rendan the Navigator was an Irish priest who lived in the 6th century. He is most famous for embarking on a voyage in search of the mythical “Island of the Blessed.” The details of Brendan's voyage, recorded as stories in old manuscripts, suggest to some that Brendan and his crew reached North America during their voyage, becoming the first Europeans to do so Those who advance this theory support it with several arguments
First, the written stories about Brendan’s voyage seem to make references to places his crew would have visited on the way to North America Sailors in Brendan's time typically traveled from island to island to avoid the dangers of long periods on the open seas A journey from Ireland to North America would have taken Brendan to the Faroe Islands. Iceland, and Greenland before reaching the North American continent (see illustration). Places described in the stories about Brendan’s voyage share characteristics with some of those island locations.
Second, a team of researchers recently constructed a boat resembling a curragh, an old Irish boat of the type used by Brendan Curraghs had a wooden frame with cowhides stretched over it. In building the boat, the researchers used only materials and techniques available in Brendan’s time. The researchers were able to sail this boat from Ireland to North America, demonstrating that boat technology in Brendan’s time was sufficient for a journey across the Atlantic Ocean
Third, old markings that may have a connection to Brendan’s voyage have been discovered at several locations in North America Cut into rocks, these markings consist of narrow vertical lines resembling letters of ogham, an old Irish alphabet in frequent use in Brendan’s time. The resemblance of those marks to ogham has convinced some that the markings were made by members of Brendan’s crew
The lecture and the reading are both related to the idea that if benden the Navigator has traveled and reached North Amercial or not. While, the author of the article believes that there is enough robust evidence that supports the truth of the voyage of Brenden, the lecturer disproves all the reasons provided by author. He goes on to say that these signals do not reflect the mentioned voyage.
First, the lecturer refutes the reasons that the places describes in the stories of Brenden's voyage are related to the real places of the itinerary to North Amercia. While, the reading claims that the stories of Brenden refers to the places that raise sheeps and have volacnic fires, the professor explains that sheeps were raised in many other places, and the mentioned fires could also be about the fires that people have set.
Secondly, the article claims that some researchers test the possibility of the travel by imitating the ship of the Brenden's crew in respect of the technology accessed in those times, and they found that it is practical to go in this way from Ireland to North America. The professor, however, refutes that the built ship was a complete copy of the real ship. He describes that the ship built by researchers was longer and also with more sails, thus it is evident that a powerful ship like that could absolutely travel that way.
Thirdly, the article makes a point that there are some marks and signs of an old Irish letters on the several locations in North Amercia, and then it concludes that this evidence shows that the Brenden crew have drawn them. Conversely, the professor refutes this idea. He, although agrees that some of the marks are similar, but most of them are not. He goes on to say that the ogham just consisted alphabets and there was not any image in this language. Since there are many pictures of horses, trees and sun in the marks found in North Amercia, thus it can not be a sign of the mentioned alphabet. He also describes that it is more reasonable that the marks are painted by native americans.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 88, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'letter'?
Suggestion: letter
...re some marks and signs of an old Irish letters on the several locations in North Amerc...
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Line 7, column 295, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...tes this idea. He, although agrees that some of the marks are similar, but most of them are...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 12.0772626932 190% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 22.412803532 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1696.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 361.0 270.72406181 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69806094183 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29321727409 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473684210526 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 527.4 419.366225166 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.9731714783 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.142857143 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7857142857 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0683418489713 0.272083759551 25% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0207545886766 0.0996497079465 21% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0242054677633 0.0662205650399 37% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0419607352059 0.162205337803 26% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0197497590761 0.0443174109184 45% => 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: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => 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: 10.28 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => 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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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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