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.
It is popularly believed that in order to be an effective leader, a person ought to maintain the highest ethical and moral standards. Although this idea is widely supported by public, I disagree with it due to the fact that effectiveness has no direct connection with ethics or morals because the history of humanity has many examples of pious but ineffective leaders as well as immoral leaders who were highly efficient.
To begin with, many of us deeply believe that an effective leader must embody the highest ethical and moral standards. Perhaps, this belief is based on the fact that many of us live in democratic societies and therefore we choose people who suit our hopes, ideas and inspirations. For example, today's president of the United States of America - Barak Obama is a good illustration of this statement. Mr. President is a good father and husband; he has a decent education and embodies the highest moral standards. We see him as a paragon of appropriate behavior, an ethical and moral standard on which we strive to resemble. However, may we aver that in order to be an effective leader a person must maintain the highest standards?
Sadly, the answer on this question is "no” owing to the fact that the history of mankind has many examples when a person who embodied highest ethical and moral standards was not an effective leader. Perhaps, the best illustration of this statement we may find in history of tsar's Russia. The last tsar Nikola the second was brought up by well-known Russian and European scholars and scientist, since the childhood he strictly adhere to religious traditions. Many of his relatives and friends as well as enemies underscored his pious life style and adherence to highest ethical and moral standards; unfortunately, his governance was disastrous and he demonstrated incapability to be an effective leader. For instance, under his rule the country has lost a considerable part of its territory, was defeated in three wars, and his rule was ended by a revolution and murdering him and his family. This example demonstrates that a leader who adheres to highest ethical and moral standards may be ineffective.
Furthermore, we know a plethora of examples when a leader did not adhere to those standards but was highly effective one. We may find example of such a governor in Russian history as well. For instance, Stalin cannot definitely be named as a person who maintained the highest ethical standards, in fact, before he became a leader of the USSR, he robbed banks, took hostages and killed people to acquire money for supporting revolutionary activity. When he became a governor of the country, he incentivized and organized labor camps and purges which toll was millions of lives. At the same time, he was one of the most effective leaders in Russian history, for example, during a ten year span country's GDP tripled, moreover, country's overall population increased dramatically by 20 per cent as well. In other words, it is possible to be an effective leader and do not maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
In conclusion, although an effective leader indeed can maintain to the highest ethical and moral standards, those standards have no explicit and direct connection with leader's efficiency. The point is that effectiveness of a leader does not explicitly require from him or her to maintain those standards. Moreover, adherence to the standards does not guarantee that leader will be effective as well. In other words, those qualities have correlation but not causation with each other.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 231, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to people'
Suggestion: to people
...ratic societies and therefore we choose people who suit our hopes, ideas and inspirati...
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Line 5, column 136, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'embodied the highest'.
Suggestion: embodied the highest
...ind has many examples when a person who embodied highest ethical and moral standards was not an ...
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Line 5, column 437, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'adheres'.
Suggestion: adheres
...entist, since the childhood he strictly adhere to religious traditions. Many of his re...
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Line 5, column 569, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'to the highest'.
Suggestion: to the highest
...ored his pious life style and adherence to highest ethical and moral standards; unfortunat...
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Line 5, column 955, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'to the highest'.
Suggestion: to the highest
... demonstrates that a leader who adheres to highest ethical and moral standards may be inef...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'second', 'so', 'therefore', 'well', 'for example', 'for instance', 'in conclusion', 'in fact', 'as well as', 'in other words', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.230182926829 0.240241500013 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.134146341463 0.157235817809 85% => OK
Adjectives: 0.115853658537 0.0880659088768 132% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0564024390244 0.0497285424764 113% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0503048780488 0.0444667217837 113% => OK
Prepositions: 0.105182926829 0.12292977631 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0198170731707 0.0406280797675 49% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.8807045725 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0259146341463 0.030933414821 84% => OK
Particles: 0.0015243902439 0.0016655270985 92% => OK
Determiners: 0.102134146341 0.0997080785238 102% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.015243902439 0.0249443105267 61% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.015243902439 0.0148568991511 103% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3576.0 2732.02544248 131% => OK
No of words: 591.0 452.878318584 130% => OK
Chars per words: 6.05076142132 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93056706295 4.58838876751 107% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.395939086294 0.366273622748 108% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.304568527919 0.280924506359 108% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.216582064298 0.200843997647 108% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.150592216582 0.132149295362 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8807045725 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 219.290929204 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450084602369 0.48968727796 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 54.1448625662 55.4138127331 98% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6194690265 116% => OK
Sentence length: 24.625 23.380412469 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.444403187 59.4972553346 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.0 141.124799967 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.625 23.380412469 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.708333333333 0.674092028746 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.21349557522 96% => OK
Readability: 55.0818527919 51.4728631049 107% => OK
Elegance: 1.4746835443 1.64882698954 89% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.456737183976 0.391690518653 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.130044259114 0.123202303941 106% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.084627587396 0.077325440228 109% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.509170094317 0.547984918172 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.114685688527 0.149214159877 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.195965242723 0.161403998019 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113642841817 0.0892212321368 127% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.469614387818 0.385218514788 122% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0732185063524 0.0692045440612 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.339326912658 0.275328986314 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0146964037303 0.0653680567796 22% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.4325221239 163% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 15.0 7.22455752212 208% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 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.