Many people say that we now live in a consumer society where money and possessions are given too much importance. Others believe that consumer culture has played a vital role in improving our lives. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Nowadays many may hold the view that there are numerous problems in society because people are paying excessive attention to money and personal belongings. At the same time, however, there is a body of opinion which claims that such money-oriented trend may be of great significance to the improvement of people’s lives. In this essay I will examine both sides of the debate and provide my own opinion.
To begin with, since people excessively focus on money, the relationship between family members is undermined. In order to earn more incomes workers may be busy with work but spare little time to stay with their wives and children, thus reducing the communication of each other. In addition, the addiction to personal items makes people become materialistic for they may not be willing to engage in mental activities, such as learning literature, which will harm the overall development of a society.
On the other hand, there is no doubt that money can help meet people’s daily needs, as with money the owners can purchase whatever they want including cars, houses and domestic appliances. Also, money can enrich people’s lives, allowing them to travel around the world to see different kinds of things. Furthermore, consumer culture may create a large number of job vacancies since in order to satisfy the greater demand for products manufacturers have to recruit more workers.
To summarize, there is no denying that spiritual lives may be negatively affected when people are paying too close attention to money and possessions. At the same time, however, people’s living standards can be improved when they live in the consumer environment. In the final analysis, therefore, one can only conclude that people should live a balanced life with money and possessions and other mental activities combined.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 10, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun may seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'much may', 'a good deal of may'.
Suggestion: much may; a good deal of may
Nowadays many may hold the view that there are numerous p...
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Line 1, column 136, Rule ID: PERSONAL_OPINION_FRIENDSHIP[1]
Message: Use simply 'belongings'.
Suggestion: belongings
...paying excessive attention to money and personal belongings. At the same time, however, there is a ...
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Line 3, column 354, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...urthermore, consumer culture may create a large number of job vacancies since in order to satisfy...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, in addition, no doubt, such as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1541.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 294.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24149659864 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87228132327 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615646258503 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 488.7 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 5.43587174349 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.3008601331 49.4020404114 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.416666667 106.682146367 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 20.7667163134 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5833333333 7.06120827912 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203437024174 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0779768132835 0.084324248473 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0387461716315 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127151665826 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0553424521023 0.056905535591 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.45 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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