In many nations, people in huge cities either live alone or in small family units, instead of in large, extended family groups. Is this a positive or negative trend?
It is true that cities have been witnessing an upswing in smaller families and one-person households while the extended family is becoming a rarity. From my perspective, this phenomenon is directly related to better living standards and privacy, and I deem it to be a negative trend.
When a family becomes smaller, traditional lifestyles are disappearing, which can negatively impact children. In a nuclear family or single-parent household, childcare becomes an expensive and stressful part of daily life. A busy parent must rely on babysitters when they do not have grandparents to help with their younger children. Because of a hectic, fast-paced lifestyle, older children must be left alone after school or during the holidays. The absence of adult family members can mean that friends and the internet become the primary influences on children’s behaviour. It is no surprise that the decline of the extended family has been linked to a rise in physical and mental health problems among young people.
The trend towards people living alone is perhaps even more damaging because of the psychological effects of reduced human interaction. People who live alone have nobody to talk to, so they cannot share problems or discuss the highs and lows of daily life. Furthermore, the lack of human contact is accompanied by passive distractions, such as mobile phones, video games, and browsing the Internet. The fact that people are absorbed in their mobile devices after work is undeniable, for instance, makes it impossible for them to spend time with their families.
In conclusion, leaving alone or with such a small family entails disadvantages. I believe that individuals thrive when they are part of larger family groups.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, if, so, while, for instance, in conclusion, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1460.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 277.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27075812274 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8832088773 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.628158844765 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 463.5 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => 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: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 23.4495768205 49.4020404114 47% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 104.285714286 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7857142857 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42857142857 7.06120827912 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => 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: 0.250069848632 0.244688304435 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0806019083148 0.084324248473 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540144549094 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155533598467 0.151304729494 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0477199199796 0.056905535591 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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