In history, there are many cases of mysterious occurrences, cultures, and habitats and it is true that the great mystery of the disappearance of the Easter Islanders no longer holds a place among them. However, the notion that invaders created the decline is sadly wrong. Internal factors were responsible.
To begin, invaders did not destroy the trees. Let me explain. Various island communities inhabited Easter Island and each was renowned for the enormous stone statues it erected. They were a symbol of status and each community constructed as many as possible to demonstrate its cultural dominance over the other. Now, these statues were placed throughout the island using rollers made of tree logs. As these communities competed, more and more trees were cut down, and it was this competition that destroyed the trees on the island, not invaders.
Second, the spear tips didn’t come from invaders. The islanders created these weapons of warfare, and they didn’t create them for defense against invaders but to attack their fellow islanders. 500 years ago, their resources nearly vanished. The trees were disappearing leaving few as material for the canoes needed to go out to sea for fish. With resources virtually depleted and food diminishing, these spear tips evidence nothing more than a civil war fought for limited resources.
Third, the “birdman” statue does indicate the birth of a new religious symbol, but it was not brought by invaders. As I explained earlier, this was a very difficult time for the islanders. Seeing their resources almost exhausted, their families dying of starvation, and their people at war could only have shown them that their current religious practices were ineffective, so naturally they began to adopt new ones, the “birdman” being a symbol connected with one of them.
The article states that the destruction of the Easter islands can be explained by the theory of invaders and provides three reasons to support. However, the professor states that the theory presented in the article is sadly wrong and refutes each reason. He explains that internal factors led to the decimation of the Easter islands.
To begin with, the article states that foreign incursion was the cause of the disappearance of the trees. However, the professor states that foreign inversion didn’t destroy trees. He explains that many communities existed on the island, and each community constructed statues, which were made from tree logs and which showed the power of the community on the island. As a result, Communities constructed many statues, which led to the disappearance of trees.
Second, the article supports the claim by explaining that spear tips, which came from the same time as the destruction of islanders took place, were discovered. However, the professor refutes the claim by stating that though the spear tips were made, it was made to protect from the invaders. He explains that due to scarce resources, islanders attacked their fellow islanders. Consequently, the civil war took place for scarce resources.
Finally, the article states that the birdman statue appeared from the same time when a dramatic shift in population took place. In contrast, the professor states that invaders didn’t bring new culture. He refutes the claim by stating that due to scarce resources, many islanders were dying, and the islanders thought that their current culture was ineffective. Therefore, the islanders adopted a new culture hoping to come out of the difficulty.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, conversely, first, however, second, so, third, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1360.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37549407115 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76323316312 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549407114625 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 405.9 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.4126662539 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.0 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8125 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25 7.06452816374 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.125948911101 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0423202482347 0.0996497079465 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0381173910768 0.0662205650399 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0809214885358 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0318056713244 0.0443174109184 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, conversely, first, however, second, so, third, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1360.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37549407115 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76323316312 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549407114625 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 405.9 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.4126662539 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.0 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8125 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25 7.06452816374 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.125948911101 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0423202482347 0.0996497079465 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0381173910768 0.0662205650399 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0809214885358 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0318056713244 0.0443174109184 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.