Some people believe it is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public. Others believe that the public has a right to be fully informed.
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.
It is necessary for political leaders to withhold information from the public, as some people assert, while others believe that the public has a right to be fully informed. Admittedly, information related to military and political confidential is supposed to be withheld by the government. However, there are other cases in which the information should not be kept a secret, such as the living issues of people and the decision-making of the country.
It is undeniable that classified information should not be informed to the public. The military information, for example, can be extremely crucial to a country because it can sometimes determine the end of a war. In 1944, the army of the allied nations landed on Normandy before the Nazis realized it. Though at great lost, the surprising attack laid the groundwork for the final victory of World War II. But if the information that the army would attack Normandy on D-day had been announced to the public before the invasion, it would be totally another story. The Nazis would be more prepared without a doubt, which leads to much more uncertainties in the long term.
Yet, when it comes to the livelihood of the people, I strongly believe that the public has a right to be fully informed. As the political leader of a country, the government should take responsibility to guarantee the overall welfare of the people, which requires it to inform people about the problem they care most, living issues. Back in 2008 in China, when SANLU milk powder was found responsible for certain diseases of babies, the government did not take immediate actions including informing the public. As a result, the uninformed parents still bought the problematic milk powder and caused irreversible effects on their babies.
Obviously, the claim that people should be informed is also appropriate in issues related to the decision-making of the government, given that people should be involved in governing the country in democracy. Take Brexit for example, when the government of British was faced with a dilemma that whether they should exit the Europe Union, it was not the government alone to make the big decision. On the contrary, it is the people who participate in the Brexit vote who finally made a decision on exiting the Union. Otherwise, the government may make a decision which is against the people’s will.
In sum, it is entirely possible that political leader withholds classified information from the public. However, considering other perspectives like livelihood and decision-making issues, it is the government’s responsibility to keep its people well informed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'too'?
Suggestion: too
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, so, still, well, while, for example, such as, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 14.8657303371 34% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2214.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 427.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1850117096 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00050179811 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494145199063 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 692.1 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.5294343153 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.526315789 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4736842105 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.89473684211 5.21951772744 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => 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: 0.357332226842 0.243740707755 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117356545965 0.0831039109588 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120346934319 0.0758088955206 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22190950982 0.150359130593 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.117217390547 0.0667264976115 176% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => 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: 13.12 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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