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.
It is well known that in many States or countries, even in the poorest ones, the government reserves money in its budget to fund the arts. This amount of money varies through the different countries. The argument to support this idea is the same socialist argument of every day: the State have to put taxes coactively under some people in order to give some services to who cannot afford that services, in this case, the access to the arts. This action is neither moral nor useful. It will not help to flourish the arts. Therefore, I strongly believe that the government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of them and hurts their essence.
To begin, the arts (music, painting, cinema, etc.), have the power to touch us in the depths of our souls. As one theatre director said, “Art has the power. It has the power to sustain, to heal, to humanize, and to change something in you. It is a frightening power, and also a beautiful power, and it is essential to a civilized society.” Which is precisely why art should be kept separate from the State. Government involves the organization of coercion. In a free society coercion should be reserved only for such essential functions of government as protecting rights and punishing criminals. People should not be forced to contribute money to artistic endeavours that they may not approve, nor should the artist be forced to trim their sails to meet government standards. For instance, suppose that I like classical music and I know people in the government of the city that also like it. In normal conditions, I must buy a ticket and go to some theatre. It is not fair to force a person who like rock music to pay taxes in order to subside classical music just because I like it and I have some lobby power.
Moreover, government funding of anything involves government control. Therefore, who plays the piper calls the tune. As a consequence, the “official” kind of art will be that which produces better political profits to politicians. For example, is the voters of some party prefer popular music rather than classical, the former will received more support than the latter, which is not a fair resolution at all.
Nevertheless, defenders of arts funding seem blithely unaware of this danger when they praise the role of the national endowments as an imprimatur or seal approval on artists and arts groups. The state cannot flourish anything, not even the arts. They have to let the people choose about their preferences and likes. We all know about the cultural disaster that the Communism was, among others issues. It is important to set the artist free from all government regulation and control. They need to be free to create and to express their mind and soul, because this is what the art is all about: expression. Take for instances the case of Fito Paez, an Argentinian singer. In the ‘90s, he did a lot of excellent albums, but when, in the first decade of the 21th century a socialist government appeared and started to fund the arts, especially to him, he did not compose a new album again. This is a clear bad consequence of that policy.
The libertarian thinkers of the past, such the American Founders for example, knew that the solution to the wars of religion was the separation of church and state. Because art is just spiritual, just meaningful, just powerful as religion, it is time to grant art the same independence and respect that religion has: the separation of art and state.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 15, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arts'' or 'art's'?
Suggestion: arts'; art's
... hurts their essence. To begin, the arts music, painting, cinema, etc., have the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, therefore, well, for example, for instance, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 82.0 58.6224719101 140% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2897.0 2235.4752809 130% => OK
No of words: 602.0 442.535393258 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8122923588 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95335121839 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71714543741 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 296.0 215.323595506 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491694352159 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 894.6 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 6.24550561798 272% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 57.2172957995 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.4516129032 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4193548387 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.41935483871 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.344895920858 0.243740707755 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0766810900438 0.0831039109588 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0824551782473 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182034444046 0.150359130593 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0269138720109 0.0667264976115 40% => 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: 10.9 14.1392134831 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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