Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has become a valuable historical source about European society in the eighteenth century. However, some critics have raised doubts about the accuracy of the memoir. They claim that the Chevalier distorted or invented many events in the memoir to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous than it really was. For example, in his memoir the Chevalier claims that while living in Switzerland, he was very wealthy, and it is known that he spent a great deal of money there on parties and gambling. However, evidence has recently surfaced that the Chevalier borrowed considerable sums of money from a Swiss merchant. Critics thus argue that if the Chevalier had really been very rich, he would not have needed to borrow money. Critics are also skeptical about the accuracy of the conversations that the Chevalier records in the memoir between himself and the famous writer Voltaire. No one doubts that the Chevalier and Voltaire met and conversed. However, critics complain that the memoir cannot possibly capture these conversations accurately, because it was written many years after the conversations occurred. Critics point out that it is impossible to remember exact phrases from extended conversations held many years earlier. Critics have also questioned the memoir's account of the Chevalier's escape from a notorious prison in Venice, Italy. He claims to have escaped the Venetian prison by using a piece of metal to make a hole in the ceiling and climbing through the roof. Critics claim that while such a daring escape makes for enjoyable reading, it is more likely that the Chevaliers jailers were bribed to free him. They point out that the Chevalier had a number of politically well-connected friends in Venice who could have offered a bribe.
The reading passage and the lecture are both about Chevalier memoir's accuracy.The reading passage claims that his memoir is inaccurate for 3 three reasons.However,the lecturer casts the doubt on the claims made in the article.He believed that there are many historic sources to prove the accuracy.
First of all, the reading passage mentions that many information are distorted and invented by Chevalie .For example, Chevalie was not very wealthy and the evidence shows that he borrowed a lot of money form a merchant.The lecturer reputes this idea .He believes that Chevalie is wealthy and he spent money on parties and gambling.He has many properties and when he ran out of money, the process that sold this properties to exchange the cash which needs severals days.Thus he need to borrow money from others.
Secondly,the author states that the conversation with famous wirter Voltaire in the memoir is inaccurate. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He hold the point that Chevalie wrote down the conversation content which can be confirmed by his neighbor.Thus,when he wirtes the memoire,he only need to open this record.
Finally,the author says that Chevalie cannot possively escaped form jail.In contrast,the lecturer states that other prisoners who have a stronger political relationship couldn't escape.Accordingly Chevalie don't give bribe to friends. In addition, After Chevalie escape from,the jail had been repaired.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, finally, first, however, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, in addition, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1215.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 222.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.47297297297 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8600083453 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.086479781 2.5805825403 120% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.626126126126 0.540411800872 116% => OK
syllable_count: 370.8 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => 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: 31.0 21.2450331126 146% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 150.719905109 49.2860985944 306% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 173.571428571 110.228320801 157% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.7142857143 21.698381199 146% => OK
Discourse Markers: 16.7142857143 7.06452816374 237% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 31.0 4.19205298013 739% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.19304479331 0.272083759551 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0811283520727 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0470327379154 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114486690264 0.162205337803 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0304065213418 0.0443174109184 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.2 13.3589403974 151% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.55 53.8541721854 59% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 11.0289183223 151% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.04 12.2367328918 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.58 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 28.0 10.7273730684 261% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.498013245 137% => OK
text_standard: 28.0 11.2008830022 250% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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