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 text and the lecture offer two opposing views on the supporting of emperor Claudius of Rome. While the text says that emperor Claudius' reign was of massive importance to the history of the anceint European civilation, the lecture belives that Claudius was not among the most innivative, fair, and wise like the text says.
First, while the text states that in the Claudius’s reign, it was important for its major innovation, the lecture points out that emperor is a terrible president. He conquered the island of Britain because he liked violent and power. As a result,his hobby took Roman in the civil war.
The second point that the professor makes is explains why Claidius is not a fair emperor. The text says that he even created laws to protect the rights of slaves and expand Roman citizenship to new people. However, that laws were not be come true really, slaves still in the bottom of the social and be domineered by the upper class.
Finally, the text provides the example of Claudius ' wisdom that instead of entrusting high bureaucratic positions to senators, he preferred to give them to trustworthy slaves and former slaves (freedmen). He thought that they are more loyal to him. However, when Claudius seperated them into two groups trustworthy slaves and former slaves, he was claiming that they were slaves, and they also the bottom class of social. Furthermore, when the social had more slaves, it was in danger of a grandstand.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 251, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , his
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Line 4, column 51, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...he text provides the example of Claudius wisdom that instead of entrusting high b...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, really, second, so, still, while, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => 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: 1209.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91463414634 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58201769701 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544715447154 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 363.6 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 2.0 0.116997792494 1709% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.6784670007 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.75 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.41666666667 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201199492645 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0709445010295 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0990189193208 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13250707901 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115318344378 0.0443174109184 260% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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