Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.
Reason: It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated.
How governments should allocate their funds remains a controversial debate for so many years, and people have different opinions about whether major cities deserve more funds from governments. The speaker claims that governments should fund their major cities because cities can represent and reflect a nation’s cultural traditions, playing a crucial role in preserving and generating unique cultures. Personally speaking, I agree with this opinion.
There is no denying that suburban and rural areas are no less important than major cities in terms of preserving and generating cultures. Especially with the development of modern agriculture, many towns and counties can demonstrate features of a country. For supporting examples one need look no further than the agriculture in Iraq. Iraq is a country located in the area where water is a rare resource, and to tackle this issue, the government develops overhead sprinkler irrigation and localized drop irrigation, and these techniques successfully help the country reduce the pressure of water resources. In this situation, investing more capital in rural and suburban areas are worthy because towns and counties reflect how the country cherish water resources.
Notwithstanding the reason why towns and counties deserve funds from the government, investment in major cities should not yield to investment in towns and counties. Firstly, there are more cultural heritages located in urban areas than those in other areas in many conditions. The architecture in Barcelona, Spain, can be regarded as a standard exemplification of the importance of funding major cities. A world-renowned architect, Antonio Gaudi, built his artworks in the central district of Barcelona, and his artworks include Sagrada Familia, Casa Mila, and Parc Guell. These buildings are extremely significant cultural heritages for Spain because of Gaudi’s unique artistic style. If the Spanish government did not invest in replenishing these buildings, Spain would lose these heritages quickly.
In addition, major cities also reflect the contemporary cultures of a country. Take tourism as an example. When visitors travel to the United States of America, most of them prefer to visit major cities such as New York or San Francisco rather than some unknown towns and counties. Why? It is because major cities can reflect how people live, and for example, visiting New York will help people understand the urban lifestyle of the U.S.A., while taking a trip to San Francisco allows people to appreciate the technological development achieved by the country. By contrast, for towns and counties, they may represent some traditional cultures, but such cultures cannot depict the current culture of a country.
To sum up, funding major cities should take precedence over providing towns and counties with financial support, because major cities often consist of cultural heritages and highlight the contemporary cultures of countries, while towns and counties’ culture may be too orthodox.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, look, may, so, while, for example, in addition, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2568.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 460.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.58260869565 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6311565067 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89375182452 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523913043478 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 792.0 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.9828058287 60.3974514979 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.4 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.85 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255924971193 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0742492391053 0.0831039109588 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0826953562725 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151771553225 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0667286053628 0.0667264976115 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.38 12.1639044944 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.27 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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