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 sky. 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.
Recently, there has been a debate on Robert E. Peary getting to the North Pole. More specifically, in regard to the passage the writer puts forth three solid shreds of evidence to support her claim. In the listening passage , the lecturer is quick to point out that there are some serious flaws in the writer's claim.In fact, he believes and addresses in detail the trouble with each point made in the reading text.
First and foremost, the author of the reading states that the National Geographic Society examined Peary's chronicles and they could deduce that he was consistent and persuasive to have been to the North pole.Some professionals in the same field, however, stand in firm opposition to this claim by stating that his declaration is not objective because his trip was supported by coteries.Besides, the examination only lasted for two days.Therefore his records weren't examined accurately.
One group of scholars, represented by the writer, thinks that there are instances where Tom Avery takes a shorter time to reach the North pole than Robert Peary. Of course, not all experts in the field believe this is accurate.Again, the speaker addresses the point by stating that both of them experience different journeys because Avery's food was not transported by dog sled, it was moved by airplane. Moreover, Avery moved in a more convenient way than Peary.
Finally the author brings his argument to a close by suggesting that his snapshot is solid evidence to show that he has been to the North pole.Not surprisingly, the professor takes the issue by contending that researchers' technology simply depends on shadow accuracy because without shadow nothing can be examined.Besides, Peary uses ancient cameras to takes pictures that appeared to be faded and blurred.Therefore this can not calculate the actual position of the sun.
To sum up, both the reading and the lecture hold conflicting views about Peary reaching the North Pole. It is clear that they will have trouble finding common ground.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, first, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, in fact, of course, in regard to, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1693.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16158536585 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87194638747 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579268292683 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 521.1 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 154.709965916 49.2860985944 314% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 153.909090909 110.228320801 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.8181818182 21.698381199 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.63636363636 7.06452816374 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 24.0 4.19205298013 573% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => 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: 0.203598152191 0.272083759551 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0786856661761 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0575981585347 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10852952569 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0228125502915 0.0443174109184 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 13.3589403974 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 53.8541721854 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.24 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.55 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 63.6247240618 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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