Claim: Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
Reason: It is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—to use public resources to fund the arts when people's basic needs are not being met.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
The given issue prompt is saying that government should suspend its funding for the development of arts when most of the people of the nation are hungry and unemployed. I mostly agree with the statement. Though artistic development of the people of a country is necessary, it becomes pointless to spend money on arts when the people are struggling to get a job or having difficulties in meeting the basic needs for survival.
There is no doubt that artistic development of the people of a country is very much important. Arts and literature play a vital role in shaping the mentality of the people. It also plays a vital role in expressing the culture of a country to the people of the other countries. But when a significant portion of the people of a country is struggling to manage the basic needs, when a significant number of people of a country live below the poverty line, having difficulties to get a job, facing problems in earning the livelihood, it will be nothing but an fruitless decision to fund for the development of arts. Let us take the example of the African countries. In many of the African countries, people are jobless, hungry for food, suffering in various type of diseases. Moreover, they have no access to proper education. If the government one of those nations spends money on arts - buying valuable artifacts and painting, builds research centers to develop arts, fund various types of organizations which are working to advertise arts and literature, it will not be a wise decision to take. It may further destabilize the condition of the country and make the situation worse than ever.
Moreover, when a country spend her money on arts when there is a large portion of the population struggling for food, the consequences can be very harmful. People who are having a hard time managing a job may protest against the government. Let us take the example of a country named Bangladesh. A few days ago the students of Bangladesh started protesting for safe roads and reformation of the quota system in the government jobs. Students in Dhaka, which is the capital city of Bangladesh, took control of all the major roads of the city, stopping every single public and private transports from using the roads. The whole city was in a standstill condition for more than a week. It hampered the economy of the whole country and the regular life of the people of the city to a great extent. If the protestors who are not getting the basic needs for survival follow the same path as the Bangladeshi students, it would result in a great socio-economic loss for the whole nation. So, the government should think twice before spending its money on arts when people a significant portion of the people are hungry.
However, the given issue prompt has never said that arts cannot flourish without the help of the government funding. Rather there are numerous examples where it has been seen that a great artistic work was created in a time when there was a very depressing situation in the country. Bangladeshi artist Jaynul Abedin is very popular in the Indian sub-continent for one of his paintings during the period when people of Bangladesh were dying in hunger. Moreover, it is not necessary that only the government has to spend on arts of a country. The rich people of a country can fund for the development of arts and literature while the government can spend money on developing the living condition of the people creating opportunities for employment for the unemployed people, supplying foods and managing health care for poor people.
To conclude, though development of arts is necessary for a nation and its culture, meeting the basic needs of the struggling people is a more important necessity. It will be of no use if the government spends money on arts without meeting the basic needs such as food, education, healthcare etc. because when most of the people of a nation are hungry and live below the poverty line, they will not understand the importance of
arts in their life.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 555, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
... the livelihood, it will be nothing but an fruitless decision to fund for the deve...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Rather,
...out the help of the government funding. Rather there are numerous examples where it ha...
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Line 9, column 427, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ey will not understand the importance of arts in their life.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, while, as to, no doubt, such as, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 89.0 58.6224719101 152% => OK
Nominalization: 29.0 12.9106741573 225% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3333.0 2235.4752809 149% => OK
No of words: 691.0 442.535393258 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82344428365 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.12707312764 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73644138382 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 285.0 215.323595506 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.412445730825 0.4932671777 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1034.1 704.065955056 147% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.5315551133 60.3974514979 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.931034483 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8275862069 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.44827586207 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.348476715052 0.243740707755 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0921251476177 0.0831039109588 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0871848861374 0.0758088955206 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.231980995868 0.150359130593 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0537085497878 0.0667264976115 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => 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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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