Christopher coloums
The reading argues that Christopher Columbus symbolized America’s, whereas the lecture says
no.
To begin with, the author argues that in the early nineteenth century, American’s visualized
Columbus as the symbol of progress. The article mentions that Columbus was seen as a free
man, a trailblazer seeking new lands, and a fearless adventure man. This specific argument is
challenged by the lecturer. He claims that Columbus was actually a business man for Spain.
Additionally, he says that he job is to find gold and spices by sailing to different new areas. In
turn he would get ten percent of what he brings.
Secondly, the writer suggests that America of today, much like America of the past, is a country
of contrasts and fragmentation. In the article, it is said that even though political and religious
divides America into different aspects. Yet Christopher Columbus name is what brings
Americans together. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that in 1942 Columbus
sailed ‘blue ocean’. He elaborates on this by bringing up the point that North America was
already has been discovered. In 11 th century king Viking had already arrived Canada before
Columbus ever showed up. Hence, Columbus din not even set foot on American soil.
Furthermore, he made landfall in the present day Bahamas, then went to explore present day
Cuba.
Finally, the author posits that American’s consider Columbus to be of our nation’s founding
father. Moreover, it is stated in the article that Columbus Day, spend some time thinking about
what Christopher Columbus means to American’s. In contrast, the lecturer’s position is
Columbus was really a business man in search of goods like gold and spices for Spain. He notes
that all he found is people instead of goods. Consequently, he took 25 Indian people back to his
original place for slave work in the new world.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, finally, furthermore, hence, however, if, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, then, whereas, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1637.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 308.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31493506494 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99560276772 2.5805825403 116% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597402597403 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.2929319796 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 81.85 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.4 21.698381199 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 21.0 4.09492273731 513% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.27373068433 304% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0484422714176 0.272083759551 18% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0188201031463 0.0996497079465 19% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455508208379 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0182213045115 0.162205337803 11% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0446725292899 0.0443174109184 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.22 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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