Some people believe it is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to
withhold information from the public. Others believe that the public has a right to
be fully informed.
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.
The author suggests that some people think that politicians or leaders should hide information from the public while others advocate the freedom of information and urge powerful persons to share information with them. In my opinion, regardless of the choice, system of the government and the policies are determining factors to whether disclose or withhold information. In what follows, the reasons of both groups will be expressed and discussed and my viewpoint would complement those views.
The persons who believe that political leaders should publicly distribute information in the society are in favor of freedom of information and expression. They cannot tolerate withholding information especially from people who are in charge of making decisions. The main reason they offer for such a behavior is preventing governments from corruption. Moreover, concealment of information could be against democracy in their eyes. Thus, the politicians who want to avoid conflicts with these people should be transparent in there information sharing.
On the other hand, some individuals who usually have minor and major resonsiblities in governments are not willing to reveal information about policies or affairs. This reluctance originates from the idea that most people cannot act logically, because they are get stuck in emotions which is harmful when analyzing and deciding. Their judgmental abilities also influenced by being emotional which is another reason to keep them away from governemental information. Therefore, when sensitive information is leaked and diffused, these people who obsessed with withholding information will become deeply distressed.
However, I think that, regardless of the different opinions about saving or giving information, the essential factor which determines the final policy about information is the type of government or the administration. In other words, there is a slight chance to receive information about policies in a dictatorship probably ruled by a savage leader while the flow of information is easily seen in a real democracy which is not only transparent but invite people to ask publicly about all aspects of the government.
In summary, the freely available information in a society is highly depended on the attitudes and the whole governmental system. Although it is a contradictory issue among groups of people, the governments have the final word in sharing information with their people or withholding it from them.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 296, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ce to receive information about policies in a dictatorship probably ruled by a sa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, thus, while, i think, in summary, in my opinion, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 12.9106741573 209% => Less nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2101.0 2235.4752809 94% => OK
No of words: 376.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.58776595745 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09440889328 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 215.323595506 93% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534574468085 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 657.0 704.065955056 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6520120698 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.3125 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.1875 5.21951772744 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.218464271479 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.073347140596 0.0831039109588 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0555012695913 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124862297905 0.150359130593 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0334710872295 0.0667264976115 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.44 12.1639044944 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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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