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.
Both the reading and lecture discuss whether renown adventurer Robert E. Peary, reached to the North Pole. The former argues that there is no suspicious that Robert E. Peary reach the North Pole and there are three possible reasons to support their points, but latter challenges each of these points.
First of all, the author of the passage asserts that germane detection by the National Geographic society justify that Robert E. Peary reached the North pole. However, the professor in lecture contends that this hypothesis does not hold true because the the National Geographic society only investigate for 2 days, since the member of those society was very close friends of t Robert E. Peary. In fact, the examine was not done carefully and bias as he gave bribe to the National Geographic society.
Secondly, according to the passage, the expert opined that likewise British explorer Tom Avery recently reach the pole less than 37 days, Robert E. Peary reached the North Pole in only 37 days. In contrast, the lecture objects this idea. She supports her argument by presenting the example of Tom Avery travels without any foods and other stuffs with him, whereas Robert E. Peary went through airplane. Moreover, Tom Avery travel during favorable climate, while Peary travel during the harsh weather which is quite inconvenience with the reading.
Finally, the passage claims that measuring the shadow and calculating the sun's position in the sky of photographs, which was taken by the Robert E. Peary evident that he reached to the North pole. Nevertheless, like two hypothesis before, the professor in her lecture proclaims that this hypothesis is not feasible because the shadow of photographs are already faded and does not give precise measurement.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, likewise, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, whereas, while, in contrast, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1481.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16027874564 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46962879728 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550522648084 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 61.1126929997 49.2860985944 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.1176470588 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8823529412 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.23529411765 7.06452816374 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261564433567 0.272083759551 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109355789748 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108983645621 0.0662205650399 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159205247879 0.162205337803 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0255253770248 0.0443174109184 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.35 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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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.