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.
For as long as governments have existed, so has the question of whether to use their limited pools of resources to mend society's current issues or to prevent those that are predicted to arise over time. The prompt suggests that focusing on the problems at hand would be a better use of those resources than putting them towards future issues which may or may not occur. In my opinion, I mostly disagree with the above prompt because while some issues carry a sense of urgency that requires immediate attention, the majority of issues can be addressed more efficiently if they are dealt with before they grow to become major concerns. Below I present an example of a type of situation which must be taken care of immediately and two examples of situations in which the long-term approach yields greater benefits.
First, consider situations which will deteriorate rapidly if care is not provided to those most in need. For example, a natural disaster such as an earthquake or a large fire that leaves hundreds or thousands injured, homeless, or cut off from access to utilities. A society which would not immediately shift its allocation of resources to aid those unable to fulfill their most basic needs denies its citizens their right to health and safety. In this circumstance, prioritizing issues of the present is clearly the correct choice.
However, when the current situation is not quite as dire, failing to aim a portion of a government's resources to prevent future issues will allow those issues to accumulate until they because exactly the sort of catastrophes mentioned above. Considering the case of climate change, governments focused on making sure that their economies prosper in the present day are altering the state of the environment in a manner that scientists predict will lead to flooding, drought, an increase in damaging storms, and a variety of other detrimental natural occurrences in the future. Investing in environmentally conscious technology today will pay off in the long run when we do not need to deal with these future calamities.
Finally, investment in future generations through education ensures that a country will continue to grow and prosper. Failing to direct enough funding into any of the arts or sciences will leave a portion of human knowledge to be lost if it is not passed on to the youngest of citizens. Investing in the next generation sets them up to more than make up the effort put into training them to be productive contributors for society.
The optimization of resource allocation to current and future issues is a problem too complex for any government to have solved up to this point in time. Hopefully as we continue systemic research studies on how resource distribution leads to societal growth over time, we can continue to improve our understanding of the situation. It is clear that the answer will be some mixture of taking care of the problems of today and preparing for those of tomorrow.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 50, Rule ID: WHETHER[3]
Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: whether; the question whether
...ong as governments have existed, so has the question of whether to use their limited pools of resources...
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Line 1, column 145, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...esources to mend societys current issues or to prevent those that are predicted t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, so, while, for example, sort of, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 89.0 58.6224719101 152% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2480.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 496.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71922212354 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79404280132 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532258064516 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 790.2 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.2848382095 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.882352941 118.986275619 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.1764705882 23.4991977007 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52941176471 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.131626371225 0.243740707755 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0407605233649 0.0831039109588 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0383093467621 0.0758088955206 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0688775149122 0.150359130593 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.040578084467 0.0667264976115 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.1392134831 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.8420337079 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 11.8971910112 147% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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