Some people believe that in order to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise. Others believe that the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently

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Some people believe that in order to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise. Others believe that the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives.

It is fairly clear that public opinion must play some function in political sphere, and there is so much of it that political leaders often face such a dilemma of how to balance between public opinion and the principles and objectives they stick to. Arguments about whether they must submit to public opinion or hold firmly on particular principles and objectives. As far as I'm concerned, I closely align with the former but do not believe that this kind of compromise is suitable for any situation even in a democratic society, instead a highly efficient society requires politicians to steadfastly implement particular principles and objectives in some cases.

With the emergence of multimedia, there are various outlets like blogs and forums for average citizens to voice their views about social issues, and accordingly a great advance has been made both in the conversion of their views into political policy and in the performance of government agencies. Take China as an example, due to the influence of public opinion, livelihood issues have achieved a big move: nine-year free education, universal pension, farm subsidies, an increase of the minimum threshold for personal income tax, legal equity, convenient transportation; other aspects in the well-being of humans have been obtained high attention, such as poor access to health, unaffordable housing, unemployment, wealth inequality, environmental pollution; mostly importantly, the performance of political agencies has become the heated subject among citizens, resulting in universal anti-corruption and highly effective government in order to prevent political leaders from abusing their rights. Obviously, it is unavoidable that public opinion will exert far-reaching significance in future political sphere.

Convinced of the importance of public opinion, modern government takes it into account, follow it, even by abandoning principle for the sake of compromise, but this does not always happen. For instance, to fuel economic growth, some leaders in local government venturesomely authorizes public fierce opposition to factories in chemistry, in dye, in insecticide, and in other fields which are involved in environmental degradation, public health hazard. Another example is salient that in the process of urbanization local government substitutes modern buildings for ancient architectures with the value of art and culture, cherished by local people. For these politicians must make a concession: suspend these projects, or turn to alternative program beneficial to sustainable development among economy, nature, tradition and people. However, people being grown up in different contexts of education, family, wealth, belief, experience have divergent views about the same social issue——some of them agree, others oppose, the rest remains neutral, so leaders in government agencies must carefully analyze: vigilant to skewed viewpoints, not blindly compromise but keep to particular principles and objectives.

Particular principles and objectives——not swing for political leaders even faced with the conflict of vox populi——which matters to the long-run stability and development of a society. For example, reform and opening up started in 1978 and was regarded as the subversion of socialism, strongly opposed at the beginning, but Deng Xiaoping, the designer of the policy, persisted in the policy implementation, achieving a great rejuvenation of the whole society, especially in economy with the drastic growth of gross domestic production. Today, with the new round of economic reform, employees in some fields like resource-intensive industry, confronted with laid-off and work transformation, have organized various forms of strikes, while political leaders resolve to phase out facilities to produce steel, power, coal, cement, and so on, which have posed a huge risk of resource-depletion and environmental pollution. In the case of nuclear energy, its application, suffering the violent resistance of the public because of its radiation, safety, still stays on the top of alternative energies, the first echelon of energy development authorized by the authorities. Therefore, from the macro, strategic, long-run perspective, leaders in government must insist on these principles and objectives.

In short, based on impartiality, rationality, and objectiveness, a kind of positive interaction between citizens and politicians will be formed, so does a democratic and efficient society.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, first, however, if, so, still, therefore, well, while, for example, for instance, in short, kind of, such as, in some cases

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 30.0 14.8657303371 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 108.0 58.6224719101 184% => OK
Nominalization: 43.0 12.9106741573 333% => Less nominalization wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3840.0 2235.4752809 172% => OK
No of words: 659.0 442.535393258 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.82701062215 5.05705443957 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06665523852 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.28688014559 2.79657885939 118% => OK
Unique words: 368.0 215.323595506 171% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55842185129 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 1213.2 704.065955056 172% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => OK
Sentence length: 38.0 23.0359550562 165% => OK
Sentence length SD: 137.035014342 60.3974514979 227% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 225.882352941 118.986275619 190% => OK
Words per sentence: 38.7647058824 23.4991977007 165% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.29411764706 5.21951772744 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303400540352 0.243740707755 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0880214969973 0.0831039109588 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0579540296623 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146660905987 0.150359130593 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.075002521239 0.0667264976115 112% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 25.4 14.1392134831 180% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 15.99 48.8420337079 33% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 14.6 7.92365168539 184% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 20.5 12.1743820225 168% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.13 12.1639044944 141% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.98 8.38706741573 131% => OK
difficult_words: 228.0 100.480337079 227% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 11.8971910112 164% => OK
gunning_fog: 17.2 11.2143820225 153% => OK
text_standard: 21.0 11.7820224719 178% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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