Some people believe that government officials must carry out the will of the people they serve. Others believe that officials should base their decisions on their own judgment.

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Some people believe that government officials must carry out the will of the people they serve. Others believe that officials should base their decisions on their own judgment.

Whether government officials should carry out the will of the people they serve or base their decisions on their own judgment is a complex question. Both sides have some legitimate grounds but cannot be applied under certain circumstances.

The claim that the government’s decision should reflect the will of the people sounds justified. The government is elected by the people and it is their primary job to serve them, as required by the basic principle of a democratic society. When government officials become too arrogant or too blinded to listen to the voice of the people, their nation may fall into chaos. One example for this is the riot in France, 1968, when the country was at its most prosperous economic growth created by the same glorious leader Charles De Gaulle, the national hero who beat Nazi Germany. The 60s was a radical time in history with new ideology and new culture emerging and clashing with the old ones. The same was happening in France, when students were constantly demanding autonomy of universities, workers higher salary, women equal opportunities and media workers the freedom of speech. However, De Gaulle was too confident about his country, then the strongest in Europe, to pay enough attention to the calling of his people or to realize that it was already a different world out there. Eventually, nation-wide demonstrations took place in May, one that, with the intervention of the police force, became violent and put the entire country to a halt.

Recognizing the importance for government leaders to follow the will of its people, however, it is necessary to point out that people’s voices can sometimes be twisted. For instance, in a world increasingly surrounded by social media, people’s opinions are strongly influenced, or even controlled by the Internet, which is sometimes flooded with faulty facts, hate speech, or worse, lies and deceptions. Recently, a humanitarian group in Syria called The White Helmets has caught great media attention. They were first depicted as the heroes in a war-stricken world, angels to countless children who, without their rescue, would die in the battlefield. Just when people were weeping over their heartrending stories, some journalists reported that they were in fact controlled by anti-Syrian forces and their pictures were a scam, where the same girl was “saved” three times from different places. Of course, rage all over the Internet followed. Which one is real? The simple answer is, we don’t know; but we do know, from this example, that people’s opinions are so easily influenced and often shift so quickly.

Moreover, can ordinary people who know little about politics really contribute to decision-making of an entire country? Take the UK referendum as an example. Almost all experts in the fields of international politics and economics insisted, or even supplicated Britain to vote remain for their own sake, yet the result turned out differently. In this case, the government steadfastly followed its people’s will; only time would tell whether it will turn out to be a good one.

For these reasons, sometimes it is better when government officials stand up to what they believe, as they are trained politicians, which much more information than the general public.

Therefore, there is no sure answer to the question proposed. The optimal solution is that the government should provide the public with abundant information if they are to participate in a national issue, the public should have an effective way of letting their voices heard by the government, and the government should have measures to see through the real intentions of the public while maintaining some basic principles for the sake of national welfare.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 170, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...s, which much more information than the general public. Therefore, there is no sure answer ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, moreover, really, so, then, therefore, while, as to, for instance, in fact, of course

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 12.9106741573 163% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3175.0 2235.4752809 142% => OK
No of words: 605.0 442.535393258 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2479338843 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95951083803 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9212583636 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 339.0 215.323595506 157% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560330578512 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 964.8 704.065955056 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Interrogative: 4.0 0.740449438202 540% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.2847824607 60.3974514979 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.0 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.6 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316090581628 0.243740707755 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0829546516743 0.0831039109588 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121304697696 0.0758088955206 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188268835615 0.150359130593 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.122448447129 0.0667264976115 184% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 157.0 100.480337079 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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