In any profession — business, politics, education, government — those in power should step down after five years.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position

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In any profession — business, politics, education, government — those in power should step down after five years.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

There are numerous reasons why a person in power may be reluctant to leave even after a long while. The desire may be purely honest; a longing to achieve great things for an organization, or a worry that all what has been built might come tumbling down due to an incompetent successor. The desire to stay in power may also be pure undiluted greed and selfishness. In either case i agree with the assertion that leaders, be it in politics, education or government should be in power for no more that 5 years for three reasons.
To begin with, having a leader stay in power for too long is likely to breed corruption and unhealthy office politics. The leader and his coterie may become too accustomed to the power they possess and start to believe they can do away with an abuse of power. They are also likely to build certain ties of favouritism and nepotism that do not augur well for the organisation and yet can only be severed by a change in leadership. Take for example the recent scandal that blemished the world football federation, FIFA. These leaders had stayed in power for so long that they had inevitably built a network of corruption that spanned the entire organization and included the president himself and several prominent members.

Additionally, when leaders stay in power for an excessive amount of time, innovation in the entire organisation is stifled. Leaders may continue to believe that the highly effective and profitable methods they have been using are going to keep working and may become oblivious to the changing industry landscape. Take for instance the story of Thomas Edison, the american inventor who pioneered and made electricity available in many homes, and Nicolai Tesla, the young upcoming scientist who made it possible to transmit and use alternating current. Although Thomas was undoubtedly a brilliant man, he failed to see how alternating current could be made safe for use and instead of finding a way to circumvent the dangers of alternating current, bet fully on his direct current. This nearly resulted in his business being crippled. Young, energetic, ambitious talent at times need to be infused into leadership to provide a renewed vigor and a new perspective.

People who do not support the idea of limiting the tenure of leaders normally cite the sustainable development that results from having a good leader stay in power for a long time. Sustainable development however can be achieved all the same by developing long term plans serve as the steering wheel of an organisation, regardless of who is in power. These plans can then be reviewed regularly to ensure that as time goes on, they do not become outdated.

Leaders are meant to serve as the representatives of the members of an organisation. It is however difficult to ensure the interests of a group are duly served when one leader is allowed to monopolise power. Young talent should be trained and mentored to emulate and improve on the ways of those they succeed. This is the best way, i believe, to ensure the longevity of an organisation.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, then, well, while, for example, for instance, all the same, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2547.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 521.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8886756238 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77759609229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77135382127 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 278.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53358925144 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 828.0 704.065955056 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.7604974284 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.772727273 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6818181818 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.59090909091 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => 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: 0.0779436082231 0.243740707755 32% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0263498029634 0.0831039109588 32% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0316673609568 0.0758088955206 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0494956631286 0.150359130593 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0273223364896 0.0667264976115 41% => 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: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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