Prompt: 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.
Various arguments have been given for and against the recommendation that governments should not invest money on ‘non-essential’ studies like the arts, when their citizens are suffering from a paucity of basic amenities like food and jobs.
The study of arts such as History, Literature, Politics, etc. is essential for the proper understanding of a nation’s past, and the culture of its people. The people who view these topics as a waste of the nation’s money need to consider the fact that most of the civil servants, at least in countries like India, specialize in these subjects. This is because they are crucial for governing the people. It would thus be highly ironic for the government to cut off funding for these subjects based on the claim that they serve no purpose, when in fact, the government is actually run on the knowledge gained from this field of study.
At a first glance, it might appear that arts have no direct contribution to the economy. True, the study of these subjects makes no direct contribution. But consider the case of great works of art like the Taj Mahal, Louvre, the Mona Lisa, etc. These are great examples of how the contribution of a single artist can continue to get revenues (in form of tourism) for the nation for generations to come, and hence contribute massively to developing the economy of the country.
Finally, another possible argument against the funding of arts is that it is downright immoral for the government to divert its funds elsewhere when a significant number of its citizens are dying of hunger and poverty. First of all, who has the right to decide if the number of impoverished people is significant or not? Secondly, this argument would hold more weight if it were possible for the government to make the aforementioned problems go away solely through the payment of a large sum of money. However, simply spending money is only a way to delay the inevitable- sooner or later, the people in concern are going to end up in the same situation, unless we plan for the long term and focus on developing the economy and increasing the jobs, which can be done by supporting arts, as mentioned above.
Thus, we can conclude that, unemployment and hunger require long term solutions, instead of just the diversion of funds from fields of study,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, at least, in fact, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1918.0 2235.4752809 86% => OK
No of words: 396.0 442.535393258 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84343434343 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46091344257 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76107004716 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 596.7 704.065955056 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.7522420954 60.3974514979 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.866666667 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.93333333333 5.21951772744 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => 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: 0.190643847055 0.243740707755 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0589091281866 0.0831039109588 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0442079595034 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0970680809227 0.150359130593 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0419956106913 0.0667264976115 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.