The listening and reading material are contradicting with each other, in terms of several aspects about Spartacus that make him a particularly appealing hero. The author of the article states three main aspects, however, the lecturer casts doubt about this claim mentioned in the article and refutes all aspects explained in this article.
First and foremost, the author argues that Spartacus' original goal in his conflict against Rome is one everyone can empathize with, which is he wanted to return home because his soldiers and he were forcefully taken away by Rome. However, the lecture offers the opposite stand that Spartacus and his soldiers had more other reasons against Rome. Not only they did want to return home, but also they wanted to conquer Roman cities and ravage precious goods, which refers that revenge is also another important reason.
Moreover, the author argues that he earned admiration because people felt that overmatched triumphs through his sheer skill for his achievements that defeated well-armed Roman militaries with a weaker army but his military brilliance. However, the narrator refutes his theory by asserting that he was actually not a military genius. Roman government didn't take him seriously and only send a poor-trained army to fight with them, which enable them to gain some victories. However, when the Roman government decide to use their best army to fight with him, Spartacus was soon defeated.
Finally, the third reason is that he wanted to liberate all slaves and thus command respect as an early human rights advocate, while this claim is also counteracted by the lecturer by saying that this story was made up by the playwriters in Europe in the 18th century. Because there was an antislave movement that needed a hero to propagate its value, some playwriters chose his story to elaborate on and made up this story to achieve their goals.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 350, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...not a military genius. Roman government didnt take him seriously and only send a poor...
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Line 4, column 111, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'rights'' or 'right's'?
Suggestion: rights'; right's
... thus command respect as an early human rights advocate, while this claim is also coun...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, moreover, so, third, thus, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1584.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 310.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10967741935 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5051372815 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 145.348785872 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58064516129 0.540411800872 107% => 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: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 52.4599808118 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.0 110.228320801 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.1818181818 21.698381199 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.63636363636 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.226479011992 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0855128204662 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0633192480244 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11685019432 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.080779952811 0.0443174109184 182% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.3589403974 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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