weekend, which is a common activity of students. While a teacher usually has one or two classes per day, and it is rare to meet students on weekend, except for those having a bad grade. In this sense, we can see that it is easier for friends to influence students because they are almost together for many hours every day.

Besides, students usually have more in common with their peers rather than their teachers. They probably share the same favorite cartoons and songs, or they may be fans of the same pop stars. However, for the teachers, because of their age, their childhood is much more different, which keeps them from having similar topics or interests with these youths. Students feel insipid what teachers like as much as teachers do. Hence, they could never get close to each other, nor could they open their mind and accept each other's opinion. Therefore, teachers have much minor impacts on students than their peers.

Admittedly, teachers are elder and more experienced, which may cause some to believe that students will listen to the teachers' words. However, most students are in their youth, which is exactly the period when they are most likely to defy others and disobey rules. The more prestigious, the more rule-breaking behaviors. Therefore, most students are indeed less influenced by teachers, unless they have already passed their youth.

In sum, students are more inclined to be affected by their students than teachers, because their students are spending more time with them, closer and this very youth period that they are in.

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Line 5, column 519, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'others'' or 'other's'?
Suggestion: others'; other's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, hence, however, if, may, so, then, therefore, thus, while, at least, except for, such as, as a result, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 52.1666666667 92% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1994.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 398.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01005025126 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37005936303 2.67179642975 89% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 212.727598566 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.484924623116 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 577.8 618.680645161 93% => 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: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.9182745824 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.9523809524 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9523809524 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47619047619 5.45110844103 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => 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: 0.425214810741 0.236089414692 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.160213490739 0.076458572812 210% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114439200414 0.0737576698707 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.298512556585 0.150856017488 198% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390297396899 0.0645574589148 60% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 10.9000537634 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.03 8.01818996416 88% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 86.8835125448 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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