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.
The reading passage gives information about a Roman Emperor, Claudius and claims that he is very innovative, wise and just. It mentions that he gave new opportunities to slaves, women and his wives. However, the professor disagrees with the text by saying that even though he did a few innovative things, he was a terrible and unjust leader.
The reading passage suggests that Claudius was very innovative. He built a new harbour and various aqueducts to aid the availability of clean water. However, the professor refutes Claudius' innovation and fairness by explaining that he paid money to the previous army and came into power by assassinating the previous ruler of the empire. The professor goes on to say that Claudius' ruling was so terrible that it could have led to a civil war.
The text claims that Claudius was very wise and that he protected and gave opportunities to slaves, women and his wives. He even gave citizenship to new people. The professor refutes this by saying that many slaves were corrupt and had large personal fortunes at the expense of common Roman people's wealth. These slaves were highly susceptible to bribery as well. He points out the fact that his wife of disloyal to him and one of them even poisoned him.
The passage praises Claudius by mentioning that he was very fair and had a good judgement. On the other hand, the professor states that Claudius was a bad judge who reached final decisions without even listening to the people. He also indulged in violent games and kill common people for his pleasure. His judgement of making his child the heir was terrible as his child went on to be the worst leader of the umpire.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, well, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1383.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80208333333 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56004050517 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513888888889 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 430.2 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.6064634571 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.4375 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.875 7.06452816374 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17703046975 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0628921709831 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.046810922049 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118716665458 0.162205337803 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0219489826812 0.0443174109184 50% => 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: 10.2 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.26 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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