The remote easter island has been inhabited from about the fourth century CE. Much academic debate has centered on accounting for the origins of the people who migrated there and created its huge stone statues, which are the island's most well-known cultural artifacts. The norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl believed that the initial colonization came from South America, several thousand kilometers to the east. He based his claims on several factors including the similarities in prehistoric cultural remains between parts of the continent and the island. In order to help prove his theory, Heyerdahl and his crew sailed a simple balsa wood raft from the peruvian coast and reached the polynesian archipelago using only the prevailing winds. His successful navigation bolstered the theory of the south american origins of the easter islands.
The two sources are talking about the origin of inhabitants in Easter Island. Previously, people believed that the initial populations in the island came from parts of South America as supported by the travel history of Norwegian explorer at that time. Recent studies, however, deny the previous theory and support it with some new findings.
The theory of South American origins of the Easer Island people is based on the success of Heyerdahl’s wind-powered voyage. However, the lecture argues that the migration actually came from West as supported by some evidence.
Evidence from researchers shows similarities in some aspects between Easter Island and Polynesia including linguistic, oral traditions and material culture. Furthermore, the similarities between these two areas were supported by the recent study about the skulls measurement in Easter Island. Skulls shapes found in Easter Island are more identical with those found in Polynesia than in South America.
In conclusion, considering the similarities evidence between Easter Island and Polynesia, people now tend to accept the new theory that initial people in Easter Island came from West, not East.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 257, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'skulls'' or 'skull's'?
Suggestion: skulls'; skull's
...supported by the recent study about the skulls measurement in Easter Island. Skulls sh...
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Line 7, column 195, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...Easter Island came from West, not East.
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'furthermore', 'however', 'so', 'in conclusion', 'talking about']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.34328358209 0.261695866417 131% => OK
Verbs: 0.109452736318 0.158904122519 69% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0746268656716 0.0723426182421 103% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0348258706468 0.0435111971325 80% => OK
Pronouns: 0.00497512437811 0.0277247811725 18% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.179104477612 0.128828473217 139% => OK
Participles: 0.044776119403 0.0370669169778 121% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.79922276282 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Infinitives: 0.00497512437811 0.0208969081088 24% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.109452736318 0.128158765124 85% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0 0.0158828679856 0% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00497512437811 0.0114777025283 43% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1184.0 1645.83664459 72% => OK
No of words: 179.0 271.125827815 66% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.61452513966 6.08160592843 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 4.04852973271 90% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.474860335196 0.374372842146 127% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.31843575419 0.287516216867 111% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.223463687151 0.187439937562 119% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.150837988827 0.113142543107 133% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79922276282 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 99.0 145.348785872 68% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.553072625698 0.539623497131 102% => OK
Word variations: 47.9808990187 53.8517498576 89% => OK
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0529801325 69% => OK
Sentence length: 19.8888888889 21.7502111507 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.0409136472 49.3711431718 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.555555556 132.220823453 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8888888889 21.7502111507 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.878197800319 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.39072847682 59% => OK
Readability: 51.7324643079 50.5018328374 102% => OK
Elegance: 3.8 1.90840788429 199% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.403711908214 0.549887131256 73% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.124104740161 0.142949733639 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0509670416192 0.0787303798458 65% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.664339332416 0.631733273073 105% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.153796682029 0.139662658121 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.217999947297 0.266732575781 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10657867459 0.103435571967 103% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.369584584622 0.414875509568 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.140995959056 0.0530846634433 266% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.302199553644 0.40443939384 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0698949812652 0.0528353158467 132% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.26048565121 70% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 3.49668874172 114% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.62251655629 28% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 0.0 3.1766004415 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 5.0 10.2958057395 49% => More topic words wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Minimum 200 words wanted.
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.