Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found. Thus it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
The prompt talks about woven baskets with a particularly distinctive weaving pattern which were thought to be uniquely Palean, but argues that certain evidence has shown otherwise and that the woven baskets might not have been unique to Palea.
Firstly, it is possible that some natural element "carried" the baskets across the river. Perhaps there used to be hurricanes in that region which could easily throw objects around, many miles away. Thus the woven baskets could still be uniquely Palean, but could just have been tossed around by strong natual elements. A study of the weather elements in this region in prehistoric times would offer additional evidence that could counter the argument of the baskets not being uniquely Palean.
It is also possible that the people in Lithos got to know about these woven baskets and were interested in procuring some of them. There might have been a barter trade between the two communities which would have allowed the Paleans to give some of their baskets in exchange for some goods or services. An investigation of the socities of Palea and Lithos, especially their trade, would shed some light on whether such a barter trade could have been possible.
A related possiblity is that the people in Lithos wanted to learn how to make these baskets and the Paleans obliged by teaching them the skill required to do so. The people in Lithos then made such baskets and used them. In this scenario, some of the baskets might have been produced by the residents of Lithos. However, the baskets were still uniquely Palean as it was the Palean's style and skill that led to the production of these. Again, an investigation into the two societies would help determine if this scenario was plausible.
All in all, more investigation into the weather elements as well as the characteristics of the two socities would help determine if the basket was in fact, uniquely Palean or not.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 324 350
No. of Characters: 1563 1500
No. of Different Words: 154 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.243 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.824 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.42 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 106 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 77 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 45 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 21 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.143 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.68 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.391 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.623 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.176 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 210, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... throw objects around, many miles away. Thus the woven baskets could still be unique...
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Line 13, column 240, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...askets and used them. In this scenario, some of the baskets might have been produced by the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, so, still, then, thus, well, in fact, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1626.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 324.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01851851852 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57459027598 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.493827160494 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 503.1 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.6111000632 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.142857143 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1428571429 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.28571428571 5.70786347227 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24469080388 0.218282227539 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0926568315675 0.0743258471296 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.07387073427 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14876250018 0.128457276422 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0762988605974 0.0628817314937 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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