Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific points made in the reading passage: Our long-standing interest in elephants has led to several beliefs about surprising elephant behaviors. 1- Elephants Are Aware of Approaching Death 2- Representing Objects through Art 3- Fear of Mice
Both the reading passage and the lecture argue some misconceptions about elephants. The reading enumerates several ideas that support why people are interested in elephants. On the other hand, the lecturer diametrically opposes to those reasons and illustrates that those rationals are only misunderstandings of the elephants' behaviors.
First, In the reading, the elephants’ awareness of their approaching death time followed by leaving their groups, is considered one of the behaviors that absorb people’s attention. Conversely, the professor states that elephants leave their group for other reasons. In old ages, elephants' teeth wear down and make it arduous for elephants to chew foods which cause them to leave their herds. In seeking out more suitable food, elephants choose places with soft vegetation to eat that can be found in the vicinity of water. Thus, the reason that elephants' bones are found in “elephant graveyard” relates to their living place near the water when elephants are dying.
Second, the professor disputes that elephants are instinctively capable to portray to show arts. She explains that elephants would commit painting to memory. Those trainers use the sensitivity of elephants’ ears to teach them how to move the paintbrush and create paintings. Painting an object like a flower or an animal is taught by stimulating an elephant to perform some repetitive behaviors. Therefore, elephants do not possess abilities to draw because their performance is the result of a training process.
Third, having fear of mice shows a misconception because what elephants react to is not the mice but their unfamiliarity with mice. She continues that elephants are inherently cautious about unfamiliar animals which is why elephants see mice for the first time and react to them. Elephants in the zoo do not cautious about mice since they got used to mice and they are not strange. When an elephant familiarized itself with harmless mice, it would never afraid of them.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, second, so, therefore, third, thus, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1709.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 316.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4082278481 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02162497892 2.5805825403 117% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575949367089 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 522.9 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.3651313933 49.2860985944 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.529411765 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5882352941 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.52941176471 7.06452816374 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266757742633 0.272083759551 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0969745121725 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0328572268465 0.0662205650399 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161841727451 0.162205337803 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0193946722413 0.0443174109184 44% => 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: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.8541721854 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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