Altruism is a type of behavior in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of another animal or group of animals. Altruism is the opposite of selfishness; indi- viduals performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves.
Examples of altruism abound, both among humans and among other mam- mals. Unselfish acts among humans range from the sharing of food with strangers to the donation of body organs to family members, and even to strangers. Such acts are altruistic in that they benefit another, yet provide little reward to the one performing the act.
In fact, many species of animals appear willing to sacrifice food, or even their life, to assist other members of their group. The meerkat, which is a mammal that dwells in burrows in grassland areas of Africa, is often cited as an example. In groups of meerkats, an individual acts as a sentinel, standing guard and looking out for predators while the others hunt for food or eat food they have obtained. If the sentinel meerkat sees a predator such as a hawk approaching the group, it gives an alarm cry alerting the other meerkats to run and seek shelter. By standing guard, the sentinel meerkat gains nothing—it goes without food while the others eat, and it places itself in grave danger. After it issues an alarm, it has to flee alone, which might make it more at risk to a predator, since animals in groups are often able to work together to fend off a predator. So the altruistic sentinel behavior helps ensure the survival of other members of the meerkat’s group.
The passage and lecture discuss the behaviour characteristic ‘Altruism’. Author gives the example of meerkat and human in a particular situation as displaying altruism.But the professor on the other hand, suggests that there might be some hidden benefit or gain for person trying to be selfless.Thus professor counter the pointes made in passage.
Firstly, passage gives example of an individual in meerkat group that acts as sentinel, which acts with selflessness by standing as guard for the rest of group wile the others go to find food. Moreover, according to author if an enemy is found sentinel gives signal to rest so that they can flee to safety but this sentinel might not have enough time to flee. On the other hand, professor opposes these points providing some scientific information that is recently found I.e the Meerkat that is acting as sentinel eats before going to Stand as guard and furthermore professions states that since sentinel is the one that sees enemy first it has better chance of escaping compared to others.
Secondly, passage says that even mammals show altruism , by showing unselfish acts of food sharing etc and more specifically gives example of person donating kidney as the one showing altruism since it does not benefit him much. Whereas professor says that person donating the kidney receives appreciation , self work or something else that we might feel invaluable but the donor may feel valuable.
Thus in passage view the act of kidney donation and sentinel in meerkat group shows altruism character but the professor on the other hand gives logical reasoning that such actions may not be completely unselfish. Thus professor casts doubt on the points of passage.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, whereas, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1450.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 279.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19713261649 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7848151829 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559139784946 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.23620309051 12% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 31.0 21.2450331126 146% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 81.7817028044 49.2860985944 166% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.111111111 110.228320801 146% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.0 21.698381199 143% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.8888888889 7.06452816374 168% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.124821379089 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0524568718149 0.0996497079465 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0579310070984 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0766749172006 0.162205337803 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0119334607749 0.0443174109184 27% => 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: 18.6 13.3589403974 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 53.8541721854 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 11.0289183223 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.498013245 137% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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