Nations Should Suspend Government Funding For The Arts
Morally, it makes sense for the government to take into consideration the plight of the unemployed and the hungry rather than fund art-based programs and activities. Indeed the unemployed and the hungry lack basic necessities such as shelter, food and clothing, and consequently they deserve attention from their respective governments. However, the question of whether to withhold funds or not should consider the complexity that surrounds the situation, the tradeoffs and then choose the best alternative thereafter. Cutting of government funds meant for arts will not necessarily solve the situation, rather art should act as an incentive for spurring social and economic welfare of the citizens.
Firstly, arts and related activities play important role in the economy and therefore government investment is key to the prosperity of the sector and economy. In a developed country like the US, the arts industry generated a lot of revenues. Moreover, the arts sector employs artisans and attracts a significant number of tourists. Music concerts and festival have attracted tourist and revelers from various parts of the world earning host nations foreign exchange and tax revenues.
In developing nations, government funding is minimal, however, the steady and regular disbarments of the fund help in sustaining the sector by and resultantly boosting tourism and economic growth. Since the low-income economies largely depend on government subsidies and grants from philanthropy for survival, the suspension of the grants will worsen the situation by triggering a chain of negative economic and social outcomes including; dwindling marketing and promotion activities, reduced ticket sales, loss of jobs, drop in patronage, and antisocial behavior like aggression
Secondly, the benefits of arts transcend beyond the economic realm. Arts and related performances have a phenomenal impact on the social growth and psychological well-being of the populations. It is worth noting that music is gaining relevance in medical centers as therapy for relieving pain to patients with chronic diseases like cancer. Arts provide a platform for self-expression, spurring motivation and hope yet these intangible and immeasurable benefits are largely overlooked. Additionally, music helps in the healing process by providing emotional balance to patients. The population also get inspiration, integration, and entertainment from various pieces of art including spoken and written art to work out their way to success.
Further, suspending the aid and rechanneling the money to directly support the unemployed and the hungry will create a dependency situation. In particular, food aid is strongly linked to dependency especially when it intentionally made a long term strategy for solving hunger and other nutritional needs. Stanford (2015), argues that dependency reduces the local economies capacities to produce and sustain itself. When the government decides to import cheap foreign commodities local industries and agricultural activities collapse resulting to further unemployment. The funds that will be earned from cultural tourism and additional government channeled on sustainable projects like irrigation, development of hybrid crops and pest control. Notably, Botswana a developing country channeled its project on areas of interests which eventually saw declined in foreign and local aid dependency (Stanford, 2015).
Conclusively, the decision to suspend aid should take into consideration the benefits, unforeseen ramifications and alternatives to effectively solve the problem of unemployment. Evidently, the arts sector bears economic potential as well as incalculable social and health benefits that may help alleviate suffering and poverty among populations.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
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Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 40.0 14.8657303371 269% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 33.0505617978 45% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 12.9106741573 209% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3238.0 2235.4752809 145% => OK
No of words: 550.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.88727272727 5.05705443957 116% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84273464058 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1184526784 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 314.0 215.323595506 146% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570909090909 0.4932671777 116% => OK
syllable_count: 988.2 704.065955056 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
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Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.7046157679 60.3974514979 115% => OK
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Discourse Markers: 6.47826086957 5.21951772744 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
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Sentence topic coherence: 0.0845016144721 0.0831039109588 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0789342499501 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161660221054 0.150359130593 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0783139863254 0.0667264976115 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.3 14.1392134831 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 48.8420337079 64% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.18 12.1639044944 141% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.61 8.38706741573 127% => OK
difficult_words: 203.0 100.480337079 202% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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