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.
Should leaders be flexible or rigid? This topic of discuss divides people into two main categories; those who believe leaders should be amenable and others who are of opinion that a person’s ability to commit to principles and objectives is the most essential trait of leadership. From my point of view, I am more aligned with the second position for two reasons. However, I do concede that leaders may occasionally need to maintain a firm stance especially in extreme cases where the demands of the people pose a threat to the nation.
Firstly, democracy which by definition is the government of the people, by the people and for the people proves that a leader’s sole responsibility and in fact the measure of his/her effectiveness center’s around the people. In Africa, local government chairs are elected to cater for the needs of the communities they represent. Imagine a scenario where one of such communities suffers an unexpected natural disaster such as flooding, leading to the destruction of properties and thus requiring urgent attention, if the leader who chooses to stick with an earlier planned budget and invokes the rule against diversification of funds such a person would have only shown ineptness and is likely to be unseated.
Secondly, a leader who listens to no one stands is at the risk of making rash decisions that affect the nation. For example, Adolf Hitler, an authoritarian who opposed communism and capitalism had aggressive foreign policy which was against the wish of the people and this is considered the primary cause of secpnd world war in Europe. Evidently, a leader who wants to function effectively must be subject and open to the views of the people.
It is true that a leader might sometimes need to turn deaf ears against the people. An example of this is seen in the End Sars nationwide protest against police brutality which took place in Nigeria October 2019. Although the demands of the people were harmless, the manner of the protest resulted in loss of lives, consequently a state of emergency which adversely affected the economy of the state. In order to prevent forestall further damage and the occurrence of war, the President Buhari enforced the use of military to put an abrupt end to the protest.
In summary, leaders are made to serve the people therefore; the satisfaction of the people should be a greater priority than obedience to principles and regulations.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, for example, in fact, in summary, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 33.0505617978 48% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2034.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 405.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02222222222 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80774941726 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.57037037037 0.4932671777 116% => OK
syllable_count: 644.4 704.065955056 92% => 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: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 82.2685034911 60.3974514979 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.6 118.986275619 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 23.4991977007 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 5.21951772744 179% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273496968834 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0840905143126 0.0831039109588 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0642891215466 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142373990834 0.150359130593 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0526511777964 0.0667264976115 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.58 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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.