The article states that there is diversity of claims to refute the story of the burning mirror but the professor introduces some reasons to disagree with article.
First, the article mentions that Greek did not have high level of technology to approach this weapon. The professor illustrates this weapon does not request complicated and developed design and just by using dozen of flat arranged mirror.
Second, the article objectively believes that this strategy needs a long period of time to become practical but professor knows this idea is the consequence of superficial understanding and the ship did not consist of one component as a wood, however, it also has parts of waterproof platform with sticky material which can flame in a second and spread drastically even the ship move and it engulfed into fire.
Third, burning mirror does not seem as improvement weapon and flaming arrow had been used. The professor makes it evident that roman army was familiar with this arrow, as a result they reinforced and had been able to protect from themselves intact. Despite, burning mirror is unobserved but make an effective fire and ruin everything as intense as possible. Therefor it takes a chance of survival from enemy by reducing time of attack and raises the power of it.
- A little over 2 200 years ago the Roman navy attacked the Greek port city of Syracuse According to some ancient historians the Greeks defended themselves with an ingenious weapon called a burning mirror a polished copper surface curved to focus the Sun s 80
- A little over 2 200 years ago the Roman navy attacked the Greek port city of Syracuse According to some ancient historians the Greeks defended themselves with an ingenious weapon called a burning mirror a polished copper surface curved to focus the Sun s 80
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more enjoyable to have a job where you work only three days a week for long hours than to have a job where you work five days a week for shorter hours Use specific reasons and examples to suppo 81
- A little over 2 200 years ago the Roman navy attacked the Greek port city of Syracuse According to some ancient historians the Greeks defended themselves with an ingenious weapon called a burning mirror a polished copper surface curved to focus the Sun s 80
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more enjoyable to have a job where you work only three days a week for long hours than to have a job where you work five days a week for shorter hours Use specific reasons and examples to suppo 81
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 208, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a dozen'.
Suggestion: a dozen
... and developed design and just by using dozen of flat arranged mirror. Second, the a...
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Line 3, column 74, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...elieves that this strategy needs a long period of time to become practical but professor knows...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, second, so, third, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => 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: 1071.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 213.0 270.72406181 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02816901408 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.82027741392 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60009138577 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.633802816901 0.540411800872 117% => OK
syllable_count: 340.2 419.366225166 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 98.2929295524 49.2860985944 199% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.875 110.228320801 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.625 21.698381199 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.125 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132782874703 0.272083759551 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0614921392977 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0286609164792 0.0662205650399 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0783826416645 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0396480102891 0.0443174109184 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.3589403974 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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