The role of humour in curing illnesses
Throughout centuries, humour has been considered as an entertainment tool and indicator of emotional satisfaction. Moreover, scientific evidences have been researched in order to discover extra functions of laughter in human life, especially in terms of medicine. Consequently, these surveys have been resulting in changing individuals’ position and making them clear on this topic.
There are two types of humour: adaptive and maladaptive, which are controversial to one another. Adaptive humor is self-enhancing and motivates patients to struggle with diseases, while maladaptive humour is self- defeating that people suffer more (Kuiper et al., 2006). Maladaptive humour could be avoided by training a staff about the scientific nature of humour and its role. As a result this tool could serve as an appropriate assistance. On the other hand, the effect of humour is a question of how people respond to this.
Humour is an integral part of the treatment. It is usually used in the treatment of depressed patients, especially if they are concerned about the consequences of the disease. The time required for treatment was reduced due to the use of comic stories. According to Christie et al., (2005), “measurements of specific neuroendocrine and stress hormone levels revealed biochemical changes that suggested improved physical stress responses and increased feelings of well-being after humorous interventions”.
Thus, humour is a bridge between patients and medical personnel, which strengthens passion and believes in a healthy future. There are many unknown things about humour that needs discovery as this has vital attitude in easing not only treatment process, but also other aspects of life. However, “we really know very little about how the brain functions in response to a humorous stimulus” (Mary and Cecile, 2006, p.62).
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- Some people think that instead of preventing climate change, we need to find a way to live with it. To what extent do you agree? 56
- Some people think that instead of preventing climate change, we need to find a way to live with it. To what extent do you agree? 61
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, however, if, moreover, really, so, then, thus, well, while, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.5418719212 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 6.10837438424 33% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 8.36945812808 131% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 20.9802955665 62% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 31.9359605911 125% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.75862068966 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1593.0 1207.87684729 132% => OK
No of words: 282.0 242.827586207 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.64893617021 5.00649968141 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.24244002768 2.71678728327 119% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 139.433497537 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.645390070922 0.580463131201 111% => OK
syllable_count: 488.7 379.143842365 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6551724138 119% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.5024630542 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.2018149296 50.4703680194 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.2 104.977214359 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8 20.9669160288 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.25397266985 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 6.9802955665 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154044200694 0.242375264174 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0560936008147 0.0925447433944 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.067098850681 0.071462118173 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0856942661174 0.151781067708 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0659929803938 0.0609392437508 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 12.6369458128 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.1260098522 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.9458128079 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.49 11.5310837438 134% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.07 8.32886699507 121% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 55.0591133005 180% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.94827586207 111% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.3980295567 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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