The main idea of both the reading and the lecture is about Spartacus and if he is a hero or not. The writer of the text, by providing three reasons, states that Spartacus was a hero. However, the lecturer opposes with these reasons and explains that these stories are not accurate and the mentioned reasons in the text is inaccurate for the following reasons.
First of all, both the passage and the speaking put forth the goal of Spartacus. The writer of the passage claims that Spartacus and his men wanted to return to their homeland, since they were brought up to rome and uprooted from their own land. On the other hand, the professor refutes this notion and says that Spartacus and his men did not have just that goal. After the first battle, where they won, they could escape, but they decided to march toward rome and invade there. Hence, they did not want to go home, instead they wanted to take revenge and get wealth and gold.
Second of all, both the article and the listening put forward that Spartacus was genius or not. The author of the passage points out that Spartacus and his men defeated romans with small and ill-equipped army, while the romans had large and highly trained soldiers. The speaker, in contrast, casts doubt about this and explains that romans did not take it seriously at the first and sent poorly equipped units to fight with Spartacus. So, Spartacus and his men defeated this army, but when the rome sent a well-equipped army, Spartacus lost the battle. Hence, he is not genius.
Thirdly, both the reading and the lecture point out that Spartacus wanted to liberate the slaves or not. The author of the article claims that Spartacus wanted to liberate all roman slaves. The lecturer, conversely, posits that this story is not backed by historical records and created later. She adds that, this story is created by anti slavery people in 18 century, where they wanted a hero to inspire them. So, this is just an inspiration story and not backed by historical truth.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 360, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'century' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'centuries'.
Suggestion: centuries
...is created by anti slavery people in 18 century, where they wanted a hero to inspire th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, hence, however, if, second, so, third, thirdly, well, while, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 7.30242825607 370% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1656.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 352.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70454545455 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.25401386695 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485795454545 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 496.8 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.9383840939 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.0 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5555555556 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.16666666667 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199245546901 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0648763829105 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0689135624251 0.0662205650399 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116335166804 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0753104182986 0.0443174109184 170% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 53.8541721854 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 11.0289183223 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.98 12.2367328918 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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