Many countries spend a lot of money in the arts. Some people think investment in the arts is necessary, but others say money is better spent on public services and facilities. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
The government sometimes faces opposition when spending its budget on public arts, especially in economically tough times. I reckon that we should give priority to essential services and infrastructures and then fund arts when there is a budget surplus.
The supporters of the public funds for the arts argue that cities can become more and more visually attractive because of art. It is ture that artworks, including sculptures, paintings and statues can decorate our public facilities such as libraries, metro stations, or even toilets, and increase artistic appeal of these places. If the art industry prospers, cities will have art exhibitions, art festivals and other cultural activities which can make urban life dynamic and interesting. Exposure to artworks can reduce our pressure and put us in a good mood.
Despite this, many people would argue that public facilities deserve more of public money. Citizens are more interested in public facilities (such as water and electricity supply, schools, library and streets), which have a direct impact on their living standards. For example, good circumstance and clean water can improve people’s health and reduce diseases, while schools and libraries can disseminate knowledges and improve people’s job prospects. In contrast, sculptures, paintings and operas are luxury items to most of people and are not likely to bring tangible benefits to them.
In my view, improvements in public facilities can promote economy development, but the arts may be less important in economic terms. For example, investing transportation systems can improve the productivity of working people by making daily commuting easier, while the public spending on high-speed railway systems and airport can ensure that cargo can be delivered faster. cities can attract more investment and become wealthy, so people’s living standard can also be improved. By contrast, investing in arts cannot create such returns in a short time.
To sum up, I believe that government should focus on services and facilities vital to the wellbeing of the general public, even though artistic projects can make our cities spectacular.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 7.85571142285 242% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 21.0 10.4138276553 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1854.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 333.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.56756756757 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8971773988 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588588588589 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 567.0 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.5098118521 49.4020404114 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.6 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.26666666667 7.06120827912 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.161199376313 0.244688304435 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0603405102388 0.084324248473 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0419810295906 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0889963723314 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0254395638241 0.056905535591 45% => 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: 15.9 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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