Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found. Thus it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The uniqueness of the so-called “Paean baskets” poses a question after the discovery of these basket in an ancient village of Lithos. The uniqueness of an object to a place can be determined easily, however, when it comes to objects which are historic and places which are ancient the process gets a little difficult. Of course, one can answer this question by carbon dating, but it is better to follow a series of steps before jumping onto conclusion by performing carbon dating on such objects.
The primal question that one needs to answer is regarding the use of these objects by the Palean people. If the baskets were designed for simply storing things and packing them away in the house, the baskets could not have been sent by the Palean people to Lithosian people across the river. However, since the baskets have also been found in the villages in the vicinity of Palea, there is a possibility that the baskets were exported or used for transporting things which the Palean people exported. In this case, one needs to check the buoyancy of these baskets. If the baskets floated on water, the Palean people could have used them to trade items or communicate with the Lithosian people across the Brim river. In this case, one can arrive at a conclusion that the baskets were from either one of the villages.
Another significant evidence could come from observing the design on these baskets. Is the design inspired from anything present in the Palean culture ? If so, there is a good possibility that these baskets were a discovery of the Palean people. However, mankind has witnessed a lot of stealing of ideas belonging to other people and realizing an improved version of them. The baskets could have been a discovery of the Lithosian people who used it for trading or communicating with the Palean people. The Palean people could have found these baskets useful and therefore found a way to produce them locally using their own techniques and designs.
The question that still remains to be answered is regarding the origin of these baskets. Did the Palean people discover them or did the Lithosian people did ? A check on the raw materials used for the construction of these baskets could provide a substantial evidence to justify their origin. If the raw materials were from either one of these villages, it is highly likely that the baskets originated in that village. Another signifiant proof could be generated by finding the age of the “basket samples” found in these villages. If the basket samples found in the village of Lithos are older than the ones found in Palea, one can conclude that the baskets orginiated in Lithos.
There have been times in the history of man-kind wherein one idea was thought of by two different people living poles apart from eachother. For those of you who are a fan of the great inventor Nikola Tesla are aware that communication using radio waves was an idea first discovered by him. However, Marconi was the one who implemented it and demonstrated it to the entire world. The credit, therefore, goes to the one who is open to the world about his or her ideas and are willing to contribute them for the development of the society as a whole. For all we know, the Lithosian people might have first discovered the baskets, but Paleans were the ones to improve them and trade them with the neighbouring villages to help them benfit from this simple yet remarkable discovery.
- Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archa 53
- A true university education encompasses far more than the narrow, specialized study of a single discipline. Only through exploring the broad spectrum of liberal arts courses can students become truly learned. 33
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: Another signifiant proof could be generated by finding the age of the basket samples found in these villages.
Error: signifiant Suggestion: significant
Sentence: If the basket samples found in the village of Lithos are older than the ones found in Palea, one can conclude that the baskets orginiated in Lithos.
Error: orginiated Suggestion: originated
Sentence: There have been times in the history of man-kind wherein one idea was thought of by two different people living poles apart from eachother.
Error: eachother Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: For all we know, the Lithosian people might have first discovered the baskets, but Paleans were the ones to improve them and trade them with the neighbouring villages to help them benfit from this simple yet remarkable discovery.
Error: neighbouring Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: benfit Suggestion: benefit
--------------------
flaws:
the arguments are not exactly right from the topic. need to argue against this:
The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found.
we may argue it like:
The Brim River is not deep and broad at that time, or there is no river at all.
and maybe people from Lithos can have boats.
---------------------
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 590 350
No. of Characters: 2779 1500
No. of Different Words: 238 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.928 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.71 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.44 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 202 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 135 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.692 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.594 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.654 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.518 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.176 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 99, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this basket' or 'these baskets'?
Suggestion: this basket; these baskets
...poses a question after the discovery of these basket in an ancient village of Lithos. The un...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...g their own techniques and designs. The question that still remains to be answe...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, regarding, so, still, therefore, apart from, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 28.8173652695 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 85.0 55.5748502994 153% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2866.0 2260.96107784 127% => OK
No of words: 590.0 441.139720559 134% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85762711864 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.92848004997 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57351728855 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 204.123752495 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.420338983051 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 916.2 705.55239521 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0820051947 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.230769231 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6923076923 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.26923076923 5.70786347227 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 15.0 4.67664670659 321% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198468651043 0.218282227539 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0664444544679 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0723701401438 0.0701772020484 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124590826108 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0687667313229 0.0628817314937 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 98.500998004 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.