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 reading passage has proposed three reasons to explain that Robert E. Peary factly reach the North Pole. The professor's lecture deals with the sensitive issue but contradicts the reading passage content by utilizing three specific points to support her notion.
First, in the reading passage, it is suggested that a committee held by the National Geographic Society has already taken an investigation about Peary's claim, which conformed that he had truly reached the North Pole. In contrast, the professor in the lecture holds a different opinion that the organization of the National Geographic Society was not objective. The committee's members are close friends of Peary, so he might give lots of money to them. In addition, the investigation just took two days, which is not carefully. Therefore, the National Geographic Society possibly had a bias toward this stuff.
The second point is that a British explorer named Tom Avery who used the same tools as Peary had also reached the North Pole in less than 37 days, so Peary's claims are possible. The reading claims that Tom Avery was not the same way as Peary. For instance, Avery's weight is much less than Peary's, because he carried the food by airplane instead of on the slide. Moreover, Avery faced highly favorable weather, but Peary's was very unfavorable. So Avery's condition is not the same as Peary's.
The third point the author states is that photographs show the Sun's position, which can prove that Peary reached the North Pole on that day. Nonetheless, the lecturer points out that the shadow the photographs show is faked and worn after 100 years. And the camera at that time is unfocused. Both two make the shadow cannot be used to calculate the position of the Sun with great accuracy, so we cannot be confident the photos were really taken at the North Pole.
The speaker's statement, therefore, is in sharp contrast to the point made in the reading passage.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 5, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'speakers'' or 'speaker's'?
Suggestion: speakers'; speaker's
... really taken at the North Pole. The speakers statement, therefore, is in sharp contr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, moreover, nonetheless, really, second, so, therefore, third, as to, for instance, in addition, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1615.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95398773006 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51623693328 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549079754601 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.0171884036 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.7222222222 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1111111111 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.11111111111 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.207318834681 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0632643570537 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0757971221763 0.0662205650399 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0976994419655 0.162205337803 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390871417688 0.0443174109184 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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