Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Movies and television have more negative effects than positive effects on the way young people behave. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Are movies and television beneficial or detrimental to young people's behavior? Although there is a nominal amount of beneficial movies and television shows out there, most of the movie and television world is filled with violence, sex, insalubrious life style, and vulgar language. Therefore, generally speaking, movies and television have negative effects on young people's behavior.
First consider the older generation of movies, those from the 80's, which are much more conservative than those of today. These movies usually contain more talking an plotting than the action we expect modern movies to have. Despite their relatively mild content, the life style of the characters in the movies could still influence the behavior of the audience. For example, the prevalent smoking found in movies from the 80's could easily affect the youths of that time, encouraging them to smoke. This will adversely affect the behavior of the youth during that time.
Now we move forward in time to examine contemporary visual entertainment content. The conservativeness found in older times were completely lost, and if a movie or television show does not contain either violence, sex, or vulgar language, it seems to have no attraction towards the audience. Whether we are viewing science fiction, such as Transformers or X-men, or watching a comedy, violence, sex, and vulgar language are concomitant. Youths viewing these contents will subconsciously imitate the actors behavior in these visual contents. How often do we see young people paraphrasing a vulgar line seen in a popular movie? Quite often, for they believe that it is "cool" to do so.
Nevertheless, there is a genre of visual content that could be quite beneficial to the youths: educational movies or channels. These include Discovery channel and other good documentaries or teaching programs. However, compared to their thrilling counterparts, the other types of movies, they seem to be much less attractive. Therefore, these types of good visual contents are viewed by less people, and thus have less influence on the youth population.
There are good and bad visual contents out there, and it is usually the bad ones that the youth likes to view. Therefore, they are prone to be affected by these insalubrious contents.
- Toefl Integrated 3
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- Integrated TOEFL writing 3
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: a
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Suggestion: actors'; actor's
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Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun people is countable.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, nevertheless, so, still, therefore, thus, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 43.0788530466 63% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 52.1666666667 75% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1938.0 1977.66487455 98% => OK
No of words: 363.0 407.700716846 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33884297521 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89173804348 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 212.727598566 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.528925619835 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 600.3 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.5004870099 48.9658058833 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.9 100.406767564 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.15 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.1 5.45110844103 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.156405527782 0.236089414692 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0532917984807 0.076458572812 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0759243338735 0.0737576698707 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0881824771832 0.150856017488 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0876310598769 0.0645574589148 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 11.7677419355 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 58.1214874552 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 10.9000537634 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.01818996416 108% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 86.8835125448 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24 Out of 30
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Note: 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.