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 intervention in areas such as women’s healthcare and corporate law have, rightfully so, made the average citizen vary of their meddling. However, many sectors such as education and public infrastructure have greatly benefited from synergy with the government. The arts, which are often overlooked as superfluous and unnecessary, are at constant risk of extinction. Empirical evidence has proven that the arts are essential to the functioning of a healthy society, and governments who have a vested interest in the wellbeing of their people should be obligated to ensure its survival.
Famous actors such as Leonardo Decaprio and Matt Damon are revered; yet, pursuing an acting career is seen as foolish and impractical. Art is the binding glue that holds our society together. Bob, a nine to five construction worker, comes home after a long day’s work to unwind in front of his tv; his favorite season of “Game of Thrones” is on air. Art adds joy and hope to the otherwise monotonous lives of many, and, hence, to see it so easily taken for granted is troubling. The people who grow up to one day be the famous actors and actresses we see on tv, the costume makers, the directors, cultivated their love for their art from a young age. Perhaps a school play they partook in, or even a free art class at their local community center. In an era where the middle class is contantly shrinking, everyday parents began to undermine the importance of paying for their child’s extracurricular activities in lue of putting food on the table. Goverments who invest in the arts, are goverments who invest in their people and the future of their society.
Free education uptil college, something Americans now take for granted, revolutionized the lives of everyday people. In countries like India, where education is not a guaranteed right and only affordable by some, poverty rates remains high and their economic development remains low. Americans invested in their young ones, and it was an investment well spent. The New York art scene offers marvelous creations such as their broadway and beautiful ballet shows. Yet, these masterpieces are only attainable to the few, the wealthy, that can afford to enjoy them. Private dance classes, singing and acting coaches, art tutors: these are all things that the wealthy can use to set themselves ahead of the curve. The American government stepped in to make education a level playing field, it set up institutions such as libraries to make educational texts available to everybody, not just the rich. Goverment funding for art programs in schools and art museums can open up art to a whole new set of people, despite their socioeconomic status.
The government has had its fair share of meddling disasters. When the American government decided to step in and declare that all schools needed standardized testing to ensure educational quality, it didn’t work out so well. Schools setting aside inspiration and intellectual curiosity in place of extreme test taking skills was the intended result, no doubt. While government intervention can bring along with it a whole host of bureaucracy issues and misplaced intentions, that does not mean it should be shunned all together. Government funding should allow those at a more personal level such as teachers and community leaders some regulated autonomy to make decisions on how best to spend the money.
The arts are vital to a healthy community, and it is the governments duty to ensure that it is accessible to the masses. Government funding that allows a degree of autonomy to locals would ensure that the funding was best spent, and prevent the government from denigrating the integrity of the arts. The arts provide a sense of community and joy in the otherwise drab lives of many. What kind of future would it be where none of them were left?
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 146, Rule ID: NEEDS_FIXED[1]
Message: "needed standardized" is only accepted in certain dialects. For something more widely acceptable, try 'standardizing' or 'to be standardized'.
Suggestion: standardizing; to be standardized
... in and declare that all schools needed standardized testing to ensure educational quality, ...
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Line 7, column 480, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...aucracy issues and misplaced intentions, that does not mean it should be shunned ...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...l to a healthy community, and it is the governments duty to ensure that it is accessible to...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, look, so, well, while, kind of, no doubt, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3249.0 2235.4752809 145% => OK
No of words: 641.0 442.535393258 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06864274571 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.0316973083 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83364712038 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 349.0 215.323595506 162% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544461778471 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 1019.7 704.065955056 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1065929887 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.034482759 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1034482759 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.37931034483 5.21951772744 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286989010023 0.243740707755 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0710583380723 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0680530993064 0.0758088955206 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169784448925 0.150359130593 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0653738563092 0.0667264976115 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 174.0 100.480337079 173% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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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.