Amtrak is an intercity train service currently owned by the United States government. There are a number of critics who believe that the government should not own Amtrak and that Amtrak should be sold to a privately-owned company. These critics put forward several arguments to support their position.
First, the critics point out that the government loses money on many Amtrak routes. In its effort to serve citizens in all parts of the country, Amtrak maintains routes even in remote and less populated areas. Those routes are not used by enough passengers to cover the cost of maintaining them. The amount of money lost every year due to underuse is sizeable: the government loses up to several hundred dollars per passenger on some routes: and the total losses due to underuse add up to hundreds of millions of dollars every year If Amtrak was privatized, these unprofitable routes could be cut.
Second, government ownership of Amtrak is unfair to privately owned transportation companies such as airlines Government fundi ng of Amtrak means that ticket prices on Amtrak are cheaper than they otherwise would be. However, the government does not give airline companies money so they can lower their ticket prices. This situation clearly is unfair to airlines and other private transportation companies because they must compete against trains for customers.
Third, critics maintain that if the government wants to support national transportation, it should spend its money elsewhere Rail travel is relatively unimportant in the United States: Amtrak currently transports less than 1 percent of the people traveling between cities. A large majority of intercity travelers use other means of transport, such as private cars. The critics argue that rather than finance Amtrak, the government should direct its funding at maintaining and improving the highway system so that intercity car travel becomes faster and more efficient.
The reading and the lecture both discuss the Amtrak transportaion system in the US and how the government should deal with this fasilitiy. The article states that Amtrak should be run by private companies and provides three reasons of support. On theothre hand, the professor avers that it is not true and Amtrak not only should be under government control but also it should be supporrted much more than it has been.
First, the reading material posits that Government lose money on maintaining of Amtrak's route. Since, Amtrak's routes expand to remout area which do not have many passenger it cost a lot of mony for the govenment. However, the professor believe that government should fund this system as all US citizens have the equal right to access to a good transportation system. She mentions that the principal goal of Amtrak is providing transportaion system for people who live in remote area as well as city dewllers.
Second, the author proposes that government funding of Amtrak is an unfair practice against private transportation companies like airlines. It adds that airlines could not compete with the ticket of Amtrak which benefit governmental financial help and lose in their business. Conversely, the lecturer opposes this idea by saying that it is a silly reason, why? Because the government pay a lot of money helping those airlines. Constructing the control towers and control office of airports also weather satelaites that thsoe airlines benefits alot, are only just a few of governmental help. She avers that sirlines could not exist without governmental help at all.
Third, the article points out that governmemnt should spend this fund elsewhere since Amtrak only transport less than one percent of passengers in the US. In contrast, the speaker insists that amtrak should be funded more to attract more people. If poeple in US do not use Amtrak system like Europiean or Japanees, it is because of the absolute traine with low speed. She comments that government should upgrade the Amtrak system with high speed trains and decrease the ticket cost to absorb more people. Then in this case people will leave their private cars in their house and will use Amtrak transportation system.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...remote area as well as city dewllers. Second, the author proposes that governm...
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... saying that it is a silly reason, why? Because the government pay a lot of money helpi...
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...ist without governmental help at all. Third, the article points out that gover...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, however, if, second, so, then, third, well, in contrast, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1851.0 1373.03311258 135% => OK
No of words: 365.0 270.72406181 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07123287671 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37092360658 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61549864786 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528767123288 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 553.5 419.366225166 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.6314209696 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.833333333 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2777777778 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.38888888889 7.06452816374 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.292354230816 0.272083759551 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101178518066 0.0996497079465 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0693080280801 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196333381642 0.162205337803 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0753439527643 0.0443174109184 170% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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