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.
It is debatable whether political leaders should yield to public opinion or adhere to their own principles. Although it is crucial for a government official to be able to listen to their people, it is more important for them to abide by their own beliefs in order to have maximum achievement.
To begin with, political leaders should take bold approaches with far-sighted vision to ameliorate their societies. Leaders, especially the ones in politics, are proven to possess greater abilities than any other ordinary people. They ought to cleave to their principles if those principles will be conducive to long term betterment of a society. The former South Korean president, Roh Moo-Hyun for example, showed adamant commitment to his beliefs which eventually brought positive effects. When he was the president, there was a lethal epidemic named SARS that assumed to have originated from China. President Roh believed that prevention is the best way to combat the disease, so there was a thorough containment of SARS nationwide. Some people, however, were against his decision, arguing that the president should focus on other more grave issues, not just on a spread of disease. Nevertheless, president Roh adhered to his principles and there was no casualties regarding SARS in the nation, and his tactics are still inspiring until today.
Moreover, political leaders should not compromise to public opinion for the sake of immediate change. It is an indispensable characteristic for a political leader to be patient and long sighted. People, many times, only think of their own benefits, thus focusing on trees. Leaders, however, should be able to focus on the forest. Nelson Mandela, who was a South African activist and former president of South Africa, cogently bolsters the argument. Mandela's greatest feat is that he brought an end to apartheid and established equality. What is more admirable is that he adhered to peaceful protests because he believed that such means is the most effective way to achieve his goal. Many people asserted that his tactic should be more aggressive in order to attain his goal faster. Nonetheless, Mandela did not yield to public opinions about aggressive protests, and his method eventually became a very admirable one with minimum damage.
Admittedly, listening to public opinion is imperative for public servants as well. Nevertheless, meeting curent needs of the public will not take a society to the next level. Political leaders should have long-term vision and plans even though some of the details do not meet current needs of the public in order to engender betterment.
All in all, because of aforementioned reasons, government officials should be committed to their own principles instead of listening excessively to public opinions.
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Essay evaluation report
Sentence: Nevertheless, meeting curent needs of the public will not take a society to the next level.
Error: curent Suggestion: current
flaws:
Half of the content are examples. The fourth paragraph is like a conclusion too.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 444 350
No. of Characters: 2286 1500
No. of Different Words: 234 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.59 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.149 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.725 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 188 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 139 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.304 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.536 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.565 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.29 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.479 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.111 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 450, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'Mandelas the greatest'.
Suggestion: Mandelas the greatest
...Africa, cogently bolsters the argument. Mandelas greatest feat is that he brought an end to apart...
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Line 7, column 245, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... long-term vision and plans even though some of the details do not meet current needs of th...
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Discourse Markers used:
['however', 'if', 'moreover', 'nevertheless', 'nonetheless', 'regarding', 'so', 'still', 'thus', 'well', 'for example', 'to begin with', 'what is more']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.234343434343 0.240241500013 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.147474747475 0.157235817809 94% => OK
Adjectives: 0.125252525253 0.0880659088768 142% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0565656565657 0.0497285424764 114% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0505050505051 0.0444667217837 114% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0989898989899 0.12292977631 81% => OK
Participles: 0.0262626262626 0.0406280797675 65% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.82511806884 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0606060606061 0.030933414821 196% => Less infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0686868686869 0.0997080785238 69% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0222222222222 0.0249443105267 89% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.010101010101 0.0148568991511 68% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2796.0 2732.02544248 102% => OK
No of words: 444.0 452.878318584 98% => OK
Chars per words: 6.2972972973 6.0361032391 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.58838876751 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.434684684685 0.366273622748 119% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.337837837838 0.280924506359 120% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.234234234234 0.200843997647 117% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.15990990991 0.132149295362 121% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82511806884 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 219.290929204 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536036036036 0.48968727796 109% => OK
Word variations: 62.5908535345 55.4138127331 113% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6194690265 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.3043478261 23.380412469 83% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.4170017704 59.4972553346 54% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.565217391 141.124799967 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3043478261 23.380412469 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.565217391304 0.674092028746 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 53.0881316099 51.4728631049 103% => OK
Elegance: 1.4126984127 1.64882698954 86% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.515481440396 0.391690518653 132% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.107451233238 0.123202303941 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0824610104859 0.077325440228 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.486110154106 0.547984918172 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.191559396211 0.149214159877 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.181368903508 0.161403998019 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0691644474538 0.0892212321368 78% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.336660789032 0.385218514788 87% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0856911180823 0.0692045440612 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.324261576434 0.275328986314 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0889237796087 0.0653680567796 136% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88274336283 143% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.5995575221 110% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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