In any profession — business, politics, education, government — those in power should step down after five years.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position

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In any profession — business, politics, education, government — those in power should step down after five years.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

There are numerous reasons why a person in power may be reluctant to leave even after a long while. The desire may be purely honest; a longing to achieve great things for an organization or a worry that all that has been built might come tumbling down due to an incompetent successor. The desire to stay in power may also be pure undiluted greed and selfishness. In either case, I agree with the assertion that leaders, be it in politics, education or government should be in power for no more than 5 years for three reasons.
To begin with, having a leader stay in power for too long is likely to breed corruption and unhealthy office politics. The leader and his coterie may become too accustomed to the power they possess and start to believe they can do away with abuse of power. They are also likely to build ties of favoritism and nepotism that do not augur well for the organization and yet can only be severed by a change in leadership. Take for example the recent scandal that blemished the world football federation, FIFA. These leaders had stayed in power for so long that they had inevitably built a network of corruption that spanned the entire organization and included the president himself and several prominent members.

Additionally, when leaders stay in power for an excessive amount of time, innovation in the entire organization is stifled. Leaders may continue to believe that the highly effective and profitable methods they have been using are going to keep working and may become oblivious to the changing industry landscape. Take for instance the story of Thomas Edison, the American inventor who pioneered and made electricity available in many homes, and Nicolai Tesla, the young upcoming scientist who made it possible to transmit and use alternating current. Although Thomas was undoubtedly a brilliant man, he failed to see how alternating current could be made safe for use and instead of finding a way to circumvent the dangers of alternating current, bet fully on his direct current. This nearly resulted in his business being crippled. Young, energetic, ambitious talent at times need to be infused into leadership to provide a renewed vigor and a new perspective.

People who do not support the idea of limiting the tenure of leaders normally cite the sustainable development that results from having a good leader stay in power for a long time. Sustainable development, however, can be achieved all the same where there are periodic changes in leadership by developing long term plans which are reviewed regularly and serve as the steering wheel of an organization, regardless of who is in power.

Leaders are meant to serve as the representatives of the members of an organization. It is, however, difficult to ensure the interests of a group are duly served when one leader is allowed to monopolize power. Young talent should be trained and mentored to emulate and improve on the ways of those they succeed. This is the best way, I believe, to ensure the longevity of an organization.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, well, while, for example, for instance, all the same, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2522.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 512.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92578125 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75682846001 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78553698748 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 276.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5390625 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 819.9 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1202951555 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.095238095 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.380952381 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.52380952381 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => 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: 0.0866006849171 0.243740707755 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0280893835199 0.0831039109588 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0322567552331 0.0758088955206 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0543370843043 0.150359130593 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0309729927882 0.0667264976115 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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