In the late eighteenth century, just after the revolution, a young America was looking for heroes it could call its own. They found one in Christopher Columbus. By sailing to the New World, Columbus left the old world behind, a world dominated by kings and nobles who controlled the land. By leaving the old in search of the new, Columbus symbolized America’s determination to break free of Britain and King George the Third and establish a new republic free of old world tyranny and enslavement.
Later, in the early nineteenth century, Americans viewed Columbus as the symbol of progress. Columbus was seen as a free man, a pioneer seeking new lands and new fortunes, a fearless adventurer much like the tens of thousands of Americans streaming west, risking their lives seeking fortune in new, unexplored territories west of the Mississippi. Americans were indeed bold and courageous. They liked their heroes the same way. Columbus fit the mold perfectly.
America of today, much like America of the past, is a country of contrasts and fragmentation. Political parties and religions proclaim their individual messages while regional boundaries divide us between north and south, east and west. Yet what brings us together as Americans is the name Christopher Columbus. Now, and in the past, we see in Columbus a man who embodies the spirit of freedom in which the right to “pursue life, liberty and happiness” is alive and well.
Now you can see why Americans consider Columbus to be one of our nation’s founding fathers, right up there with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Next Columbus Day, spend some time thinking about what Christopher Columbus means to America.
Last try:10/14/2020 16:49
Both the reading passage and lecture discuss whether Christopher Columbus was a symbol of liberty, progress, and courage or not. The former explains three reasons in favor of these, but the latter refutes each of these explanations.
First of all, the author of the passage claims that Columbus was an independent man, and had a great ambition to search the new lands, and desired to form a nation free of the reign of the king and slavery. However, the lecture contends that Columbus launched a voyage in 1492 not for escaping the tyranny of European rulers, rather he was employed as a businessman by the king of Spain. His task was to find the new route of indies and brought spice to Spain. He was offered 10 percent of the profit that he brought back into Spain, which was the reason behind his voyages in the blue ocean.
Secondly, the text asserts that Columbus was the founder of America and he was enthusiastic to search the new territories for the future betterment. In contrast, the listening counters that Vikings were living in Canada in 11-century, which was long before the voyage of Columbus. Moreover, he came to the present day's Bahamas, then moved to Cuba and at last, went to the Dominican Republic. Hence, he might not be the first person who discovered America.
In third, the reading passage states that Columbus helped American people in the past to form unity among them and regarded as a symbol of life, liberty, and happiness. On the other hand, the lecturer mentions that while he was going back to Spain with spice, he brought 25% of Indies populations with him and sold them as slaves. This way, he generated slavery in the world.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, third, thus, while, as to, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1379.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 291.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73883161512 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45606641906 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563573883162 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 413.1 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.7696832557 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.076923077 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3846153846 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8461538462 7.06452816374 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => 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: 0.166055622204 0.272083759551 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0614462739473 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0444337975779 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0953290488252 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0279335525632 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 53.8541721854 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.51 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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