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 and the lecture discuss Robert E. Peary's trip to the North pole in 1909. The author provides three pieces of evidence to support Peary's claims that he made it to the North pole. In the listening portion, however, the lecturer believes none of the mentioned hypothesis is based on a solid ground, therefore, all are ineffective.
First, when the National Geographic Society conducted a deep, detailed examination of Peary’s data records and equipment, they confirmed that Peary’s reached the North pole, the author asserts. On the other hand, the speaker disagrees with this belief by saying that the committee included some of Peary’s close friends and members who funded the adventure. So, they could have been objective and bias. Moreover, Peary himself has admitted that the investigation only lasted two days, which is not enough to assess the data carefully.
Second, the writer states that a guy called Tom Avery, who is a modern British explorer, imitated Peary’s trip to the North pole from A to Z which, in turn, have provided a strong support to Peary’s claim. In fact, Avery used the same type of equipment such as dogsled and other gears. In contrast, the professor refutes this statement. She says that it is true that Avery managed to reach the pole in less than 37 days, but he used different slide; furthermore, Avery did not carry any type of food, which made the snowmobiles less heavier and even more so, he travlled in a more favorable climate than Peary did. So,
Finally, Peary’s took photographs in the North pole that provide support to his claim, the writer reports. Indeed, the sun’s position is the same in today’s North pole. Conversely, the speaker rebuts this point by stating that Peary used a rudimental camera. Thus, the photos are fuzzy, unfocused, and have faded with time, which, in turn, the shades won’t be measured accurately and precisely. Hence, even if some experts wanted to calculate the sun's positions, they cannot due to low quality of the photo.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 529, Rule ID: LESS_COMPARATIVE[1]
Message: Non-standard use of the comparative or superlative. Did you mean 'less heavy'?
Suggestion: less heavy
...ype of food, which made the snowmobiles less heavier and even more so, he travlled in a more...
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Line 3, column 619, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...re favorable climate than Peary did. So, Finally, Peary’s took photographs in the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, thus, in contrast, in fact, such as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1693.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 340.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97941176471 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51134966953 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 145.348785872 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588235294118 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 518.4 419.366225166 124% => 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: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => 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: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.1895441474 49.2860985944 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.5882352941 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.70588235294 7.06452816374 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264047196837 0.272083759551 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0818945621354 0.0996497079465 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0793299681835 0.0662205650399 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158748325191 0.162205337803 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384790102614 0.0443174109184 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 63.6247240618 156% => 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: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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