In times of an economic crisis, in which area should governments reduce its spending?
1. Arts 2. Scientific research 3. Parks and public gardens.
As an economic crisis becomes substantial gradually, governments are likely to adopt the strategy of cost reduction. Arts, scientific research, and parks are three options for governments to cut down on the spending in. Which one is the most suitable option? From my perspective, I think art is the answer to the question.
In the first place, extremely few people consider arts a significant part of their daily lives. Since most people are occupied with working, they don't have sufficient leisure time to appreciate the works in art galleries. For instance, according to a survey in my country, the average number of people entering an art museum one day is about 50, whereas the capacity of the museum is supposed to be 500. Such phenomenon demonstrates that people's need for arts is far less than governments used to expect. Therefore, cutting down on the spending on arts does not compromise the citizens' life quality tremendously. With a view to both alleviating the stress caused by economic crisis and taking people's need into consideration, governments should consider arts the highest priority for cost reduction.
Secondly, investments in arts cannot yield considerable profits. A prodigious amount of money has to be spent on preserving the fragile artworks. Such expenditures are much heavier than the incomes derived from the investments. To be specific, costs of electricity in museum and hiring art experts are 10 thousand US dollars, but the incomes coming from tourists' tickets are only 1 thousand US dollars. If the investments in arts are not worthwhile, they can not solve the problem of economic crisis. Therefore, governments are supposed to utilize the limited money on areas that have potential to increase incomes rather than arts. For example, money spent on scientific research stimulates the development of technological industries, which brings profits 10 times more than costs.
Lastly, private companies are even more likely to make profitable investments in arts compared with governments. Many enterprises have abundant experience in business, which is due to their aims to maximize profits. If they take on the responsibility for encouraging arts in the country, their performance will definitely be better than unexperienced governments'. Consider the issue of staff management, private companies know how to hire a group of experts proficient in maintenance of art works with relatively low personnel costs. In this way, the companies can gain incomes, and governments can save funds for solving financial problems while ensuring the quality of art industries in the country. Such win-win situation justifies governments' decisions to reduce the expenses of arts.
Undeniably, some people may argue that governments should avoid decreasing the investment in art. For example, spending money providing a favorable environment for artists draws international attention to the country. Nevertheless, international research seminars and green park construction are also methods that elevates the country's status in the world. Accordingly, I think it is reasonable for governments to spend less on arts.
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'citizens'' or 'citizen's'?
Suggestion: citizens'; citizen's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, if, lastly, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, whereas, while, as to, for example, for instance, i think, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2660.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 486.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47325102881 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69525374022 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07444315522 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543209876543 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 813.6 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.1565255095 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.5185185185 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.37037037037 5.21951772744 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.280505525231 0.243740707755 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0702627570185 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0494054808986 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163897278607 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0609704973661 0.0667264976115 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.15 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.11 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 100.480337079 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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