The reading and the lecture are both about the European coin and if it showed that the Norse and Native Americans had met each other a long time ago. They also argue if the coin is a real historical thing. The author of the reading believes that the coin was used to mislead the public. The lecturer casts doubts made on this article. She thinks that this was true and reasonable.
First of all, the author points out that the distance would not have been possible. It is mentioned that the distance between Norse settlements in North America and the place where the coin was found was very far apart. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that the Native American often traveled far distances. Furthermore, she argues that the Native Americans would indeed travel far lengths to achieve foreign objects.
Secondly, the author contends that the other Norse settlements in Canada show no source of any coins. The article notes that this means the Norse did not bring coins with them on travels. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that the Norse simply just took all their coins back to Europe. She elaborates on this by mentioning that the Norse probably would have brought coins to North America for trade with the Native Americans.
Finally, the author posits that the silver coins would have been of no use to the Native Americans. The article establishes that the silver coin would have brought no interest to the Native Americans. The lecturer on the other hand says that the Norse knew that the Native Americans would like shiny silver coins. She puts forth the idea, by stating that the Native Americans usually liked beautiful objects, so shiny and beautiful silver coins would have brought their attention.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject 80
- DO you agree or disagree It is better for children to choose jobs that are similar to their parent s job than to choose jobs that are very different from their parent job 80
- Sea otters are a small mammal that lives in the waters along North America s west coast from California to Alaska A few years ago some of the sea otter populations off of the Alaskan coast started to decline rapidly and raised several concerns because of 90
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement In modern times parents will learn more from their children than their children will learn from them 80
- 67. Young people nowadays do not respect their teachers as much as they did in the past. 60
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1454.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 298.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87919463087 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.23577587261 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479865771812 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 440.1 419.366225166 105% => 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: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.3889491428 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.5263157895 110.228320801 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.6842105263 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.10526315789 7.06452816374 72% => 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 : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.242039796958 0.272083759551 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0784485183101 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0594873394192 0.0662205650399 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15500634892 0.162205337803 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390498890545 0.0443174109184 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 13.3589403974 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.19 8.42419426049 85% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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