Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific points made in the reading passage.
The passage raises several reasons to support that Amtrak, a public train service, should be sold to a privately-owned company. However, none of them are convinced by the lecture.
Firstly, the passage explains that it is a waste of money to serve citizens in remote areas because those routes are rarely used. However, the lecture refutes this by explaining that it fails to understand the purpose of the service. It aims not to earn profit but to provide needed transportation to people in remote areas. Unlike people in more accessible areas, without this service, citizens in remote areas would ride to their workplaces.
Moreover, according to the text, it is unfair to subsidize Amtrak to bring it competitive edges over airline companies in the ticket prices. Conversely, the lecture disproves it by pointing out that the government supports airline companies in various aspects like establishing control towers and satellites. Actually, airline companies will cease to exist if the government discontinues its support.
Finally, in contrast to the passage's claim that rail travel is unsignificant and unpopular that the government should invest in the highway system rather than the railway system, the lecture reminds that railway travel is not outdated despite its current unpopularity. People will be willing to leave their private cars at home if the railway service is affordable and fast. The lecture argues that as we have already seen in Europe and Japan, by investing more in high-speed railways and improving train service, rail travel will become popular again.
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- Imagine that you are considering taking action to improve your performance in order to get better grades marks at school or to get a promotion and higher pay at work You are considering the following two actions A Doing additional work or extra assignment 86
- Which one of the following values is the most important to share with a young child 5 10 years old 1 being helpful 2 being honest 3 being well organized 90
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Scientists are not responsible for the negative impacts of their discoveries 90
- During big events such as weddings or graduations some people choose to record many videos and take numerous pictures on their smartphones while others decide to record few or no videos and take few or no pictures Which choice or decision do you prefer Wh 86
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, conversely, finally, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, so, in contrast, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1341.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 251.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34262948207 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98032404683 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76384354291 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593625498008 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 425.7 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9063638264 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.75 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9166666667 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.83333333333 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 0.100982866969 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0340539488785 0.0996497079465 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0345063974838 0.0662205650399 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0540592792165 0.162205337803 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00407078016204 0.0443174109184 9% => 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: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.79 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => 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: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.