Some people believe that government funding of the arts is necessary to ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Others believe that government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts.
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.
I believe that government funding of the arts is not only necessary but essential to ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Throughout history, several countries used public funds to make sure artists can produce art and art lovers can appreciate it in museums, teathers, cinemas, etc. The benefits of government funding of the arts outweigh the risks in this activity. Let us examine two of the main supporting reasons for this view, and address their opponents' main concern.
First, government funding of the arts means more overall funding. And the more funding there are, the more artists can exist and produce art, even those coming from humble beginnings. A society with abundant artists, coming from diverse backgrounds, will ensure arts can flourish. Without proper level of funding, only people who are either well off or who can access private funding would be able to pursue artistic endeavors. That could severely limit the artistic potential of a given society.
Second, government funding is not only necessary to ensure everyone can become artists, regardless of whether they have means or not, but also to ensure arts are available to everyone. Relying solely on private funding to build and maintain museums, teathers, cinemas and other artistic venues would cap the reach of art to a selected few. Proper government funding enables sufficient venues throughout the country, such that all art lovers can reach those and appreciate art.
Nevertheless, I believe opponents of this view have a valid concern. People who believe that government funding of the arts threatens their integrity are mostly concerned with the fact that malicious governments can commission art and direct its content to favour views that benefit themselves. There are some examples of such phenomenons in history, especially in totalitarian regimes. However, this risk can be mitigated with laws that forbid this type of art of receiving public funds. Art should only be funded with government resources if it does not favour that government or any of its views. Otherwise, we could have governments funding art with the purpose of keeping and increasing its power, corrupting the system.
As said, this risk is avoidable with the right set of laws in place. Government funding of the arts is paramount to ensure not only everyone can appreciate art, but also to ensure anyone can pursue art as a way of life.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 34, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arts'' or 'art's'?
Suggestion: arts'; art's
...n. First, government funding of the arts means more overall funding. And the mor...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2043.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 397.0 442.535393258 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14609571788 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61248536571 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 215.323595506 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.486146095718 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 628.2 704.065955056 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.0138072543 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.15 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.85 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.05 5.21951772744 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.577826106564 0.243740707755 237% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.199854987213 0.0831039109588 240% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.15531432407 0.0758088955206 205% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.367948615483 0.150359130593 245% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0619443819896 0.0667264976115 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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