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
When arts are being funded by the government, there is bound to be some amount of control over the content of the arts which may hamper the freedom of artists such as writers,singers,actors to express themselves, particularly if it may involve something against the authority.
Though arts even if they may be very entertaining and popular, they need money to continue and develop. And if every art form has to be made available to the poorest of poor, then it shall require monetary support from the government. But, when the government is funding these arts, it is bound to be influenced and may be even controlled by the authorities. And if so happens, then it can hamper the freedom of expression of artists such as, a writer of drama, a poet, an actor or even a stand up comedian. Thus, what the writers and poets write, actors and stand up comedians perform can be actively influenced by the government and may be controlled in entirety.
Any form of art is a powerful tool to reach the people. Many popular dramas, songs have influenced many a people lives. Histoty has many examples wherein, popular art forms have served as a medium to spread awareness and in some cases, revolutions. In some countries like India, which were ruled by colonial powers, many art forms such as dramas,plays and songs served the purpose of unifying and edifying people of different religions and castes, and bind them together to drive towards a common goal of freedom and revolution. Thus, an art is a powerful tool to influence masses and if it falls in the hands of the wrong people, even if they are the elected representatives in a democracy, it might end with bad results.
Also,one may argue that some art forms are indeed very much on the brink of extinction and thus are in a desperate need of governmental support and if such arts are not provided assistance, they might be lost. There are many examples of such cases, wherein some regional art forms, have been a symbol of history and tradition for many years and because of lack of funds, the artists and the people involved, are suffering. Support from government can act as a stimulus for such art forms. So, the stand of no governmental help to avoid their influence and interruptions, may deprive us of these historical and traditional art forms. Thus, it may seem that it is cynical to think that governmental influence is certain ,if funding done by government and such cynical point ofview may cause us to loose many valuable arts. But, again it is the dangerous implications of the if , which is, if the government starts to influence and control the art forms, that deters from seeking governmental assistance to the various art forms.
Thus, it is better off to find some other ways to help and preserve the various art forms rather than seeking government help.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, then, thus, as to, such as, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2338.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 491.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7617107943 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70728369723 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79029435966 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462321792261 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 720.9 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Interrogative: 3.0 0.740449438202 405% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.9917288251 60.3974514979 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.888888889 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.2777777778 23.4991977007 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.61111111111 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253907715099 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0934755294707 0.0831039109588 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0439274138977 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153737019174 0.150359130593 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0253750154362 0.0667264976115 38% => 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: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.8420337079 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.1743820225 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 100.480337079 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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Note: 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.