Some people believe that government funding of the arts is necessary to ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Others believe that government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Government funding of the arts is crucial for the arts to thrive and be available to all people. My opinion is that it is imperative for the government to show its full support for arts by giving out subsidy for the sake of the country itself. On the other hand, it must not patronage individual artist for fear of the government’s interference with the composing process of artists and the content of their works.
To begin with, the term” arts” ought to be clearly defined if we were to discuss the underlying statement. In essence, it denotes the idea of self-expression and creativity which will intrigue the broader development ranging from musical, physical, and visual-spatial practices and so forth. Thus, if the government is able to properly incentivize the development of arts, it could be envisaged that some fields such as cultural creativity industry will be more prosperous which in turn can benefit the overall economic performance of the country, as we can see from the efforts done by the Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture in terms of the promotion of locally-produced movies as well as the advocates of cultural parks throughout Taiwan.
Moreover, since education lays the foundation for the national development, the most beneficial part of government funding would be in art education, which will develop the children not only mentally, but also in their creativity and their ability to connect with others. Currently, a rigorous education in the arts is taught only in all levels of schools in Taiwan, government funding of the arts would help bring these programs to a greater number of students instead of to a select few.
However, the government should not provide funding to artists themselves because some artists may want to deliberately meet the taste of the government to secure government funding and the government might interfere with the composing process of artists or the content of their works, which will threaten the integrity of arts. Examples can be seen in some of the authoritarian countries such as former USSR or China where governments provide funding to artists and coerced them to produce works that are deliberately in favor of the government, which obviously contradicts self-expression and creativity that are presumed to be the core values of arts.
In conclusion, the government’s funding of arts is undoubtedly indispensable under the circumstances that it doesn’t violate the core values of arts based on the aforementioned arguments, for in the long term the development of arts would benefit the country as a whole.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, so, thus, well, as for, in conclusion, such as, as well as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2174.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 419.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18854415274 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07485275131 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498806682578 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 661.5 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 20.2370786517 54% => 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: 38.0 23.0359550562 165% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 101.2603224 60.3974514979 168% => OK
Chars per sentence: 197.636363636 118.986275619 166% => OK
Words per sentence: 38.0909090909 23.4991977007 162% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.9090909091 5.21951772744 228% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.372160480909 0.243740707755 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.164223920024 0.0831039109588 198% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11488327287 0.0758088955206 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.220524110959 0.150359130593 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0551118985938 0.0667264976115 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 22.1 14.1392134831 156% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.91 48.8420337079 67% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 18.1 12.1743820225 149% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 17.2 11.2143820225 153% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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