Gypsy Scholar

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According to the data and stats that were collected, 'Gypsy Scholar' channel has an excellent rank. Despite such a rank, the feed was last updated more than a year ago. In addition 'Gypsy Scholar' includes a significant share of images in comparison to the text content. The channel mostly uses long articles along with sentence constructions of the intermediate readability level, which is a result that may indicate difficult texts on the channel, probably due to a big amount of industrial or scientific terms.

About 'Gypsy Scholar' Channel

Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched ...

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Long articles are widely used on 'Gypsy Scholar' as elaborated and interesting content can help the channel to reach a high number of subscribers. In addition there are a few medium length articles.

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Intermediate readability level is common for 'Gypsy Scholar' articles as it addresses the matters that demand certain level of education to be understood. Sometimes the channel gets even more difficult by issuing pieces of advanced readability level (they make up more than one third of all content). In addition the channel contains some materials of a basic readability level.

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Positive emotional expressions prevail throughout the texts: they may include favorable reviews, appreciation or praise in regard to the subjects addressed on the channel. However, the channel also contains some rather negative or critical records that make up more than a quarter of all its content.

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Graeme Wood: Islamic State Wears an Ideological Straitjacket

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