Governments should spend more money in support of the arts than in support of athletics such as state-sponsored Olympic teams.
It’s hard to deny that arts such as calligraphy and other traditional or modern arts have always been an important part in our life. Many families are supporting their child to study arts. And such fact may mislead ingenious people to form the opinion that government should spend more money in supporting of arts than in support of athletics. However, such statement suffers from both logical and factual fallacies and it should be reconsidered meticulously. As far as positive influence on the public, the economic impact and national pride are concerned, I hold the view that governments should invest more money in athletics rather than in arts.
First and foremost, sports will boost social average health and welfare. Sports provide exercise and teach teamwork, discipline and working ethic. Countries that support athletics at a young age tend to have lower obesity rates and healthier populations. Government funding for athletics, especially for the youth, pays off in the long run through a healthier and more productive society.
Furthermore, the economic impact of hosting major athletic events is much bigger than holding art exhibits. Olympics attracts significant tourism revenue. Visitors flock to enter the stadium watching sports competitions, generating business for local hotels, restaurants and transportation systems. Take 2008 Beijing Olympics as an example, Chinese government invest a lot in building new stadiums, new transportation lines and other Olympics related amusement parks. The huge number of visitors makes the investment worth in really short time. However, arts exhibitions usually don’t have that scale which definitely have less economic impact.
Nevertheless, a voice arises that art can make public be aware of ethic and history of our own country. However, we should know that compared with athletic, the scale of audience is smaller and shallower. The victory of sports game is more solid and visible than the accomplishment in arts. And the athletic celebrity can inspire young children to participate in sports game and raise their sense of patriotism and ethical pride.
In a nutshell, I maintain that government should spend more money in supporting athletics. Admittedly, some people may oppose my opinion. However, as what Henry Bessemer once said, he had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control or bias his mind, I believe they will compromise after being exposed to my article.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, really, so, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 15.1003584229 60% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 13.8261648746 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 52.1666666667 71% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2082.0 1977.66487455 105% => OK
No of words: 383.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.43603133159 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83701857703 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.621409921671 0.524837075471 118% => OK
syllable_count: 638.1 618.680645161 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.9628180557 48.9658058833 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.6363636364 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4090909091 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.22727272727 5.45110844103 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.361979803085 0.236089414692 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0915661827254 0.076458572812 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12312875863 0.0737576698707 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175714912159 0.150856017488 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128261433673 0.0645574589148 199% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 58.1214874552 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 10.9000537634 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.01818996416 119% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 86.8835125448 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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