The article states that the reputation of a movie 'Gone with the Wind' has fallen in many critical circles. The author provides two supporting reasons. The lecturer refutes this reasons and provides supporting reasons.
The reading claims that the story of the film 'Gone with the Wind' is based on Southern family in the American Civil war. He says that the main character in the film was a slave and he fought to preserve the rights on own and to lessen the rights for African Americans. The author refers this period as a golden age. However, the lecturer refutes this point by stating that the Civil war was a protected foolish war. According to him, the film was huge, historical, romance, feminist, most viewed film and it was racist, totally overstated. He says that before the war the limited opportunities were available for women but after the war, the situation was better than previous.
The author states that to deliver a hysterical performance the main character hit the female character. According to the author, this was the embarrassment seeing the performance and made us a realization about the early days of Hollywood films. The lecturer opposes this claim by explaining that the Mammy who performed the maid role of Scarlett (the main character) got awarded as a best supporting actress. The lecturer says about Butterfly McQueen's performance that she did more than the instructions given to her and beyond the expectations. She showed that she was disdain of being a slave. The lecturer suggests that we should appreciate the film because this film encouraged the black actors and provided job opportunities.
In conclusion, the lecturer casts doubt on all the claims and theories presented in the reading.
- Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.In 1939, David O Selznick produced a film of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Gone with the Wind. The movie proved to 78
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Reading is more educational than watching movies or TV. 73
- It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. 76
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Modern transportation and shipping has made the world a better place to live. 70
- TOEFL integrated writing: Chevalier de Seingalt 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 151, 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.
...author provides two supporting reasons. The lecturer refutes this reasons and provi...
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Line 3, 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.
...ons and provides supporting reasons. The reading claims that the story of the fi...
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Line 5, column 382, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[1]
Message: Use 'the' with the superlative.
Suggestion: the
...rlett the main character got awarded as a best supporting actress. The lecturer s...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1446.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03832752613 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70951126112 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533101045296 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.7473957411 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.375 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9375 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.9375 7.06452816374 27% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.128725805026 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0427413622276 0.0996497079465 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0416938302003 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.088418136086 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0243645268155 0.0443174109184 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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