The passage advocates that the Romanian emperor, Claudius, was one of the strongest emperors in Roman history, as he was innovative, fair, and wise. However, the lecture casts a doubt on all three characteristics with substantiated examples.
While the passage highlights Claudius’ innovations through the construction of new aqueducts, the lecture diminishes this characteristic. His innovative solution of paying off the army to kill the previous emperor set a bad precedence and eventually led to a civil war.
The lecture also highlights that Claudius wasn’t always fair, even though he did create laws to protect the rights of slaves. It questions his judgment, stating he didn’t listen to the arguments of both sides in a conflict.
Lastly, the lecture challenges the notion that Claudius was as wise as the modern textbooks suggest. For instance, the slaves he appointed for bureaucratic work were corrupt and used to indulge in unethical practices such as bribery. In fact, his son, later went onto became one of the worst emperors in the empire, and the failure of his heir points towards poor wisdom that Claudius possessed.
In conclusion, the lecture supports the ancient descriptions of Claudius rather than what the modern textbooks seem to suggest otherwise.
- The emperor Claudius of Rome ruled an empire spanning three continents between 41 and 54 CE His reign was of massive importance to the history of ancient European civilization In fact the emperor was among the most innovative fair and wise in all Roman hi 83
- The following appeared in a memorandum issued by a large city s council on the arts In a recent citywide poll 15 percent more residents said that they watch television programs about the visual arts than was the case in a poll conducted five years ago Dur 79
- The following appeared in a memorandum issued by a large city s council on the arts In a recent citywide poll 15 percent more residents said that they watch television programs about the visual arts than was the case in a poll conducted five years ago
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, lastly, so, while, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 12.0772626932 33% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1090.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 202.0 270.72406181 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.39603960396 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76996954942 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97824020426 2.5805825403 115% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.638613861386 0.540411800872 118% => OK
syllable_count: 319.5 419.366225166 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 21.4904630011 49.2860985944 44% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 109.0 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.9 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240978535066 0.272083759551 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0868933201871 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0785789180293 0.0662205650399 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123313807404 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0809633164535 0.0443174109184 183% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.04 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.71 8.42419426049 115% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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