Claim: Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
Reason: It is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—to use public resources to fund the arts when people's basic needs are not being met.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
A country is considered a well to do nation when all the citizens have their basic amenties like food, shelter and employment. When a particular nation is unable to provide adequate number of jobs and food to people, then they should rather try to devote the funds and effort in alleviating this critical problem rather than spending public funds trying to promote arts.
The consitution of democratic nations state "Right to live" as one of the most fundamental concepts. If the concept is looked into thoroughly, it can be extrapolated to a simple notion of "Right to food", because food aids in the survival and well being of human beings. Thus, when a signifcant proportion of people of a nation are going to sleep hungry, it becomes the responsibility of the Government to find ways to provide adequate amount of food for the hungry citizens. Moreover, a Government can only help in providing food at low or free of cost only when it has adequate amount of funds. Henceforth, if a government begins allocating funds to promote arts rather than spending it on procuring food for the hungry, then it is very wrong, because it not only violate the basic guidelines of the constitution but also promoting the death of our fellow human beings. In addition, art is something that can be considered as some sort of luxury not a basic need for survival. On the contrary, there are several private organizations and charity that funds the promotion of arts by organising concerts or even exhibitions.
Apart from the above, if a person is unemployed or going to bed empty stomach, he will have no inclination towards art. In addition, for the citizens, who are paying tax to the government for the upliftment in the society, realise that the public funds are rather utilised for secondary issues like art rather than on more pressing issues like hunger and unemployment, there will be a negative vibe and dissent among the tax paying citizens of the country. Most importantly, nation's well being is mainly decided by the unemployment rate and the number of poor people, not by the amount of funding used in promoting arts. Hence, it would not only be inappropriate but also detrimental for the nation if much of the public resources is used in promoting arts rather than trying to mitigate the problem of hunger and unemployment.
Nonetheless, some may feel that not allocating funds for arts is detrimental for a nation, because it will not help in protecting the cultural heritage of the nation or in addition many artists may become unemployed, thereby aggravating the problem of unemployment. However, this does not in any way promote the fact more public resources should be allocated in promoting art rather than on food and employment, which are basic needs of survival.
Thus, in a nutshell, we can conclude that for a Government it is very much essential to first alleviate the problem of hunger and unemployment rather than trying to allocate public funds in secondary pursuits such as promotion of arts.
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'moreover', 'nonetheless', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'well', 'apart from', 'in addition', 'sort of', 'such as', 'on the contrary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.243386243386 0.240241500013 101% => OK
Verbs: 0.141093474427 0.157235817809 90% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0881834215168 0.0880659088768 100% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0670194003527 0.0497285424764 135% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0246913580247 0.0444667217837 56% => OK
Prepositions: 0.144620811287 0.12292977631 118% => OK
Participles: 0.0546737213404 0.0406280797675 135% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.86213675034 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0299823633157 0.030933414821 97% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0970017636684 0.0997080785238 97% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.021164021164 0.0249443105267 85% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0141093474427 0.0148568991511 95% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3038.0 2732.02544248 111% => OK
No of words: 511.0 452.878318584 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.94520547945 6.0361032391 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75450408675 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.365949119374 0.366273622748 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.262230919765 0.280924506359 93% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.191780821918 0.200843997647 95% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.142857142857 0.132149295362 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86213675034 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 219.290929204 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.442270058708 0.48968727796 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 50.7261109516 55.4138127331 92% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6194690265 78% => OK
Sentence length: 31.9375 23.380412469 137% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.0011541092 59.4972553346 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 189.875 141.124799967 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.9375 23.380412469 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.25 0.674092028746 185% => Less Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 58.1605919765 51.4728631049 113% => OK
Elegance: 1.90151515152 1.64882698954 115% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.457015245779 0.391690518653 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.150947120574 0.123202303941 123% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0815837595496 0.077325440228 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.631109648862 0.547984918172 115% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.18022946539 0.149214159877 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.206270221744 0.161403998019 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0665484514495 0.0892212321368 75% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.437697126997 0.385218514788 114% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.108508604901 0.0692045440612 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.300510677022 0.275328986314 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0711384753895 0.0653680567796 109% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.4325221239 77% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 3.66592920354 164% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.5995575221 110% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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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.