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.
Is supporting the people in need more important than giving fund to artists? To pragmatists, funding for the arts may seem to be secondary to the immediate needs of the suffering population from poverty. For this reason, when the local government announces its new plan to construct a somewhat luxurious city hall building, they organize a protest to stop it from spending money for useless purposes. However, if our world is full of pragmatists, no great civilization could have been constructed or advanced. Artists are those who generate inspirations necessary for promoting artistic creation and cultivating altruistic minds in the heart of people. Without such creative and philanthropic mids, our society would accomplish less toward constructing monuments.
There are some governments that have to look after a devastated population suffering from the lack of basic needs such as food and a more secure and safe social environment. Of course, when a whole society is devastated by political turmoil, economic crisis or natural disasters, the government should focus on solving immediate problems.
We should understand the fact that contributions of the artists are second to none, though our society is not giving due importance to their work of creation. A nation that weighs the cultural aspects of art can better flourish in its economy. For example, countries like France and the U.S. allotted a certain amount of their annual budgets for the promotion of art successfully enticed greater numbers of tourists to their museums or art performances, which eventually lead to creating more revenues in tourist industries and business. With income generated by tourism, the whole economy of a nation can be better and in the core of such cultural activities is the great work of artists.
Ironically, those in needs of financial support can be better helped by the artists with philanthropic minds. It is well known that a pop star, Michal Jackson, holds a world record for most charity with monetary donations through sponsorship of non-profit organization. Fundraising art performances are frequent in the major cities where benevolent artists are collaborating to generate otherwise hidden impulses of society, and they play a key role in moral awakening by enhancing the humanistic values. In short, artists have made great impacts on our society by arousing more altruistic spirits instead of merely pursuing their selfish goals.
The statement that it is inappropriate - and, perhaps, even cruel - to use public resources to fund arts when people's basic needs are not being met is generated from a myopic view to understand interactions among artists and the general public. I would say artists are the one who supports society as a whole instead of pleasing those of the privileged class. Moreover, our society should not be understood by the dichotomy; the haves and have-nots.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
maybe a wrong essay topic.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 460 350
No. of Characters: 2385 1500
No. of Different Words: 261 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.631 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.185 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.854 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 184 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 149 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 101 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 70 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.211 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.829 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.474 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.29 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.518 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.055 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 230, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, so, well, for example, in short, of course, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2435.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 460.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29347826087 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6311565067 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94000991321 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569565217391 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 750.6 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1674879588 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.157894737 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2105263158 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.15789473684 5.21951772744 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.16546532987 0.243740707755 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0499516047299 0.0831039109588 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489882772293 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0906573422907 0.150359130593 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0289542716237 0.0667264976115 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.7 12.1639044944 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.53 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 100.480337079 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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