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.
Cultural traditions are what define a nation, seperates itself from myriads of nations and identities across the globe. The cities should get adequate financial support from the government – to assert the validity of this statement, first thing needed to be verified whether they are the primary generators and protectors of cultural traditions. The origin of cultural values and their evolution is to be looked upon, and whether cities should be the primary receivers of financial support is also to be validated.
Firstly, the origin of culture. Culture is a defining feature of a civilization. A famous philosopher said, “Civilization is what we have, culture is what we are”. This identity does not form overnight. Culture is the result of thousands of years of values, ethics and traditions; with its roots reaching upto the dawn of a civilization. The concept of culture is much older than the concept of cities. So, crediting cities as the breeding ground of culture actually limits the scope of culture. The first dwellers of a particular area, first societies that started to grow certain crops there and raised certain cattles, create the first instances of culture. Obviously, those bucolic settings dependent on agriculture cannot be defined as an urban system. Also, these agricultural societies often create the oldest festivals of that particular nation. For example, the Bengali New Year festival has a age-old part named “halkhata” where people pay their dues to local shopkeepers and the shopkeeper host them with sweets and other local foods. This tradition comes from the farmers of Bengal, which dates back to more than a thousand years- when there were no city in Bengal area. But the “halkhata” is now celebrated in the cities as a cultural fesitivity.
Yet, chenges in lifestyle with time adds new elements to the culture. These newer elements often originate from the urban areas. The cities will get credit for that. On the other hand, it is also true that, what is perceived as pure urban culture, actually has its root in some rural traditions. Take the example of rock music, which definitely has an urban flavor all over it. But rock music has its roots in blues music, which originated in the rural settings of America. So a deep study on the origin of culture will show that, many supposedly urban traditions actually come from a rural custom.
But it is true that, cities can protect cultural traditions better than rural areas. In cities, there are more opportunities to display and continue those traditions. To continue the culture of dance or play, a nation needs theaters, auditoriums. In addition to that, it also needs people who are willing to see the performances and will be happy to pay for them. These things fit into urban setiings more. Of course, rural areas have their own display of cultures. But cities provide a much bigger stage, a greater platform and larger audience. Certainly, a rural play can not hold candle to an urban opera house performance. It’s not about quality- but the exposure.
So, what can be inferred from above discussions is that, cities cannot be credited as the breeding grounds of culture. But perhaps, they preserve culture better than villages. So, when it comes to providing financial support, cities should get their fair share, but the rural areas should not be taken out of the equation. The aides should be quitable, as rural areas often generates the oldest cultural identity of an area.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 912, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...mple, the Bengali New Year festival has a age-old part named 'halkhata'...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'look', 'so', 'well', 'for example', 'in addition', 'of course', 'it is true', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.247407407407 0.240241500013 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.134814814815 0.157235817809 86% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0962962962963 0.0880659088768 109% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0503703703704 0.0497285424764 101% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0311111111111 0.0444667217837 70% => OK
Prepositions: 0.111111111111 0.12292977631 90% => OK
Participles: 0.0222222222222 0.0406280797675 55% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.77739001722 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0222222222222 0.030933414821 72% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.103703703704 0.0997080785238 104% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0192592592593 0.0249443105267 77% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0192592592593 0.0148568991511 130% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3520.0 2732.02544248 129% => OK
No of words: 578.0 452.878318584 128% => OK
Chars per words: 6.08996539792 6.0361032391 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90322654589 4.58838876751 107% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.371972318339 0.366273622748 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.271626297578 0.280924506359 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.193771626298 0.200843997647 96% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.114186851211 0.132149295362 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77739001722 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 219.290929204 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487889273356 0.48968727796 100% => OK
Word variations: 59.4782264048 55.4138127331 107% => OK
How many sentences: 36.0 20.6194690265 175% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0555555556 23.380412469 69% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.218289141 59.4972553346 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.7777777778 141.124799967 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0555555556 23.380412469 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.388888888889 0.674092028746 58% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 43.2181853133 51.4728631049 84% => OK
Elegance: 1.7602739726 1.64882698954 107% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.340658047745 0.391690518653 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.101111829356 0.123202303941 82% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.10192035741 0.077325440228 132% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.430785757163 0.547984918172 79% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.171668044802 0.149214159877 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112359305441 0.161403998019 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0721031916292 0.0892212321368 81% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.392011699169 0.385218514788 102% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0740979607335 0.0692045440612 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245102959969 0.275328986314 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0364203160623 0.0653680567796 56% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.4325221239 192% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30420353982 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.88274336283 287% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 15.0 7.22455752212 208% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 7.0 2.70907079646 258% => OK
Total topic words: 24.0 13.5995575221 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.