Light pollution (excessive light during night time) is a form of pollution that distresses many people, especially in modern cities.
What are the causes of light pollution and what solutions can you suggest for governments and businesses to take?
Living standards of citizens in urban areas have been negatively affected by the presence of excess light after dark. Light pollution seems to originate from 3 main sources and can be lessened by 2 measures, which will be presented in the following essay.
Considering the contributing factors to light pollution in metropolitan centers, the most prominent is arguably the use of commercial lighting in public spaces, for advertisement or important announcements. This is best exemplified by the dominant presence of billboards and sizeable screens, which are brightly illuminated, in big cities such as Tokyo and New York. Another source of excess light comes from street lamps or security lights that are installed with the purpose of aiding traffic and deter crime by removing shadow areas. Lastly, nighttime traffic is also responsible for undesired illumination, as while headlights are used for navigation, they also shine into windows and gardens.
Having examined aforementioned causes, there are possible remedies to ameliorate the effect of excess light. While it is tempting to call for physical advertising platforms to be removed or restructured, some of them have already become local symbols, tied to the identity that attracts tourists. Also, it would be unwise to shut down streetlights as they are meant for safeguard citizens. A more rational solution, perhaps, would be a government-backed program, establishing standards for housing design that involve the use of tall trees or light-blocking materials for households. As for support from businesses, there should be a dark day, on which commercial lighting is reduced, so that residents get to experience a more natural level of darkness in the evening.
In brief, the current level of light pollution stems from 3 principal elements, which are the use of commercial lightings, security lights and traffic. In order to tackle the problem, governments should improve light-insulating standards while an occasional voluntary dark day is taken by businesses.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 302, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...untary dark day is taken by businesses.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, lastly, so, while, as for, as to, in brief, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 10.0 24.0651302605 42% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1726.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 313.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.51437699681 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14198694859 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.61661341853 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 528.3 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 33.0690509416 49.4020404114 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.769230769 106.682146367 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0769230769 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07692307692 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25824801105 0.244688304435 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0959792680902 0.084324248473 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0620431258799 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173629257751 0.151304729494 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0291661413048 0.056905535591 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.0946893788 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.38 8.58950901804 121% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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