Issue 112
"In order for any work of art---whether film, literature, sculpture, or a song---to have merit, it
must be understandable to most people."
In this current dispensation, there are various works of art like literature, films, songs, sculpture and a lot more. These pieces of art are used to express a lot of things like our cultural heritage, for aesthetic values and to teach morals. The author contends that for various works of art to have merits or value, it has to be comprehensible to the majority of people. I strongly agree with this and my reasons will be outlined in three points.
To begin with, of what benefit would a work of art be if it's not understandable to people for which it is made? Work of art are not just made to be on there own, they're made to represent a particular thing. For example, a movie intended to teach morals about a particular traditional or cultural heritage to the younger generation has to be clearly understood by those younger generation in order effective pass the intended message. If the movie is so recondite that it can only be understood by a few people, then, the purpose would be defeated.
Secondly as stated in the previous paragraph that the work of art has to be understood by most people in oder to properly pass down the message for which it is intended, sculpture of heros are often erected in public places to honour those heros and to ensure their labous are not forgotten. For example, the sculpture of Oranmiyn erected in ife- Ife Osun state Nigeria, bringing to the remembrace of people that Oranmiyan was the founding father of the Youruba people of Nigeria would almost be meaningless if no one understands the significance of the statue. The staue iis a continual reminder to the Yoruba people of Kogi state of their origin. If no one knows who or why the sculpture is erected there, then it might just serve as any other statues without any historical significance.
Furthermore, apart from the fact that somee work of art are erected in places to honour the labour of our heroes past, works of art, like literature are often used for instructive or teaching purposes. For example, the famous Shakespearean books that was written decades ago are now used in schools for teaching purposes. If the literature was not written in a form that can be understood by majority of the people, then the purpose for which is it being used now will be defeated. In fac, most of the literature was acted into movies for people to watch. If the literature wasn't understood by most people in the first place, how would they be able to act it into a movie?.
In conclusion, some might argue that some work of art are only made for their aesthetic purposes and there's not need for them to be understood but for people to just appreciate there beauty. But sincerely, to be able to effectively appreciate the beauty of an art work, an understanding of thee work is needed. For a work of art to effectively pass the message intended or for it to portray the historical significance door which it was made, it has to be effectively understood by majority of the people.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Did you mean 'their own'?
Suggestion: their own
... Work of art are not just made to be on there own, theyre made to represent a particular ...
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Suggestion: they're
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Suggestion: wasn't
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Suggestion: there's
...y made for their aesthetic purposes and theres not need for them to be understood but ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, then, apart from, as to, for example, in conclusion, to begin with, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.5258426966 184% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 87.0 58.6224719101 148% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2448.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 529.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.62759924386 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79583152331 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71297298402 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.423440453686 0.4932671777 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 801.0 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.222483343 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.4 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.45 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.85 5.21951772744 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35952719014 0.243740707755 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122970281258 0.0831039109588 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0572252003303 0.0758088955206 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.21255744208 0.150359130593 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0181621814941 0.0667264976115 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.87 12.1639044944 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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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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.