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 Surf s position in the sun. The Surf s position established from the photographs corresponds exactly to the Surf 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.
According to the article, Robert Peary, who was an explorer and adventurer, claimed that he reached the North Pole in 1909. The article provides supporting evidences to Peary’s claim. However, the professor in the lecture opposes the article’s point of view and argues that the evidences are not solid enough nor convincing.
First, the article mentions that Peary’s records and equipment were investigated by the National Geographic Society committee and they concluded that Peary did reach the North Pole. On the other hand, the professor refutes this point by showing that the committee investigation was not objective at all. In fact, Peary had one of his friends worked in the committee that seemed to help with the investigation and did not examine the records carefully. Indeed, this evidence seems to be biased at a certain level.
Secondly, the article states that Peary reached the North Pole in only 37 days which Tom Avery did after him and used the same track as Peary did. In contrary, the professor debunks this statement by demonstrating that there are some differences between Peary and Avery journey. Avery had less weight and less food than Peary had. In addition, Avery traveled in much better weather conditions Peary did. So, it is unlikely that Peary did reach the North Pole in 37 days.
Finally, the article claims that there are some photos taken by Peary shows the shadow of the sun looks like the shadow of sun in the North Pole in the same time and date of Peary’s travel. Nevertheless, the professor disagrees with this point of view by thinking that the photographs are fussy and for sure the photos would be faded over the time. Therefore, it is impossible to position the sun accurately from these photos.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, look, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, in addition, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1476.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 294.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02040816327 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65459575367 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534013605442 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => 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: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.0224100002 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.06666666667 7.06452816374 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240348213818 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0863148405141 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10738526594 0.0662205650399 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148343914834 0.162205337803 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.06562833625 0.0443174109184 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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