Today, the quality of life in large cities is decreasing. Discuss the causes and solutions.
Today, unlike in the past decade, there is a remarkable shift in population living or recently migrated to large cities across the globe. Not only it is noticeable within large cities of the developing world, it is also apparent within cities of the developed nations.
It is a startling concern that the very reason people migrate to large cities in the pursuit of a better quality of life, has in fact resulted in the opposite effect.
Congestion on the roads as a result of more and more people taking to driving their own car is one of the important issues facing all governments. As a result, traffic has increased causing congestion, more time being wasted on the roads, unpredictability of traffic thus arriving late at destinations, increased hazards and accidents to motorists and pedestrians and most importantly increased emissions resulting in increased carbon emissions thus climate change. Therefore, more efforts have been taken by the governments to improve public transportation, tax subsidies for more fuel efficient/hybrid cars and investing more money on building more roads, to name a few.
Secondly, the issue of lack of housing to meet with the growing population is becoming more intensified. For an example, in Canberra there are an estimated 5000 new arrivals into the city each year. As a result builders and developers have begun to capitalise on making more money. Rather than building quality homes, they have resorted to building multiple complexes of smaller, more compact, multi-storey, high-volume residential apartments, crammed into selected suburbs like Gunghalin. This has resulted in a very high occupancy rate resulting in poor living conditions such as lack of personal space, parking and lack of land space for a pet or even a garden. The government, even though aware of this problem, appears to have turned a blind eye perhaps as a result of increased profits of these land sales and revenue raising.
In conclusion, over crowding and its problems has taken centre stage in all state governments. The issues with effective solutions are being cleverly addressed by every government as an avenue to gain popularity votes in order to win elections.
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- The environment we are living in is in danger due to various problems…so who do u think should be responsible to solve it? Is it the governments, organization or each individual? 81
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- Wild animals have no use in the 21st century and trying to preserve animals now is just a waste of money. 67
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'in conclusion', 'in fact', 'such as', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.271794871795 0.247107183377 110% => OK
Verbs: 0.151282051282 0.155533422707 97% => OK
Adjectives: 0.110256410256 0.0946595960268 116% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0461538461538 0.0501214627716 92% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0153846153846 0.0437548338989 35% => OK
Prepositions: 0.14358974359 0.122226691241 117% => OK
Participles: 0.0820512820513 0.0403226058552 203% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.94189883317 2.80594681477 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0307692307692 0.0326793684256 94% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0974358974359 0.0861772015684 113% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0 0.021408717616 0% => Some modal verbs wanted.
WH_determiners: 0.0 0.011925033212 0% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2200.0 1933.35771543 114% => OK
No of words: 354.0 316.048096192 112% => OK
Chars per words: 6.21468926554 6.12580529183 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.20517956788 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.412429378531 0.374742101984 110% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.305084745763 0.28420135186 107% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.228813559322 0.203846283523 112% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.152542372881 0.137316102897 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94189883317 2.80594681477 105% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 176.037074148 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590395480226 0.56093040696 105% => OK
Word variations: 68.2646827642 60.7387585426 112% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0891783567 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.2857142857 20.7743622355 122% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.1972231147 49.517814964 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 157.142857143 127.492653851 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2857142857 20.7743622355 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.785714285714 0.814263465372 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38877755511 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 55.794188862 49.1944974215 113% => OK
Elegance: 2.33734939759 1.69124875643 138% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.416185502231 0.332605444948 125% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.109059030138 0.102741220458 106% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0809215106939 0.0668466124924 121% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.588321684048 0.534860350844 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.18121813669 0.148594505496 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.166958483618 0.134430193775 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11436091163 0.0742795772207 154% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.286318389715 0.324371583561 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.108875929873 0.0638462369009 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.281781864826 0.228012699653 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.120403493288 0.058150111329 207% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.68436873747 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.41683366733 88% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 5.90881763527 118% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 2.5751503006 155% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 1.9629258517 102% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 10.4468937876 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 81.4606741573 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.25 Out of 9
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.