It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from public.
It is argued that whether it is sometimes necessary state officials to withhold information from public or not. I believe that censoring or hiding information completely depends on the type of it or how much it is confidential. In some certain situations doing such an activity through political authorities is justifiable.
One reason for my fundamental agreement with speaker is that in order to gain opportunity for effective public leadership, a would-be leader must first gain and maintain political power. In the game of politics, complete forthrightness is a sign of vulnerability and naiveté and neither of them bring a politician respect among her/his opponents, and these are features that competitors or opponents will use to defeat the politician. In my observation, many politicians in order to be elected by people try to show their personality completely different from what they really are in their loneliness, and I think it is natural the political personality of authorities differentiates from their real characteristics at home. We have to consider that even among ordinary people how many of them tend to disclose their personal foibles, flaws and problems. Therefore, the information related to the personal life of a leader must be disguised from people. The negative features of a leader in his personal life can affect people’s mind. While this view might be seen cynical, personal scandals have in fact proven the undoing of many political careers, thus I think this view is realistic.
Another reason why I essentially agree with the speaker is that fully disclosing certain types of information to the public would threaten public safety and perhaps even national security. For example, if the president reveals the government’s strategies for thwarting specific plans of international terrorists or drug traffickers, those strategies would surely fail, and the public’s health and safety would be endangered as a result. Withholding information might also be necessary to avoid public panic. While such cases are rare, they occur occasionally. For instance, disputes between countries over issues, such as nuclear weapons that may lead to world war are usually not discussed with the public until the main outcome is known.
However, many times, leaders hide information because they intend to rule the public and take power, in other words, dominate the people. History informs us such leaders with lack of such forthrightness are those who seize and maintain power either by violence or by demagoguery. This situation operates against the democratic principles. A clear example is the behavior of Iranian officials, who try to keep people entertained by violences related to hijab, so that they can make contracts with other countries that may not be popular and keep information hidden from public.
In conclusion, in the game of politics, sometimes it is necessary for leaders not to be honest with people and it can be said that sometimes it is necessary to keep information secret for the success of national and international strategies, but the situation should not be such that leaders misuse it.
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- Some people believe today that everyone has a right to access to the Internet and that governments should provide this access for free Other people believe that access to the internet is not a right and should be paid for like other services Discuss both 67
- People today find their lives more and more dominated by their jobs To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement 61
- There is a problem today that copyright materials such as music films and books are freely available on the internet with the result that the owners of works lose money Do you feel that this is a good or bad thing 70
- Some people think that more money should be spent to promote the use of bicycles in cities Others however believe that cities should focus on investing in public transport systems Discuss both views and give your own opinion 67
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, really, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, for instance, i think, in conclusion, in fact, such as, as a result, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2650.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 499.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31062124248 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72634191566 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02854348064 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51503006012 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 836.1 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.5422531186 60.3974514979 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.5 118.986275619 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.95 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.4 5.21951772744 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less 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: 0.333169824188 0.243740707755 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.098104266226 0.0831039109588 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0806539626006 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19070102534 0.150359130593 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.032370267833 0.0667264976115 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.1392134831 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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