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, archa

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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.

Inferences made in the argument based on certain assumptions sound quite intriguing. But, I feel these presumptions lack authenticity and cannot be termed as facts. Every individual has different perspective to look things at. Though I respect the author's view point, but somehow I am not convinced with the reason given for woven baskets not being uniquely Palean. Also, a lot have factors have been sidelined while framing this argument which I would like to highlight upon in my upcoming points.

Not finding Palean boats, doesn't mean Paleans didn't discover them. It is highly probable, that the boats got destroyed due to some or the other reason. There is also a possibility of these boats not being discovered by anyone till today. What if in the ancient times, this river never existed ? There is no proof of when Brim river came into existence. In that case, Paleans would have easily come into contact with the Lithos and shared their baskets with them too.

It is not mentioned that Paleans were the first human species that came into existence. Might be they borrowed these baskets from somebody else. Apart from it, nothing is highlighted on the number of baskets that were found in this vicinity. Encountering just one or two such kind of artifacts, doesn't make sense to reach any conclusion on the origin of Palean baskets. Weaving is a kind of art. For these baskets to have been discovered by Paleans, they must have mastered the art of weaving the baskets. But the argument is not at all throwing any light on their skills.

To conclude, it is very difficult to say whether the baskets discovered by Paleans were uniquely theirs. The argument is full of loop holes and many factors have not been taken into consideration. Even if these baskets didn't belong to Paleans, there is absence of bolstering points to support this assumption. Rigorous study and research needs to conducted on this fascinating topic that would yield some rock solid evidences to back or oppose the argument.

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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'look', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'apart from', 'i feel', 'kind of']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.232620320856 0.25644967241 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.200534759358 0.15541462614 129% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0614973262032 0.0836205057962 74% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0614973262032 0.0520304965353 118% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0401069518717 0.0272364105082 147% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.114973262032 0.125424944231 92% => OK
Participles: 0.0775401069519 0.0416121511921 186% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.51440658694 2.79052419416 90% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0294117647059 0.026700313972 110% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0989304812834 0.113004496875 88% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0133689839572 0.0255425247493 52% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0160427807487 0.0127820249294 126% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2006.0 2731.13054187 73% => OK
No of words: 340.0 446.07635468 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.9 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.57801047555 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.323529411765 0.378187486979 86% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.252941176471 0.287650121315 88% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.152941176471 0.208842608468 73% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.1 0.135150697306 74% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51440658694 2.79052419416 90% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 207.018472906 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594117647059 0.469332199767 127% => OK
Word variations: 68.1274747706 52.1807786196 131% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.039408867 110% => OK
Sentence length: 15.4545454545 23.2022227129 67% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.2548746158 57.7814097925 52% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.1818181818 141.986410481 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.4545454545 23.2022227129 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.724660767414 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 3.58251231527 167% => OK
Readability: 40.7486631016 51.9672348444 78% => OK
Elegance: 1.40707964602 1.8405768891 76% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.345307481288 0.441005458295 78% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0712437357059 0.135418324435 53% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0780812844614 0.0829849096947 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.41633794681 0.58762219726 71% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0991086223497 0.147661913831 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111290217575 0.193483328276 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0786169163079 0.0970749176394 81% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.326535875072 0.42659136922 77% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0935350732031 0.0774707102158 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.238828514551 0.312017818177 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0440317858851 0.0698173142475 63% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.87684729064 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.82512315271 166% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 14.657635468 68% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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