Government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts
I remember my first visit to a museum. It was a history museum in Bogota that used art pieces to tell the story of Colombia's independence. It was love at first sight; I was seventeen! Can you believe it? That sounds weird for a first visit to a museum, right? However, most Colombians have limited access to museums because there are none in their towns. My hometown was no exception. So, I had to wait until I moved to Bogota for college, to learn about museums.
Museums are places where children, teenagers, and adults can interact with and learn about art and history, hence their importance. Governments should ensure these institutions have enough funding and are accessible to all their citizens. Funding museums implies funding the art that they will exhibit, as well. Art is an undervalued profession in most developing and under-developed countries. The artist that attempts to pay the bills with his or her art will soon meet with difficulties.
Due to the lack of museums, art seems tedious to most citizens, who show little or no interest in learning about it. A chain reaction is created: since people are not interested in museums, the government does not include them in its agenda. Therefore there is no funding to support art; the artist has to search for other job opportunities, generating a lack of autochthonous art expressions in an area, which increases people's disinterest in art.
Art is not just a painting on the wall; art is culture as a tangible object. Preserving it should be considered as important as protecting our cultural traditions. But art is not a self-sufficient business. Because of the lack of appreciation for it, people do not want to pay to visit museums. For this reason, it is crucial that the government guarantees, through proper funding, the access of all citizens to museums. Low-cost tickets or free entrance, and more museums could be the first steps to breaking the chain and nurturing a community that values more art in developing and under-developed countries.
Although government sponsorship is important for the survival of art in certain countries, this should not compromise artists' freedom. Art must be independent and faithfully represent the thoughts of the artist. Unfortunately, words are not enough to ensure this. That is why it is necessary to create legislation that protects the artist and his or her artwork from manipulation and intervention by any government.
Art needs the government's support to thrive. Without it, citizens are less willing to visit museums and value art, and the job of the artist is compromised. However, the funding should not endanger the integrity of the artwork. Consequently, it is important to create laws that ensure art’s freedom.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, so, therefore, well, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2293.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 453.0 442.535393258 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06181015453 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61343653406 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00089570094 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512141280353 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 691.2 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.6321299593 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.0689655172 118.986275619 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.6206896552 23.4991977007 66% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.48275862069 5.21951772744 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.389841059044 0.243740707755 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10666259292 0.0831039109588 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102531697632 0.0758088955206 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.230109153453 0.150359130593 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111647447598 0.0667264976115 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 14.1392134831 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 48.8420337079 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 12.1743820225 66% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 11.8971910112 46% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => 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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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.