tpo30
Both author and lecturer offer two opposing views on the intimate usage of the burning mirror by Greek in the battle with the Roman. While the reading passage lists some factors as feasible reasons which show the usage is just a myth, the professor counters these specific points and presents some clues to call into the question for the information in the reading part.
First of all, the article posits that the ancient Greeks did not possess that technological advancement to produce the large, parabola mirror. However, the instructor refutes this claim. She asserts that there was no demand to lead a fire by the huge sheet of a mirror. The small pieces of mirror which can easily shape the parabolic curvature were capable of causing the fire too. Besides, the mathematicians of that period were familiar with the knowledge of parabola. Thus, based on this science, they could arrange those small mirrors.
Next, meanwhile, the passage mentions to an experiment illustrated that the wood can sit in the fire just after ten minutes, which is a long duration; the lecturer challenges this experiment by mentioning to the other substances in the ship. She states that although the wood burns in ten minutes, the ship contained other materials apart from the wood such as a sticky substance named pitch which sets in a fire for a second. As a result, at first, the mirror burnt the pitch and the fire expanded in the whole ship by this way.
Finally, the text surmises that the Greek's other weapons such as the flaming arrows presented the same function as the mirror; so, the build of burning mirror was useless. On the other hand, the professor casts doubt on the accuracy of this claim. Based on her assertion, the Romans were familiar with the flaming arrows and they knew how to prevent them since they were visible while attacking. Nevertheless, the mirror just looked like a simple mirror with no attacking appearance; it surprisingly led to the fire just after a short period; so, they could not defense themselves.
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Discourse Markers used:
['besides', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'nevertheless', 'second', 'so', 'thus', 'while', 'apart from', 'such as', 'as a result', 'first of all', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.255208333333 0.261695866417 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.119791666667 0.158904122519 75% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0833333333333 0.0723426182421 115% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0390625 0.0435111971325 90% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0260416666667 0.0277247811725 94% => OK
Prepositions: 0.135416666667 0.128828473217 105% => OK
Participles: 0.0260416666667 0.0370669169778 70% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.47582619064 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0182291666667 0.0208969081088 87% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.182291666667 0.128158765124 142% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0104166666667 0.0158828679856 66% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0130208333333 0.0114777025283 113% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2033.0 1645.83664459 124% => OK
No of words: 346.0 271.125827815 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.87572254335 6.08160592843 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.04852973271 107% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.326589595376 0.374372842146 87% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.245664739884 0.287516216867 85% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.161849710983 0.187439937562 86% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0867052023121 0.113142543107 77% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47582619064 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 145.348785872 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537572254335 0.539623497131 100% => OK
Word variations: 57.9429933113 53.8517498576 108% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0529801325 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0666666667 21.7502111507 106% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.5741695061 49.3711431718 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.533333333 132.220823453 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0666666667 21.7502111507 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.06666666667 0.878197800319 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 47.6331406551 50.5018328374 94% => OK
Elegance: 2.25352112676 1.90840788429 118% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.646926261252 0.549887131256 118% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.145499132244 0.142949733639 102% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0969327329399 0.0787303798458 123% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.636108043203 0.631733273073 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.175489738743 0.139662658121 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.321855431352 0.266732575781 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115652485255 0.103435571967 112% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.458473129947 0.414875509568 111% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0272413257015 0.0530846634433 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.50870350688 0.40443939384 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0420633071583 0.0528353158467 80% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.26048565121 117% => OK
Positive topic words: 1.0 3.49668874172 29% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.62251655629 138% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 3.1766004415 126% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 10.2958057395 97% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.