The remote easter island has been inhabited from about the fourth century CE. Much academic debate has centered on accounting for the origins of the people who migrated there and created its huge stone statues, which are the island's most well-known cultural artifacts. The norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl believed that the initial colonization came from South America, several thousand kilometers to the east. He based his claims on several factors including the similarities in prehistoric cultural remains between parts of the continent and the island. In order to help prove his theory, Heyerdahl and his crew sailed a simple balsa wood raft from the peruvian coast and reached the polynesian archipelago using only the prevailing winds. His successful navigation bolstered the theory of the south american origins of the easter islands.
The two sources are talking about the origin of inhabitants in Easter Island. Previously, people believed that the initial populations in the island came from parts of South America as supported by the travel history of Norwegian explorer at that time. Recent studies, however, deny the previous theory and support it with some new findings related to social and cultural similarities.
The theory of South American origins of the Easer Island people is based on the success of Heyerdahl’s wind-powered voyage. At that time, he and his crew successfully sailed a wood ship from Peruvian coast and reached Polynesian using only winds. This underlies the theory that similar navigation can make people to migrate from South America to Easter Island.
Considering some further findings, however, the lecture denies the theory and argues that the migration actually came from the West.
First finding is about the linguistic similarities. Researches found that Easter Island and Polynesia have common similarities in certain linguistic features. Second finding is the similarities in oral traditions. Such traditions like stories and myths in Polynesian are common with Easter Islands. They also found that the human artifacts in Polynesia are similar with those in Easter Island. These findings then strengthen with the measurement of skulls in Easter Island and Polynesia. Skulls shapes in Easter Island are more distinct with skulls in Polynesia than in South America.
In conclusion, considering the similarities evidence between Easter Island and Polynesia, people now tend to accept the new theory that initial people in Easter Island came from West not East.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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... Easter Island came from West not East.
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'in conclusion', 'talking about']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.329824561404 0.261695866417 126% => OK
Verbs: 0.119298245614 0.158904122519 75% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0947368421053 0.0723426182421 131% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0385964912281 0.0435111971325 89% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0140350877193 0.0277247811725 51% => OK
Prepositions: 0.157894736842 0.128828473217 123% => OK
Participles: 0.0245614035088 0.0370669169778 66% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.75184244839 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0140350877193 0.0208969081088 67% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0982456140351 0.128158765124 77% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00350877192982 0.0158828679856 22% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00350877192982 0.0114777025283 31% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1684.0 1645.83664459 102% => OK
No of words: 258.0 271.125827815 95% => OK
Chars per words: 6.52713178295 6.08160592843 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.04852973271 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.46511627907 0.374372842146 124% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.302325581395 0.287516216867 105% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.201550387597 0.187439937562 108% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.139534883721 0.113142543107 123% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75184244839 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538759689922 0.539623497131 100% => OK
Word variations: 52.5838474462 53.8517498576 98% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0529801325 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.2 21.7502111507 79% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.3629450845 49.3711431718 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.266666667 132.220823453 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2 21.7502111507 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.878197800319 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.39072847682 59% => OK
Readability: 47.4325581395 50.5018328374 94% => OK
Elegance: 2.97959183673 1.90840788429 156% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.384225580325 0.549887131256 70% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.13725524154 0.142949733639 96% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0907852485952 0.0787303798458 115% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.598987726885 0.631733273073 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.193476261339 0.139662658121 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.179149966072 0.266732575781 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104080707471 0.103435571967 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.316242543962 0.414875509568 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.110610111205 0.0530846634433 208% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.286206526608 0.40443939384 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0580975681322 0.0528353158467 110% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.26048565121 141% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 3.49668874172 143% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.62251655629 28% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 1.0 3.1766004415 31% => OK
Total topic words: 7.0 10.2958057395 68% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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