Some people believe that government funding of the arts is necessary to ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Others believe that government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Art is one of the purest forms used to express one's thoughts. government funding of arts would only mean curtailing this freedom of expression. However, it is also possible that this funding can be useful in some cases where the country is lacking the necessary means for people to participate in creating art. Therefore, there are both pros and cons which are associated with the government funding of arts.
Let us begin by taking the example of how art flourished in the country of Iceland. In the late 1800s, when there wasn't much scope for arts in the country, the government decided to step in and change the situation for the better. It announced fancy wages and other benefits for people with artistic skills. hence, due to this announcement, many people in the country who were unemployed started learning the art of painting. This lead to a massive number of artists in the country and a few of them being very exceptional. Hence, the government funding helped in establishing the talents of Iceland in the field of arts across the country. but, around the 1850s, the government seeing the popularity of arts across the country, decided to use arts for political propaganda. this move had adverse effects, because it meant that the artists no longer had freedom to express their own thoughts. Rather, they were directed by government officials to draw paintings which mocked the opposition party and hence, it drew a lot of ire from the people of Iceland. Therefore, it lead to a revolution where the Icelanders decided they will stop painting in order to retaliate against the government. this example shows the ill-effects of excessive intervention of government in the field of arts.
Additionally, let us look at the life of Giovanni, one of the best cartoonists the world has ever seen. he began his career as a janitor in a small press company in Italy. Always passionate about drawing cartoons, he once accidentally showed the editor, one of his cartoons. The editor was quite impressed by his drawings and allowed him to publish his cartoons in the daily newspapers. His cartoons received a lot off praise from many prominent people. The topics of his cartoons were generally political and sometimes went to the extremes of mocking the leaders in the government. At this time, the newspaper became quite popular due to his daily cartoons. The government decided to intervene and took over the running of the newspaper. Once the government took over, they decided to obviate his column from the newspaper and decided to fire him as his cartoons were insulting the government. Therefore, this example again shows the adverse effects of the government misusing its funding of arts.
Although, there have been a few cases where government funding has actually helped develop arts in the country. In the early 1900s, india wasn't very famous in any dance forms. Then prime minister, Amit Modi, decided to use government funding to develop the skill of dancing across the country. this lead to the massive number of dancers across the country and india hasn't looked back ever since. In fact, india has over 100 styles of dance today and progressed very well in this field.
To sum it all up, we realize that, although, government intervention in the funding of arts can sometimes be a boon, but almost every other time, the government will misuse its power for political agendas. Hence, arts can flourish by government funding, only if the government has minimal control over it.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, however, if, look, so, then, therefore, well, in fact, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 96.0 58.6224719101 164% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 12.9106741573 194% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2926.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 588.0 442.535393258 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97619047619 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9242980521 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62773704293 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 275.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46768707483 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 900.0 704.065955056 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.2370786517 158% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.7318652081 60.3974514979 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.4375 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.375 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 7.80617977528 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.315249748731 0.243740707755 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0848259810558 0.0831039109588 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0852903836666 0.0758088955206 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211742444758 0.150359130593 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112537336606 0.0667264976115 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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