The ancient Oppo tribe has long been thought to have hunted only with wooden spears because none of their cave paintings depict bows or arrows. Recently, however, flint arrowheads have been found among fossilized bones of ibex , animals thought to be a staple of the Oppo tribe's diet. Since these finds were made on land previously inhabited by the Oppo tribe, it follows that the Oppo used both spears and arrows to hunt.
The statement claims that the ancient Oppo trite used both spears and arrows for hunting. The conclusion is supported by cave paintings which have only spear drawings on them, flint arrowheads found with animal fossils, and the fact that the two findings were found in the Oppo’s inhabitant. However, before the assumption can be evaluated, three questions must be answered.
Firstly, were Ibexes only consumed by the Oppo trite? It might be possible it’s a diet for another nearby clan as well. Due to living in the same area, the food and culture of the nearby clan may have some similarities. If they live in a cold area and ibexes contain a lot of fats, every tribe in that area will aggressively hunt for Ibexes because eating ibexes’ fats can keep them warm through freezing nights. Maybe it is true that the Oppo only used spears to hunt, and those arrows were owned by another the neighboring tribe. Unless this point is addressed, the argument is still unconvincing.
Secondly, was the land only inhabited by the Oppo tribe? It might be possible that there was an invasion among tribes, and the Oppo lost the land temporarily. Only 3 years later, they were able to get the land back. Thus, it is feasible that all the historical evidence found in the land originally owned by the Oppo doesn’t belong to the Oppo’s. Maybe the invaders invented and used the arrows during their inhabitant. If the above is true, then this argument doesn’t hold water.
Thirdly, does the painting portray the truth? Perhaps the painting was drawn by someone else that was not from the Oppo tribe. There is no evidence to confirm that the painting is truthful and accurate. Perhaps the Oppo didn’t even use spears to hunt but rather rocks. However, the only reason that the cave paintings only have spears drawing on them was because the drawer that came from another tribe only knew spears as a hunting tool. Therefore, only spears were depicted in the drawing. If the above is accurate, then the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly weakened.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the three questions above and offer more evidence (perhaps in term of a systematic research study), then it would be possible to fully evaluate the suggestion that the Oppo trite used both spears and arrows for their hunting activity.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 421 350
No. of Characters: 1967 1500
No. of Different Words: 201 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.53 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.672 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.357 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 124 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.304 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.174 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.739 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.304 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.441 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 153, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'speared'.
Suggestion: speared
...orted by cave paintings which have only spear drawings on them, flint arrowheads foun...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, well, in conclusion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2047.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 418.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8971291866 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49816786876 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495215311005 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 629.1 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.4789555445 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.2916666667 119.503703932 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4166666667 23.324526521 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.290873046483 0.218282227539 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0764578215652 0.0743258471296 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0647021908299 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164754001455 0.128457276422 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0657754391712 0.0628817314937 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.84 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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