Approximately 500 years ago, the flourishing society of Easter Island suffered a steep decline in population. Many theories have surfaced explaining how this could have happened to such a thriving culture. Within this small, isolated island in the Pacific Ocean, researchers have uncovered archaeological evidence that clearly indicates one theory for the decimation of the Easter Islanders above all others: invaders.
First, the disappearance of nearly every tree on this Island points to the kind of environmental destruction that could only result from foreign incursions. Researchers discovered that this land now devoid of trees was once covered with palms. Biological evidence indicates an abundance of palm for centuries until about 500 years ago, the time when the population nearly vanished. Only invaders could have brought about that kind of destruction all at once.
Another key piece of support lies in the archeological discovery of spear tips that appeared at around the same time as the near destruction of the Islanders. These spear tips show beyond any doubt that there was conflict and warfare on the island best explained by the onslaught of invaders. In addition to these war implements, skeletons from that time have been examined and show the kind of deformation that results only from combat.
Last, the appearance of a new religion provides more support. Special dating methods used by archeologists determined that "birdman" statues surfaced at the same time as the dramatic shift in population. As history proves time and time again, when an invading force occupies a new territory, it takes with it its customs, culture, and religion. The abandonment of the old religious order for the new "birdman" religion as evidenced by these statues must be understood as the outcome of invasion.
The article states that invader led to decimation of the Easter Islanders and provides three reasons of support. Conversely, the professor states that internal factors were responsible for declining in the Easter Isalnd popluations and he refutes each od the author’s reasons.
First, the reading avers that the dispearance of tress, like plam, could only result from foreign incursions. The professor opposes this point by saying that trees were not destructed by incursions, but by inhabitats. The Easter islanders had a variety of inhabitats and each one liked to show its cultural dominance on the Island by building stone status. Since the status need rollers, so they logged trees. The professor conculdes the hihgly competion among inhabitats led to destroy tress and not by invaders.
Second, the article avers that the archaelogical discovery of spear tips supports the invasion theory. The professor, on the other hand, explains that spear tips were comes from not invaders. The islanders used spear tips to defend themselves,but to attack their fellows. He also explains that during that time, there were limited food resources because tress cut down so they couldn’t build canoes to get their food. And consequently, a civial war started among the islanders.
Third, the reading posits that the appearance of new religion provides more support as the outcome of invaders. However, the professor refutes this point by saying the Easter islander did adopt new religion. As the professor mentioned before, the islander went through difficult time, their resources exhausrted, and sadly, their ffamilies die of starvation. So, people adopted new religion, such as birdsman because their current one was ineefective.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 243, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , but
...ers used spear tips to defend themselves,but to attack their fellows. He also explai...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, conversely, first, however, if, second, so, third, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1474.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47955390335 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76469478687 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591078066914 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.93181766 49.2860985944 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.125 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8125 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.375 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.118358357563 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.03820128387 0.0996497079465 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0399591589123 0.0662205650399 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0721327098512 0.162205337803 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0190407117712 0.0443174109184 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.2367328918 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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