"It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public."
The speaker asserts that it is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public.
Admittedly, some information is highly sensitive and must not be collected by foreign powers. For example, during the cold war, information about troop deployment, nuclear arsenal, covert operations behind enemy lines, etc., should be top secret, and even officals in the governments cannot obtain such sensitive matter without permission. However, I must point out that in addition to such information that deserves to be secrets, there exits many more information that should be disclosed to the public.
One of the most famous concepts in economics is called "principal-agent problem," in which an agent is selected to work for the principal, but due to the fact that the principal cannot fully monitor the agent, the asymmetrical information between the two sides results in the agent deviating from his boss's best interest and focus more on his self interest. In our case, political leaders are elected by the public, but instead of serving the best interest of the general public, politicians are more interested to obtain power, wealth, and other achievements. How can we better monitor the political figures to keep them in check? We need to ask them to disclose information kept secret from us, reducing the asymmetrical information that fosters the principal-agent problem.
In addition, some information is withheld so that politicians can keep the public away from the truth. For example, the Chinese government keeps information about the Tianamen Square Incident secret from the Chinese, so that they would not be outraged the truth and turn against their government. Moreover, the Chinese government censors books, songs, games, and television in China to keep the truth about the cultural revolution, Tiananmen Square Incident, and other unfortunate things that happened in the past.
In sum, while it is true that some information, such as the password of a country's nuclear weapon, should be kept secret, the people deserves to know more about the truth and what the political leaders have done.
- The following memorandum is from the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants Recently butter has been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States This change however has had little impact 59
- Twenty years ago Dr Field a noted anthropologist visited the island of Tertia Using an observation centered approach to studying Tertian culture he concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by the 72
- The best way for a society to prepare its young people for leadership in government industry or other fields is by instilling in them a sense of cooperation not competition 50
- Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive because it is primarily in cities that a nation s cultural traditions are preserved and generated 50
- In surveys Mason City residents rank water sports swimming boating and fishing among their favorite recreational activities The Mason River flowing through the city is rarely used for these pursuits however and the city park department devotes little of i 83
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 439, Rule ID: THERE_EXITS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'exists'?
Suggestion: exists
...tion that deserves to be secrets, there exits many more information that should be di...
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Line 5, column 85, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
... is called 'principal-agent problem,' in which an agent is selected to work ...
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Line 5, column 475, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...ead of serving the best interest of the general public, politicians are more interested to obt...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, moreover, so, while, for example, in addition, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1825.0 2235.4752809 82% => OK
No of words: 339.0 442.535393258 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38348082596 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94174697601 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 215.323595506 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.551622418879 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 558.0 704.065955056 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 20.2370786517 59% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 77.6648783771 60.3974514979 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.083333333 118.986275619 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.25 23.4991977007 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.66666666667 5.21951772744 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.307406904278 0.243740707755 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129662011412 0.0831039109588 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.150100351568 0.0758088955206 198% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.216166753597 0.150359130593 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.198563719334 0.0667264976115 298% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.0 14.1392134831 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.