Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.
The reading passage and the lecture offer opposing points regarding the emperor Claudius of Rome. While the passage affirms that the emperor was innovative, fair, and wise, the lecture dismisses this viewpoint to some extent.
The passage argues that having the island of Britain conquered and incorporated into the Roman Empire is a sign of Claudius's innovative reign; however, the professor says that Claudius also paid off the army and had the previous emperor assassinated, thereby, diminishing the idea of an innovative reign.
The professor is under the impression that Claudius was not that much fair because he wasn't a good judge, often enforcing illegal decisions, and besides, encouraging violent gladiator games. On the other hand, the passage asserts Claudius's fairness when stating that he protected the rights of slaves by instituting some laws.
Finally, although the passage claims that Claudius was so wise due to having former slaves entrusted in bureaucratic positions, the professor counter-argues by asserting that those slaves were notorious for being corrupt and were highly subjected for bribery. Besides, he gives the example of Nero who was made Claudius's heir and how he ruined the country later on. As for how he was wise for giving rights to women, the professor says that Claudius's wife murdered him with poisoned mushroom, therefore, discrediting Claudius's wisdom.
Last but not least, a potential downfall for children to own smartphones is limited social interaction. No wonder why most children develop onto being isolated and kinda autistic in their behavior; it is mostly due to the curse of the current technology in which children live in some kind of virtual reality.
To sum up, having children to communicate with others does not justify them owing smartphones due to several bad consequences that would outweigh the benefits of having them. In other words, the ends don't justify the means in this case.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 87, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
...udius was not that much fair because he wasnt a good judge, often enforcing illegal d...
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Line 11, column 201, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...f having them. In other words, the ends dont justify the means in this case.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, however, if, regarding, so, therefore, while, as for, kind of, in other words, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1650.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 310.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32258064516 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70086893945 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596774193548 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 498.6 419.366225166 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.9918295745 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.5 110.228320801 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8333333333 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3333333333 7.06452816374 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0510781808893 0.272083759551 19% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0225257004632 0.0996497079465 23% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.039960719784 0.0662205650399 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0237876958895 0.162205337803 15% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0362860098676 0.0443174109184 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.41 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 63.6247240618 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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