Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage.
Reading and lecture are both about altruism behavior, which is commonly found in humans and animals. On the one hand, the writer underlines that animals and people do altruistic facts without gaining anything in exchange. On the other hand, the lecturer casts doubts on the claims made by writer, affirming that his statements are somehow inaccurate when compared to reality.
First, according to recent researches, meerkats eat before guarding the other members of their group, so since they are not starving, there is no real sacrifice and altruism there. This is a standpoint that contradicts the passage.
Second, while guarding the meerkats are not in a real danger. The writer implies that by standing alone, a sentinel faces more dangerous situations, when a predator appears. However, the author refutes this by adding that its surveillance place is close to a barrel, so whenever it sees a predator, the meerkat can run and hide in a few seconds. Moreover, when it set the alarm for the other members, all the attention is dragged on those who are hunting, because they tend to group when they see a danger. Therefore, they are more exposed to peril, than the sentinel is. This is a strong counter-point that refutes the author's point of view.
Third, people do altruistic acts in order to gain recognition and appreciation. The writer asserts that there are no material rewards, and thus an individual gains nothing when donating organs. Anyway, the lecturer says that some people love to receive approval from society, and they value this more than material rewards. In other words, individuals who donate or do other acts of altruism, are aware that they gain moral rewards, which can be more substantial than material ones. To summarize, the author and the lecturer seem to be in total disagreement regarding this specific topic.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
anyway, first, however, if, moreover, regarding, second, so, therefore, third, thus, while, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1547.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07213114754 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63125733901 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573770491803 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 472.5 419.366225166 113% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.5370201174 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.6875 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0625 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8125 7.06452816374 111% => 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 : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.118917340259 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0379242107835 0.0996497079465 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0433548611421 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0620477074228 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0142630905085 0.0443174109184 32% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
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: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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