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.
Arts are expressions of human imaginations, emotions and freedom. They may be abstract or discerning. The evidence of presence of the arts in the world has been found from antediluvian period. From the ancient caves of France, Pyramids of Egypt, symphonies of Beethoven, and paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci all the examples of some of intriguing examples of the arts for the arts enthusiasts. Arts can be of different forms like music, picture, painting, dance, drama etc. Government funding of the arts helps in prosperity of the arts and also access of common people to the arts. Government funding helps the artists to feel secure of earning their livings. At the same time, museums require wealth to operate and acquire the collection of arts. Government financial support to museums certainly nourishes the arts and availability of the arts to all people. Art education is one of the major requirements of the arts to thrive. Government support to promote arts education certainly facilitates the prosperity of the arts. At the same time, government funding of the arts may restrict the freedom of artists which in turn may threaten the quality and integrity of the arts.
To begin with, everyone in the world needs to earn his living some way or the other. The artists are also no exception. If a government supports the artists financially, they will feel secure financially. This sense of financial security will help in exhorting the best works of the arts from the artists. For instance, the Artist Pension Scheme, introduced by the government of the state of Assam, India, ensured monthly financial support to the artists conforming to certain criteria prescribed by the government. After introduction of the scheme the state of Assam has seen resurgence of the arts in the state compared to the time when there was no financial support scheme as such.
Arts museums are the centre of resources of the arts. They make the arts available for the common public. But there is a huge amount of cost associated with creating as well as running a museum. Setting up a museum requires land, construction activity, collection of the art works and manpower. Also there is a significant running cost of a museum. They also need to update their collection of the arts. Government funding of museums can help covering all these aspects. The larger the number of museums, the better is the exposure of the arts to the common people.
Creating the arts is not a cake walk. There are requirements of considerable artistic skills and minds full of imagination. Without proper educational institutes for arts studies, the arts can’t thrive. Government funding to set up educational institutions for the arts and support to them provides ample opportunities for the arts aspirants.
However, the creation of the arts requires freedom of expressions. Government funding in the arts may restrict the freedom of the artists. Arts can be of any kind, one government is not certainly going to tolerate any kind of art opposing their political or other propaganda. There may also be chances of introduction of biasness in the arts. In that case, the arts will not be available in its pure form free of biasness and wanting freedom in expression.
In sum, financial support from the government helps the arts to thrive and the common people to get exposure of the arts. The financial support in creating and running museums, promoting educational institutions for arts, and funding the artists contribute to the holistic growth of the arts. But, there is a chance of constriction of freedom in the arts due to government funding. Nevertheless, the positive impact of government funding in the arts surpasses the fear of government funding threatening the integrity of the arts
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 296, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...llection of the art works and manpower. Also there is a significant running cost of ...
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Line 9, column 444, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to cover' or 'cover'.
Suggestion: to cover; cover
... Government funding of museums can help covering all these aspects. The larger the numbe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, thus, well, for instance, kind of, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.3162921348 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 33.0505617978 39% => OK
Preposition: 107.0 58.6224719101 183% => OK
Nominalization: 32.0 12.9106741573 248% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3171.0 2235.4752809 142% => OK
No of words: 624.0 442.535393258 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08173076923 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.99799879888 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86319504193 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.402243589744 0.4932671777 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 963.0 704.065955056 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 39.0 20.2370786517 193% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.1230469555 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.3076923077 118.986275619 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0 23.4991977007 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.74358974359 5.21951772744 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 27.0 10.2758426966 263% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.474099908224 0.243740707755 195% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.13558624081 0.0831039109588 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101183054494 0.0758088955206 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.288231277861 0.150359130593 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113468353003 0.0667264976115 170% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.8420337079 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.1743820225 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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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.