To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
A particular favourite of mine among online websites is reddit. What’s different about reddit from its more famous online counterparts(like facebook) is how instead of following friends, one can follow and join communities instead. Like minded individuals come together and share opinions about common interests in one space. Difference of opinion exists obviously, and thus there are subreddits which are simply polar opposites of each other. A lot of ‘communist’ subreddits look upon Stalin as their savior, a great man and leader who did nothing wrong. More ‘liberal’ subreddits argue that he was genocidal maniac who killed billions. Was Stalin an effective leader? Most people despite their political affiliations will say yes. If his ethical and moral standards were high enough is however a more complicated question to answer in the binary. The given prompt says to be effective in leadership, public figures must keep to the highest standards of ethical and moral standards. In my opinion, I strongly disagree with this extreme statement primarily due to two reasons.
What makes a leader effective? Charisma, yes; being good with words, also yes but mostly the ability to rally people around a common cause. A sense of an end goal would then permit these twisted leaders to get away with heinous atrocities because after all “the ends justify the means”. An infamous example of this would be Hitler. He started with infusing Germany with inflated nationalism, and then made people surreptitiously and slowly believe that it was Jews who were every thing that was wrong with their country. Later on when the concentration camps began, it was only a small population that protested. Resistance was quickly shut down. A more contemporary example would include the current prime minister of India, Narendra Modi. This time too, it is by creating a false sense of superiority of Hinduism among the hindu majority country. He tried to implement an inhumane policy which would deprive lakhs of people of their citizenship - who would then have to stay in camps or be deported back to Bangladesh. Sounds horrifying and familiar doesn’t it? The scariest part is how it was met with widespread support throughout the country. These examples prove how easy it is to overlook even sensible moral and ethical obligations when someone is under the sway of a powerful leader. It’s easy to cloud judgements especially in today’s world of digital media algorithms actively changing and shifting public opinions. Charm and a sense of oneness can make anyone overlook any ethical and moral obligations which might rise up. After all, it is always easier to follow the herd.
Ethics and morality is a complicated topic. What might be ethical to someone might be immoral to someone else. Of course, activities like murder and genocide will always remain a horrible no-no. It is the myriad of other things which makes ethics come in all shades of grey. Ideally I would love to live in a world where the leaders maintain highest standards of morality and ethics. But being a leader also includes having the support of a lot of people, people with diverse opinions. Compromise is necessary at every step. Let’s take for example Gandhi - a prominent figure in the Indian Freedom Movement. He had done much for the freedom struggle from organising the quit india movement to the dandi march. Was all he did good though? There are a lot of other examples where Gandhi was seen supporting the caste system in India, and he actively was against Dalit integration schemes suggested by B. R. Ambedkar. A large reason behind this was to keep getting the popular support of the indian masses, most of whom supported the system. Is this adhering to the highest standards of ethics? No. Caste system is an oppressive system which continues to ruin and systemically make the lives of millions of indians so much worse. Is he being a shrewd leader? Unfortunately, yes. Leaders are people too. They have to make tough choices - sometimes absolutely ethical, sometimes not. Leaders striving to be moral is a good practise but is hard to stick to. Compromise is a way more important tool in leading effectively.
One could argue that not pushing leaders towards highest standards of ethics and morality would be a misuse of their powers. They have the power to influence masses, and a wrong word on their part could make or break the lives of others. However we have too many examples of leaders from history who was tyrannical, diabolical dictators but had enormous mass support. History is not kind to them but that does not lessen their leadership skills. In fact it's a testimony to how effective of a leader they were, instead.
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- The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers artists or scientists but the general well being of all its people Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim In developing an 58
- The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers artists or scientists but the general well being of all its people 58
- To be an effective leader a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1473, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'anyone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'overlooks'.
Suggestion: overlooks
... and a sense of oneness can make anyone overlook any ethical and moral obligations which...
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Line 5, column 334, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'maintain the highest'.
Suggestion: maintain the highest
...ve to live in a world where the leaders maintain highest standards of morality and ethics. But b...
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Line 7, column 42, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'towards the highest'.
Suggestion: towards the highest
...ne could argue that not pushing leaders towards highest standards of ethics and morality would ...
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Line 7, column 239, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ould make or break the lives of others. However we have too many examples of leaders fr...
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Line 7, column 455, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...lessen their leadership skills. In fact its a testimony to how effective of a leade...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, so, then, thus, after all, as to, for example, in fact, of course, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 47.0 19.5258426966 241% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 105.0 58.6224719101 179% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3946.0 2235.4752809 177% => OK
No of words: 784.0 442.535393258 177% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03316326531 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.29150262213 4.55969084622 116% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67298322938 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 411.0 215.323595506 191% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524234693878 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 1239.3 704.065955056 176% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 51.0 20.2370786517 252% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.9896965384 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.3725490196 118.986275619 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.3725490196 23.4991977007 65% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.1568627451 5.21951772744 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 30.0 10.2758426966 292% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303973082824 0.243740707755 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0658490593569 0.0831039109588 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0958494254439 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191264291017 0.150359130593 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0341288896073 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 14.1392134831 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 48.8420337079 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.3 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 194.0 100.480337079 193% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.