The lecturer disputes the idea that the behavior of some mammals and humans is a kind of Altruism. He asserts that latest discoveries in science indicate that indeed that there is some kind of reward for the meerkat behavior when they stand to save guard others of the same species.
First, the lecturer argues that meerkat does not stay without food when it stands to safeguard others. The author claims that meerkat stays hungry to protect others of its own species from predictors. However, the lecturer states that this kind of animal eats before it safeguard other meerkats. Thus, this is not considered an act of Altruism.
Second, the lecturer contends that meerkat does not sacrifice its life for others when it acts as sentinel. According to the lecturer the meeerkat gives an alarming cry to warn others that there is a predator, but also the sentinel meerkat would be the first to run since it is the closest to the burrow. Furthermore, as the predator would not notice the safeguard meerkat because his attention will attracted to the rest of the group which is moving fast in response to the alarming cry by the safeguard meerkat.
Finally, the lecturer also states that human who donate organs have some kind of non materialistic rewards out of donating their organs. The lecturer acknowledges that with no doubt, donating organs is a good example of giving. However, the donor has in return a better feeling of self worth.
- Some people believe that a college or university education should be available to all students. Others believe that higher education should be available only to good students. Discuss these views. Which view do you agree with? Explain why. 66
- Modern transportation and shipping has made the world a better place to live. 76
- At the end of the Triassic period 200 million years ago, there was a mass-extinction event that caused the extinction of more than half of all living species. It was this extinction event that allowed dinosaurs to become the dominant species for the next 86
- At the end of the Triassic period 200 million years ago, there was a mass-extinction event that caused the extinction of more than half of all living species. It was this extinction event that allowed dinosaurs to become the dominant species for the next 68
- Scientists are considering the possibility of sending humans to Mars in the coming decades. Although there have been successful manned missions to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s, Mars is 150 times further away from Earth than the Moon is. Thus the projec 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 225, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... kind of reward for the meerkat behavior when they stand to save guard others of ...
^^
Line 5, column 401, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'attract'
Suggestion: attract
...uard meerkat because his attention will attracted to the rest of the group which is movin...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, thus, kind of, no doubt
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1201.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88211382114 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44630687858 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552845528455 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 361.8 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.373294626 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.083333333 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.138222931345 0.272083759551 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0584505832869 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0615966948507 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.080462255119 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0417673460347 0.0443174109184 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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.