Easter Island, located in the Pacific Ocean about 4000 miles from the coast of Chile, is one of the most isolated places in the world. It is best known for the Moai, monolithic statues of human figures carved from volcanic rock and located around the island. While today the Moai are a great source of revenue from tourists who flock to the island, research suggests that their construction actually led to the decline and eventual collapse of the island’s culture.
First of all, evidence suggests that the obsession which the people of Easter Island had with building the Moai led to non-productive use of natural resources, specifically of the island’s forests. The Moai were huge, with some weighing nearly eighty tons. Moving them from the quarries where they were carved to their intended resting spots required the use of wooden tracks equipped with log rollers. The islanders cut down vast amounts of valuable trees for no other purpose that to move the statues across their island.
Moai construction continued for centuries and eventually every single tree on the island was cut down to build the aforementioned tracks. This complete deforestation had disastrous effects on the island. Migratory birds, which had been a big part of the islander’s diet stopped coming to Easter Island. Meanwhile, the fishing industry on the island collapsed because the leaves of the island’s palm trees had been used to construct fishing boats. In addition, soil erosion caused by the lack of trees made it difficult to even grown food.
Finally, the above issues lead to a major population decline. From a high of twenty thousand people at the peak of its civilization, only two thousand people remained when European explorers first reached Easter Island in the eighteenth century. This mass die-off was clearly a result of the food shortage described above. Human remains from the period suggest that the population descended into cannibalism as things got progressively worse over the years.
The article states that the construction of Moai is the leading reason of population’s extinction of Easter Island. It also provides three reasons to support the claim. However, the speaker explains that it is not the case a collapse of the island’s culture. He refutes each of reasons used in the reading.
To begin with, the passage insists that the population of Eastern Island moved the statues with tracks made of wood. Nevertheless, the lecturer contends this point by explaining that the people did not use tracks for transportation. Instead of tracks, ropes were applied. The people walked side to side and pulled the statues with ropes. In the lecture, it is said that trees are not needed for producing ropes.
What is more, the text reports that all woods were cut down by the people to make tracks to transport Moai. So, the reading says that people chopped the forests. Still, the listening asserts that the cause of missing all of the trees was rats. According to the speaker, first settlers took rats with themselves on the Island as a food source. Sometime after, those rats destroyed all the woods on Easter Island.
In addition, the article claims that the population of Eastern Island was declining when Europeans came to the Island. Nonetheless, the lecturer opposes this point by explaining that recent studies showed, that the peak of the population was observed in coming of Europeans. According to the speaker, the island was settled in two hundred AD instead of four hundred AD, so there was not enough time to develop the population of twenty thousand.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 218, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...ening asserts that the cause of missing all of the trees was rats. According to the speake...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, still, in addition, to begin with, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1333.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9925093633 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64861012135 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539325842697 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 388.8 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.4413545075 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.4117647059 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7058823529 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.88235294118 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.27373068433 281% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0778814738895 0.272083759551 29% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0251848869128 0.0996497079465 25% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0241751849459 0.0662205650399 37% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0474415298623 0.162205337803 29% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0107563743418 0.0443174109184 24% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 13.3589403974 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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