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.
Both the reading passage and the listening material discuss the authenticity that Robert E Peary did reach the North Pole. The author provides three supporting arguments. However, the professor refutes all the author's reasoning thinking that they are not convincing.
First, the author claims that an assigned committee by the National Geographic Society concluded that Robert E Peary had reached the north pole. Nevertheless, the professor casts doubt on the objectivity of that conclusion with the arguments that his close friends who funded Peary's trip to the north pole were in the committee. Moreover, they did not investigate the records thoroughly and finished in just two days. Therefore, that conclusion was biased.
Second, the author displays evidence that another explorer, Tom Avery, recently reached the North Pole with less time than Peary's trip and under similar conditions that Peary experienced, which indicates the possibility of Peary's successful exploration. In contrast, the professor contradicts that Avery's experience could not soundly support the probability of Peary's success due to the significant differences in the two journeys regarding the weather condition and the methods of food supply.
Finally, the author states that Peary's photographs in the North Pole could verify his story by measuring the shadows in those pictures to calculate the sun's position. In contrast, the professor refutes the statement by pointing out that the camera that captured the photos back then was pretty primitive. As a result, those photographs came out in poor quality, fussy and unfocused. Besides, they must be worn out and faded over nearly a hundred years. In other words, the professor asserts that we cannot rely on those images to measure the sun's position accurately that day on the North Pole.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, regarding, second, so, then, therefore, in contrast, as a result, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1542.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42957746479 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72404161089 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.584507042254 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 467.1 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.5876383828 49.2860985944 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.142857143 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2857142857 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1428571429 7.06452816374 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.195537663477 0.272083759551 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0636519660928 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.063663486637 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121150369535 0.162205337803 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350348909615 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.2367328918 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.91 8.42419426049 118% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 63.6247240618 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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