A glance at modern people's lifestyles brings to light a question which has several times provoked discussion, namely, whether people are happier and more satisfied in today's world than before. Some might contend that people are happier because they now have more means of entertainment including the Internet and TV. However, I would like to suggest that at present people are not as satisfied as before due to materialism, and busy work.
First and foremost, people are almost insatiable in terms of material in modern society. The development of technology has lead to the mass production of various commodities, and people are constantly been lured to spend their money. This is best illustrated with the example of cell phone market. The cell phone manufacturers update their products with remarkable speed, rendering even newly bought ones seem to be obsolete. Customers, especially young people, look forward to buying new ones, which they think makes them fashionable. Retailers' efforts to sell more products are also obvious in countless forms of TV and Internet commercials. So, with the advent of materialism, people hardly feel satisfied.
Secondly, as the world is changing and developing so fast, people are required to devote much time in their work and study to catch up. In my country, China, for instance, high school students study for no less than sixteen hours, in order to outperform their peers in the College Entrance Exam. People also spend so much time on working to earn money and get promotion that they can seldom spare time to read a book or to take a walk. Therefore, in a world that is changing swiftly, people simply do not have the time to enjoy the life.
What is more, people are also becoming increasingly realistic in today's society. Were they to stand out in the society, they have to be more talented. As a result, schools and students only care about test scores and ignore the importance of other aspects of education. Parents set goals for their children, and employers make a plan to success. People are not to blame by doing so, because they need to make a living. It is no exaggeration to say that everything people do has a certain aim, and they hardly receive happiness and sense of satisfactory from it.
Due to the aforementioned ground, in a rapidly changing world, people are less happy than in the past, and materialism and pressure from life are two prime and conspicuous reasons.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, therefore, for instance, as a result, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2035.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 411.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95133819951 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6694845431 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 212.727598566 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576642335766 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 627.3 618.680645161 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.994623655914 101% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.4536794892 48.9658058833 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.9047619048 100.406767564 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5714285714 20.6045352989 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.95238095238 5.45110844103 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281554907545 0.236089414692 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0801986569967 0.076458572812 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053868365772 0.0737576698707 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153846772499 0.150856017488 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0191319171243 0.0645574589148 30% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 10.9000537634 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 86.8835125448 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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