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 Surf s position in the sun. The Surf s position established from the photographs corresponds exactly to the Surf 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 professor disagrees with the notion in the text about three explanations that suggest that Peary reached the North Pole. She brings several reasons to support her idea.
First, the lecturer mentions that a person on Geographic committee was one of the Peary close friends therefore the results of investigation is not true. Besides, the investigation just takes a long about two days. Hence, it is obvious that the investigation is not reliable. As a result, we cannot conclude that Peary reached North Pole. However, the reading clarifies that Geographic committee by considering Peary's records and instruments proved that Peary was reach North Pole.
Second, the speaker states that Tome Avery trips was completely different from Peary trips. Actually, Avery carried his food by air plane so he could not explain the accuracy of Peary trips because Peary claims that he carried his food by his self. Thus, we cannot prove the Peary trips by looking at Avery trips. In contrast, the article explains that Avery tried to go to North Pole like Peary in order to prove that Peary claims are trustful. Hence, according to the Avery trips we can figure out that Peary reached North Pole.
Finally, the instructor hints that by photographs we are not able to understand the sun's position therefore telling the fact by photo would not be useful. In addition, the professor says that photos after several years will not be clear. In other words, she believes that photos are fade so we cannot recognize the shade in the photo. Thereby, photographs for proving the Peary trips is not a reliable evidence. On the other hand, according to the reading, By photographs we can see the shade and sun's position consequently we are able to conclude that Peary was at a North pole and took this photo on there.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, besides, consequently, finally, first, hence, however, if, look, second, so, therefore, thus, in addition, in contrast, as a result, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1502.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92459016393 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51094888116 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495081967213 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 459.0 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.7180342458 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.3529411765 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9411764706 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3529411765 7.06452816374 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.204022251542 0.272083759551 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0715630320873 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0723732605407 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126926088127 0.162205337803 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0486956079582 0.0443174109184 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.96 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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