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 was, 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 claims that there are strong supports which prove that Peary reached the North Pole. However, the lecturer finds all the ideas dubious and provides some evidence to refute them all.
The reading argues that the committee of the National Geographic Society investigated the Peary's records and declared his claim. In contrast, the lecturer underlines the fact the committee's members were close friends of Peary who paid and contributed to the expedition too much money. Therefore, the decision was biased and not carefully made since the investigation lasted only for two days. In fact, the declaration was not objective.
Furthermore, the reading passage holds the view that Peary's claim was proved by a recent expedition conducted by Avery. On the contrary, the professor brings up the idea that the speeds of these two expeditions are different. They used the same equipment but the weights were different because the food of Avery was dropped by airplane and the dogs did not carry the food through the trip. Moreover, the weather when they were on the trip was different and Peary experienced a harsh weather which made his speed slow.
Finally, the author asserts that the position of the sun in the pictures taken by Peary are measured and it proves his claim that he was in the North Pole. Conversely, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that the pictures were taken over 100 years ago and they have been blurred and faded. The shadows in the picture are not reliable in order to find the position of the sun. In addition, the cameras at that time were not too advanced and the pictures were fuzzy and unscaled. As a result, we cannot say with confidence that the pictures prove Peary's claim.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, in addition, in contrast, in fact, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1441.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 294.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90136054422 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44998325994 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557823129252 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 443.7 419.366225166 106% => 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: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.7919626461 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.0666666667 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160420163478 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0546390111607 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611425617437 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.094757760796 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0209762436136 0.0443174109184 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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