Many people think that the government should spend money to explore the outer space while others believe that it is a waste of public money Discuss both views and include your own opinion

Essay topics:

Many people think that the government should spend money to explore the outer space, while others believe that it is a waste of public money. Discuss both views and include your own opinion.

Since the beginning of The Space Age in the 1950s, there have been debates about whether governments should allocate funds for space exploration. Although man’s venture into space is costly and often risky, the benefits it brings are enormous, justifying huge amounts of space funding.

Some people argue that space exploration is too expensive and should therefore remain a low priority. Launching a space mission would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and too often with no immediate, tangible benefits. Given that there are still many people living in poverty in some counties, governments should use the money instead to solve pressing problems such as hunger, disease and unemployment.

Advocates of space research base their arguments on the benefits it can offer. First of all, space exploration has created new markets and new technologies that have spurred the economy and changed our lives in many ways. Many common everyday services such as GPS systems and satellite television could not have come into being without scientists’ efforts at space research. Secondly, space technology is crucial for the long-term survival of the human species. It is said that the Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever. Developing new technologies to travel between planets increases our chances of survival should the Earth is under threat. Finally, space exploration satisfies human’s desire to explore the unknown, and it is such desire that drove our ancestors to go out of Africa two million years ago and continues to inspire many to push the boundaries of our scientific and technical limits. Simply put, space exploration epitomizes the power of the human spirit.

My view is that space exploration can benefit the citizens of the world today and the generations of tomorrow, and it is not something governments should give up for the sake of some short term investment and effort.

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Average: 9.8 (5 votes)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, such as, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1642.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 311.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27974276527 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75757546665 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591639871383 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 508.5 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.3021539339 49.4020404114 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.285714286 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2142857143 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202692818325 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0683936071194 0.084324248473 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0442223151105 0.0667982634062 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12689905538 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0296436933853 0.056905535591 52% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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