Claim: Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
Reason: It is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—to use public resources to fund the arts when people's basic needs are not being met.
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.
Whilst art is an important part of life, governments should prioritise their citizens’ welfare over the funding of art. Not only because a human’s welfare is more important than another citizens’ artistic output, but because government funding of the arts does not necessarily lead to greater works of art.
Whilst the creation of art and the wonder of artistic expression is an important aspect of humanity, art does not require government funds. If we look to times of amazing artistic revolution, they have not necessarily occurred during times of great prosperity, or floundered during times of financial dire. For example, the great depression gave rise to realist photography in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, the works of which are still displayed today. This required no government funding. Indeed, some of the countries that currently have the highest government funding for the arts (Netherlands, Australia etc.) do not necessarily produce greater works of art compared to those countries with less government funding (e.g. the U.S). Essentially, art has always been a part of human life; in all countries throughout most of time art has been created. If there is no evidence to suggest that further funding creates ‘better’ pieces of work, then why provide unnecessary funding of the arts?
It may be true that governments should provide funding to the arts on the off-chance that it might produce greater pieces of work. However, this would only be true if the basic needs of a society’s citizens were all met. If there is spare money to throw around, then why not throw it the arts? Unfortunately, most societies today have not met the needs of all of their citizens. Often, citizens remain homeless, unemployed or simply struggle to put food on the table. If we look to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (a renowned psychologist from the 1950’s) we see that the most essential human needs are safety, food and shelter. Only after receiving these needs are we able to produce great works of art, or enjoy the fruit of an artist’s labour. Thus, it is more important to satisfy these needs for all citizens, rather than provide unnecessary funding to the arts that may not even increase the quality of art output.
Lastly, we see in countries with low government funding for the arts (e.g. the U.S) that private collectors or wealthy citizens are more likely to donate their money to artistic causes. However, in countries with high government funding for the arts (e.g. Australia), wealthy citizens are less inclined to fund the arts, as they are aware that there is no need. Thus, not only is government funding for the arts unnecessary, but it disincentives other forms of arts-funding. Again, this confirms that whilst there are citizens in need of welfare, funding should be provided to them over the arts.
Whilst art is an important aspect of life, it does not require funding. Throughout humanities existence art has always been created, even when government funding of the arts has been non-existent. This makes the funding of the arts an unnecessary expense, especially when citizens are in dire need of this funding to meet their basic needs regarding safety, food and shelter. Indeed, research has shown that the arts remains funded by wealthy citizens when governments do not provide funding. Thus, nations should suspend their funding of the arts when their citizens are hungry are employed because it is unnecessary and even potentially harmful.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: some
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...ernment funding for the arts e.g. the U.S that private collectors or wealthy citi...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'humanities'' or 'humanity's'?
Suggestion: humanities'; humanity's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, e.g., however, if, lastly, look, may, regarding, so, still, then, thus, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2959.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 576.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13715277778 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89897948557 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82907442627 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.407986111111 0.4932671777 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 896.4 704.065955056 127% => 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: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.0558581695 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.807692308 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1538461538 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.38461538462 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => 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: 0.416845589035 0.243740707755 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144268056579 0.0831039109588 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0913122479325 0.0758088955206 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.289090043322 0.150359130593 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0843948692637 0.0667264976115 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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: 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.