While the reading passage emphasizes the idea that racism in “Gone With the Wind” has tarnished the film’s reputation, the lecture suggests that this trend is unfair, and the film is actually being misrepresented by many critics.
According to the lecturer, although “Gone With the Wind” is from the perspective of white Southerners, the South is never overly romanticized in the film. In fact, they are criticized for going to war. Their civilization is also critiqued for its treatment of women, who actually gain opportunities after the Civil War. This stands in contrast to the emphasis in the reading passage on the idea that “Gone With the Wind”glorified the South, portraying the days of slavery as a golden age.
In the reading passage, the character of Mammy is used as an example of the screenwriters’ lack of development of black characters. After all, she does not even have a first name in the script. The lecturer, however, points out that the character is actually among the wisest and most complex in the entire film. Hattie McDaniel portrayed a character who was unafraid to speak her mind. She won an Academy Award for her role, making history as the first African American to win that honor.
Finally, the author of the reading passage and the lecturer also disagree about the role of Prissy. According to the passage, Prissy is a dimwitted personality whose presence on screen embarrassed certain viewers. The lecturer, however, suggests that the character is actually rebellious. She is disobedient toward her owner. He suggests that some critics might have been misled by the character’s comedic high pitched voice into overlooking her complexity.
- "Manned space flight is costly and dangerous. Moreover, the recent success of a series of unmanned space probes and satellites has demonstrated that a great deal of useful information can be gathered without the costs and risks associated with sending men 66
- The following appeared in a memo from the Mayor of the city of Hillview:" In order to alleviate the serious unemployment problem in our town, we should encourage Autotech to build its automobile manufacturing plant in our area. The Hillview landfill, whic 50
- Some young adults want independence from their parents as soon as possible. Other young adults prefer to live with their families for a longer time. Which of these situations do you think is better? 70
- The following opinion was provided in a letter to the editor of a national aeronautics magazine:“Manned space flight is costly and dangerous. Moreover, the recent success of a series of unmanned space probes and satellites has demonstrated that a great 58
- As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysterious.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take 16
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, however, if, look, so, while, after all, in contrast, in fact, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1450.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 274.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29197080292 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10352053896 2.5805825403 120% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569343065693 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.6913866037 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.6666666667 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2666666667 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.26666666667 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.11942410636 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0353246318556 0.0996497079465 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.042564382992 0.0662205650399 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0780897775864 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0435653045709 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.