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.
The article and the lecture discuss prospect solutions that can be applied to prevent birds from hitting the buildings' glasses. While the article suggests three possible methods to protect birds from regular glass, the lecturer, on the other hand, responded that none of the proposed solutions will be effective.
To begin with, the article states that regular glass used in the buildings can be replaced with one-way glass. The article explains that this type of glass will not allow birds see through glass. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that one-way glass reflects like mirror on the side seen by birds. He illustrates that this characteristic makes one-way glass as bad as regular glass, because birds will see the sky and trees reflections, so they will fly through it.
Secondly, the article points out that painting the windows' glasses with colorful paints will eliminate this problem. The lecturer, however, asserts that this solution has one main problem. The lecturer explains that painted windows have openings, therefore if birds see these openings, they will fly through them. He goes on to say that openings cannot painted smaller because the rooms will be dark.
Finally, the article puts forth the idea that generating a magnetic field around the buildings. The author mentions that magnetic field can applied to monitor away from buildings, since the birds utilize the Earth's magnetic field to navigate he proper direction. In contrast, the lecturer says that magnetic field will not work to direct birds for short distances. According to the lecturer, while birds use magnetic field for long distance travel, they use eyes and light for short distances.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, in contrast, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1426.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 274.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20437956204 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38676086308 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529197080292 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 408.6 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less 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: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.6306022038 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.0666666667 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2666666667 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.13333333333 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255270309566 0.272083759551 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0910811630506 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0698210335391 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148834586374 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0605282785278 0.0443174109184 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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