To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Should an effective leader be a representation of high moral and ethical standards? As far as I am concerned it is a wrong question due to the fact that the world of politics is not a right place for a saint person. At this point a tension is obvious: on one hand we cannot elect a criminal or person who conspicuously demonstrates immoral behavior, at the same time, the world of politics demands from a person to be equivocate and even dishonest. Although these characteristics are in conflict with high standards of our society, a leader has to compromise his or her moral standards in order to be efficient in the world of politics.
When we speak about leader's efficiency we have to accept that world of politics does not allow a direct and honest person to be in power for several reasons. First of all, interests of the state should be more important than leader’s desire to be honest in particular when we have a deal with national defense. For instance, if a state is going to bomb a base of terrorist which is located on the territory of a foreign country, should a national leader warn the country about the action of military forces? The answer seems to be glaring. An honest leader must declare about the military action but this action may undermine effectiveness of the action due to the possibility that a terroristic organization may have some accomplices in the government of the friendly state. One more example, after the USA was attacked by a terroristic group, some laws were surreptitiously passed in order to protect the state. However, these laws violate rights and liberties of citizens of the USA. In these exceptional circumstances leaders of the country have to compromise their standards in order to fulfill their responsibilities and be effective leaders. These are only two examples which serve to demonstrate that in some cases it is impossible to maintain high ethical and moral standards by any politician.
Of course one may aver that for instance Mahatma Gandhi, who was a great political leader, were embodiment of high ethical and moral standards, as Orwell wrote in his essay about him, that even enemies of Gandhi has to accept his impeccable reputation. Unfortunately, this person is a unique example which has no repetition in our modern politics. Moreover, we cannot know how the great saint had to compromise his beliefs and standards to participate to the world of politics. His biography reveals that for him it was a difficult choice to do.
In conclusion, the public belief that an effective leader should be an embodiment of the highest moral and ethical standards, cannot survive in the real world of modern politics when even great politicians has to compromise their standards in order to implement their work and be effective.
Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'well', 'as to', 'for instance', 'in conclusion', 'in particular', 'of course', 'first of all', 'in some cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.234496124031 0.240241500013 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.135658914729 0.157235817809 86% => OK
Adjectives: 0.110465116279 0.0880659088768 125% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0329457364341 0.0497285424764 66% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0445736434109 0.0444667217837 100% => OK
Prepositions: 0.127906976744 0.12292977631 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0116279069767 0.0406280797675 29% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.94796473711 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0426356589147 0.030933414821 138% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.122093023256 0.0997080785238 122% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0213178294574 0.0249443105267 85% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0193798449612 0.0148568991511 130% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2791.0 2732.02544248 102% => OK
No of words: 473.0 452.878318584 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.90063424947 6.0361032391 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66353547975 4.58838876751 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.348837209302 0.366273622748 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.260042283298 0.280924506359 93% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.198731501057 0.200843997647 99% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.141649048626 0.132149295362 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94796473711 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 219.290929204 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46088794926 0.48968727796 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 51.9917007514 55.4138127331 94% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6194690265 87% => OK
Sentence length: 26.2777777778 23.380412469 112% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.9739646964 59.4972553346 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.055555556 141.124799967 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2777777778 23.380412469 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.833333333333 0.674092028746 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 52.2820061076 51.4728631049 102% => OK
Elegance: 1.75454545455 1.64882698954 106% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.431464877967 0.391690518653 110% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.112265247923 0.123202303941 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0587302961021 0.077325440228 76% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.526050511531 0.547984918172 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.1658684151 0.149214159877 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.194514452322 0.161403998019 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0895218300308 0.0892212321368 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.434170589609 0.385218514788 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0714259778183 0.0692045440612 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.338679865186 0.275328986314 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0743447330859 0.0653680567796 114% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.4325221239 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.30420353982 132% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88274336283 20% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 6.0 7.22455752212 83% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.70907079646 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 10.0 13.5995575221 74% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.