using burning mirrors as a weapon by ancient Greeks
The reading and the lecture both deal with using burning mirror as a weapon by ancient Greeks. The author of the reading believes that it would be a myth story and not real. However, the lecturer casts doubt on the claims made by the author. He thinks that these ideas are not convincing.
First of all, the author points out that ancient Greeks do not have technological advancement to produce this weapon. It is mentioned that for firing ships they had to use several wide mirrors; on the other hand, at that time there was no copper which a substantial material to make burning mirrors. Conversely, this point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that ancient Greeks considered single ship as a target and they used many small mirrors. Furthermore, she argues that there was enough copper for producing these mirrors.
Secondly, the author contends that Greeks had to spend a long time for firing a ship by burning mirrors. The article notes that researchers for firing a wood at 30 meters distances spent 10 minutes. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that the experience which is mentioned in the reading would be just about wood; however, ancient Greeks utilized burning mirrors for firing other materials. She elaborates on this by a mention that pitch was a sticky flammable material and they could fire it quickly. In fact, firing pitches, ships are burned.
Finally, the author states that there is no similarity between this weapon and other current defense equipment of Greeks. The article establishes that ancient Greeks employed flaming arrows for shooting and burning mirrors which had the same application, and they could use them for analogous distances. On the other hand, they do not need burning mirrors. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that Roman soldiers were familiar with flaming arrows, and they could see them. She puts forth the idea that applying burning mirrors was more effective and surprising because Roman soldiers could see mirrors without awareness of firing.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, second, secondly, so, in fact, first of all, 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: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1695.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 335.0 270.72406181 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05970149254 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44942426212 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50447761194 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 494.1 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.4495219322 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.75 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.75 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 4.45695364238 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.338732530416 0.272083759551 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0958575513389 0.0996497079465 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124857756255 0.0662205650399 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219152840057 0.162205337803 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0459220276691 0.0443174109184 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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