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 Surf’s position in the sNy. The surf’s position established from the photographs corresponds exactly to the Surf’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 lecture and the article are on opposite ends about the brags of Peary to reach the North Pole. The former casts doubt on the hypotheses that Peary was successful to reach his destination. While the latter offers several theories to justify that Peary was actually the conqueror of the North Pole.
The first point of dispute is revolving around the validity of the investigation report by the committee of the Geographic Society. The professor doesn't think that the report was completely objective and that's why she opposes the idea. To bolster her statement, she adds that Peary's friends were the committee members and they were also responsible to manage the fund for Peary. In addition, the investigation took only two days which also questions the accuracy of the report. Therefore, she concludes that the evaluation team is biased and can't be trusted. Nonetheless, the text argues that Peary's speech is true regarding his accomplishment since the records have been verified by the proper channel.
Another point of debate is connected to the time taken by Avery to trek the coast of Greenland. Once again, the professor denies the claim by stating that the conditions were completely different for Avery and Peary. For instance, Avery didn't have to take food with him since an air freight took food for them. Hence, the overall weights were lighter for Avery which might take less time for him to trek. Besides, the environmental condition was also very favorable to Avery than Peary. In this connection, a similar result shouldn't be extracted for Peary's case. However, the paragraph mentions that considering the success of Avery to reach the coast of Greenland in 37 days, the success of Peary shouldn't be questioned.
Last but not the least, the final argument focuses on the idea that whether the photographs of Peary could successfully depict the shadows of the North Pole or not. For the last time, the instructor rebuts the claim and poses that Peary had a very primitive camera. It was so rudimentary that it always provided blurry and faded images. Therefore, the shadows that have been predicted from Peary's image might not be accurate and a comprehensive analysis is required to verify it. In contrast, the passage states that the photographs from Peary's camera are the indicator that he was the person to reach the North pole.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, first, hence, however, if, nonetheless, regarding, so, therefore, while, for instance, in addition, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 10.4613686534 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1936.0 1373.03311258 141% => OK
No of words: 394.0 270.72406181 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91370558376 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53686265649 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 145.348785872 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 610.2 419.366225166 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.23620309051 12% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 13.0662251656 8% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 394.0 21.2450331126 1855% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.2860985944 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1936.0 110.228320801 1756% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 394.0 21.698381199 1816% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 141.0 7.06452816374 1996% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.204764346111 0.272083759551 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.204764346111 0.0996497079465 205% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136998267322 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0650664442906 0.0443174109184 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 198.7 13.3589403974 1487% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -319.97 53.8541721854 -594% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 5.55761589404 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 155.8 11.0289183223 1413% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 12.68 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 27.27 8.42419426049 324% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 102.0 63.6247240618 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 56.0 10.7273730684 522% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 159.6 10.498013245 1520% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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