It is better to learn the way people lived in the past through films and video records than written documents.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Studying the lives of people in the past is a task of history learners, and there is a diversity of methods to achieve this. It is often argued that movies and video accounts give the learners more advantages than written texts. I personally believe that each type of information has their own merits and demerits.
Films and recorded segments own both positive and negative points in conveying what happened in the old days. As for the good points, they have visual and audio effects for transferring real experiences to viewers. One typical example is the treasured videos during World War II, which captured the harsh lives of both soldiers on the frontline and civilians in mother countries. Via these valuable footages, a medley of qualities can be perceived, such as resident terror in families, supreme sacrifice for patriotism, great fortitude against enemies. Thus, current generations could gain an insight into the hostile lives of the former ones and show empathy and respect to the people making such a lofty contribution. However, the movies and recordings are sometimes subjective. It means that storylines, characters and occurrences can be choreographed and edited based on the wishes of directors, which guides watchers into the way they stage. As a consequence, debates or misconceptions would be aroused among audience after a history film is launched to the public. `
Similarly, written records have both upsides and downsides. One upside is that their reliability is high, which means they tend to be objective. For example, the great battles of the Three Kingdoms during the feudal time in China were portrayed in a historically accurate way. Every fight from minor to major ones was all compiled in the series of books, reflecting war events and conflicts among dynasties in real life. Therefore, readers can give credence to these historical records and also study important facts based on them. Nevertheless, one primary downside is that the texts cannot be reserved in an original state for a long time. This partly because they could be damaged by war when a country is attacked and transformed into a colony. They could be incompletely assembled as they are passed down to descendants. As a result, the stored information and sometimes the critical one is often missed.
In conclusion, the movies and video accounts have positives and negatives when used as a tool to learn about people’s lives in the old days, which is similar to the historical documents. Personally, I believe that each type of information should be selected according to individual interest.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, nevertheless, similarly, so, therefore, thus, as for, for example, in conclusion, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 10.4138276553 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2182.0 1615.20841683 135% => OK
No of words: 423.0 315.596192385 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15839243499 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83042014841 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 176.041082164 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581560283688 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 687.6 506.74238477 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.3346457472 49.4020404114 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.1818181818 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2272727273 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.72727272727 7.06120827912 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.138836637695 0.244688304435 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0378528337757 0.084324248473 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430851061277 0.0667982634062 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0940511983886 0.151304729494 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0368012491401 0.056905535591 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 78.4519038076 168% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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