Some people believe it is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public. Others believe that the public has a right to be fully informed.Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns

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Some people believe it is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public. Others believe that the public has a right to be fully informed.
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.

There is always an ambiguity over what information should be passed to the public and what should not. Information can be a very powerful tool; it has toppled government and enlightened people to achieve 'nirvana' on one hand, while it has caused harrowing use of weapons by terrorists. On one hand, information about nuclear energy caused great radiation disasters at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; on the other, it is being used as perennial source of energy. It always depends upon the keeper of information, how he/she wants to use it.

Not all information can be passed on to the common people, as it may endanger national security and its integrity. Classified information related to military, security, and energy cannot be put out in public domain. If such information leaks in the hands of wrong people then it can jeopardize security and create havoc in public. At the same time, this privilege should not be exploited for benefit of the ruling elite or few affluent people. If such information is kept secret for the benefit of all, then only such clandestine information would serve its true purpose.

However, people have rights to know about things, which they are directly related to. In democracy, political leaders are chosen by the people, and thus they have an obligation to justify their actions, mainly related to policies. Right to information keeps a check on sordid officials and public leaders. Recently in Brazil, its president Dilma Rousseff, was impeached on the grounds of corrupt practices. In India, Right to Information bill was passed in 2005, which is considered as a big leap towards openness and fairness in government offices. Under this, all government organization can be asked questions pertaining to malicious practices, and perpetrators are brought to justice.

Another important concern is people are paying taxes; it is taxpayer's money which is being spent on infrastructure, policies, facilities, and insurance. So, by this logic they have a say in whichever way their money is being used, and policies has to be made to be beneficial to common people. Open information about such issues keeps malpractices in check. In conclusion, not all information can be put out in open due to the concerned reason of safety and integrity of society; nevertheless common people should know about things that directly affect them.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...bout things that directly affect them.  
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Discourse Markers used:
['however', 'if', 'may', 'nevertheless', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'while', 'as to', 'in conclusion']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.260969976905 0.240241500013 109% => OK
Verbs: 0.166281755196 0.157235817809 106% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0854503464203 0.0880659088768 97% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0415704387991 0.0497285424764 84% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0369515011547 0.0444667217837 83% => OK
Prepositions: 0.110854503464 0.12292977631 90% => OK
Participles: 0.066974595843 0.0406280797675 165% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.85117440362 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0392609699769 0.030933414821 127% => OK
Particles: 0.00461893764434 0.0016655270985 277% => OK
Determiners: 0.0577367205543 0.0997080785238 58% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0277136258661 0.0249443105267 111% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0161662817552 0.0148568991511 109% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2367.0 2732.02544248 87% => OK
No of words: 385.0 452.878318584 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.14805194805 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.58838876751 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.4 0.366273622748 109% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.283116883117 0.280924506359 101% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.21038961039 0.200843997647 105% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.161038961039 0.132149295362 122% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85117440362 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 219.290929204 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548051948052 0.48968727796 112% => OK
Word variations: 61.861341221 55.4138127331 112% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6194690265 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.2631578947 23.380412469 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.9008554128 59.4972553346 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.578947368 141.124799967 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2631578947 23.380412469 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.526315789474 0.674092028746 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 48.5748462064 51.4728631049 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.79245283019 1.64882698954 109% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.325682264315 0.391690518653 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.119898172299 0.123202303941 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0737245035856 0.077325440228 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.498105092389 0.547984918172 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0993293570014 0.149214159877 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129126845812 0.161403998019 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0390660539798 0.0892212321368 44% => The sentences are too close to each other.
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.373579627846 0.385218514788 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0538311122211 0.0692045440612 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.232064896564 0.275328986314 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0232502470679 0.0653680567796 36% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.4325221239 105% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88274336283 143% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 7.22455752212 125% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 13.5995575221 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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