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 reading and lecture are both about solutions that prevent injuries to birds to fly through glass windows. The author of reading presents three solutions to solve such problem. The lecture challenges these suggestions made by the author. He is of opinion that non of solution in the reading is convincing.
To begin with, the author says that one-way glass, which is transparent in only one direction could be used to prevent birds fly through a window because they feel it as a solid barrier. The lecture casts doubt on this theory. He points out that the one-way class behave the same way as mirror which mean that it can reflect things. He argues that the sky and tree could be reflect on these glass and birds probably fly into it.
Secondly, the writer suggests that colorful designs, that is a small tripes painted over the glass could help bird avoid trying to fly into the glass. The professor, however, rebuts this by mentioning that the type of windows are acctually open hole, which may incurace birds trying to fly through it. Additionally, he mentions that, to avoid this, the hold need to make extreamly small, which lead to reduce the light in the bulding and affect people are living in it.
Finally, the author points out that other solution is magnetic field. The lecturer, in contrast, says that, the magnet just help birds navigate in long distance. However, in sort trip, bird use eye and light to navigate.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, may, second, secondly, so, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1192.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 249.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.78714859438 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97237131171 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29547496946 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.55421686747 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 345.6 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.0591555034 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.1428571429 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7857142857 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42857142857 7.06452816374 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.209026326721 0.272083759551 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0673282548185 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0785881439 0.0662205650399 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117426350641 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0490057251402 0.0443174109184 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 13.3589403974 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 53.8541721854 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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