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.
Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.
The textbook text describes Claudius as one of the most successful Roman emperor. His empire was spread between 3 continents between 41 to 54 CE. He was supposed to be the most innovative fair and wise in all Roman history. He helped build the ports for rome and aqueducts that brought fresh water to homes. He was praised to have slaves or former slaves for at high bureaucratic position. He aslo entrusted his wives and gave them political opportunities.
The professor admits that he did few good deeds in his reign but he agrees with the detractors of claudius that he was weak as a leader. He started describing his argument by pointing out the way Claudius became the ruler, by assasinating the emperor and by paying off the army. He almost took Rome to a civil war. He did work for the rights of slave but he had bad judgement. He use to judge before listening to his both sides. He concoured britain to win its prestige but destroyed its indegenious people.
Slaves that he kept on the higher bureaucratic positions were notorious and subject to bribe. His wives were killers and often poisioned people to find their way. As fate came around and his last wife killed him by using poisioning mushroom to make her son Nero as the emperor. Nero later came to be known as one of the worst ruler of Rome, which questions the judgement of Claudius making Nero as his successor of the throne.
Claudius might have been a good man by freeing slaves and developing the country but he was a fool that lead his pride and foolishness get to him.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 9.8082437276 10% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 52.1666666667 69% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1273.0 1977.66487455 64% => OK
No of words: 278.0 407.700716846 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.57913669065 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08329915638 4.48103885553 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52835736461 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 212.727598566 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.589928057554 0.524837075471 112% => OK
syllable_count: 390.6 618.680645161 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.8735691229 48.9658058833 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 74.8823529412 100.406767564 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3529411765 20.6045352989 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.647058823529 5.45110844103 12% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.5376344086 144% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.85842293907 259% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201936572809 0.236089414692 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0744536154978 0.076458572812 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0851324934125 0.0737576698707 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129779527403 0.150856017488 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0838820744519 0.0645574589148 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.3 11.7677419355 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 58.1214874552 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.99 10.9000537634 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 86.8835125448 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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