Summarize points made in the lecture and how it cast doubt pints made in the reading passage.
On February 15th, 1898, the USS Moline Sank of the coast of Havana, Cuba. More than two hundred and officers on board died as a result of an explosion, which many historians see as the catalyst to the ensuing Spanish-American War, waged between the United States and Spain.
While the cause of the blast is still unknown, we do not know that this was the first time the U.S. media asserted it's power over the American public in the effort to sway public opinion against the Spanish. Hours after sinking of the ship, journalist William Hearst's New York Journal created an anti-Spanish outcry by publishing the headline, The Worship Maine Split in Two By an Enemy's Secret Infernal Machine! Immediately, the American public began to blame Spain for the explosion, and the sensationalist, "yellow" journalism that Heart and fellow newsman Joseph Pulitzer had been perfecting for 10 years prior to the 1898 event, took up a powerful place in history.
Pulitzer and Hearst had already been reporting on events involving General Weyler, a Spanish general in Cuba, blowing them completely out of proportion. In one famous story, a Hearst replied, "You furnish the picture and I will furnish the war." This might seem overblown in today's world, but Hearst's papers had the power to influence public opinion in ways that no others had before him.
"Yellow journalism" is a term used to refer to journalism and newspapers that used provocative titles to attract attention, but very little factual data. "Yellow journalism" was not new in 1898, but it did a large role in ensuing public support for the Spanish-American War. Without the influence of Hearst and Pulitzer, who knows if the conflict would ever have come to pass?
The article states that on February 15th, 1898, the USS Moline Sank at the cost of Cuba that was the main reason for the war between the United States of America and Spain. Also, reading passage provides few reasons to support that idea. However, the professor explains that reason for snaking the ship was unknown. and refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the reading passage claims that Journalist William Heart's New York journal spread the anti-Spanish news and because of that the American people started blaming Spain for the explosion on the ship. The professor refutes that point by saying that American media influenced people at curtain point, but the cause of the blast is still unknown. Moreover, war between the U.S. and Spain was not surely cause by the "yellow Journalism."
Second, the article posits that Hearst statements influenced public to cause war. However, the professor says that the U.S. actions prior to the war explains that it was planning war with Spain before the battleship sank. Politicians of the America was sure about presence of the European in their shores. Even they were suspecting trade threat at Caribbean.
Lastly, reading passage mentioned that "yellow journalism" played important role in the war. If newspaper not printed this new, then war might not happen. The professor opposes this point by explaining that the U.S. was preparing its superpower far before the newspaper printed this news. Even though press new influenced people at certain point, but war with the Spain would happen regardless of how it was represented in New York's newspaper.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 317, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
...eason for snaking the ship was unknown. and refutes each of the authors reasons. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, so, still, then
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 : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1370.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 262.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22900763359 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60352349632 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541984732824 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 390.6 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.2043226013 49.2860985944 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.8571428571 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7142857143 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.14285714286 7.06452816374 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
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: 0.0699344061166 0.272083759551 26% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0242635846988 0.0996497079465 24% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0360989952182 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0468825460067 0.162205337803 29% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0337176714432 0.0443174109184 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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