Many of the products we buy nowadays break or wear out very quickly.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this for manufacturers and the public?
It is only fitting that in nowadays fast-food society, consumables often seem to reach their life's end rather fast -- they either break shortly after purchase or they have worn out much faster than anticipated. As consumers we have learned to live with this seemingly undeniable law of nature. We even count on it, perhaps already thinking of the next product's iteration while we are at the counter paying for its current installment.
I suppose one could see this short life-cycle as advantageous as usually the less favourable endurability of products comes in conjunction with much lower prices. The credo is cheap products that do not last very long but you can have it often and always relatively new. So it seems that consumers have the better end of the deal, or do they? If one is not concerned with sustainability and quality of products, then surely there is nothing wrong with living a 'holistic' fast-food life, encompassing the entire breadth of consumables. On the other hand, with concerns over the environment being on an all-time high, I would rather argue that a more concious approach is warranted. Having products that last long produce much less waste and one simply has to spend less time in shopping malls looking for those gadgets that broke last week.
However, would the throw-away economy not serve businesses and the economy in general much better? The cynic in me says that all that waste surely offers other business opportunities, and indeed they do. Recycling industries are on the rise, even going so far as to export waste to developing nations. These, by the way, also have had enough of our waste and just recently a large shipment of waste was send back from Indonesia to Australia. So, while manufacturers apparently benefit most of the the poor life-time of their products it eventually will materialise as a problem, because there is just too much waste. Furthermore, to provide a different perspective, consumers do exist that are actually concerned about product quality and manufacturers will lose the trust of these consumers, who will be looking for better products from different manufacturers.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 25, Rule ID: IN_NOWADAYS[1]
Message: nowadays is used without 'in'. Use simply: 'nowadays'.
Suggestion: nowadays
It is only fitting that in nowadays fast-food society, consumables often se...
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Line 1, column 212, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... worn out much faster than anticipated. As consumers we have learned to live with ...
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Line 1, column 353, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'products'' or 'product's'?
Suggestion: products'; product's
...t, perhaps already thinking of the next products iteration while we are at the counter p...
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Line 9, column 405, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'sent'.
Suggestion: sent
... recently a large shipment of waste was send back from Indonesia to Australia. So, w...
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Line 9, column 495, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...anufacturers apparently benefit most of the the poor life-time of their products it eve...
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Line 9, column 495, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...anufacturers apparently benefit most of the the poor life-time of their products it eve...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, apparently, but, furthermore, however, if, look, so, then, while, as to, i suppose, in general, by the way, 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: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1797.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 354.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07627118644 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77862159151 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 176.041082164 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.61581920904 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 560.7 506.74238477 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.9623000097 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.8 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.4 7.06120827912 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.38176352705 68% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.139489869784 0.244688304435 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0416056709325 0.084324248473 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.041406170893 0.0667982634062 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0963586434951 0.151304729494 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0370676340875 0.056905535591 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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