Readability Statistics

I challenge you to go to this website: http://www.ist.rit.edu/~jxs/services/TestReadability.html

Put in an essay of yours or something, and the site will tell you stuff about your essay; mainly just "how hard" it is to read. xD

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Gunning Fog Index

Gives the number of years education needed to understand the text. Short, plain sentences score better than long, complicated sentences. Based on words per sentence and "hard" words per sentence.

Flesch Reading Ease Score

Indicates how difficult the text is to read, where 100 is the easiest. Based on syllables per word and words per sentence. Try for score of 60 - 70.

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score

Gives the number of years education needed to understand the text. Short, plain sentences score better than long, complicated sentences. Based on syllables per word and words per sentence. Try for 8 - 10.

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Something from Goodhue (essay for the Civil War Project)...

Gunning Fog Index: 14.01
Flesch Reading Ease Score: 50.87
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 10.77

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A Foss essay! To Kill A Mockingbird, to be exact. xD

Gunning Fog Index: 17.21
Flesch Reading Ease Score: 46.73
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 13.53

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Scores for an Addison essay (Great Expectations)... Surprisingly, the scores aren't that low... They beat my Goodhue essay. o.o Although the Goodhue one was mainly facts... Meh, I guess BS has its benefits. =P

Gunning Fog Index: 14.69
Flesch Reading Ease Scale: 48.65
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 10.96

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And one from over the summer (Sylvia Plath's "Daddy"). This just goes to show how much I slack off over the summer. xD

Gunning Fog Index: 12.35
Flesch Reading Ease Scale: 62.16
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 10.21

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And because Courtney did it, and I love Courtney (and stole this from her), I'm uploading something from Sloan's class too. In this case, it's my closing speech for the mock trial. I think the high scores might be because of the Chinese names in part though. xP

Gunning Fog Index: 13.94
Flesch Reading Ease Scale: 54.04
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 10.73

Busy Day =]

Anyways, one of my dad's old friends from college came over today, but I, having stayed up until like four texting Simon, didn't wake up until 3 hours after he came. Such a great hostess. Ah well. So then I just stayed in my room and hung around until it was time for me to go to SAT review.

Review wasn't too bad; my score went down overall, which made me sad, but if I did better on the essay, I can still pull it up. I really doubt it though... Simon and Ross were being weirdos throughout review, but I love them because they're awesome. xD Daniel made up do a ton of mental math problems too, but he talked so fast I didn't even have time to register what he was saying. =P

Went to Ross's parents' party afterward; Shensen, Alvin, Ross, and I played Pokemon Monopoly for a while; Lucas subbed in for Alvin eventually. xD We ate food, and sort of forgot about Monopoly afterward, but meh. Ross is such a great host; he just walked around making sure everyone had everything they needed, then poured everyone a cup of cider before he sat down and got food. Unlike yours truly, who slept through the first 3 hours of her dad's friend's visit. xD

Then Shensen and Lucas spent some time playing Battlefield 2, while Ross and I played some nice games of Jenga and a decent one of Scrabble. =P Not sure where Alvin went at this point; I think he went home early. Anyways, the rest of us all got together and played Deuces and Go Fish, which was rather amusing. Watched disk 3 of Band of Brothers, which seems to be a pretty amazing movie. Lots of action too, which was nice, although I could have done without the scenes of bloody stumps of legs and that one guy who got crushed under the wheel of a tank. Started War of the Worlds too, but we had to leave right after it got interesting. =P

So yep, a pretty awesome day. I need to get up in like 6 hours for class though, which sucks. -sighs- But I have Santa Cruz on Monday, so I'm psyched for that. =D

This week officially nullifies all the sh*t I went through last week. =]

Kitten Love ♥

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Day 29 - Hopes, Dreams, and Goals for the Next 365 Days

I just want to be happy, just like I am right now. =]

Day 28 - This Year, In Great Detail.

Well, screw that. I'm too lazy to go over a year in great detail. Go amuse yourself here instead.

Day 27 - This Month, In Great Detail

Again, I've already posted about the last 3 days (which happen to be the first 3 days of August) so I guess it'll just be about today again.

Woke up, ate a doughnut (yay!) and went off to take a practice SAT (blah). The essay topic was sort of hard to bring literature examples in for, at least for me, so I ended up using a collection of Chinese Cinderella, Gandhi, and Proposition 8, which, by the way, got overturned. =]

Had to wait at the testing place for like, half an hour though, since my mom's cell was off, and no one was at home. =\ Ah well.

Came home, ate some pasta (yummy!) and isolated myself in my room like a hermit. Like always. Ate some cantaloupe, took a shower, and here I am! So exciting, huh? xD

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Off to visit Tappy (Clarie's corgi) tomorrow though, which makes me happy. =]

Dance To This Song! =]

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Day 26 - Your Week, In Great Detail

So I've already had posts about Sunday and Monday, so I guess just today is left.

Went to YogurtLand. For the third consecutive day. xD That was nice. Made a visit to Kaiser to see if I needed any shots; turns out they wouldn't give them to me without a record of a biannual well check, which I haven't had since I was like... six. So we scheduled a check up and stuff.

Then I went to class. Which was pretty damn tiring today. Blah. Oh well. Went shopping and bought doughnuts/milk. Came home, ate pho and watermelon; I'm probably off to get a doughnut later. =]

A pretty good week so far, especially in contrast with the second part of last week, which was absolute horror.

Day 25 - Your Day, In Great Detail

So. I woke up at 2:13pm. Yeah, I remember the exact time. Laid around in bed for another hour, then dragged my computer off of my dresser and went on Facebook and AIM. Eventually got hungry, so I brushed my teeth and did all that crap, then went downstairs and looked around for food.

Went out with my mom to Kaiser, then we dropped by this Chinese restaurant where we were going to get some take-out dishes, but decided to come by later with my dad and eat pho instead. Went to Nob Hill and bought a watermelon, four mangoes, two apples, four pears, and a cantaloupe. Then we stopped by YogurtLand and I got some strawberry, peach, lemonade/passion fruit, blueberry, and plain tart yogurt, with strawberries and gummy bears on top. =]

Went back home, I finished my yogurt, waited for my dad to finish up his manga, then we went out to get some pho. Large steak and brisket. Yummy food.

Came back home, and my mom and dad went out on a walk (they're still out right now), and I played piano, which I just finished. So yep. Oh, and I was texting Zach and Clarie throughout the day.

Detailed (and boring) enough? xD

Day 24 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

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Mangoes are rather yummy. =] I just ate one. Random, but hey, they're good. I hate when you get the strings or whatever stuck between your teeth though; that sort of sucks. Ah well. They're delicious. =D

Good Start

A pretty good start today, at least for lately. Maybe even for normally too. Which is nice, because lately I've been being woken up at like 6-7am, which isn't nice... Anyways, I had class today, but that turned out to be okay, so it was pretty nice. A little bit of a downer afterward, but nothing major. Hope the rest of today goes smoothly as well...

As for my 30 Day Challenge post today? I'm going to save it until I have a picture. =]

Edit: Jess and I went to YogurtLand and got like 13.5 ounces. xD Then we went to Border's and just sat there. And read. -gasp-

Edit: Crap puddles are clearing up. My sister is amazing.

So this big crap puddle is leaking little crap puddles, then I have this other rather large crap puddle on the side. Yay.

Don't even try to blame this on me.

All right. You might just be frustrated, but screw that. Don't even try to blame the consequences of your actions on me. Don't yell at me for telling the truth. I know what I heard.

And if you want to say that I don't aim for enough, and that I won't be successful? Fine. I'll prove you wrong just like I proved YeYe wrong when he didn't want me to be born. Just wait and see.

Day 23 - A YouTube Video

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