Most people agree that the Internet affects society in many different ways. In my opinion, the most prominent effect of the Internet is that it has strengthened democracy. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, online investigative reporting plays a major role in exposing political corruption and keeping politicians honest. In the past, there were only a limited number of news outlets and they often had deep connections to powerful politicians and were hesitant to criticize them. These days, however, there are many independent publications on the Internet that are willing to expose political misbehavior. For example, an online magazine recently published a story revealing that the mayor of my hometown had taken bribes from a property developer. The report was so detailed and well-researched that the mayor had no choice but to resign. Although the evidence was not hard to locate, only this independent website was willing to write about it. This example demonstrates how the Internet helps to strengthen democracy in the modern world.
Secondly, the free exchange of ideas found online motivates people to become politically active. In countries all over the world, people use social networking sites to share their ideas and opinions. While in the past people might have thought that they were alone in their beliefs, they can now realize that others share their ideas. My own experience demonstrates this concept. When I was a university student, I learned that a municipal park near my residence was going to be demolished to make room for a parking lot. This bothered me a lot because I enjoyed spending time in the park. At first I thought that there was nothing that I, as an individual, could do to stop this from happening. However, I later joined a Facebook group dedicated to opposing the plan. When the members of the group learned how many people in the city loved the park we were happy to get together and enthusiastically protest in front of city hall until our voices were heard. I think that finding each other on that Facebook group gave us the courage to actively protect our park.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that the Internet has strengthened democracy in modern society. This is because online investigative journalism plays a big part in keeping politicians honest, and because social networking sites encourage people to be politically active.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'for example', 'i feel', 'i think', 'in conclusion', 'in my opinion', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.22850678733 0.229887763892 99% => OK
Verbs: 0.16742081448 0.158761421928 105% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0972850678733 0.0866891130778 112% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0452488687783 0.046263068375 98% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0633484162896 0.0685040099705 92% => OK
Prepositions: 0.115384615385 0.118717715034 97% => OK
Participles: 0.0316742081448 0.0351676179071 90% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.81871876073 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0384615384615 0.0309702414327 124% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00188951952338 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.106334841629 0.0887237588012 120% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00904977375566 0.0209618222197 43% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0135746606335 0.0139019557991 98% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2509.0 2387.08602151 105% => OK
No of words: 403.0 408.028673835 99% => OK
Chars per words: 6.22580645161 5.86048508987 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.48200974243 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.362282878412 0.338922669872 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.290322580645 0.251872472559 115% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.205955334988 0.174417080927 118% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.124069478908 0.112833075102 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81871876073 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560794044665 0.524397521467 107% => OK
Word variations: 65.1718937091 59.2087087015 110% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6684587814 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.3181818182 20.5533526081 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.265609638 48.84282405 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.045454545 120.699889404 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3181818182 20.5533526081 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.818181818182 0.644075263715 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.5376344086 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.54480286738 72% => OK
Readability: 47.3504398827 45.7405998639 104% => OK
Elegance: 1.3606557377 1.45489161554 94% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.385647737712 0.300154397459 128% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0859002614499 0.103427244359 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0642808751167 0.0752933317313 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.455788436031 0.497263757937 92% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.13534271998 0.151897553556 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144335901956 0.114077575197 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.082424593493 0.0781384742642 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.344975711532 0.336927656856 102% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0804650724304 0.067059652881 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.276655028703 0.210909579961 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0484846108321 0.0618886996521 78% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8870967742 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.86379928315 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.91756272401 81% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 8.42114695341 107% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 2.4623655914 41% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.75985663082 72% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 13.6433691756 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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