In 1939, David O Selznick produced a film of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Gone with the Wind. The movie proved to be among the most important in the history of world cinema. To this day, in fact, it remains the American box office champion when adjusted for inflation. In 1940, the film won a record-breaking eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Recently, however, Gone with the Wind has increasingly come under fire due to allegations of racism in the movie. Consequently, its reputation has fallen in many critical circles.
The film tells the story of a Southern family who fight on the side of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Scarlett O’Hara, the main character, is a slave owner whose civilization goes to war to preserve the right to own and degrade African Americans. Life before the Civil War, during the days of slavery, is depicted as a golden age.
Scarlett’s maid and confidante, Mammy, is not even given a first name in the script. Meanwhile, Butterfly McQueen, who portrayed Prissy, a house servant whom Scarlett slaps across the face at one point in the film, was told by the director to deliver a hysterical performance emphasizing the character’s dim-wittedness, speaking to age-old negative stereotypes. Civil rights activist Malcolm X wrote of his embarrassment seeing Butterfly McQueen’s performance as Prissy that it made him want to crawl under the rug of the theater.
For all of these reasons, when watching Gone with the Wind today, modern viewers cannot help but feel admiration for how far the movie industry has come since its infancy. There is much to be embarrassed about in the early days of Hollywood films.
Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.
In the reading section, the author contends that one of the best way to performing certain projects is to make teams of people responsible for planing the projects and getting the work done. However, in the listening part, the professor respectively casts doubt on all assertions discucced in the passage by presenting three specific points as supports.
In the first place, the writer makes the point that a team of people has a broader range of skills and knowledge, so it's highly probable to come up with creative solutions. By contrast, in accordance with the speaker, this view does not hold water. he argues that in every team some members got a free ride, that is they didn't contribute well. But when the team got a well done job the recognition went to group as a whole, in other words no names were named.
Furthermore, it is proposed in the reading material that a team of people can work more quickly. that is because more members are engaged in assigned tasks and the group spread responsibilities to all the members. On contrary to this belief, the lecturer refutes this viewpoint and maintains that many projects didn't move quickly. because it took so long to reach consensus and took many meeting to build a agreement among group members to how move projects along.
At last, the passage claims that it is rewarding for individual members to taking part in a group process because they have a voice in decision making and also the opportunity to shine. On the other hand, the professor demonstrates a different idea. according to him, in every group one or two individual became influential on what the group did. Sometimes when they said one idea will not work, the idea was dropped without being further discussed.
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- TOEFL TPO 01 - Integrated Writing Task 80
- TPO 1, Integrated Writing 3
- In 1939, David O Selznick produced a film of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Gone with the Wind. The movie proved to be among the most important in the history of world cinema. To this day, in fact, it remains the American box office c 3
- TOEFL T P O 01 - Integrated Writing Task 80
- TOEFL TPO 01 - Integrated Writing Task 80
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 250, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: He
...speaker, this view does not hold water. he argues that in every team some members ...
^^
Line 3, column 322, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...e members got a free ride, that is they didnt contribute well. But when the team got ...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 98, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: That
...a team of people can work more quickly. that is because more members are engaged in ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 312, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...wpoint and maintains that many projects didnt move quickly. because it took so long t...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 332, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Because
... that many projects didnt move quickly. because it took so long to reach consensus and ...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 406, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...onsensus and took many meeting to build a agreement among group members to how mo...
^
Line 7, column 251, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: According
...rofessor demonstrates a different idea. according to him, in every group one or two indiv...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, so, well, in other words, in the first place, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1444.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82943143813 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61898750204 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578595317726 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 2.5761589404 427% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.8747990349 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.142857143 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3571428571 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.64285714286 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0345431442975 0.272083759551 13% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0128678966371 0.0996497079465 13% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0205201690823 0.0662205650399 31% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0194549858059 0.162205337803 12% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0145502231364 0.0443174109184 33% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.