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 sparked heated debates about whether visiting of 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 in accordance with the ensuing financial burden to the society and its uniqueness. This essay will assert that an admission fee should be charged for entering these buildings, using the example from this work 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 rather spend the money on schooling, which in turn, to a considerable extent, could improve their livings in the future. For instance, the majority of parents from public housing in Hong Kong admitted that they have never brought their children to any museums or art galleries, attributing to their affordability. Moreover, this has been increasingly recognised that the visitors of these artistic facilities mostly originate from highly paid professions such as designers and architects. 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 its running cost, even if a decline of the visits might ensue. Given that the advent of Virtual Reality, it is predicted that more affordable online visits will be available 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, therefore, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, in particular, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2083.0 1615.20841683 129% => OK
No of words: 384.0 315.596192385 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42447916667 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84660909197 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559895833333 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 637.2 506.74238477 126% => 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: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.9420677248 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.529411765 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5882352941 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.23529411765 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.256556896346 0.244688304435 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0819502158873 0.084324248473 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0799409758406 0.0667982634062 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162249163614 0.151304729494 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0287683266655 0.056905535591 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.74 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 78.4519038076 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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