Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.Reason: It is primarily in the city that a nation’s cultural traditions are preserved and generated.

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Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.
Reason: It is primarily in the city that a nation’s cultural traditions are preserved and generated.

The author claims that it is the responsibility of the government to aid the major cities of a country with the financially they need in order to survive. While the claim is justified, the reason put forward by the author in support of the claim is not justified. The author states that government must provide financial support to the cities only to preserve their cultural heritages and traditions.

While it is necessary for the cities to preserve their cultural traditions, they should not be of foremost priority to the government. Instead, the government should provide their funding to their cities for more critical issues like health and hygiene, cleanliness, flyover construction, unemployment. These are the major problems faced by a city and the chief impetus of the government should be on funding these issues first. Preservation of cultural heritages and traditions should come later.

Secondly, preservation of a nation’s cultural traditions is not the responsibility of the government. It has been seen in the past that many private organizations take up the responsibility of renovating and preserving a heritage site as a part of their charity. In this way, they are not only keeping the cultural tradition alive but also dispensing their social responsibilities. Thus, corporate institutions led by eminent personalities like Bill Gates, Ted Turner should take charge of preserving the cultural traditions. Moreover, if any cultural site is made into a tourist spot and a minimal amount of money is charged from the visitors, then the amount of money generated from the visitors can be used for proper maintenance of the site. Thus, the cultural site itself takes its own care. Also, the preservation of a nation’s heritage is in part a responsibility of the residents. If they cherish their cultural virtues and keep them alive in their everyday life, cultural traditions are bound to be preserved. Leaving the responsibility solely in the hands of government officials can lead to a lot of bias, as any official will be inclined to preserve the traditions of their hometown and ignore other cities.
Thirdly, the author wrongly suggests that it is primarily in the major cities that a nation’s cultural traditions are preserved. There are a lot of instances where a country’s main heritages are in its town or rural villages. Although the cities provide the centers for ‘high art’, the towns or rural regions should not be ignored. Thus, any government aid provided in the name of cultural heritage should be provided equally to its towns or villages.

Therefore, government assistance is neither mandatory nor necessary for promoting a nation’s distinct cultures. The government can do little in this regard and thus the job should be left to others.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2371.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 450.0 442.535393258 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26888888889 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6057793516 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12925266193 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 215.323595506 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.451111111111 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 747.9 704.065955056 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.884693479 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.772727273 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4545454545 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45454545455 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.400288902823 0.243740707755 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129998731645 0.0831039109588 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0918576243298 0.0758088955206 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.226037844527 0.150359130593 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107266570852 0.0667264976115 161% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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