Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.Reason: It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated.Write a response in which you discuss the e

Essay topics:

Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.

Reason: It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.

A saying goes "Cities are the pillars of a nation". Cities of today have become a vital cog in each nation. More and more cities have spurned up, some going on to become a huge metropolises. The claim the afore-mentioned statement makes is that Governments should provide adequate financial support to the cities as they reason that cities are a reservoir nation's cultural traditions and must be preserved. Let us analyse this claim.

Cities have been synonymous with nation growth since the start of civilisations. Many of the remains of the ancient civilisations can be found in the ruins of the...

*** The full content of this essay is available to VIP readers

Votes
Average: 8.3 (4 votes)
This essay topic by users
Post date Users Rates Link to Content
2013-10-22 nilka61 70 view
2013-09-25 wasainika17 60 view
2013-07-29 A.R.Ramya 70 view
2013-07-06 Ly Phuong Thao 90 view
2013-04-04 vishlesh patel 83 view
Essay Categories
Essays by user adifire :

Comments

Sentence: The claim the afore-mentioned statement makes is that Governments should provide adequate financial support to the cities as they reason that cities are a reservoir nation's cultural traditions and must be preserved.
Description: The word reason is not usually used as a verb, base: uninflected present, imperative or infinitive
Suggestion: Refer to reason

Sentence: Many Archeologists hold that cities are the vital statistic of any civilisation that has come to being.
Error: civilisation Suggestion: civilization

Sentence: The ruins, such as the potteries, street pavings, paintings on walls, etc, of the cities like Harappa and others have helped uncover the culture of the civilisation.
Error: civilisation Suggestion: civilization

Sentence: Many great civilisations like the Mesopotamia, Egyptian, Roman, etc have been identified with the cities that formed the civilisation.
Error: civilisation Suggestion: civilization

Sentence: Thus cities of the past play a vital role in understanding the culture of the civilisation.
Error: civilisation Suggestion: civilization

Sentence: The quest for modernisation has left little room for preservation of the traditions.
Error: modernisation Suggestion: moderation

Sentence: People in the cities have become a stereotypes of modernisation, they leave their traditions to dust with eye on being the most modern of all.
Error: modernisation Suggestion: moderation

flaws:
No. of Words: 628 350 (less words in real exams)
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2

It is on top list:
http://www.testbig.com/essay-categories/gmatgre

Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 36 15
No. of Words: 628 350
No. of Characters: 3052 1500
No. of Different Words: 280 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.006 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.86 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.635 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 211 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 142 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 95 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 61 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.444 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.255 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.278 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.298 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.452 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5