summarize the points made in the lecture about building of a new weapon named burning mirror by Greek nation, being sure to explain how it casts doubt on specific points made in the passage about possibility of building such weapon.

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summarize the points made in the lecture about building of a new weapon named burning mirror by Greek nation, being sure to explain how it casts doubt on specific points made in the passage about possibility of building such weapon.

The reading discusses the possibility of using a weapon by Greeks against roman invadors called burning mirror. However, the woman in lecture totally opposes with the points made in the reading to question the chances for fabrication of this technological artifact. Accordingly, she gives three reasons to support her position about the mentioned issue.

First, the article insists that the Greeks in that period of time lacked the ability to create some sophisticated weapon like burning mirror. But, she believes that this notion can not be true, since they had the appropriate knowledge to build plenty of little pecies of shiny coppers used in the final burning mirror. Also, she mentions that they had the ability to join them in a parabolic shape to concentrate sunlight effectively.

Second, the passage regards that so much time would be needed to burn a ship which is made from wood sections. In contrast, the woman in the lecture indicates that the roman ships were not all made up of wooden bodies, but they also contain a sticky chemical substance which was used in the ships different pats. She predicts that Greeks mostly aimed this substance that can be set into fire in less than a minute. So, they could efficiently burn those ships even when they were on the move inside water.

Third, the reading undermines the Greeks intention to create such kind of weapon, as it does not see that as an improvement in their weapon system in comparison with burning arrows that they previously used in multiple occasions. On the other hand, the woman refuse to accept this idea, since she thinks that Greeks could use this burning weapon for catching their enemy by surprise and destroy their ships vastly before they react.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 52, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...article insists that the Greeks in that period of time lacked the ability to create some sophi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, however, if, second, so, third, in contrast, kind of, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1453.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97602739726 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41489356316 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578767123288 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 440.1 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.6787930673 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.083333333 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3333333333 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.5 7.06452816374 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22639238648 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.080513901233 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0474984855708 0.0662205650399 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135321536661 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0420811945593 0.0443174109184 95% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 90 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27 Out of 30
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