Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
A government has many functions and one of them is to promote the well-being of the society by solving all kinds of problems in a wide range of scale and field, such as natural disasters, welfare, civil rights, education and racial conflicts. Some of the problems are immediate problems of today and others are anticipated problems of the future. Whether a problem should be focused on solving does not depend on the relative time but on the outcome— the overall optimal benefits. Thus, I disagree with the claim.
Some immediate problems require urgent solutions to minimize losses. Take SARS for instance, an atypical and highly contagious disease broke out in 2003 and killed 774 people. The virus is highly contagious and fatal without treatment. Resulting from the immediate and efficient response, the virus was well controlled in late June and eliminated by mid-August. If the government had not dealt with it instantly, more people would have died or spread the virus globally threatening many other lives. Immediate problems, like SARS, need to be focused on solving.
However, some immediate problems do not cause great loss to a people, and the government should focus on other vital problems first. For Example, people are unhappy with the current hourly wage and signing a pentation demanding a higher wage. In this case, the issue is unlikely to cause riots or violent protests. If needed, it could give way to other emergent problems such as the Ferguson Incident in Saint Louis, which threatened many people’s safety and human rights.
Also, governments should focus on some anticipated problems so as to avoid or mitigate the misfortune in the future. Very often, predicted problems, if they are not taken care of today, will become the immediate problems tomorrow which can cause a great loss. Take The Three Gorges Project in China for example, the Chinese government has been warned about the predicted problems by scientists and environmentalists; however, the Chinese government still went on and built the Three Gorges Dam without responding to the possible problems. As a result, the dam today has caused a lot of urgent problems such as landslides, water pollution, irrigation, flood, and allocation of immigrants. The ecosystems, environment and people in those areas have been tremendously affected negatively or harmed. The disaster could have been avoided or mollified if the Chinese government had not overlooked the possible problems.
In conclusion, when a government decided what problems should be focused on solving, the time of a problem—today or future—is not the main factor to be considered; rather, the outcome of solving certain problems in different situations matters.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
In the introduction, you told you disagree with the statement. but in the first argument and the second argument, you both support solve immediate problems: 'SARS' and 'Ferguson Incident in Saint Louis'
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 437 350
No. of Characters: 2216 1500
No. of Different Words: 230 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.572 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.071 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.674 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 170 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 56 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.81 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.95 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.304 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.502 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.057 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 244, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
...rights, education and racial conflicts. Some of the problems are immediate problems of toda...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 61, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ould focus on some anticipated problems so as to avoid or mitigate the misfortune in the...
^^^^^^^^
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'so', 'still', 'thus', 'well', 'as to', 'for example', 'for instance', 'in conclusion', 'in fact', 'such as', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.251521298174 0.240241500013 105% => OK
Verbs: 0.158215010142 0.157235817809 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.101419878296 0.0880659088768 115% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0466531440162 0.0497285424764 94% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0101419878296 0.0444667217837 23% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.107505070994 0.12292977631 87% => OK
Participles: 0.0649087221095 0.0406280797675 160% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.86704916841 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0182555780933 0.030933414821 59% => OK
Particles: 0.00202839756592 0.0016655270985 122% => OK
Determiners: 0.107505070994 0.0997080785238 108% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0182555780933 0.0249443105267 73% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00811359026369 0.0148568991511 55% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2736.0 2732.02544248 100% => OK
No of words: 435.0 452.878318584 96% => OK
Chars per words: 6.28965517241 6.0361032391 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.58838876751 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.409195402299 0.366273622748 112% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.333333333333 0.280924506359 119% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.241379310345 0.200843997647 120% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.15632183908 0.132149295362 118% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86704916841 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 219.290929204 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535632183908 0.48968727796 109% => OK
Word variations: 62.1093843174 55.4138127331 112% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6194690265 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.7142857143 23.380412469 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.7271077215 59.4972553346 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.285714286 141.124799967 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7142857143 23.380412469 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.809523809524 0.674092028746 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 54.0476190476 51.4728631049 105% => OK
Elegance: 1.97169811321 1.64882698954 120% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.613586542066 0.391690518653 157% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0923128650884 0.123202303941 75% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0847689548584 0.077325440228 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.513505608814 0.547984918172 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.173785757266 0.149214159877 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.235330488522 0.161403998019 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105895896476 0.0892212321368 119% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.390272740195 0.385218514788 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0387568478396 0.0692045440612 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.425965516982 0.275328986314 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0870926751831 0.0653680567796 133% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.4325221239 38% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 17.0 5.30420353982 321% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88274336283 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 3.0 7.22455752212 42% => OK
Negative topic words: 13.0 3.66592920354 355% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.70907079646 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 16.0 13.5995575221 118% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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