Summarise the points in the lecture and explain how they cast doubt on the point made in the reading
The reading passage and the lecture discuss the greatness of the film, Gone with the Wind, and the allegations of it to be a racist film. The author states that the reputation of the picture could decline due to the plot, which shows the humiliation of black people, as well as showing them in a stereotypical way. The lecturer disagrees with each point made in the reading and suggests that racism wasn’t romanticized and black people were written as amazing and strong characters.
First of all, the reading argues that the plot is mainly focused on showing the privileged society, who wants to keep in control African Americans. However, the speaker contends that although the story has a white perspective the presentation is quite overstated. Filmmakers admit the injustice and also, in addition to racism, raise the topic of feminism, which makes Gone with the Wind full of substantial social problems.
Secondly, it is claimed that black women, main character’s maids, have stereotypical and silly images. It is also stated that one of them does not even have a name. The lecturer undermines this point by mentioning that Mammy is portrayed as a very protective and complex woman, while the actress, who played her, won the Academy Award. Maid Prissy is also an unusual person, whose rebellious behavior can be explained by the discontent to be a slave.
Finally, the article states that modern Hollywood broke free from the racist frames that were in the days of the early development of the American cinematography. In the lecture, the professor points that it is Gone with the Wind that provided a chance for many black actresses to get a job at this field and make the future generations overthink the significance of equality.
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, while, in addition, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1460.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76568184347 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592465753425 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 450.9 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.7372738959 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.666666667 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3333333333 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.91666666667 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.141636452144 0.272083759551 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.044070997153 0.0996497079465 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602289609357 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0770801383017 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04922786209 0.0443174109184 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.42 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27 Out of 30
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