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.
Principles are basically aiming for maintaining the order of society. However, it sometimes conflicts with public opinions and results in confusion. There are contradicting opinions on how to deal with the situations of conflicting between public opinions and principles. Although some insist that the maintaining constant of principles and objectives has to remain, there are several reasons to compromise public policies with public opinion.
Firstly, there might be outdated policies that are incompatible with contemporary situations. The world changes rapidly and some of the scenes of these days are unexpectable in the view of 30 years ago. However, many of the existing policies are built more than 50 years ago, sometimes even more than 100 years ago depending on each country’s political history. It is hard to expect that aged policies will suggest proper solutions for every situation that currently happens. There might be never expected cases, or the current policy might be absurd if it is applied. Therefore, some policies might have to be compromised reflecting the current public opinion, and it is what the political leaders have to do.
Secondly, a democratic country is where citizens are the owner of the country. It means every policy has to reflect what the public generally thinks. If there are severe contradictions between what the public wants and what the law is saying, it might mean the law does not properly represent the public opinion. It is an undesirable situation in terms of democracy indicating some changes are required. The major role of political leaders is resolving this kind of wrong situations by logically compromising policies contradicted to public opinion.
On the other hand, compromising principles can be dangerous as sometimes public opinion is unjust. They are susceptible to mass media which sometimes convey wrong or biased information. If public opinion is deviated from what is right, compromising policies depending on it might result in problematic situations. However, most of them can be properly handled through discussion with political leaders and other experts in certain related fields.
To sum up, although there is a possibility to wrongly compromise a policy with public opinion, it seems manageable with political leaders’ contribution and other reasons to compromise it seems strong overweighing the possible disadvantages. Therefore, political leaders will need to accept public opinion compromising current contradicting policies.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 125, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...tuations. The world changes rapidly and some of the scenes of these days are unexpectable i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, as to, kind of, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2137.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 384.0 442.535393258 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.56510416667 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00249010516 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 215.323595506 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489583333333 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 671.4 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.8671871326 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.761904762 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2857142857 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 5.21951772744 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.253929889259 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0867979561257 0.0831039109588 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0649396892669 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163920008784 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0359394503757 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 125, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...tuations. The world changes rapidly and some of the scenes of these days are unexpectable i...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, as to, kind of, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2137.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 384.0 442.535393258 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.56510416667 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00249010516 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 215.323595506 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489583333333 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 671.4 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.8671871326 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.761904762 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2857142857 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 5.21951772744 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.253929889259 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0867979561257 0.0831039109588 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0649396892669 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163920008784 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0359394503757 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 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.