Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning f

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Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.

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.

How should the government prioritize its agenda has always been a heated discussion among citizens. In this statement, the author argue that the government should always put the problems of hunger and unemployment at the top comparing to issues like funding the arts. When necessary, the author even suggest to suspend those funds to arts in order to help the hungry or unemployed people since it is basic human need. I do appreciate some merits in this proposal but I do not agree with totally suspending the governmental funds to arts. Following are my reasons and analysis.

First of all, I have to admit that there should be an order of priorities towards social affairs that the government should pay attention to. It would be against humanity to spend a lot of money on arts while the funds going to people in need are obviously insufficient. Besides, it would also make no sense to develop art industry if numerous people are struggling with insufficient food and lack of job opportunity since no one will turn to arts when his life is at stake. Considering those facts, from the perspective of both humanity and economics, government should spare no efforts to solve the the problem of hunger and unemployment under this situation instead of wasting too much money on arts.

That being said, I have to point out that there are also situations where the government should shift this priority order a bit and take a better usage of social resources. For example, if there are plenty of suitable job opportunities for the unemployed people, but they are too lazy to make money by themselves, and they only want to rely on the governmental funds to support their basic needs, it would make no sence for the government to give up supporting the art industry and enhance the sloth of those unemployed people. Under this circumstance, arts could even play an important role in enriching residents’ spiritual life as well as injecting more vitality in the country’s economics. As has been demonstrated above, when the reason of hunger and unemployment are the subjective choice of those people, it will be a wiser decision for the government to turn to the art industry instead.

From another perspective, funding the industry of arts and solving the problems of hunger and unemployment are not necessarily a pair of mutual exclusions. If the art industry are prosperous in a country, it could promote a lot of relevent industries. For instance, hundreds or even thousands of theaters might pop up and become crowed with people; there might be a lot of music albums released every day; large amounts of foreign tourists might be attracted to this country for its rich culture. These possibilities means a lot of job opportunities as well as financial income for the government, which could in turn be used to solve the hunger and unemployment problems if they still exist.

To put it together, it is understandable and humanitarian to put hunger and unemployment problem at the top priority of the governments’ agenda. However, it would be unwise to totally suspend the fundings to art industry from both the economic and the long-run perspective.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 301, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggest suspending'.
Suggestion: suggest suspending
...e arts. When necessary, the author even suggest to suspend those funds to arts in order to help th...
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Line 3, column 598, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...rnment should spare no efforts to solve the the problem of hunger and unemployment unde...
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Line 3, column 598, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...rnment should spare no efforts to solve the the problem of hunger and unemployment unde...
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Line 7, column 518, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'mean'.
Suggestion: mean
...r its rich culture. These possibilities means a lot of job opportunities as well as f...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, so, still, well, while, for example, for instance, as well as, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2645.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 532.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97180451128 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80261649409 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9408175579 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471804511278 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 826.2 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.3531637419 60.3974514979 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.210526316 118.986275619 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0 23.4991977007 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.05263157895 5.21951772744 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.18162666924 0.243740707755 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0609725211179 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0272835474958 0.0758088955206 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10891990808 0.150359130593 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.038336596699 0.0667264976115 57% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.1392134831 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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