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.
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Both passages and the lecture have a debate on the various approaches about a famous adventurer Peary who reached the North Pole, which declares of arguments on the reality of being Peary to the North Pole. The author put forward certain claims which are disregarded by the speaker. The lecturer states a few counterpoints to advocate her opinion.
First, according to the author, National Geographic declares that Peary has been reached there but it would not be reasonable. In addition, they recorded Peary's equipment so as to prove he reached the North Pole. On the other hand, the speaker states that it is not acceptable because the committee is a close friend of Peary, provide the cost of the trip and they recorded the trip lasted 2 years, while Peary did not record.
Second, the author claims that it took only 37 days to reach the North Pole in comparison with another adventurer, Avery who reached in less than 37 days. Then the argument might not be correct. On the contrary, the lecturer professes that Peary has not reached there on foot and used airplanes. Also, they have totally different ways of reaching there.
Lastly, the passage advocates the there are photographs that show the evidence Peary reached there and by illustrating the shadow of the sun in the photographs to reveal the sun's position. The orator rebuts the statement saying that Photos do not prove anything and depending on the shadow in the photos it could not be proved. In turn, Peary has used a primitive camera to take fuzzy photos looked blurred and loaded and not indicate the position of sun and shadow.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 172, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ddition, they recorded Pearys equipment so as to prove he reached the North Pole. On the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, lastly, look, second, so, then, while, as to, in addition, on the contrary, 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: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1327.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82545454545 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48002665941 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 411.3 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3202617578 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.076923077 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1538461538 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.84615384615 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220830426489 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0760914769306 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0794928457291 0.0662205650399 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135776190299 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592942659149 0.0443174109184 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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.