Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
When the news of a novel coronavirus was broadcasted by Chinese media in late December 2020, countries throughout the world roughly took one of two approaches - either try to downplay the significance of the matter or take urgent measures to secure the health and public safety of citizens. Whatever the attitude, economies suffered and valuable lives were lost. One might argue, however, that the countries who took the latter approach have fared better than the other side in containing the virus and minimizing the damage. The prompt recommends that instead of thinking about anticipated problems of the future, governments should focus on those their country faces today, with which I strongly disagree for the following two reasons.
To begin, governments are not short-term entities that operate in their own bubble for the duration of their term. Policies once drafted have a significant lifespan, which is why they are put through several examinations and votes before they are implemented. It is obvious, then, that policies have effects that unravel over several years and decades, past the tenure of the administration that authored them. Take, for example, the Baby Boomer generation of the 1960s and 70s who had their pensions revoked and supplanted by the 401K. This move by the United States goverment was meant to increase the profitability of corporations by removing certain rules that required them to pay a minimum pension to their employees during retirement. Studies have shown that, in the absence of a stable income, the now "retired" Baby Boomers have to work minimum wage jobs to earn a living. In turn, children of that generation are struggling to earn enough to support both themselves and their parents. Thus, while the move may have been hailed at the time as a great economic boost, it has had long-lasting effects on citizens.
Further, it is arguably true that ignoring problems does not make them go away. In today's day and age, since we have the data and the technology needed to predict what problems we might face in coming years, it would be wildly irresponsible for a government to contradict the science and wash its hands of the task. Consider climate change. During the second half of the 20th century, scientists began warning us of the rapid depletion of our natural resources and the resultant rising temperatures. However, most governments paid little heed to this so-called "hoax" or "hyperbole". Lo-and-behold, we now have little over a decade to reverse climate change or at least slow it down enough so that the world doesn't turn to dust. It is important to take note of the leaders who did take steps towards expanding renewable energy avenues and sustainable development, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt most remarkably. Had more leaders followed in his and other's footsteps, we might not have had to face a dire crisis today. Thus, governments should leverage our technological abilities to best predict what challenges we might face in the near future, and formulate policies and regulations around them so that they serve their subjects to the best of their abilities.
One might argue that, since a government is voted in by none other than citizens, it should pay most heed to their immediate concerns lest it risk disappointing their hopes and ruining any chances of winning the coming elections. To this, I counter that citizens vote in leaders because they deem them capable of holding the reins of the country. If the government stoops to pandering to their subjects, we have nothing less than a corporation whose sole purpose is to keep its customers happy and its business raking in money. Leaders should demonstrate the capacity to anticipate problems and find holistic, effective, long-term solutions to them, instead of gratifying their constituents with magic tricks that purport to solve whatever issue is currently on their mind. Only then can a government be called a government of the people and for the people.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, second, so, then, thus, while, at least, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 66.0 33.0505617978 200% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 58.6224719101 150% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3363.0 2235.4752809 150% => OK
No of words: 655.0 442.535393258 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13435114504 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.05894927669 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89576976065 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 367.0 215.323595506 170% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560305343511 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 1030.5 704.065955056 146% => 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: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.38483146067 251% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.2609408284 60.3974514979 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.555555556 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2592592593 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.92592592593 5.21951772744 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.131281105931 0.243740707755 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0310746682685 0.0831039109588 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0550968525968 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0868457414064 0.150359130593 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0509204680133 0.0667264976115 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 181.0 100.480337079 180% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 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.