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 debated whether visiting artistic facilities entailing museums and art galleries should be charged. Alongside the arguments from both sides, the latest discoveries have casted light on this question based on the operation cost and the identities of its visitors. This essay will assert that an admission fee should be charged for entering these buildings, using the examples to demonstrate points.
To begin with, the operation cost is intuitively cited as an evidence of charging 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 the security system inside these buildings would further strain its finances. Therefore, it is conclusively clear that visitors of museums and art galleries should be charged.
Although there is a case for imposing a charge on its users, the impact of admission fee of museums and art galleries cannot be overstated, in particular deterring the grassroots from visiting. This is largely because most families would spend the money on schooling, which then increase the likelihood of better living quality. For instance, attributing to their affordability, the majority of parents from public housing in Hong Kong have never brought their children to any museums or art galleries. Moreover, this has been increasingly recognised that the visitors of museums and art galleries are often highly paid. Seen in this light, it is reasonable to transfer the running cost to visitors under the "user pays" principle.
In conclusion, the admission fee is a result of the surge of running cost in museums and art galleries, even if a decline of their visits might ensue. Given the advent of Virtual Reality, it is predicted that more affordable visits will be available online in the foreseeable future. Consequently, 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, consequently, first, firstly, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, 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 : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1963.0 1615.20841683 122% => OK
No of words: 363.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40771349862 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84059844699 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553719008264 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 601.2 506.74238477 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => 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: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.6724914256 49.4020404114 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.470588235 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3529411765 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.05882352941 7.06120827912 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281683428595 0.244688304435 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0911317802983 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0775731433367 0.0667982634062 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179902600337 0.151304729494 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0288171993403 0.056905535591 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.59 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 78.4519038076 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => 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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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.