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.
One very complex issue in today’s world is the funding of museums and art galleries. While there is an argument that they should be free to the general public and funded by governments, I also believe that there is also a case for saying that they should charge an entrance fee like other attractions.
Those who argue that museums should be free typically make one of two arguments. The first argument is that institutions like museums are a public service and therefore there should be free access to the man in the street. If for example there was a charge only the wealthy could afford to enjoy works of art. The second, and related, argument is that if they did levy a charge fewer people would go to museums. This would be serious as they are educational institutions and standards would fall.
In contrast, there is only one major argument on the other side of the debate. This is that both museums and art galleries need to charge an entrance fee if they are to survive in the modern world. Governments do not have sufficient funds to subsidise all such institutions and there are other priorities for public money. Therefore these galleries and museums need to charge their customers not only to survive but to update their exhibitions and make new purchases. By way of illustration, the Tate Modern in London could not have been founded without revenue from admissions.
My personal position is that there is no clear answer to this question as there are such strong arguments on both sides. Perhaps it is possible for some museums and galleries to charge fees and for others not to. It will depend on the situation of the individual museum or gallery.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 150, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...rgument that they should be free to the general public and funded by governments, I also belie...
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Line 2, column 223, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...e free access to the man in the street. If for example there was a charge only the...
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Line 3, column 323, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... are other priorities for public money. Therefore these galleries and museums need to cha...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'therefore', 'while', 'for example', 'in contrast']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.231746031746 0.247107183377 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.15873015873 0.155533422707 102% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0857142857143 0.0946595960268 91% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0412698412698 0.0501214627716 82% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0349206349206 0.0437548338989 80% => OK
Prepositions: 0.126984126984 0.122226691241 104% => OK
Participles: 0.015873015873 0.0403226058552 39% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.56894860508 2.80594681477 92% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0412698412698 0.0326793684256 126% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0952380952381 0.0861772015684 111% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.031746031746 0.021408717616 148% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0031746031746 0.011925033212 27% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1667.0 1933.35771543 86% => OK
No of words: 291.0 316.048096192 92% => OK
Chars per words: 5.72852233677 6.12580529183 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.20517956788 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.3264604811 0.374742101984 87% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.223367697595 0.28420135186 79% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.144329896907 0.203846283523 71% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0996563573883 0.137316102897 73% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56894860508 2.80594681477 92% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 176.037074148 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.505154639175 0.56093040696 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 49.9158072629 60.7387585426 82% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0891783567 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.4 20.7743622355 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.0887794196 49.517814964 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.133333333 127.492653851 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4 20.7743622355 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.814263465372 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.99599198397 75% => OK
Readability: 41.7367697595 49.1944974215 85% => OK
Elegance: 1.59459459459 1.69124875643 94% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.345830034508 0.332605444948 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0958239736038 0.102741220458 93% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0641500517205 0.0668466124924 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.501249393357 0.534860350844 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.132428937644 0.148594505496 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141382778333 0.134430193775 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695430091781 0.0742795772207 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.414733969993 0.324371583561 128% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.017493180752 0.0638462369009 27% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.25530897643 0.228012699653 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0581553042722 0.058150111329 100% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.68436873747 46% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.41683366733 205% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 3.0 5.90881763527 51% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 2.5751503006 155% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 1.9629258517 153% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 10.4468937876 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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