Glass is a favored building material for modern architecture, yet it is also very dangerous for wild birds. Because they often cannot distinguish between glass and open air, millions of birds are harmed every year when they try to fly through glass windows. There are, however, several solutions that responsible businesses can use to prevent injuries to birds.
One-Way Glass
One solution is to replace the regular, clear glass with one-way glass that is transparent in only one direction. The occupants of the building can see out, but birds and others cannot see in. If birds cannot see through a window, they will understand that the glass forms a solid barrier and will not try to fly through it.
Colorful Designs
A second solution is to paint colorful lines or other designs on regular window glass. For example, a window could have a design of thin stripes painted over the glass. People would still be able to see through the openings in the design where there is no paint, while birds would see the stripes and thus avoid trying to fly through the glass. Architects can be encouraged to include colorful painted patterns on glass as part of the general design of buildings.
Magnetic Field
The third solution is to create an artificial magnetic field to guide birds away from buildings. Humans use an instrument called a magnetic compass to determine directions—either north, south, east, or west. Bird research has shown that birds have a natural ability to sense Earth’s magnetic fields; this ability works just like a compass, and it helps birds navigate in the right direction when they fly. A building in a bird flight path can be equipped with powerful electromagnets that emit magnetic signals that steer birds in a direction away from the building.
Based on the given materials, the article as well as the lecture discusses danger of using galss as building materials. The author propose three solutions to help birds avoide the galss since a lot of them do not recognize it as an obstacle and fly right to them. The lecturer provides several ideas to repudiate author's claims.
Initially, it is alleged in the reading to use one way galss so that birds would be able to recognize the glass as a barrier. However, the lecture asserts that this will not work since they look like mirrors to birds and would be as bad as regular glass. He alludes to the fact that birds do not understand mirrors and if they see a reflection of sky or a tree on these one way glasses, again they hit them.
Second, the writer proclaims that architects use colorfull designs such as stripes on glass so birds would see them and at the same time leave spaces between stripes for people inside. Yet again, the speaker underscores that birds might still see these opening between stripes and try to fly through them which cause the same problem. He points out that the openings must be extremely small in order to be effective but the smaller the opening, the darker the rooms inside. So this solution will not work.
The last point of contention between the reading and the listening passages is implementation of an artificial magnetic fields. The author states that birds use earth's natural magnetic field to navigate and an artificial magnetic field can point them in another direction. On the other hand, the lecturer says this will not work either since birds only use this ability for long distance migration such as going from a colder country to a warmer one. But for short trips, they only use their eyes so it would not have an effective impact.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 121, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'field'?
Suggestion: field
...mplementation of an artificial magnetic fields. The author states that birds use earth...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, second, so, still, well, as to, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1484.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 316.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69620253165 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34849360399 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53164556962 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9739711231 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.0 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5714285714 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.71428571429 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175063319095 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0583135914504 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0451297291833 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103543490219 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450227146903 0.0443174109184 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 53.8541721854 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.