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 states that there are many evidences that support Peary’s claim about reaching the North Pole. However, the professor casts doubt on this claim and says that there are no solid evidences for Pear’s claim. She refutes all the author supporting points by raising several counter arguments.
First of all, the article posits that the National Geographic Society had proven that Peary reach the North Pole. Conversely, the lecturer rejects this claim by saying that most of the committee members were friends to Peary, so they had mainly supported him in his claim. Moreover, the discussion about this issue lasted only two days until they reach to the final decision. Therefore, the conclusion decision was a clear biased to Peary’s claim.
Secondly, the author mentions that Peary spent only 37 days in his travel like Tom Avery who traveled to the same place in the past. On the other hand, the professor debunks this point by stating that both guys have a completely different methods when they approach there. Tom had less weight food because he received his food through airplane unlike Peary who took the food with him. Furthermore, the weather condition was different in both trips, so it was possible for Tom to reach to the North Pole within 37 days but not for Peary.
Last but not least, the reading states that the photographs that were token by Peary indicated that he reached the North Pole. The professor opposes this claim by saying that it difficult for people to calculate the shadow precisely, so the conclusion about the sun direction that in the Peary’s photo is not accurate nor convincing.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1373.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 274.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01094890511 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46057138276 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565693430657 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 401.4 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.7899883636 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.615384615 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0769230769 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53846153846 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243971111692 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0914931688284 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0575571573661 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15569808891 0.162205337803 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0169406061283 0.0443174109184 38% => 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: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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