In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to North America by European explorers known as the Norse, who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and came into contact with Native Americans almost a thousand years ago.
However, some archaeologists believe that the coin is not a genuine piece of historical evidence but a historical fake: they think that the coin was placed at the site recently by someone who wanted to mislead the public. There are three main reasons why some archaeologists believe that the coin is not genuine historical evidence
Great Distance from Norse Settlements
First, the Native American site in Maine where the coin was discovered is located very far from other sites documenting a Norse presence in North America Remains of Norse settlements have been discovered in far eastern Canada. The distance between the Maine site and the Norse settlements in Canada is more than a thousand kilometers, suggesting the coin has no real connection with the settlements.
No Other Coins Found
A second problem is that no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites that were inhabited by the Norse. This suggests that the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them to their North American settlements.
No Use for European Coins
Third, the Norse who traveled to North America would have understood that silver coins would most likely be useless to them. Silver coins may have been in wide use in Europe at the time, but the Norse, as experienced explorers, would have known that native North Americans did not recognize silver coins as money.
The article and the lecture are both about the eleven century European silver coin, which was found in the Native American archeological site. The author presents three theories about why the coin could not have brought by Norse to North America. The lecture dispute that claims made in the article. His position is that they are all incorrect.
According to the reading the location of finding is of great distance from of the Norse actual settlement, which is eastern side of Canada. The article mentions that, the distance between these two locations is thousands of kilometers, which bolster the assumption that the coins have no relation with the actual settlement of notes. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that the North American travel vast area and collect object from far reach places. Additionally she pointed out that, they could have come in contact with the Norse and brought back the silver coins.
Secondly, the author suggests that, no European silver coins were discovered in the Norse original settlement site. The lecturer however asserts that, since the Norse were not the native people of America, they return with all their valuables back to their mother land. She goes on to say that, during their retune, they return with all their possessions including silver coins.
Finally the author points that, North American people didn't value the silver coins due to which the coins were useless to them. He contends that, the natives have different monetary value and silver coin was not one of them. In contrast, the lecture’s stance is native people of America valued objects that were very attractive and objects with unusual characteristics. He notes that, silver coins could have been integrated part of their ornaments, so the coins could have been used in the process of transection between Norse and Native Americans.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 52.1666666667 77% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1567.0 1977.66487455 79% => OK
No of words: 306.0 407.700716846 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12091503268 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.48103885553 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40794683376 2.67179642975 90% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 212.727598566 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.493464052288 0.524837075471 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 473.4 618.680645161 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6936305993 48.9658058833 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.9375 100.406767564 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.125 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.4375 5.45110844103 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238663181651 0.236089414692 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0847298969201 0.076458572812 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0828545268089 0.0737576698707 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159449198246 0.150856017488 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0704472540735 0.0645574589148 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 86.8835125448 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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