To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
It is not by mere appointment that a person becomes a leader but by the virtue of his deeds that he cast an influence over people. I fundamentally agree that public officials should adhere to high ethical and moral standards which are beneficial to their leadership as well as the society, while it is not their political responsibility to pursue the highest uprightness in morality.
First of all, public morality and successful leadership are for sure closely connected. A leader with virtue is likely to be honored by people, which would contribute his stable leadership. In other words, without morally justifiable principles, one can barely maintain authority as his action conflicts with the public conscience. Consider many leaders, such as Adolf Hitler, whom most people would consider egregious violators of public morality by committing the unprecedented genocide of at least 5.5 million Jews and millions of other victims whom he and his followers deemed socially undesirable. Such leaders forfeit their leadership as a result of the immoral means by which they obtained or wielded their power. To be more specific, had a leader lost the trust of people, his decision will be scrutinized, his motives will be doubted, and his leadership will be ineffective subsequently.
Moreover, the leader has a social responsibility to be morally upright in order to set a good example for the society as a whole. All the people who deal with him, be those working under him or the general public, look up to him. Such an official needs to be exemplary by setting standards of morals and ethics. This is because a good leader should act as a motivator and the best motivation is that rules and regulations are provided by the one who practices the regulations himself. But Bill Clinton was considered an outstanding president, even with his involvement in the Lewinsky Scandal and his image being smeared in the eyes of the people. Thus, my opponents could cite Mr. Clinton as an excuse for being a powerful leader without morals and integrity. However, this kind of effectiveness is meteoric. In the following presidential election, not only Clinton but also his peers were infected by the scandal, for the votes for the Democratic Party candidates dropped notably. Not surprisingly, he admitted his mistake and finally he, too stuck to morality to salvage his lost pride.
However, it is unrealistic to demand highest or complete pureness in politicians’ morality. In Machiavellians’ political thoughts, it is of most importance for politicians to maintain their power and orderliness of the state instead of pursuing justice. Some prominent figures lie, not for self-serving reasons, but in attempt to secure what they regard as morally important political goals. In elections, for instance, one cannot expect everything come from the candidates is true. They are usually using political tactics or tricks to convince the electorate to vote for them, while they could conduct some meaningful policies such as health care system, education equality, unemployment relief and other programs that are benevolent to the society. Therefore, as long as a leader’s merits outweigh his flaws, it is plausible to consider him honorable.
In a final analysis, yet it is too ideal for a leader to maintain the highest morality, such ethic standards do consolidate his power and he has the social responsibility to be a moral role model for the public. Just as Franklin Roosevelt said, “The presidency is not merely an administrative office, it is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.” After all, an effective leader needs to be a good example.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 204, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
... be those working under him/her, or the general public, look up to him. Such an official needs...
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Line 5, column 659, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...eing smeared in the eyes of the people. Thus my opponents could cite Mr. Clinton as ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, while, after all, at least, for instance, kind of, such as, as a result, as well as, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 33.0505617978 157% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3094.0 2235.4752809 138% => OK
No of words: 594.0 442.535393258 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20875420875 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93681225224 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08823230116 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 311.0 215.323595506 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523569023569 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 987.3 704.065955056 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.1694077673 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.76 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.76 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.84 5.21951772744 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.313753956192 0.243740707755 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0885370218783 0.0831039109588 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0706780558592 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197869106574 0.150359130593 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0870429737769 0.0667264976115 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 172.0 100.480337079 171% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.