Some young people are leaving the countryside to live in cities and towns, leaving only old people in the countryside. What problem does this cause? What can be done to solve the problem?
For every society to function properly, every member has to play his part. There is a popular maxim in my tribe that alludes to this. It says the hand of the child cannot reach the top of the ceiling, while that of the adult will not fit in the mouth of a calabash. It goes to emphasize how vital it is for different age groups to exist in any given society.
The norm in this age is that young people increasingly emigrate from their local communities in the countryside to big cities and towns that are faster paced, more technologically advanced and hold more career opportunities. One cannot fault them for desiring a better life, however, a pebble dropped in the ocean will still form ripples.
Leaving an elderly population behind will ensure that the slow pace that encourages young people to emigrate out of frustration and boredom remains. It prevents the much needed interaction between the elders and the youths that helps improve the wisdom of the average young person. The bulk of experience rests with the elderly population but if they have experience and wisdom but no manpower to execute plans, they might as well have nothing. Investing in industry and other measures that might attract the young population and keep them in their local communities would go a long way
Security is a vital issue both in the local community as well as in the city. The elderly population is vulnerable and left to fend for themselves. The incidence of physical and emotional harm is higher because they are prone to attack, injury from age and a feeling of loneliness once they are alone for too long. In the cities, young people are typically the perpetuators of crime. While many arrive cities in search of a better life, more than a few end up in dubious activity.
The youth population doubles as the working population that contributes to the GDP of any region. The youth are the powerhouse and life of any economy. Emigration of young people from a place eventually leads to reduced productivity of that region because the rest of the population- the elderly, rely on social services, paid for with the taxes that they do not contribute to. Having a predominantly elderly population implies that that community will take a lot more from the government than it is capable of giving.
Immigration is an inevitable complication of emigration. If indigenes leave their own communities, they create a gap in the population that will eventually be filled by foreigners. This may lead to differences in service delivery, racial bias in some instances, language barriers and culture shock.
The solution to the problems caused by emigration of youths from rural communities lies in the provision of amenities, technology, facilities, incentives and opportunities in these rural communities. If more emphasis were placed on developing rural communities too, the desire to leave a rural community would solely be borne out of a desire for a new environment and not out of desperation or a need for exposure to opportunities.
The need for both youths and elders in any population cannot be overemphasized. Both populations have their individual strengths and weaknesses, but together form the backbone of any strong community.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 55, Rule ID: BOTH_AS_WELL_AS[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
...vital issue both in the local community as well as in the city. The elderly population is ...
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Line 7, column 109, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...tes to the GDP of any region. The youth are the powerhouse and life of any economy....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, still, well, while, as to, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 10.4138276553 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 24.0651302605 158% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 41.998997996 176% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 8.3376753507 300% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2700.0 1615.20841683 167% => OK
No of words: 541.0 315.596192385 171% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99075785582 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82280071112 4.20363070211 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88518603703 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 176.041082164 156% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506469500924 0.561755894193 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 879.3 506.74238477 174% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 10.0 2.52805611222 396% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 16.0721442886 156% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.8934701016 49.4020404114 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.0 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.64 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.56 7.06120827912 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 8.0 4.38176352705 183% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.67935871743 184% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.116570146306 0.244688304435 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0318263449798 0.084324248473 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.040577365788 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0539444104797 0.151304729494 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0284425581503 0.056905535591 50% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 78.4519038076 171% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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