Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has b

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Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has become a valuable historical source about European society in the eighteenth century. However, some critics have raised doubts about the accuracy of the memoir. They claim that the Chevalier distorted or invented many events in the memoir to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous than it really was.

For example, in his memoir the Chevalier claims that while living in Switzerland, he was very wealthy, and it is known that he spent a great deal of money there on parties and gambling. However, evidence has recently surfaced that the Chevalier borrowed considerable sums of money from a Swiss merchant. Critics thus argue that if the Chevalier had really been very rich, he would not have needed to borrow money.

Critics are also skeptical about the accuracy of the conversations that the Chevalier records in the memoir between himself and the famous writer Voltaire. No one doubts that the Chevalier and Voltaire met and conversed. However, critics complain that the memoir cannot possibly capture these conversations accurately, because it was written many years after the conversations occurred. Critics point out that it is impossible to remember exact phrases from extended conversations held many years earlier.

Critics have also questioned the memoir's account of the Chevalier's escape from a notorious prison in Venice, Italy. He claims to have escaped the Venetian prison by using a piece of metal to make a hole in the ceiling and climbing through the roof. Critics claim that while such a daring escape makes for enjoyable reading, it is more likely that the Chevaliers jailers were bribed to free him. They point out that the Chevalier had a number of politically well-connected friends in Venice who could have offered a bribe.

The article and the lecture are both about memoir about Chevalier. The author of the reading feels doubts about the accuracy of the memoir. The lecturer challengers the claims maid by the author. She thinks that there are no doubts about the accuracy of the memoir.

The author argue that Chevalier borrowed some mony from Swiss merchant. The article is mention that if the Chevalier is really been rich he wouldn't asked for mony. This point is challenge by the lecturer. She claims that in Switzerland he had lot of parties and gambling. Furthermore he say that Chevalier need some time to sell his properties get some cash. Till that time he might borrowed money.

Secondly, the author suggests that memoir might inacurate since memoir can not possibly capture these conversations since it was written long time after the conversations occurred. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that the author took notes every day about those conversations. She elaborates on this by mentioning that while he was writting the memoir he reffer some notes.

Finally, the author states that Chevalier escape from the prison by bribeing to the jailers. Moreover, the article says that Chevalier had lot of politically well connected friends. The lecturer's possin is that Chevalier escaped from the prison by the hole in the celing.In contrast, he says that after Chevalier escape jail had to repair the celing.

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Average: 7.1 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...oubts about the accuracy of the memoir. The lecturer challengers the claims maid by...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'claims'' or 'claim's'?
Suggestion: claims'; claim's
...he memoir. The lecturer challengers the claims maid by the author. She thinks that the...
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...he thinks that there are no doubts about the accuracy of the memoir. The aut...
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...accuracy of the memoir. The author argue that Chevalier borrowed some mony from ...
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...if the Chevalier is really been rich he wouldnt asked for mony. This point is challenge...
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Suggestion: Furthermore,
...and he had lot of parties and gambling. Furthermore he say that Chevalier need some time to...
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...ed friends. The lecturers possin is that Chevalier escaped from the prison by the...
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...om the prison by the hole in the celing.In contrast, he says that after Chevalier ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, furthermore, if, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, well, while, in contrast, no doubt

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => 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: 1192.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 232.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13793103448 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90276135726 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54202197928 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521551724138 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 357.3 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.4711278969 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 70.1176470588 110.228320801 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.6470588235 21.698381199 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.17647058824 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.187621465245 0.272083759551 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0550982044506 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0427137590016 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107295097457 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0282059902985 0.0443174109184 64% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 13.3589403974 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 53.8541721854 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.94 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 4.5 10.7273730684 42% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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