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.
A political leader can be said to be effective if his actions direct a nation toward a goal of development. The issue at hand tries to find out whether a leader should give in to public opinions or keep his grounds on his principles and goals. Although working as per people's opinions might make them happier, yet a leader must always be committed to his principles and strive towards his ultimate objectives because a developed nation will help people prosper in the long run.
Yielding to what a nation is saying is beneficial in certain cases and can avoid disasters. People look at problems from a different perspective and might offer better and pragmatic solutions. For instance, after the tie in the 2014 elections in India two times in a row, two opposing parties BJP and Congress had to join hands to form the government. Although they were adament that a third election should be held, the public voiced against the proposition. Both had to find a middle ground for their clashing principles and work hand-in-hand to steer a country's policies. During their term as government, India saw one of the largest boost in GDP, hence showing that public opinions are sometimes more effective than the principles of leaders. However public mixes emotions with clear thinking and that is a reason for big problems like the Civil war in SriLanka. People wanted to destroy certain parts of society that followed a contrasting sect, hence leading to Civil wars.
However, remaining committed to working on a fixed goal would make a nation progress towards a objective on a well thought out plan. Political leaders work day and night coming up with plans to steer a nation towards prosperity. For example, American Presidents worked day and night to bring an end to slavery inspite of extrinsic challenges. Staying committed to a particular objective and being guided by a set of principles helps to grow a nation as a whole.
Unyielding to the public opinion might not be taken in a well spirited manner by the people and there might be revolts, however, in the long run the nation moves steadily towards development. Mixing of public ideas with a well crafted plan developed for years definitely impedes it's efficiency. For instance, in 2001, Pakistan wanted Kasmir, a state in India, that led to violent wars and terrorist attacks. Although people opined to get rid of the state, the government stood steady on it's principles and finally won the battle. Kashmir still remains a part of India. Had the ministers given in to the public sentiment, India would have lost a state that brings in 20% of the revenue earned by the tourism industry.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 94, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, hence, however, if, look, so, still, third, well, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 33.0505617978 51% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2199.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 450.0 442.535393258 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88666666667 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6057793516 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64078271225 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548888888889 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 663.3 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 6.24550561798 16% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0269399366 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.714285714 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4285714286 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213053574904 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0593302069449 0.0831039109588 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0388261449486 0.0758088955206 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128561553076 0.150359130593 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0425741384459 0.0667264976115 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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