The reading and the lecture are both about the legend of Spartacus, who fought against slavery and the Roman army. While the author of the reading passage argues that there is so much evidence showing that Spartacus was an extraordinary hero, the professor disputes this claim. She states that despite the fact that Spartacus was a real person, there are so many inaccurate historical stories about him on which the essay relies. The lecturer casts doubt on the main point mentioned in the text by providing three controversial reasons.
In the article, the writer begins by saying that the original goal of Spartacus and his followers was to find a way back to their hometowns, which is an appreciable goal. However, the professor disagrees with this notion. She asserts that Spartacus and his followers cleared the route to their homes after the first winning. Nevertheless, in seek of revenge and wealth, they chose to march toward Rome to conquer it.
Furthermore, according to the reading passage, Spartacus was a brilliant military person. His victories against the well-trained Roman army in many battles attest to his military ingenuity. On the other hand, the professor points out that Spartacus was not a military genius. The reason for his numerous victories in his first battles was that Romans did not consider him and his army a serious threat. They sent an army of poor-trained soldiers at first, but when they sent their army of well-trained soldiers, they could defeat him and put an end to his rebellion.
Finally, the author believes that Spartacus sought to free all enslaved people of chain and masters' lash. Not surprisingly, the lecturer refutes this claim by contending that this is one of the inaccurate historical stories about Spartacus. This story was created by 18th-century people who advocated anti-slavery movements at that time. They need to fashion an inspirational ancient hero to encourage people to move against slavery. Consequently, they fabricate an inspirational story about Spartacus and his goal of liberating all slaves. These stories are not made based on historical facts.
To sum up, both the author and the lecturer hold conflicting views on Spartacus and his goals.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, however, nevertheless, so, well, while, as to, 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: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 22.412803532 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => 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: 1866.0 1373.03311258 136% => OK
No of words: 361.0 270.72406181 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16897506925 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77373443564 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518005540166 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 562.5 419.366225166 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.2745642883 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.3 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.05 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.266121534489 0.272083759551 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0772548161259 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0711516996696 0.0662205650399 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134186792902 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0607819922556 0.0443174109184 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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