Some people believe that government funding of the arts is necessary to ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Others believe that government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
While acknowledging the fact that selfish interest might play a little role when the government funds the art, however, I believe that the government funding will go a long way in the proliferation of arts as will be elucidated in the points below.
Firstly, when the government financially supports her people, they are financially empowered. By so doing, individuals get encouraged to pursue and develop the aspect of art that appeals more to him or her. Take for instance a young talented writer from a poor background. With government funding, she can get her work published and distributed to people. Thereby motivating the writer and spreading the literary arts. Furthermore, with sponsorship from the school, those talented individuals for instance in music, theatre art etc, who have ended up becoming miscreants -possibly because of poverty and frustration- constantly roaming the street can be salvaged and sent to college. Perhaps, when they out, they will become more useful to their society
Secondly, our museums which in most cases are owned by government needs to be preserved. When these museums stop receiving support from the government, they will be relegated to a moribund state. The folding up of these museums will consequently create an adverse effect on our arts and culture. Take for instance in Nigeria where am from, our museum is the heart of our culture and history. When one goes there, you not only look through the art work, but the personnel’s there explain how these arts relates to our culture and origin. Therefore, it can be clearly seen that the effect of the close up of these museums will affect the society at large. Assuming the effect were to end only with the present people in the society that might be fair, but bad enough it extends even to our unborn children because we get to deny them those precious knowledge they are meant to tap from in those museums when they are shut down. Inadvertently stifling our culture.
Admittedly, when critically considered, it can easily be argued that government might want to support art conditionally. After all, there is no help without a selfish interest. While acknowledging, this sounds logical, in reality, this is barely the case. If government can give scholarships to bright students to study their desired courses at the university, if government can put up talents shows to encourage talented people, why won’t they with the same magnanimous heart support art? Moreover, it may be bad if the government decides to support art conditionally but it will be worse if they don’t support at all.
In conclusion, iterating what have been said before, without government support, possibly only the rich will be able to harness their talents since they have the needed resources to develop it. But when government steps in to render financial support, both the poor and middle class will be privileged to have their talents developed as well. Also, the government will prevent the death of museums and consequently prevent the death of the arts and culture in the society.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 510 350
No. of Characters: 2493 1500
No. of Different Words: 250 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.752 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.888 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.655 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 174 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 142 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.562 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.285 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.485 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'consequently', 'first', 'firstly', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'moreover', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'therefore', 'well', 'while', 'after all', 'for instance', 'in conclusion', 'in most cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.196180555556 0.240241500013 82% => OK
Verbs: 0.170138888889 0.157235817809 108% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0625 0.0880659088768 71% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0607638888889 0.0497285424764 122% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0607638888889 0.0444667217837 137% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.104166666667 0.12292977631 85% => OK
Participles: 0.0555555555556 0.0406280797675 137% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.78698101169 2.79330140395 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0364583333333 0.030933414821 118% => OK
Particles: 0.00694444444444 0.0016655270985 417% => OK
Determiners: 0.0972222222222 0.0997080785238 98% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0347222222222 0.0249443105267 139% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0277777777778 0.0148568991511 187% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3090.0 2732.02544248 113% => OK
No of words: 508.0 452.878318584 112% => OK
Chars per words: 6.08267716535 6.0361032391 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.58838876751 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.358267716535 0.366273622748 98% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.295275590551 0.280924506359 105% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.185039370079 0.200843997647 92% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.124015748031 0.132149295362 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78698101169 2.79330140395 100% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 219.290929204 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517716535433 0.48968727796 106% => OK
Word variations: 62.0290443495 55.4138127331 112% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6194690265 112% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0869565217 23.380412469 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.6362469981 59.4972553346 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.347826087 141.124799967 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0869565217 23.380412469 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.913043478261 0.674092028746 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 51.6145155769 51.4728631049 100% => OK
Elegance: 1.22023809524 1.64882698954 74% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.532943248023 0.391690518653 136% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.10193830649 0.123202303941 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.087577635305 0.077325440228 113% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.48589176177 0.547984918172 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.189638143594 0.149214159877 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.185152435314 0.161403998019 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115169862868 0.0892212321368 129% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.342665820779 0.385218514788 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0477819191901 0.0692045440612 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.375278653651 0.275328986314 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0751833042793 0.0653680567796 115% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.4325221239 125% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 13.5995575221 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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