Robert E. Peary was a well-known adventurer and arctic explorer who in 1909 set out to reach the North Pole. When he returned from the expedition, he claimed to have reached the pole on April 7, 1909. This report made him into an international celebrity. Though some historians have expressed doubts that Peary did in fact reach the North Pole, three arguments provide strong support for the truth of Peary’s claim.
First, the National Geographic Society put together a committee that was instructed to conduct a thorough investigation of Peary’s records and equipment. At the end of the investigation, the committee concluded that Peary’s accounts were consistent and persuasive and declared that he had indeed reached the North Pole.
Second, a recent expedition provides support for Peary’s claim that he reached the North Pole in only 37 days after setting out from Ellesmere Island off the coast of Greenland. Skeptics used to argue that Peary could not have traveled that fast, since even modern snowmobiles take longer to cover the same distance. However, a British explorer named Tom Avery recently made the same trek in less than 37 days. In fact, Avery used the same kind of dogsled and the same number and breed of dogs as Peary had. Thus, Peary’s claims are not impossible, and he very well might have been telling the truth.
Third, there are photographs taken by Peary that support his claim to have reached the North Pole. Measuring the shadows in Peary’s photographs makes it possible to calculate the Sun’s position in the sky. The Sun’s position established from the photographs corresponds exactly to the Sun’s position as it should have been at the North Pole on that day. This provides strong evidence that Peary reached the North Pole and took the photographs there.
The article discusses the evidences that supports the fact that Robert Peary, a well-known adventurer, had reached the North Pole in 1909 and provides three evidences to support the idea. However, the professor in the lecture assume these statements not to be sufficient and refutes each of them.
First, the article states that the investigation which were conducted on his records and equipment proves the claim to be true. However, the professor in the lecture avers that the Peary had lots of friends in that institution who were also funder of the travel, hence, the claims seems biased and cannot be relied. Furthermore, the investigation just took two hours and so it could not done carefully.
Second, the passage claims that 37 days is enough time because Tom Avery, a British explorer, also did the exploration with same equipment in less than 37 days. However, the lecturer states that there are differences between these travels in spite of using same dogsled. He says that the weight of their carriage differs and that of Avery's was less because of not carrying food with him. He also claims that the climate was different in these two trips.
Third, the reading avers that according to the photos taken by Peary proves the rightness of his claim since the results of investigating the shadows and Sun's position provides evidence for his claims. The lecturer refutes this point by saying that the photographs was taken 100 years ago with non-professional camera and they were blurry and fuzzy, so, the examinations of these photos cannot be trusted.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, second, so, third, well, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1311.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02298850575 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59815884484 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567049808429 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 393.3 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4871794287 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.181818182 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7272727273 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.45454545455 7.06452816374 106% => 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 : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147845147923 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0515020548405 0.0996497079465 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0560485915528 0.0662205650399 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0834729630089 0.162205337803 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0444742324608 0.0443174109184 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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