Robert E. Peary was a well-known adventurer and arctic explorer who in 1909 set out to reach the North Pole. When he returned from the expedition, he claimed to have reached the pole on April 7, 1909. This report made him into an international celebrity. Though some historians have expressed doubts that Peary did in fact reach the North Pole, three arguments provide strong support for the truth of Peary’s claim.
First, the National Geographic Society put together a committee that was instructed to conduct a thorough investigation of Peary’s records and equipment. At the end of the investigation, the committee concluded that Peary’s accounts were consistent and persuasive and declared that he had indeed reached the North Pole.
Second, a recent expedition provides support for Peary’s claim that he reached the North Pole in only 37 days after setting out from Ellesmere Island off the coast of Greenland. Skeptics used to argue that Peary could not have traveled that fast, since even modern snowmobiles take longer to cover the same distance. However, a British explorer named Tom Avery recently made the same trek in less than 37 days. In fact, Avery used the same kind of dogsled and the same number and breed of dogs as Peary had. Thus, Peary’s claims are not impossible, and he very well might have been telling the truth.
Third, there are photographs taken by Peary that support his claim to have reached the North Pole. Measuring the shadows in Peary’s photographs makes it possible to calculate the Sun’s position in the sky. The Sun’s position established from the photographs corresponds exactly to the Sun’s position as it should have been at the North Pole on that day. This provides strong evidence that Peary reached the North Pole and took the photographs there.
Based on the given materials, the reading as well as the lecturer discusses doubts about the Peary journy to the north pole. The author states that based on the given evidences, it is possible to conclude that peary made the journey. That being said, the lecturer provides several ideas to repudiate this claim.
Initially, the auther says that a committee investigated the journey so they made sure of the journey. However the lecturer explains that this group of people were not trusted since they were Peary's friends. The committee were made of a group of people who were friends with Peary and also who put a lot of money to fund the journey. So as amatter of fact the investigation were not only biased but also not deep enough because the investigation took only two days.
Second, the writer proclaims that the journey made by the british traveller is enough proof. Yet again, the speaker proclaims that this journey were different than the one made by Peary. She mentiones that although he made the journey by sled but he caried less weight since food s were droped by the plain. Another diffrence she mentions is the climate. She points out that the conditions during Peary's expedition were wrose than the time during Tom's jurney so just an instance of the travel is not enough as a proof.
The final point of contention between reading and listening passages is photographs. The author thinks photographs of Peary assess the postion of the sun using scientific techniques and by measuring shadows. On the other hand, the speaker explains that the condition of photos is not in such a way to obtain reliable information. She states that it is true that we can find out wheather a photo woul had been taken in north pole or not by this approach but the cnodition of these photos are not suitable to do so since they were taken by a camera a hundred years ago and they are worn out. So we can not be confident about the results since the shadow in photos are no good for this technique..
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: However,
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Suggestion: from
...claims that this journey were different than the one made by Peary. She mentiones th...
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...in photos are no good for this technique..
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, second, so, well, as to, as well as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 10.4613686534 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1656.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 354.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67796610169 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4314207682 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505649717514 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 505.8 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.5231315024 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.4117647059 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8235294118 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.29411764706 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132816262026 0.272083759551 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0419176737911 0.0996497079465 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0351086358819 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0838853220457 0.162205337803 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0273331054415 0.0443174109184 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.86 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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