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 reading discusses a fascinating topic pertaining to facts support that the Robert E. Peary reach the North Pole on April 7, 1909 and provides several reasons of support. However, in the lecture the professor mentioned that these evidences are not convincing and opposes each of the author's reasons.
First of all, the author of the reading believes that according to the National Geographic committee which investigated the Peary's records and acheivement, they confirmed and declared that Peary reached the North Pole. In contrast, the professor explains that these committee was not complete due to consists of Peary close friends; also, all of the investigation have been done during the two days, so, it was not carefully and their investigation had a bias.
Furthermore, the author of the reading says that Peary the same as Tom Avery by utilizing the same kind of dogsled and same number of dogs passed the long distance which were conflicted about it. But in the lecture the professor believes that the Avery travel was really different from Peary, in the Avery trip the food have been available by plain and the weather condition was favarable but all of these factors were really different in Peary trip.
Finally, the author of the reading suggests that by analyzing the shadows in the Peary's photographs the position of the sun demonstrated that he was in the North Pole. However, the professor explains that just by analyzing the photo percisely and with good equipments this will be done; so, according to the fade photographs and unfocuing on them, the analyzing of the sun position can not be exactly correct.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 261, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this committee' or 'these committees'?
Suggestion: this committee; these committees
...n contrast, the professor explains that these committee was not complete due to consists of Pea...
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Line 3, column 340, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... consists of Peary close friends; also, all of the investigation have been done during the...
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Line 7, column 243, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...at just by analyzing the photo percisely and with good equipments this will be do...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, really, so, as to, in contrast, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1366.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0405904059 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65132168528 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520295202952 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 419.4 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.5939294181 49.2860985944 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.777777778 110.228320801 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.1111111111 21.698381199 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.7777777778 7.06452816374 167% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.180993533926 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0847421991608 0.0996497079465 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.088697959656 0.0662205650399 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107466820955 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390204100182 0.0443174109184 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 13.3589403974 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 53.8541721854 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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