Claim: Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
Reason: It is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—to use public resources to fund the arts when people's basic needs are not being met.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Where should the government budgets spend is never a easy decision to make, especially during depression periods when there are budget shortfalls, rising unemployment, and escalating needs for public assistance. While governments are wrestling with theses immediate pressures, several tenets such as transparency, equity, and accountability, have to be counted seriously to ensure that government funding are effectively issued. From my viewpoint, whether government funding for arts should be suspended in front of immediate pressures depends on whether the funding follows the tenets and if there will be any benefit produces for the citizens.
First and foremost, in order to promise an equity investment, the government should not have any discriminations for different fields. It would be extreme to totally suspend the funding for arts, for the reasons that artists are members of citizens and have to be treated disinterestedly. If government funding for arts was canceled, it could be hard for artists to make a living, which would result in a decrease in the average living standards in the nation. Actually, artists would need more help from the government in difficult times, because their profession is less profitable compared to other industries such as a commodity production industry. During an economical crisis, when people are hungry and unemployed, they are less likely to spend their dollars on any artwork, or to go to an art exhibition, which cannot satiate their physical needs. Thus, without the assistance from the government, the circumstances for artists will be desperate.
Moreover, investments in arts dose not make the artists being the only beneficiaries. Arts lists our spirits, help us exploring our inner world and gaining distinctive feelings. People need arts to understand better about humanity, or lives become dull and loss its meanings. Plus, Arts can also serve as documentation for cultures through out the history, people can learn from historical artworks about our ancestors and the lessons they left for us. For example, paintings found from ancient sites helps scholars learn about the life styles of the people lived there, such as their dressing, foods, and religious activities. In other words, arts advances our society by providing heritage from our ancestors and help people understand the complexity of humanity.
Admittedly, people's need for arts wanes in front of physical needs like eating, sleeping or other indispensable activities, however, if the situation is severe to the extent that there is not enough food supply to feed the population, then any kind of financial support would be futile except directly providing provision to every household. Otherwise, supporting the arts could be a measure to stimulates the economy and help the increase in GDP. For example, various job opportunities can be created, such as curators, exhibition planners, ticket sellers, etc. Besides, the capital spent temporarily on a project could be repaid by later revenues from it. For example, an excellent film could be faced with shortage of funding at the production phase, however, once it was released and loved by the audience, the box office could help make huge revenues.
On balance, the government should allocate funding judiciously, regardless whether the invested projects are serving the basic needs, but according to the functionality and the provisioned benefit. Funding for arts is in my view necessary if not exceeded the appropriate amount of capitals. Because art is indispensable for us as well as can contribute to economic development.
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- Claim: Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.Reason: It is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—to use public resources to fund the arts when people's basic needs a 83
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 52, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...d the government budgets spend is never a easy decision to make, especially durin...
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Line 3, column 665, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
...ommodity production industry. During an economical crisis, when people are hungry and unem...
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Line 5, column 119, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to explore' or 'explore'.
Suggestion: to explore; explore
...iaries. Arts lists our spirits, help us exploring our inner world and gaining distinctive...
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Line 5, column 333, Rule ID: THROUGH_OUT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'throughout'?
Suggestion: throughout
...lso serve as documentation for cultures through out the history, people can learn from hist...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, first, however, if, moreover, so, then, thus, well, while, for example, kind of, such as, as well as, in my view, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3056.0 2235.4752809 137% => OK
No of words: 562.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43772241993 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86893614481 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95152770809 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 304.0 215.323595506 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540925266904 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 938.7 704.065955056 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.2661614032 60.3974514979 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.869565217 118.986275619 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4347826087 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.86956521739 5.21951772744 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => 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: 0.293481573889 0.243740707755 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0866787198249 0.0831039109588 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0496685950896 0.0758088955206 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176448410018 0.150359130593 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.05685153462 0.0667264976115 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.83 8.38706741573 117% => OK
difficult_words: 178.0 100.480337079 177% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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.