The effectiveness of a country s leaders is best measured by examining the well being of that country s citizens 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 s

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The effectiveness of a country's leaders is best measured by examining the well-being of that country's citizens.

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.

Traditionally, the prosperity of a nation was evaluated based on its economical growth. However, over the last few decades other aspects like freedom of speech, disparity between the riches and poor, social equality, physical health, security and civil rights also plays a major role in calculating the nation's prosperity. The prompt suggest that in order to measure the effectiveness of a country's leader, the best way is to measure the well-being of that country's citizens. I mostly agree with this position for two main reasons, which I will elucidate below. However, I do concede that it can be difficult to measure such a subjective factor

First of all, lets us evaluate why the traditional method of using economical growth of nation is an ineffective method to quantify a leader's potency. In previous centuries, the societies were small, less diverse and were generally led by a king or monarch. In such times, the power of an monarch was measure on extent to which they the nation's boundaries was extended. A little importance was given to the well-being of its denizens. As the boundaries extended, more the general masses suffered from scarcity of the food and widespread poverty, while the rich remained largely unaffected. The nation prospered, but life of the citizen degraded. Even in recent times, the image of a well developed nation is deteriorated when its public have to suffer from poverty. This shows that economic growth is not an effective method to evaluate a leader's position.

Secondly, over the last few decades the masses have became realized that the is need to consider more factors other than economic growth to measure a leader's stance. In the recent times when the world was affected by the covid-19 pandemic, many nation leaders were criticized for not providing public healthcare. This will sure to affect their positions in next elections. Also the leaders who fought for civil rights like Sir Martin Luther King Jr or Mahatma Gandhi who dedicated his life make India an independent nation are some of the most celebrated leaders of the society. There are more examples of leaders who went far and beyond for the rights of the people. On this note, it is fair to consider that effectiveness of a leader can be evaluated by examining the well-being of that country's citizens.

However, I do concede that measuring well-being of citizen is a subjective method. It can be easily alter by minor inconveniences. For eg. the world was largely unprepared for the pandemic and it was leaders who were blamed for this. An unanticipated event can flushed all the goodwill of leader. Also, an act of war by another nation can also severely affect the leader's position. However, I believe that even if such circumstances degrades the effectiveness of a leader, it also provide them the opportunity to display their determination to server their people and to show that those circumstances were just an hiccup.

In conclusion, the efficacy of a leader undeniably rests on the well being of the citizens. This well being is most holistically measured when economic, social and civil aspects are taken into consideration. Only a leader who succeeds in ensuring all these in balanced quantities to its citizens, would be regarded as a stellar leader.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 70, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
... of a nation was evaluated based on its economical growth. However, over the last few deca...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'nations'' or 'nation's'?
Suggestion: nations'; nation's
...o plays a major role in calculating the nations prosperity. The prompt suggest that in ...
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Line 3, column 68, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
...ate why the traditional method of using economical growth of nation is an ineffective meth...
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Line 3, column 135, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'leaders'' or 'leader's'?
Suggestion: leaders'; leader's
... is an ineffective method to quantify a leaders potency. In previous centuries, the soc...
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Line 3, column 287, 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
...or monarch. In such times, the power of an monarch was measure on extent to which ...
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Line 5, column 53, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'become'.
Suggestion: become
...er the last few decades the masses have became realized that the is need to consider m...
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Line 5, column 151, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'leaders'' or 'leader's'?
Suggestion: leaders'; leader's
...other than economic growth to measure a leaders stance. In the recent times when the wo...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...fect their positions in next elections. Also the leaders who fought for civil rights...
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...fe make India an independent nation are some of the most celebrated leaders of the society....
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Message: Did you mean 'provides'?
Suggestion: provides
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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
...show that those circumstances were just an hiccup. In conclusion, the efficacy...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, while, in conclusion, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2741.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 543.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04788213628 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82725184711 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83357138138 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48802946593 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 882.9 704.065955056 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.9353417745 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.518518519 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1111111111 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.44444444444 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235336383702 0.243740707755 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0710069352669 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0792607242135 0.0758088955206 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149077211104 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0478926153354 0.0667264976115 72% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 100.480337079 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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