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.
In this set of materials, the reading and lecture both discuss the Robert.E.Peary adventure to the North pole. The article strongly postulates that the explorer set his foot on the Northpole on April, 1909. However, the lecturer casts doubt on the reading's arguments by stating them dubious and unconvincing and gainsays each of them.
First and foremost, the writer begins by asserting that National geographic society has conducted a thorough report that proved Peary was able to reach the north pole. On the other hand, the lecturer dismisses the claim by insisting that though investigation by National geographic Service is performed, the purpose of the investigation was not objective. To be more specific, he states that Investigation teams included close friend who financially supports the peary adventure and their involvement could change the results of research.Moreover, Peary himself stated at some instances that examination was not carefully done.
Furthermore, the lecturer posts that it is entirely wrong to compare Avery's exploration with peary's. He goes on to say by providing evidence that peary's travel on the sled could be lot slower. For instance, Peary was carrying all his life supporting supplies with him on the sled unlike every's whose supplies were provided with airways later on. Moreover, the environmental conditions when Peary traveled were extreme and unfavorable in contrast to Averys. All these circumstances had made Peary tour longer than 37 days. These claims clearly refute the writer implication that another explorer, Avery, traveled on almost same sled and he covered his distance in less than 37 days likewise Peary.
Ultimately, the writer wraps up it's arguments by contending that shadow was measured from one of Peary's photograph that provided the evidence he could had reached on Northpole in past.Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes an issue with it by contending techniques used for measuring the sun position could be precise, but the problem as photographs were blurred and shadow was added away. Thus measurement accuracy is not guaranteed.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, likewise, moreover, so, thus, for instance, in contrast, in contrast to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1771.0 1373.03311258 129% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3993902439 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92870715925 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 145.348785872 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.606707317073 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 548.1 419.366225166 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 86.363611952 49.2860985944 175% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.5 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4285714286 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.14285714286 7.06452816374 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 4.19205298013 215% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253729338884 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0769487001323 0.0996497079465 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0613677911013 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13865429448 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0410990155398 0.0443174109184 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.8541721854 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.07 8.42419426049 120% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 63.6247240618 173% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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