The “comics medium” includes newspaper comic strips such as Dennis the Menace and comic books such as Spider-Man. Scholars around the world agree that comics are a uniquely American art form.
The first commercially successful comic strip was Hogan’s Alley, a comic strip from the 1890s. Hogan’s Alley featured the Yellow Kid, the world’s first popular cartoon character. This strip and its character marked the beginning of comics and was American in every respect. Set in a low-income neighborhood in New York City, Hogan’s Alley dealt with the lives of ordinary Americans. It was written and drawn by American cartoonist R.F. Outcault. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, two famous and influential American publishers, printed the comic strip in their newspapers.
The first popular comic book in the world was also American. Action Comics, a series that is still in print today, was initially released in 1938. It featured Superman, the world’s first superhero. Like Hogan’s Alley, Superman was American-created.
Americans invented comic strips, and Americans have exported their unique art form to the rest of the world. Japanese comics, called manga, were inspired by the comics that Americans brought to Japan after World War II. Popular European comics series such as Smurfs and Asterix are influenced by Disney comic books. Today, American-created Disney comic characters are more popular in Europe than ever.
The comics medium started in America. While it has spread around the world, even comics that aren’t created by Americans have an undeniable American influence. This is why so many art and literature scholars recognize the comic strip as a truly American art form.
Summarize the main points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific points made in the reading passage. You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response will be judged on the basis of the quality of your writing and how well your response presents the points in the lecture and their relationship to the reading passage.
The given passage clearly emphasizes on the belief that the comics are uniquely American. According to the author of the passage, the comic strips found all over the world were influenced by American comic culture and the origin of the comics is undoubtedly American. However, the lecture clearly contradicts the passage by evidently refuting the claims made by the author of the passage. The following significant contradictions are made:
First, the passage describes that the comic culture is purely American based on the conjecture that “Hogan’s Alley”; the first commercially successful comic strip was originated in America. On the contrary, the lecture suggests that in 1790; way before “Hogan’s Alley”, there were many famous comic strips in Europe, especially in Britain and Switzerland. This is further accentuated by stating that the publisher of the “Hogan’s Alley” was a Hungarian and not an American.
Second, the passage states that Superman was the ever comic book superhero of the world. This is straightaway contradicted in the lecture by providing the fact that 60 years ago the Superman, there was Tin Tin. Tin Tin predates Superman and was well known not only in its native nation Belgium, but also across various countries in the world.
Finally, the author of the passage believes that the art of comics is exported by the Americans and holds significant influence on the comics of other nations. The author strengthens his argument by giving example of a Japanese comic, which according to him was inspired by American comics. Also certain European comics were also originally American. Nonetheless, the lecturer explains that Japanese as well as European comics were based upon their own unique culture and had no or very little influence from American comics.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 203, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: Tin
...at 60 years ago the Superman, there was Tin Tin. Tin Tin predates Superman and was well...
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Line 5, column 212, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: Tin
...rs ago the Superman, there was Tin Tin. Tin Tin predates Superman and was well known no...
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Line 7, column 292, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...to him was inspired by American comics. Also certain European comics were also origi...
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Line 7, column 477, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...d upon their own unique culture and had no or very little influence from American ...
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Line 7, column 527, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... little influence from American comics.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, nonetheless, second, so, then, well, as well as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => 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: 1556.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44055944056 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06008584604 2.5805825403 119% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520979020979 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 497.7 419.366225166 119% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.053888976 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.692307692 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06452816374 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.433870790228 0.272083759551 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168058394104 0.0996497079465 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117674033055 0.0662205650399 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248932243551 0.162205337803 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126335299381 0.0443174109184 285% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 53.8541721854 76% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.0289183223 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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.