Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Governments should spend more money in support of the arts than in support of athletics such as state-sponsored Olympic teams. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Should governments spend more money supporting art or athletics? Some enthusiasts of arts may contend that art requires more government investments; however, after weighing the influence of athletic events and the artistic counterparts, one will clearly identify that athletics is the option that governments should support with funds. Here are the reasons.
To begin with, more people are into athletics than arts, which implies that supporting athletics could potentially bring satisfaction to a greater population. If we look at the amount of people crammed into each major league baseball game and compare it to the amount of people in an art gallery, we can clearly see that there are much more people enthusiastic about sports than arts. Therefore, if government invest in athletics, such as paying for more teams to play, more people can benefit from the investment.
On the other hand, supporting the more popular athletics, as opposed to the less popular arts, could mean more revenue for the government. The Australian Open of professional tennis, for example, is attended by tennis fans around the world each year. And while these fans are there, they need a place to stay, some food to eat, and a few souveniors to take back home. Tens of thousands of these tourists would bring a considerable amount of economic boost in the area, which in turns benefits the government which collects taxes on all purchases.
Nevertheless, supporters of arts would contend that arts intrinsically receive less attention from the public, thus it requires support from the government. Another perspective to this is that art is less in demand; therefore, less emphasis should be placed upon it. In economics, there is the supply and demand theory which states that the supply will naturally rise in a free market when the demand for an item increases. If the demand for art is low, the supply of art would naturally be low. Any government interference to this established natural balance would not be wise.
All in all, it can be clearly identified that supporting athletics is the better choice for government. By sponsoring athletics, the government brings more joy to the citizens and earn itself more tax income. If the government were to use funds on arts, it should be commensurate with the demand of arts itself. Therefore, until arts becomes more popular than athletics, governments should spend more money in support of athletics.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, look, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, such as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.0752688172 198% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2049.0 1977.66487455 104% => OK
No of words: 398.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14824120603 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79012718832 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.502512562814 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 620.1 618.680645161 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3852285877 48.9658058833 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.842105263 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9473684211 20.6045352989 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.31578947368 5.45110844103 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.307105066595 0.236089414692 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110940659485 0.076458572812 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.118765570427 0.0737576698707 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192935629306 0.150856017488 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104589030813 0.0645574589148 162% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 11.7677419355 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 10.9000537634 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 86.8835125448 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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