Should museums and art galleries be free of charge for the general public, or should a charge, even a voluntary charge, be levied for admittance?
Discuss this issue, and give your opinion.
Experts throughout the developing and developed world have sparked heated debates about whether visiting of artistic facilities entailing museums and art galleries should be charged. Alongside the arguments from both sides, the latest sociological discoveries have casted light on this question in accordance with the ensuing financial burden to the society and its uniqueness. This essay will assert that an admission fee should be charged for entering these buildings, using the example from this academic work to demonstrate points.
To begin with, the operation cost is intuitively perceived as a stimulus for supporting the existence of admission fees of both museums and art galleries. The central reason behind this is twofold, firstly the acquisition of artworks is costly. Secondly the pays supporting the operation of these facilities are significant. In fact, the annual report from the National Museum Management Office established that the yearly income could alleviate the financial stress of the management team. Consistent with this line of thinking is that the constant upgrade of its security system meeting with the rampant crime rate would present financial pressure to the government. Therefore, it is conclusively clear that visitors of museums and art galleries should be charged.
Although there is a case for charging the visitors to counteract the exorbitant operation cost, the impact of placing an admission fee cannot be overstated, in particular deterring the visits of the grassroots. This is largely because families in penury would rather spend the money on education or investment, which in turn, to a considerable extent, could improve their livelihood in the future. For instance, being interviewed by the Hong Kong University, the majority of parents from public housing admitted that they have never brought their children to any museums or art galleries, attributing to their affordability. Moreover, there has been increasingly recognised that the Internet could serve the similar purpose of these buildings by sharing their live videos, despite the relatively poor tangibility. Seen in this light, it is reasonable to charge visits under "user pays" principle.
In conclusion, the surging cost of running artistic facilities increases the likelihood of charging its visitors, although the charge tends to lower the number of admission. Given that the emergence of Virtual Reality, it is predicted that more affordable online visits will be available in the foreseeable future. Therefore, it is possible to state beyond doubt that visits to museums and art galleries should be fully charged.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, in particular, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2249.0 1615.20841683 139% => OK
No of words: 402.0 315.596192385 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.59452736318 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90257151726 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 176.041082164 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567164179104 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 696.6 506.74238477 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.8735206377 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.294117647 106.682146367 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6470588235 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.88235294118 7.06120827912 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.258843746253 0.244688304435 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0818754540382 0.084324248473 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0765647870015 0.0667982634062 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163604498083 0.151304729494 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0273366964022 0.056905535591 48% => 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: 16.7 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.44 12.4159519038 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.16 8.58950901804 118% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 78.4519038076 175% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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