Easter Island, located in the Pacific Ocean about 4000 miles from the coast of Chile, is one of the most isolated places in the world. It is best known for the Moai, monolithic statues of human figures carved from volcanic rock and located around the island. While today the Moai are a great source of revenue from tourists who flock to the island, research suggests that their construction actually led to the decline and eventual collapse of the island’s culture.
First of all, evidence suggests that the obsession which the people of Easter Island had with building the Moai led to non-productive use of natural resources, specifically of the island’s forests. The Moai were huge, with some weighing nearly eighty tons. Moving them from the quarries where they were carved to their intended resting spots required the use of wooden tracks equipped with log rollers. The islanders cut down vast amounts of valuable trees for no other purpose that to move the statues across their island.
Moai construction continued for centuries and eventually every single tree on the island was cut down to build the aforementioned tracks. This complete deforestation had disastrous effects on the island. Migratory birds, which had been a big part of the islander’s diet stopped coming to Easter Island. Meanwhile, the fishing industry on the island collapsed because the leaves of the island’s palm trees had been used to construct fishing boats. In addition, soil erosion caused by the lack of trees made it difficult to even grown food.
Finally, the above issues lead to a major population decline. From a high of twenty thousand people at the peak of its civilization, only two thousand people remained when European explorers first reached Easter Island in the eighteenth century. This mass die-off was clearly a result of the food shortage described above. Human remains from the period suggest that the population descended into cannibalism as things got progressively worse over the years.
The reading and the lecture are both about the Moai effects over the Easter Island that is sited in the Pacific Ocean. The author of the article believes that the built of these monolithic statues of human figures will lead to the island's culture corruption. The lecturer in the listening casts doubt on the claims made by the article by demonstrations of the reasons that counteracts such argument.
First, the author points out that the people of the islands being overwhelmed with Moai will eventually lead to the vanishing of the nature sources. it is mentioned that the forests are being used as tracks for moving the Moai to their destination place. This argument is being challenged by the lecturer as he indicates that recent researches have found that it was not true, and ropes are used for transferring the moia without any trees being cut for that reason.
Secondly, the author contends that the usage of the trees for the tracks building mentioned above have led to absolute deforestation. consequently, leading to many examples of the hazardous effect of that action.For example the migration of birds that used to be a good source of food, the destroyed fishing business and the ground erosion. The author debuts this argument by stating that lacking of the trees was not due to the construction of Moai but rather the dreadful effects of the rats upon trees especially palm trees, and those rats came from the European immigrants who used them as a source of food.
Finally, the author stated that there is a huge decrease in the island's population as a result of the causes mentioned above. It is given that the number of the island's dropped from twenty thousands to only two thousands in the eighteen century during the European researchers arrival. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that if it was at that time, the largest population of the island would be about two thousands.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...lead to the islands culture corruption. The lecturer in the listening casts doubt o...
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Suggestion: It
...to the vanishing of the nature sources. it is mentioned that the forests are being...
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Suggestion: Consequently
...ove have led to absolute deforestation. consequently, leading to many examples of the hazard...
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: For
... of the hazardous effect of that action.For example the migration of birds that use...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'islands'' or 'island's'?
Suggestion: islands'; island's
...ed that there is a huge decrease in the islands population as a result of the causes me...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'researchers'' or 'researcher's'?
Suggestion: researchers'; researcher's
...he eighteen century during the European researchers arrival. The lecturer, on the other han...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, for example, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1591.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88036809816 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57984213795 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518404907975 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 45.7264663212 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.583333333 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1666666667 21.698381199 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.66666666667 7.06452816374 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.148618910504 0.272083759551 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0580819501889 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489806512393 0.0662205650399 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0916841137192 0.162205337803 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0442019532352 0.0443174109184 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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