In 1939, David O Selznick produced a film of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Gone with the Wind. The movie proved to be among the most important in the history of world cinema. To this day, in fact, it remains the American box office champion when adjusted for inflation. In 1940, the film won a record-breaking eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Recently, however, Gone with the Wind has increasingly come under fire due to allegations of racism in the movie. Consequently, its reputation has fallen in many critical circles.
The film tells the story of a Southern family who fight on the side of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Scarlett O’Hara, the main character, is a slave owner whose civilization goes to war to preserve the right to own and degrade African Americans. Life before the Civil War, during the days of slavery, is depicted as a golden age.
Scarlett’s maid and confidante, Mammy, is not even given a first name in the script. Meanwhile, Butterfly McQueen, who portrayed Prissy, a house servant whom Scarlett slaps across the face at one point in the film, was told by the director to deliver a hysterical performance emphasizing the character’s dim-wittedness, speaking to age-old negative stereotypes. Civil rights activist Malcolm X wrote of his embarrassment seeing Butterfly McQueen’s performance as Prissy that it made him want to crawl under the rug of the theater.
For all of these reasons, when watching Gone with the Wind today, modern viewers cannot help but feel admiration for how far the movie industry has come since its infancy. There is much to be embarrassed about in the early days of Hollywood films.
Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.
The issue of whether all university students should be required to take the history courses has ignited controversies. Granted, history is an important subject that should receive enough attention from the pedagogical institution, we should not impose it indiscrimitively on every students, without considering whether learning history is an beneficial to them.
In a competitive world, university students face a lot of challenges and are required to learn tons of knowledge from their respective field. Under such pressure, adding a complusory course about history will only increase their burden. they will regard learning history as chores rather than pay much attention to it. such enforcement will probably make students hate history, and will have the contrary effect of what is intended to do.
Besides, even if we only add one or two complusory courses, which seems not to be demanding for students, what contents should we teach on these few courses? history is a complex field which contains various approaches to access to it. should we focus the national or global hisotory? should we pay more attention to the history of the 20th centery or things before that? In terms of a specified historic event, should we analyze it from the economic view, the political view or the technological view? different students have different interests as well. Hence, to determine what should be imparted to the students is an almost impossible tasks. if we try to include all the subdivision of the history discipline, students will only have a cursory view of the history. what's worse, if the contents are not appropriately designed, false historical ideas may reside in students' mind.
Some people might argue that instead of forcing all the students to take a general history course, we can allow students to choose their inclined courses independently. However, since the courses designed for the history major, which discuss in-depth issues and require preliminary knowledge, may overburden the students, a number of introductory courses are required to be set up. it is unrealistic for the history department to set up so many courses, give that they are mostly a small department in most universities.
The aforementioned arguments have clearly showed the suggestions of complusory history courses is not pratical. we should encourge students to learn history by other means, such as holding history lectures, promote history club. The university should stimulate the students to learn history on their own.
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- The most important problem affecting the society can be solved during my lifetime 3
- In 1939 David O Selznick produced a film of Margaret Mitchell s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gone with the Wind The movie proved to be among the most important in the history of world cinema To this day in fact it remains the American box office champion 76
- The most important problem affecting the society can be solved during my lifetime 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 76
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, hence, however, if, may, so, well, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 9.8082437276 194% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 43.0788530466 60% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2119.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 399.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31077694236 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90029628131 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 212.727598566 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528822055138 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 668.7 618.680645161 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7746563935 48.9658058833 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.904761905 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.42857142857 5.45110844103 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.5376344086 163% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0749217135155 0.236089414692 32% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0269561542464 0.076458572812 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0199936092206 0.0737576698707 27% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0521272964398 0.150856017488 35% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0161425478194 0.0645574589148 25% => 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: 13.1 11.7677419355 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 10.9000537634 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 86.8835125448 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
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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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.