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.
The reading and the lecture both discuss whether or not the adventure Robert Peary have had reached the North pole in 1909. While the reading claims that Peary has reached the north pole on April 7, 1909, and provides three strong evidence of support, The lecture, on the other hand, argues this claim by stating there is no strong evidence to support Peary's adventure.
First and foremost, the professor challenges the first point in the reading passage by asserting that the National Geographic committee was not objective because Peary's close friend was a member of the committee. Peary's friend has spent a lot of money to support the peary's trip to the North pole. According to the professor, Peary hasn't reached the North Pole and the committee was biased in their investigations. Nevertheless, the author argues this claim by stating that the geographic committee announced that Peary have had reached the North pole and they based their decision on Peary's accounts which were convincing.
Moreover, the lecturer counteracts the second point in the reading by saying that t it was impossible for Peary to travel at high speed to reach the North pole in 37 days due to the fact that the explorer had to carry heavyweight dogsled also food to the North pole. Furthermore, the professor explains that it not possible to compare Peary and Avery travel since the later did not carry heavyweight or food with him to the pole. However, the reading argues on this point by asserting that Peary and Avery both have had reached the pole in 37 days because they were using the same kind of dogsled also the same number of breed dogs.
Finally, the professor contradicts the third point of the reading by stating that the evidence of photographs that have been taken by Peary does not hold water. According to the professor, those photos were blurry, fuzzy and not clear or focused. As a result, the professor states that is implausible that these photos were used to measure the shadow and to calculate the position of the sun. Furthermore, Peary could not have had reached the north pole and took pictures there. On the contrary, the reading refutes this point by illustrating that the adventure Peary was able to reach the North Pole and take photographs there which makes it possible to calculate the sun position in the Pole.
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Suggestion: whether
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, moreover, nevertheless, second, so, third, while, kind of, as a result, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1942.0 1373.03311258 141% => OK
No of words: 398.0 270.72406181 147% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87939698492 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47248947662 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.414572864322 0.540411800872 77% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 583.2 419.366225166 139% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.7542877289 49.2860985944 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.714285714 110.228320801 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.4285714286 21.698381199 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7142857143 7.06452816374 152% => 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 : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
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: 0.307508948867 0.272083759551 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133347892176 0.0996497079465 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0859973801829 0.0662205650399 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217652465608 0.162205337803 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0520596213375 0.0443174109184 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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