The reading and the lecture are both about how the existing population on Easter Island flourished. The author of the reading believes that the population on Easter Island was destroyed by foreign invaders. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He thinks that the destruction was not caused by the invaders but it was caused by the differences between communities living on Easter Island in the hope of food, resources, pride and dominance.
First of all, the author claims that nature was devastated by the foreign incursions. He believes that all the palm trees were removed by the invaders on the island. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that nature was destroyed by the people of Easter Island. Furthermore, he points out the different communities living on the Island created huge stone statues and designed the statues that require wooden logs. Hence, they were the result of destruction of trees on the Island.
Secondly, the author states that spear tips were used by invaders to attack on the communities living on the Island. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that the Islanders created these spear tips to attack each other as there were differences between the communities living on the island. They fought with themselves in for food, power and other resources.
Thirdly, the author claims that the appearance of a new religion created more support and it was determined by the birdman statues.The lecturer, on the other hand, states the communities living on the Island adopted new methods of living as they were running out of resources. He puts forth the idea that the existing communities created new methods of living and were driven by the new environment.
- Reading time: 3 minutesEaster IslandApproximately 500 years ago, the flourishing society of Easter Island suffered a steep decline in population. Many theories have surfaced explaining how this could have happened to such a thriving culture. Within this s 3
- Reading time: 3 minutesEaster IslandApproximately 500 years ago, the flourishing society of Easter Island suffered a steep decline in population. Many theories have surfaced explaining how this could have happened to such a thriving culture. Within this s 3
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- Altruism is a type of behaviour in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of another animal or group of animals. Altruism is the opposite of selfishness; individuals performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves.Examples of altruism 60
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Universities should give the same amount of money to their students’ sports activities as they give to their university libraries. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 208, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...land was destroyed by foreign invaders. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Line 7, column 132, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...t was determined by the birdman statues.The lecturer, on the other hand, states the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, hence, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1451.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02076124567 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64632371003 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 119.0 145.348785872 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.411764705882 0.540411800872 76% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 59.84876774 49.2860985944 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.6875 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0625 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0884260130458 0.272083759551 32% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0426221815652 0.0996497079465 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0392138935358 0.0662205650399 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0618449164295 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.033728147717 0.0443174109184 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.21 8.42419426049 86% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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