Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.
Reason: It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Major cities play an important role in a nation’s development, both economically and culturally. From ancient times cities have been the centre of power for many nations. Though the claim that the governments should lend financial support to cities as they preserve and generate a nation’s cultural traditions is mostly not the case. Cities have a huge population and can have people from different cultural backgrounds, but rural areas also play an important role in generating and preserving a nation’s cultural traditions.
Rural areas in different parts of the nation follow varying customs and practices. These cultural practices define a nation. Taking an example of India, a country with a diverse set of cultures, languages and beliefs thrives in its villages. The major population in India as in other developing countries lives in its villages, which are often located in different geographical areas, pertaining to different cultural traditions. Hence supporting villages financially which is often what they lack, thrives the cultural tradition of a nation. Also supporting villages in most cases is catering to the needs of the major population. Cities whereas constitute only a small population.
As the world becomes more connected, humans are living in a global village. And cities are like the nodes of this global village. Hence, cities are now having people not only from their own country but migrants from other nation. London today has more immigrant population than it did a few decades back. London is becoming more multi-cultural and diverse. It is able to generate a new culture but it is not able to preserve its old one. As with most people in cities who follow a rigid and busy schedule oftentimes shine away from following their own cultural traditions. Whereas in rural areas the traditions are embedded in the workplace and hence are not only preserved but also cherished by the people.
Cities are often the centre of an economy. A city generates far greater revenue and tax for a government than a village and hence are financially strong. People living in a city often times enjoy a greater standard of living than their village counterparts. A nation should attempt to bring equality not only socially but also economically to its citizens. In order to do so, it should invest in its villages and not just in its major cities.
Cities are the spearhead in the growth and development of a nation. But rural areas are the strong backbone on which the entire nations stand upon. A nation must always attempt to strengthen its backbone and thrive culturally and economically.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, so, then, whereas, in most cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2201.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 428.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14252336449 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84527929135 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.464953271028 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 711.0 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.5820760034 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.5185185185 118.986275619 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8518518519 23.4991977007 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.0 5.21951772744 38% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.83258426966 290% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.317102254433 0.243740707755 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0901423090884 0.0831039109588 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0697678577026 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185930582705 0.150359130593 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0435505479628 0.0667264976115 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 48.8420337079 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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