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 sky. 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.
The lecture casts doubt on the three arguments mentioned in the passage which argue that Peary did in fact reach the North Pole. Instead, the lecture claims that those three arguments are not solid enough.
First of all, the passage claims that the committee of the National Geographic Society concluded that Peary's accounts were consistent and persuasive and declared that he had indeed reached the North Pole. However, the lecture disagrees with the passage by mentioning that the committee did not examine Peary's records carefully.
Secondly, the passage states that Tom Avery, a British explorer, recently made the same trek in less than 37 days, which proved Peary's claim that he reached the North Pole in only 37 days after setting out from Ellesmere Island off the coast of Greenland was true. Nevertheless, the lecture denies the passage by pointing out that though both of them used same kind of dogsled and same number and breed of dogs, the weight that Tom Avery carried was much less than Peary did. Moreover, the lecture claims that Tom Avery finished his trip under favorable condition, which was completely different from Peary.
Finally, the passage mentions that since the Sun's position established from the photographs taken by Peary corresponds exactly to the Sun's position as it should have bee at the North Pole on that day, the photographs support his claim to have reached the North Pole. Yet the lecture refutes the passage by arguing that the technique used to measure the shadows requires clear photograph. But Peary's photographs were taken by primitive camera, so some part of them are faded and the shadows are blurry. Thus, the shadows in the photograph cannot be measured precisely.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, thus, in fact, kind of, first of all
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 : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1439.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 283.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08480565371 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40103861955 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540636042403 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 432.9 419.366225166 103% => 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: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.9794590444 49.2860985944 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.818181818 110.228320801 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7272727273 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5454545455 7.06452816374 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226515363321 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0815275253706 0.0996497079465 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0756734043727 0.0662205650399 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137372788298 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0266123489571 0.0443174109184 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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.