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

There is no shortage of opinions regarding if government may or may not funding the art development, what makes this issue a contentious one. While each side has its strengths and weaknesses, I strongly believe that public funding of arts harms their integrity and spontaneity, mainly because the government can bias the art creativity and make only those artists aligned with the government flourish. Furthermore, the use on public funding always comes with a risk of corruption, what would represents really damage to the public interest.

First of all, one of the most important characteristics of the arts and related artists are their freedom to challenge the common sense and show differing perspectives of the society. As truly iconoclasts, the artists should have room to also contest government positions and proposed public policies. In this regard, artists who depends on public funding to make their work would be intimidated and not contend with the government political views. For example, in countries long ruled by parties with left political views, artists with rights beliefs could not receive funding, hindering them to flourish as much as those in the left.

The second reason to support my view on this issue is the risk of corruption in the process of granting the public funds to support the art. The criteria of selecting the artists that would be granted, as well as the valuation of the amount of funding needed by each art project could be seriously affected by the asymmetry of information between artists and government. In such environment, the process of granting public funding could be easily and intentionally driven to favor some groups of artists in exchange of bribes.

On the other hand, some may argue that without public funding the art could not flourish, given that most of population does not give much value on art as it uses to give on hedonic goods. Nevertheless, many countries around the world have seen their national art flourish just through charity and private awards created by passionate wealthy citizens.

To sum up, public funding of arts could lead to limitate and bias the art production in a country and also is always exposed to the risk of corruption and misuse of public resources. For these reasons, I definitely hold the opinion that arts should not be funded by the government.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 493, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'represent'
Suggestion: represent
...s with a risk of corruption, what would represents really damage to the public interest. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, if, may, nevertheless, really, regarding, second, so, well, while, for example, as well as, first of all, to sum up, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1969.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 388.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07474226804 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72478512552 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 215.323595506 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.515463917526 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 588.6 704.065955056 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.1329973305 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.642857143 118.986275619 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.7142857143 23.4991977007 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.4285714286 5.21951772744 219% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
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Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.345888746022 0.243740707755 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127881312065 0.0831039109588 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0791099488605 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207433482424 0.150359130593 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0596959350709 0.0667264976115 89% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.1392134831 115% => 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: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 100.480337079 88% => 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
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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