Should museums and art galleries be free of charge for the general public, or should a charge, even a voluntary one, be levied for admittance? Discuss this issue, and give your opinion.
In modern society, there is a debate on whether museums and art exhibitions should be free to the public or visitors have to pay to visit. I strongly believe a fee should be charged, and will prove it in this essay.
On the one hand, if the entrance fee is removed, museums and galleries can attract more visitors. Admittedly, many people might not want to spend money on visiting an exhibition because the experience which art galleries and museums can bring is believed to be less interesting and thus, less worthy than other forms of entertainment at the same price such as a concert or amusement park. Hence, by abolishing charges, exhibitions and museums might motivate more visitors to come as people can visit those places without having to pay for tickets. For example, the number of visitors to a museum in Tokyo doubled on days when it was free of charge.
On the other hand, money charged by visitors can support museums and exhibitions’ activities. The revenue from selling tickets can help museums and art galleries to operate more independently and not rely on the national budget which should be spent on more important sectors like education or infrastructure. Moreover, if people have to pay to visit those destinations, they might gain a deeper appreciation of art pieces and historical relics compared to free visitors. Since people tend to respect experiences that require them to pay for more than those that are free, it is reasonable to charge visitors to make them appreciate artworks and historical artifacts. In particular, a survey made by the University of California reported that in an experimental art gallery, people who paid to visit were significantly more likely to perceive and understand the paintings than those who did not have to. As a result, this would raise public awareness of respecting and preserving art and historical values.
In conclusion, income from charging is a substantial financial resource for museums and art galleries. Visitors should be required to pay ticket to fund exhibitions and raise public attention on art and history.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, if, moreover, so, thus, for example, in conclusion, in particular, such as, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 10.4138276553 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1760.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 346.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08670520231 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89294087155 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523121387283 0.561755894193 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 557.1 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.8350339902 49.4020404114 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.714285714 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7142857143 20.7667163134 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.07142857143 7.06120827912 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281770817271 0.244688304435 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111894399783 0.084324248473 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0566610043249 0.0667982634062 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215539501714 0.151304729494 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0558764630707 0.056905535591 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 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.