Some people believe that in order to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise. Others believe that the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives.
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.
The true quality of a leader is their ability to inspire others. The given prompt provides two paths which a leader could take in order to be effective : yield to public opinion or stick to their personal principles. I strongly agree with the later statement and argue that a leader should be consistent with their personal beliefs because of the following reasons.
Firstly, it is important to note that the public opinion might not always be the correct path to proceed and to yield results. For instance, in the late 19th century when India hadn't gained independence, due to the various injustices of the british government the majority of the Indian population was of the opinion that in order to overthrow the british government violence is necessary. At the same time, the famous freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi rose to power. Mahatma Gandhi was a staunch supporter of Non-Violence and believed that it is possible for India to gain independence without becoming violent. In fact, he was so strongly committed to this cause that he even called off a nation-wide protest against the Britishers because a few incidents of violence were reported in the country. As we all know, because of his commitment to his ideals he was finally able to lead India to independence and is one of the most famous political leaders around the world. The given example shows that a leader can be effective and can yield results by being committed to their principles.
Further, if the leaders continuously abandon their own principles and yield to public opinion in order to stay popular they might seem indecisive because the public opinion is ever changing. Suppose a leader in order to stay popular continually contradicts himself, and sways in the direction of what is currently popular at the moment. It is extremely unlikely that people will follow such a leader because they will never know how the leader will react in the future. Therefore in order for a leader to be effective he needs people to follow them and this is unlikely to happen if he continuously changes his beliefs depending on what is popular.
Although, some people might argue that if a leader is unwilling to yield to public opinion they will never be able to attract support. These opponents should note that people follow a leader whose beliefs align closest with their own beliefs and not the one who is willing to abandon their principles at every possible chance to gain more supporters. Therefore, only leader with unshakable beliefs are likely to attract supporters and in turn be effective.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, if, so, therefore, for instance, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2139.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 432.0 442.535393258 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95138888889 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55901411391 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64719331515 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 215.323595506 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474537037037 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 674.1 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.564343599 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.823529412 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4117647059 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.82352941176 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.331313519651 0.243740707755 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108744439973 0.0831039109588 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0664717032608 0.0758088955206 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203544306967 0.150359130593 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0342010262844 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.