Some believe the primary purpose of museums is to entertain people, while others believe their purpose is to educate. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Museums fulfil different things for different people. On the one hand, many people feel a museum’s primary purpose is to entertain. However, others feel they function to foster understanding. Both arguments will be analysed before a conclusion is declared.
Firstly, some argue a museum’s main purpose is to amuse. For example, the Museum of Natural History in Ottawa limits descriptive placards and instead uses life-sized exhibits that allow visitors to role play historical moments. Although this approach is stimulating and helps visitors better envision life at certain points in time, it does little to impart a full understanding of the broader historical themes at play. Thus, the merits of this opinion are hard to support.
An alternative position argues that the primary purpose of museums is to educate. For example, the British Museum in London heavily placards its exhibits to offer its visitors with the tools needed to be informed about what is on display. Although perhaps not as visually stimulating, patrons leave this museum with a much richer understanding of historical topics and the underlying trends that were at work during certain periods of time, an approach that offers perspective on modern-day life and humanity. Thus, the heightened benefits of museums that focus on educating can clearly be seen.
After looking at these different points of view, I feel that museums better serve the public when they are organised to educate as opposed to entertaining. Thus, I hope that the museums of the future are arranged primarily for this purpose.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, look, so, thus, for example, i feel
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1340.0 1615.20841683 83% => OK
No of words: 251.0 315.596192385 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33864541833 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98032404683 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82121228238 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.593625498008 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 420.3 506.74238477 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 63.5623187694 49.4020404114 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7142857143 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9285714286 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57142857143 7.06120827912 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More 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: 0.172874747455 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0701129678823 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0701245908882 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105849273354 0.151304729494 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04563502805 0.056905535591 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.64 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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More content wanted.
Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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