The government is going to give some money either to support the arts or to protect the environment. Which do you think the government should choose? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
In today’s turbulent economic situation, it is difficult for governments to decide which areas to spend money on. Some people believe that it is important to fund the arts, while others feel that it is preferable to prioritize environmental issues. In my opinion, protecting the environment is more important than funding the arts. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, environmental problems are a more urgent concern than issues surrounding the arts. While we are certainly living in a society where the arts are more severely under-funded, the environment is a matter of life and death for many people. The consequences of environmental degradation not only hit close to home, but also affect human beings all over the world. For example, I recently read a report in a major newspaper which pointed out that within three decades certain countries in South Asia will suffer from catastrophic flooding as a result of global warming. One country that was mentioned was Bangladesh, which just happens to be the poorest nation in the region. As a result of the poverty that currently affects that country, public officials there are wholly unable to tackle the problem on their own. This means that nations in the developed world need to fund programs that will help them deal with the looming crisis.
Moreover, while arts funding is a wonderful idea, it is entirely possible for artistic and cultural programs to be privately funded. Many businesses and individuals are more than willing to make donations to artists in exchange for promotional considerations. Not only that, but the Internet has made it possible for artists to fund their work through online “crowdfunding” promoted through social networking sites. For example, there is a community theatre group in my hometown which recently lost a significant portion of its public funding following recent budget cuts by the municipal government. While the situation looked dire at first, the group was able to attract financial support from companies who wished to have their logo displayed on theatre programs and assorted paraphernalia. In addition, the company took to the Internet and raised money from individual donors who wanted nothing more than to help their favorite theatre group. These examples demonstrate some of the methods that artistic groups can use to attract funding to replace government support in times of economic trouble. The amounts of money needed to solve environmental programs, in contrast, cannot be raised using such methods.
In conclusion, I feel that if the government is forced to make a choice, it should choose to fund environmental programs rather than the arts. I feel this way because environmental problems are a more pressing concern and because the arts can often be privately funded.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...atre group. These examples demonstrate some of the methods that artistic groups can use to...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'look', 'moreover', 'so', 'while', 'as to', 'for example', 'i feel', 'in addition', 'in conclusion', 'in contrast', 'as a result', 'in my opinion', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.237816764133 0.229887763892 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.159844054581 0.158761421928 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.101364522417 0.0866891130778 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.046783625731 0.046263068375 101% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0389863547758 0.0685040099705 57% => OK
Prepositions: 0.126705653021 0.118717715034 107% => OK
Participles: 0.0350877192982 0.0351676179071 100% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.95614413837 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0428849902534 0.0309702414327 138% => OK
Particles: 0.00194931773879 0.00188951952338 103% => OK
Determiners: 0.0877192982456 0.0887237588012 99% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0136452241715 0.0209618222197 65% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0233918128655 0.0139019557991 168% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2878.0 2387.08602151 121% => OK
No of words: 461.0 408.028673835 113% => OK
Chars per words: 6.24295010846 5.86048508987 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.48200974243 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.403470715835 0.338922669872 119% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.310195227766 0.251872472559 123% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.208242950108 0.174417080927 119% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.132321041215 0.112833075102 117% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95614413837 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 212.727598566 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540130151844 0.524397521467 103% => OK
Word variations: 64.0923427649 59.2087087015 108% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6684587814 102% => OK
Sentence length: 21.9523809524 20.5533526081 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.624712751 48.84282405 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.047619048 120.699889404 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9523809524 20.5533526081 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.809523809524 0.644075263715 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.5376344086 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.54480286738 18% => OK
Readability: 52.971903729 45.7405998639 116% => OK
Elegance: 1.62698412698 1.45489161554 112% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.467892257837 0.300154397459 156% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0982127964441 0.103427244359 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0612869217697 0.0752933317313 81% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.489116663407 0.497263757937 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0976189669738 0.151897553556 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.185746620553 0.114077575197 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0788920286663 0.0781384742642 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.408533808673 0.336927656856 121% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0416706534928 0.067059652881 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.343964862501 0.210909579961 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0398796771415 0.0618886996521 64% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8870967742 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.86379928315 285% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.91756272401 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 8.42114695341 83% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 2.4623655914 203% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.75985663082 36% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 13.6433691756 95% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.