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 north pole. 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 reading and the lecture have conflicting notions about whether the claims of Peary's expedition in the
The North Pole. The author of the article strongly postulates that this adventure of North pole brought fame to his feet worldwide. On the other hand, the listening portion adamantly delineates that there's not enough strong record of this acclamation owing to the fact that these points are not faithful.
To begin with, the author of the excerpt argues that the National Geographic Society's team made a decision on this issue by examining the documents and machines. The article mentions that they have found conclusive evidence of Peary's adventure in the North Pole which is undoubtedly true. The specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She mentions that it was not completely objective as the investigation is done by a close friend of Perry which can't be trusted for polarization. Additionally, She says that this examination on Peary's pieces of stuff had done only for two consecutive days that doesn't make much of a sense.
On top of that, The speaker asserts doubt on the speed issue compared with a British explorer Avery who recently made the same voyage in less than thirty-seven days. Moreover, He also loses his weight by falling behind the intake food along the way and also, the weather condition was in favor of him to make his journey. Nonetheless, the writer rebuts this claim by stating that the journey of Peary was from the coast of Greenland to the North pole.
Finally, The author posits that photographs that Peary took showed enough proof of his claim by measuring the shadows to calculate the Sun's position in the North pole. In contrast, the professor's position is that these photos were taken by a primitive camera that could only capture blurry and hazy images. She also notes that these snaps couldn't even provide enough proof with great accuracy.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, moreover, nonetheless, so, in contrast, to begin with, on the other hand, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1595.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 318.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01572327044 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55004302583 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578616352201 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 488.7 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.2073163193 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.928571429 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7142857143 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06452816374 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.210338841359 0.272083759551 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0680545154619 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631268607302 0.0662205650399 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10673928088 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0400018665259 0.0443174109184 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27 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.