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; individuals performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves.
Examples of altruism abound, both among humans and among other mammals. 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 a 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 reading passage states that altruism is a very frequent behavior among mammals, such as meerkat and Humans. The professor instead, in her lecture, contends that those science beliefs and assumptions should be restated on the light of the findings of a new research about Meerkat behaviour, and also she casts doubts about human altruistic behavior questioning about the real motive of those actions.
The first point that the professor uses to contrast the reading is that the Meerkat is standing in guard while the others are eating is because it has already fed and therefore it is not sacrificing its food in exchange for the safety of the community. Moreover standing out near the burrow gives it the possibility to intercept the arrival of predators before all the others and quickly flee away, while the other Meerkats focused on food may not have the time to react fast enough to fend off the predator.
Secondly, the Professor argues the example made in the reading about Another example used in the reading is the human behavior of body organ donation, between relatives or even between two strangers. The professor contendsShe says that this kind of action can be very rewarding in terms of social appreciation and approval from the community where these persons live. in, and. Also, according to the professor, then, the donors are more rewarded than what the reading states.
In conclusion, the points made in the lecture contrast with reading, in support of her thesis the professor argues the other side of the points made in the reading; the meerkat standing in the guard is not starving for the safety of the community, rather it has already ensured itself a meal. Aand the donator reward for a human body organ donation it is far from little.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, while, in conclusion, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1474.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92976588629 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47891298025 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551839464883 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 454.5 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => 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: 33.0 21.2450331126 155% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 93.5077002177 49.2860985944 190% => OK
Chars per sentence: 163.777777778 110.228320801 149% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.2222222222 21.698381199 153% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.1111111111 7.06452816374 171% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => 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: 0.084281039252 0.272083759551 31% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0330123684147 0.0996497079465 33% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0340439742359 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0481218169039 0.162205337803 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0152991002935 0.0443174109184 35% => 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: 18.4 13.3589403974 138% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.44 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.0289183223 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.91 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 10.7273730684 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 10.498013245 145% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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