Egyptians discover the Americas
Speaking of the first trailblazer to discover the Americas, many scholars, including the author of the article, suggest that it is in fact the Egyptians rather than Cristopher Columbus, and provide several pieces of evidence. Nevertheless, the professor in the lecture casts doubt on them for the following reasons.
To begin with, even though the reading passage cites nicotine traces discover in Egyptians’ hair as proof that Egyptians found tobacco, a common source of nicotine, in the Americas, the lecturer argues that it is a misconception. This is because nicotine was found long before the discovery of the Americas. In addition, the lecturer proposes that nicotine could derive from other tobacco-like plants in Egypt. Thereby, the lecturer dismisses the evidence of tobacco mentioned in the passage.
In the second place, the author claims that there seemed to have a small and faint print on the ancient Egyptian currency, bearing some resemblances to the location and the shape of the continent of the Americas. Conversely, the lecturer refutes this argument, indicating that this small print doesn’t overall represent the map but was only a simple print. As a result, the conclusion that Egyptians discovered the Americas first cannot be supported by this print.
Last but not least, the lecturer concurs with the author that the shapes of the pyramids in Egypt are similar to the form of the native Americans’ totems. Nonetheless, she claims that the function, purpose, and details of the pyramids probably embodied different meanings, significantly having nothing to do with totems. Accordingly, she concludes that the possibility that the Egyptians were the first ones to discover the Americas can be ruled out.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, conversely, first, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, in addition, in fact, speaking of, as a result, to begin with, in the second place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1470.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 274.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36496350365 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83060432562 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569343065693 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.3652899052 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.5 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8333333333 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.5 7.06452816374 191% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281179840469 0.272083759551 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100596640911 0.0996497079465 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.141797792107 0.0662205650399 214% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158026467638 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0309609102364 0.0443174109184 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 53.8541721854 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.0289183223 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, conversely, first, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, in addition, in fact, speaking of, as a result, to begin with, in the second place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1470.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 274.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36496350365 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83060432562 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569343065693 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.3652899052 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.5 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8333333333 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.5 7.06452816374 191% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281179840469 0.272083759551 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100596640911 0.0996497079465 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.141797792107 0.0662205650399 214% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158026467638 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0309609102364 0.0443174109184 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 53.8541721854 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.0289183223 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: 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.