Overpopulation of urban areas has led to numerous problems.
Identify one or two serious ones and suggest ways that governments and individuals can tackle these problems.
Census experts both from developing and developed countries have continued to express concerns over the continuous influx of people into the urban areas, thereby making overpopulation a major problem to the government and individuals. This essay will examine the challenges associated with this practice, as well as the probable mitigation plans, with excerpts from the New York Times magazine and Daily Independent Journal to support the discussion.
To begin with, one of the major problems of overpopulation is high accommodation rent, caused by imbalance between demand and supply. Consequently, people will end up expending all theirs earnings on house rent while other basic needs (such as healthy feeding, good clothing, and so on) might not be met. In addition, increased traffic has been another problem overpopulated cities such as Lagos have found difficult to control. People leave home as early as 4am in other to beat the traffic, thereby having less time to sleep at night. Such lifestyle have a devastating implication on the health of the individual. For example, the New York Times magazine reported that an average Lagosian spends about seven hours in traffic every day compared to one hour for residents of Ilorin.
Possible solution to overpopulation is, investment by individuals and government in low cost housing schemes at neighboring cities. This will ensure low demand of accommodation at the overpopulated cities, consequently a reducing the house rent. Also, transportation scheme such as the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) will help reduce the vehicular traffic as fewer cars will be available on the road. Ultimately people will have enough time to sleep as well as spend more time with their families before they depart for work. According to the Daily Independent Journal, the average time spent by a Lagosian in traffic reduced significantly by sixty percent since the inception of the Bus Rapid Transport Scheme.
As a closing remark, overpopulation creates problems such as increased house rent and vehicular traffic. However, investment in housing schemes and developing appropriate transportation schemes such as the Bus Rapid Transit are appropriate mitigation strategies
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 551, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'has'.
Suggestion: has
... time to sleep at night. Such lifestyle have a devastating implication on the health...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, however, if, so, well, while, for example, in addition, such as, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 7.30460921844 14% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 7.0 24.0651302605 29% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 8.3376753507 228% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1867.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 342.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45906432749 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00463744483 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576023391813 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 585.9 506.74238477 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.159635027 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.466666667 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8 20.7667163134 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06120827912 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.110552460016 0.244688304435 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0427102604807 0.084324248473 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053861124078 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0690455144477 0.151304729494 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0241302180194 0.056905535591 42% => 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: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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