text = """stagnating ; just as a small mountain brook, coming
to a hollow, might stop, and sink from sight,
through not having a will to find a way through that
obstruction ; or around it. You will run across such
a dormant town, occasionally; possibly so dormant
that only outright isolation by a fast-moving world,
will show it its folly. If you will tour Asia, Yuca-
tan, or parts of Africa and Italy, you will find many
sad ruins of past kingdoms. Go to Indo-China and
visit its gigantic Ankhor Vat; call at Damascus,
Baghdad and Samarkand. What sorrowful lack of
ambition many such a community shows in thus dis-
carding such high-class construction! And I say,
again, that so will Youth grow dormant, and hold
this big, throbbing world back, if no champion backs
it up ; thus providing it with an opportunity to show
its ability for looking forward, and improving un-
satisfactory conditions."""

# count "e" in the text
checkE = text.count("e")
if checkE != 0:
    print (checkE)
else:
    print("There is no e in the text")

# count overall characters
overall = text.count("")
print("overall count is:", overall)

# count letters in text only
mod_text = []
i = 0
for x in text:
    if text[i].isalpha() == True:
        mod_text.append(text[i])
    i = i+1
print(mod_text)
overall_let = len(mod_text)
print("overall letter count is:", overall_let)

# count AUIC in text
AC = mod_text.count("a")
UC = mod_text.count("u")
IC = mod_text.count("i")
OC = mod_text.count("o")
print("The letter A appears :", AC, "times")
print("The letter U appears :", UC, "times")
print("The letter I appears :", IC, "times")
print("The letter O appears :", OC, "times")