In the late eighteenth century, just after the revolution, a young America was looking for heroes it could call its own. They found one in Christopher Columbus. By sailing to the New World, Columbus left the old world behind, a world dominated by kings and nobles who controlled the land. By leaving the old in search of the new, Columbus symbolized America’s determination to break free of Britain and King George the Third and establish a new republic free of old world tyranny and enslavement.
Later, in the early nineteenth century, Americans viewed Columbus as the symbol of progress. Columbus was seen as a free man, a pioneer seeking new lands and new fortunes, a fearless adventurer much like the tens of thousands of Americans streaming west, risking their lives seeking fortune in new, unexplored territories west of the Mississippi. Americans were indeed bold and courageous. They liked their heroes the same way. Columbus fit the mold perfectly.
America of today, much like America of the past, is a country of contrasts and fragmentation. Political parties and religions proclaim their individual messages while regional boundaries divide us between north and south, east and west. Yet what brings us together as Americans is the name Christopher Columbus. Now, and in the past, we see in Columbus a man who embodies the spirit of freedom in which the right to “pursue life, liberty and happiness” is alive and well.
Now you can see why Americans consider Columbus to be one of our nation’s founding fathers, right up there with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Next Columbus Day, spend some time thinking about what Christopher Columbus means to America.
The lecture states that Columbous symbolized the America’s determination to break free of Britain tyranny, and now like past, Americans honor him because of his successfulness in several virtus, the article brings up three original reasons of support. On the other hand, the professor casts doubt on those ideas by explaining that Columbus is just famous like McDonald or Facebook. He counter argues all the author’s reasons.
First, the reading passage claims that Columbos is an icon of freedom for Americans in early nineteenth century. Based on its assertion, Columbos was a free man who seek unknown lands and glamorous future. However, the lecturer challenges this point by saying that Columbos had never fought against tyranny at all, and he was actually an employee of the king of Spain. He looked for a profitable deal to bring back gold and spice from that journey. In this deal he would get ten percent of whatever he brough back to Spain’s king. Then he would not be an adventurous hero who fight for freedom.
Second, the author of the article avers that America is a country of controversies in everything such as politics, religion and culture who is divided only by borders in north, south and west and east. It mentions that name of Columbos is a pivotal which brings all these unique aspects together. Conversely, the spokesman opposes this idea by mentioning that it was not progress in 1492 for Columbos, because Vikings found Canada before him. He adds that Dominicans islands and Coba were discovered before Columbos, then Columbos is not a cornerstone in America’s history.
Third, the article suggests that Americans recognize Columbos as a nation’s father, something like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. Controversially, the teacher repudiates this notion and asserts that Columbos was not a hero who seek a happy life, but he looked like a businessman who just worked for his profit and his real legacy is slavery in the new world, because he brough many native American as a slave to sell them
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nter argues all the author’s reasons. First, the reading passage claims that C...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...venturous hero who fight for freedom. Second, the author of the article avers ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t a cornerstone in America’s history. Third, the article suggests that America...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, conversely, first, however, if, look, second, so, then, third, such as, 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 : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1723.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 345.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99420289855 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74934221 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 145.348785872 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591304347826 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 525.6 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.3734533939 49.2860985944 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.866666667 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.93333333333 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.117023910142 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0355958472429 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0317199343887 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0674054821966 0.162205337803 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0218420987265 0.0443174109184 49% => 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: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 63.6247240618 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nter argues all the author’s reasons. First, the reading passage claims that C...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...venturous hero who fight for freedom. Second, the author of the article avers ...
^^^^^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t a cornerstone in America’s history. Third, the article suggests that America...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, conversely, first, however, if, look, second, so, then, third, such as, 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 : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1723.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 345.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99420289855 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74934221 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 145.348785872 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591304347826 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 525.6 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.3734533939 49.2860985944 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.866666667 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.93333333333 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.117023910142 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0355958472429 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0317199343887 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0674054821966 0.162205337803 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0218420987265 0.0443174109184 49% => 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: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 63.6247240618 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 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.