Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.
The emperor Claudius of Rome ruled an empire spanning three continents between 41 and 54 CE. His reign was of massive importance to the history of ancient European civilization. In fact, the emperor was among the most innovative, fair, and wise in all Roman history. However, because Claudius suffered from physical handicaps and spoke with a stutter, ancient authors were biased against him. Consequently, their descriptions of his time in power are almost uniformly hostile, and many ancient historians ignore all of the good that he did.
Claudius’s reign was important for its major innovations. He conquered the island of Britain and incorporated it into the Roman Empire. He also built a new harbor for Rome and oversaw the construction of several new aqueducts, which brought clean water into the city. He even created laws to protect the rights of slaves and expand Roman citizenship to new people. All of these facts suggest that he was a gifted ruler with strong judgment, despite what may be found in histories written by his detractors.
Another reason for the hostility of ancient authors toward the reign of Claudius has to do with the fact that the writers were usually of senatorial class. Claudius was not elected to power by the Senate and severely limited its traditional powers during his reign. However, illustrating his wisdom, instead of entrusting high bureaucratic positions to senators, he preferred to give them to trustworthy slaves and former slaves (freedmen), whom he felt were more loyal to him. They worked efficiently, creating a bureaucratic framework for all future emperors. Claudius should be praised for giving political opportunities to new groups of people such as former slaves and even the women of the imperial household, including his wives.
In contrary to the lecture, the reading passage focuses on the important characteristic of Empire Claudius, the lecture emphasizes on the bad sides of the empire's work. The reading passage presents the Empire Claudius, as an innovative, free thinker, and advanced slave and womem in politices. Whereas, the lecture tells that the king was not an innovative, a tyrrany and opprasive king.
The first point, the reading passage mentions that the king was very innovative and made many constructions like a new harbor and acqueducts. Therefore, the he was a very good ruler of Rome. However, in the lecture the professor says that he was a tyrrany king and killed previous king by soldiers and also killed many men for the ammusement. Therefor the king was a worst of that time ammong the Roman Empire.
Second point, the professor mentions that the Empire Claudius was not elected by the senetors and shifted their role with the his faithful slaves.Additionally, he also mentions that, the slaves are corrupted and took bribe. Nevertheless, the reading passage mentions that the Empire creaded a new scope for the new people like the slave and women.
Finally, the reading passage mentions that the Empire made opportunity for the slave and women, even he brought his wives to politices. On the other hand, the lecture mentions that the king was very inexperienced to choose his next king. The Empire choose his incapable son Nero to the next empire. Whats more, the Empire's last wife killed him with the poison.
In conclusion, the reading passage brings out positive characteristics of the Empire, whereas the lecture finds out the bad characteristics and works of the Empire Claudius.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, whereas, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => 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: 1419.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 279.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08602150538 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81812528837 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.455197132616 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 444.6 419.366225166 106% => 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: 16.0 8.23620309051 194% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.9370691265 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.357142857 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9285714286 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.07142857143 7.06452816374 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.171477025172 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0678667462534 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0301236877981 0.0662205650399 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101146193251 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0273408337902 0.0443174109184 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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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.