"Government officials should rely on their own judgment rather than unquestioningly carry out the will of the people they serve."
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
Every devoted citizen becomes sceptical, when his government undertakes actions which are against public opinion. The issue of how government should construct its position has been ardent throughout the history of humanity. Today democracy is regarded as the prominent value for peoples all over the globe, especially in the Western countries, but Aristotle used to argue against it.
I believe, government officials should rely on their own mind in the majority of cases due to several reasons, however, they should always remember that they are temporal representatives of their people. Firstly, government officials are professionals in the field of politics. Secondly, political stage is a place of urgent decisions, thus, there in no way to consult public opinion in every case. However, officials are elected by their people, so there should be a substantial reason every time they operate in the opposite way of their people thinking.
Government officials are experienced people, who often possess the outstanding education and have been through a lot of obstacles in their career path. It is quite a challenge to obtain public recognition and get an influential position in the government. Extreme competition in the politics is a tool to create the finest leaders. Such professional have a broader and a deeper look at all the issues in the country, external or inferior. For instance, surveillance is against the public opinion, but it has proven to be a great tool to ensure security. There is no guarantee, that without it the world would be a better place, because one has to bear in mind that the world in not perfect now, and people have to accommodate to its current state. Thus, professionalism is the reason why officials should rely on themselves.
Besides, since there are so many issues in politics, it is impossible to consult with people every time. Presidents make countless number of flights every year, discussing the issues of prominent importance on the feet. They should bear in mind their strategy already, in order to be efficient. In addition, public opinion is swayed by the mood of broadcasting in the media, so this opinion is of temporal character. Thus, taken that the public opinion is important, it is impossible to always adhere to it on every single issue, that is new or tangent.
However, government officials are elected by their nation to represent views, believes and values of their people. Of course, it imposes certain moral restrictions on the room for individual views of the officials. Otherwise, if an elected official foes against his people, he betrays them. This will lead to revolutions which are without doubts, very harmful for a country. Surely, such result is not what people expect of their government. Thus, government officials should always keep in mind their responsibilities before the people who elected them, and do everything to amend their future, consulting with their opinion on the most important issues on the way.
Overall, I believe that government should have its own judgement in order to be efficient. However, the opinion of citizens should be never overlooked, even if sometimes it does not present the best strategy.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, thus, as to, for instance, in addition, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => 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: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2698.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 520.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18846153846 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86319224337 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494230769231 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 842.4 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.3320919443 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.9259259259 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2592592593 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.44444444444 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.182814794907 0.243740707755 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0509219998326 0.0831039109588 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0496148476649 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0992966385631 0.150359130593 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0496865467224 0.0667264976115 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 100.480337079 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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