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 north pole. 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.
Both the reading passage and the listening material discuss the authenticity that Robert E Peary did reach the North Pole. The author provides three supporting arguments. However, the professor refutes them and believes that they are not convincing.
First, the author claims that the National Geographic Society assigned a committee to investigate the records of Perey; the committee concluded that Peary undoubtedly did reach the North Pole. Nevertheless, the professor casts doubt on the objectivity of that conclusion because the committee's members were Peary's friends who also financed his trip to the North Pole. Therefore, that conclusion was biased.
Secondly, the author displays evidence that another explorer, Tom Avery, recently reached the North Pole with less time than Peary's trip and under the similar conditions that Pearly experienced, which indicates the possibility of Pearly's successful exploration. In contrast, the professor asserts that Avery's experiences could not soundly support the probability of Peary's success due to the significant differences in the two journeys regarding the weather conditions and the food supply methods.
Finally, the author states that the photographs of Peary on the North Pole verify his claim of reaching there. On the contrary, the professor counters that statement by pointing out that the camera captured those photos back then was very primitive. As a result, the images came out in poor quality, fuzzy, and unfocused. Besides, they must be worn out and faded in nearly a hundred years. In other words, the professor asserts that we cannot rely on those images to measure the position of the sun accurately or as proof that Peary reached the North Pole accordingly.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, besides, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, in contrast, as a result, in other words, on the contrary
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: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1463.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43866171004 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74777272925 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594795539033 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.2104243611 49.2860985944 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.538461538 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6923076923 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.6923076923 7.06452816374 194% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => 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: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214557974881 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0730182502711 0.0996497079465 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.061824329105 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129519787343 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0353052996564 0.0443174109184 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.91 8.42419426049 118% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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