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 statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The statement claims the well-being of the people is the best measure of the effectiveness of a country’s leaders. This is true only if the goal of the leaders is about the well-being of the people. It is easy to understand that if the goal is to salvage the economy, such as what Roosevelt did during the Great Depression, the well-being of the people should not be the measure, like no one would deny that Roosevelt was an effective leader. I therefore disagree with the claim.
In one nation, the well-being of its people is not a reliable measure to evaluate the effectiveness of its leaders. Here suppose that the "leaders" in the claim mean the "current leaders" rather than the leaders through the history as a whole. Undoubtedly, it takes time for the general welfare of the people to be improved and sustained. When the system of ensuring the well-being of the people is established, as long as there are no dramatic changes, the situation of the current status of its people is expected to continue, regardless who the leaders are and what the leaders do. For example, nations like the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany are developed countries with good systems. The well-being of the people in these countries is well guarded. Does this mean that their current leaders are effective only based on the well-being of their citizens? The answer is no because the well-being of the citizens is result from the accumulated achievements of its leaders and its people ever since the country has been found. Now, as long as there are no dramatic changes, like war and fatal diseases, the existing strong economic foundation, great welfare system, and political freedom will sustain the welfare of their citizens regardless of who are the leaders are. The well-being of the people hence should not be used as the measure of the effectiveness of its leaders.
In addition, leaders of a nation face many tasks regarding all endeavors such as economy, politics, international relationship, culture, education, and many others. The effectiveness of leaders is determined by how these issues of a nation are handled and whether desired outcomes are attained. Take China for instance. One of the objectives of the current president, Xi Jinping, is to diminish the power abuse and corruption among politicians. As the head of China, he had initiated an anti-corruption movement. As a result, the corruption has been greatly suppressed. One may reasonably say that Xi Jinping is an effective leader because of the desired result on anti-corruption though the well-being of its people is not as plausible as its overall strength.
Moreover, look at history which also tells us that the well-being of the people should not be used to measure the effectiveness of the leaders because it is not always the priority of a nation. Take the Civil War for example. The president of that time, Abraham Lincoln, led the war to success and subdue the rebellions who planned to disintegrate the United States. At the time, the top priority for the president to do is sustain the unity of the country. Though the war was catastrophic to its people, the president successfully protected the country and therefore effective. As we can see, the well-being of its people is not always the measure.
The effectiveness of a leader is not a black-or-white question. A leader could be effective on some issues and not so effective on others. It is not reasonable to completely endorse or deny a leader as a whole. Whether a leader is effective should be judged based on the specific goals need to be achieved and the results obtained. The well-being of its people is only one possible goal of many objectives a leader has, and it is the measure only when it is the focus. Otherwise, it should not be the measure.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
No. of Words: 646 350 //The second paragraph is wordy
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 33 15
No. of Words: 646 350
No. of Characters: 3080 1500
No. of Different Words: 244 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.041 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.768 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.796 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 238 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 180 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 108 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 77 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.576 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.067 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.424 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.313 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.471 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 913, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...-being of their citizens? The answer is no because the well-being of the citizens ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'hence', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'moreover', 'regarding', 'so', 'therefore', 'well', 'for example', 'for instance', 'in addition', 'such as', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.252054794521 0.240241500013 105% => OK
Verbs: 0.143835616438 0.157235817809 91% => OK
Adjectives: 0.058904109589 0.0880659088768 67% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0506849315068 0.0497285424764 102% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0342465753425 0.0444667217837 77% => OK
Prepositions: 0.127397260274 0.12292977631 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0315068493151 0.0406280797675 78% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.99397012762 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0178082191781 0.030933414821 58% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.152054794521 0.0997080785238 152% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.013698630137 0.0249443105267 55% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0123287671233 0.0148568991511 83% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3839.0 2732.02544248 141% => OK
No of words: 646.0 452.878318584 143% => OK
Chars per words: 5.9427244582 6.0361032391 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.0414809386 4.58838876751 110% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.377708978328 0.366273622748 103% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.297213622291 0.280924506359 106% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.201238390093 0.200843997647 100% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.142414860681 0.132149295362 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99397012762 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 219.290929204 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.396284829721 0.48968727796 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 48.3991187562 55.4138127331 87% => OK
How many sentences: 33.0 20.6194690265 160% => OK
Sentence length: 19.5757575758 23.380412469 84% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0204708382 59.4972553346 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.333333333 141.124799967 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5757575758 23.380412469 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.454545454545 0.674092028746 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 49.2971198049 51.4728631049 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.79640718563 1.64882698954 109% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.591189380189 0.391690518653 151% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.139340376958 0.123202303941 113% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0915772295557 0.077325440228 118% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.585956293304 0.547984918172 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.185560779784 0.149214159877 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.267308132475 0.161403998019 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.138371047561 0.0892212321368 155% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.596654998558 0.385218514788 155% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.112118621102 0.0692045440612 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.447381323336 0.275328986314 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.116181207862 0.0653680567796 178% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.88274336283 246% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 2.70907079646 295% => OK
Total topic words: 24.0 13.5995575221 176% => 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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