Stonehenge, located on the Slisbury Plain in England, is a circular arrangement of bluestones and sarsen stones. Each bluestone weighs several tons and each sarsen stone weighs ten tons, or more, The question is, what was the original purpose of this monument?
Many theories have been put forward, the most popular being that ancient astronomers may have used Stonegenge as a solar calendar; however excavations by researchers the Stonehenge Riverside Project support a newer hypothesis. Evidence of burials and cremations dating.
IN addition to cremated remains, chalk dust in several holes suggested that fifty-six bluestones once stood in the circular arrangement. According to the leader researcher, bluestones have been closely associated with burials from similar time periods, and their presence serves as further support for the burial ground hypothesis.
Finally, although few artifacts have been unearthed at Stonehenge, the head of a stone mace, an object similar to a scepter, supported the assumption that important persons were selected for burial in the site. A small bowl, burned on one side, nay have held incense, further suggesting that the dead could have been religious and political leaders ad the immediate families. Most prehistorical burials in England involved leaving the dead in the wild for animals to clean or throwing the bodies into the rivers, another indication that the Stonehenge burial site was reserved for leaders. Clearly, a possession lile the stone mace would have belonged to someone of a high rank and status among those occupied the site and could have been buried with the body.
The reading passage and the lecturer discuss Stonehenge. More specifically, the passage presents 3 arguments evidencing that the site was constructed for funeral matters, meanwhile, the professor believes otherwise.
To begin, the author claims that Stonehenge was a burial site, due to the fact that researchers found fragments of bones during excavations. However, the professor disagrees completely, therefore people had known the existence of the fragments for hundreds of years ago. In fact, the discovery of the fragments does not indicate that the site was constructed to be used as a burial site.
Additionally, the reading passage states the presence of blue stones. It suggested that they are associated with burial rituals, which helps to defend the hypothesis of the burial site. Nevertheless, the lecturer points out that the real purpose of the bluestones is not clear. Some scholars believe that bluestones were used as a magic weapon for healing. Thus, the site could be constructed not as a burial site, but as a healing site, and the fragments found were from the people that could not be cured.
Finally, the passage suggests that the discovery of a mace represents a burial ritual of a high-ranking person, possibly for a political leader, thereby the excavators also found incense and other objects used on a funeral ritual. On the contrary, the professor believes that the mace is not a piece of accurate evidence to believe that Stonehenge was used as a funeral site. In fact, the excavators not only found a mace but also another sort of objects that does not indicate that this specific place was constructed with the purpose of a burial spot.
In conclusion, the author presented diverse evidence to support his or her hypothesis, but the professor challenges each of his or her arguments.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, while, in conclusion, in fact, sort of, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1533.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 297.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16161616162 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8609584329 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468013468013 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 481.5 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.4999426737 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.5 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2142857143 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.78571428571 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0677040097204 0.272083759551 25% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0276607019645 0.0996497079465 28% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0280193139074 0.0662205650399 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0390367984598 0.162205337803 24% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00577581225409 0.0443174109184 13% => 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: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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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