Some people believe that citizens can most benefit their communities by contributing time
and resources to volunteer efforts (e.g., town cleanups, youth sports leagues, food and
clothing drives). Others believe that a community is better served when most of its citizens
engage in the political process necessary to select the community leaders most likely to
establish fair policies and initiate effective programs.
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 agree more strongly with the position that communities are better off when citizens devote time and resources to improving the community, rather than just passively electing officials to make improvements for them. A citizen driven community allows for change to be dictated by the values of the community rather than by personal political interest. Furthermore, when citizens make change rather than waiting for politicans to make change for them, they are able to see the progress they want more quickly. Finally, volunteering time and resources within a community enables the citizens of that community to become more connected and attached to the environment they share. Successful communities are driven by individual citizen involvement.
When it comes to the policies and progress within a community, citizens know best. Each individual in a community has specific parts of their environment that they place great value on. Whether it is a local wetland, youth football league, or community college; each individual citizen has a part of the community that is important to him or her. While some may argue that effective community leaders can represent the communities best interests, when it comes to individual values, it's impossible for any government body to fairly represent and accomodate every individual's needs. Therefore, the values of individuals are best promoted through the personal actions of the individual themselves.
Citizen's can often make the changes they want to see in their community more quickly and more effectively then their local government can. Progress on community improvement purposals in government can take a great deal of time, often taking many months or even years to complete even simple community changes such as the addition of a new bike path, or the completion of a LGBTQ+ resource center. While specific laws to protect various interest groups need to be conducted through government offices, major change in communities can often be orchastrated through individual citizens efforts without even involving government decision makers. Furthermore, government projects can often get backlogged or even discontinued, whereas individual efforts only rely on personal efforts put forth by the individual alone.
Finally, the main reason that strong communities are best served by individual effort is because working together towards common values and goals leads to greater community connection and cohesion. Often communites are only able to unite in gripping over their local government's failure to complete various community projects, instead they can become united through community effort and achivement.
Overall communities are better off when effort is citizen rather than government lead. While involvement in political processes is important, that involvement should be lead by community volunteers who want to make their environment a better place. Often politicans are motivated by personal interest and not be community values; therefore, the goals of the community will be better served if public office can be considered a public service by members of the community rather than a position of personal power for the political elite. Strong and healthy communities depend on public service from it's citizens based on their personal community values and goals.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 17, column 170, Rule ID: SHOULD_BE_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'leaded', 'led'?
Suggestion: leaded; led
...s important, that involvement should be lead by community volunteers who want to mak...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, furthermore, if, may, so, then, therefore, whereas, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2833.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 508.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.57677165354 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86595447493 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.446850393701 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 909.9 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.8416869749 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.65 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.75 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.256087104924 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105522479456 0.0831039109588 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0435535841849 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168301528661 0.150359130593 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0252493350809 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: 17.6 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 29.18 48.8420337079 60% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.38 12.1639044944 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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