Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.
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 and lecturer both discuss that Claudius of Rome who ruled an empire. The point of view of the lecturer, however, clearly conflicts with that of the passage in many ways.
The lecturer acknowledges that Claudius did some good things, but points out that his most important “innovation,” coming to power by buying off the army, actually set a negative precedent for Rome. In later history, the same sorts of actions would cause a civil war. The passes argue that Claudius introduced important innovations, such as new aqueducts for Rome and a harbor.
The text also praises Claudius for being a fair emperor. He passed laws to help vulnerable people, like slaves. However, the lecturer cast doubts by explaining that this sense of fairness is contradicted by the emperor’s other behaviors. For example, he hosted violent games to entertain the populace. While the reading passage does not cast moral judgment on Claudius’ conquest of Britain, the lecturer suggests it was an oppressive act and is further evidence of a lack of fairness.
Furthermore, professor denies that Claudius should be praised because those slaves and freedmen were actually notorious for corruption and bribery. What’s more, Claudius’s last wife poisoned him, and her son, Nero, became one of the worst rulers of the Roman Empire. Because Claudius chose Nero to be the next emperor, this makes him partly responsible for Nero’s reign. Whereas, passage claims Claudius was wise because he favored his wives, slaves and freedmen. Claudius believed that they were loyal and trustworthy, and they supposedly helped create a bureaucracy for the empire.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...with that of the passage in many ways. The lecturer acknowledges that Claudius did...
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Line 2, column 118, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
...that his most important 'innovation,' coming to power by buying off the army...
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Line 3, column 464, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'evidenced'.
Suggestion: evidenced
...it was an oppressive act and is further evidence of a lack of fairness. Furthermore, pr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, however, if, so, whereas, while, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1414.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 264.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35606060606 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97888189993 2.5805825403 115% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.647727272727 0.540411800872 120% => OK
syllable_count: 427.5 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.6972412046 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.2666666667 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.187877426506 0.272083759551 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0625103308213 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0464153784404 0.0662205650399 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119278715941 0.162205337803 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.019525607071 0.0443174109184 44% => 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: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.51 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.5 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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