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.
In this set of materials, the writer strongly postulates that the use of glass windows in modern architecture is extremely hazardous for birds, and specifically
provides three solutions for the protection of birds from injury. On the other hand, the professor states that none of the solutions is effective enough to prevent birds' injuries from glass windows, and gainsays each of the arguments mentioned in the reading.
First and foremost, the passage begins by asserting
that replacing the regular glass with one-way glass windows will enable the birds not to see the inside of buildings. As, it acts as a barrier and thus, hinders the birds to fly through buildings. Nonetheless, the lecture refutes this by stating that one-way glass mirrors would reflect surfaces like trees and sky and it would be as bad as a regular mirror. This is because birds have the impression that these images are real objects, so they continue to fly through them and get injured.
Next, the professor in the lecture further points on that painting colorful lines on the regular window will confuse the birds that there are small openings, and they try to navigate their way and would get hurt. This solution could only be possible if gaps between the colorful designs are designed extremely small, but this modification would cause the rooms to be too dark for people inside to see. These claims refute the writer’s implication that drawing colorful stripes or other designs would alert the birds about the barrier's presence and they would not fly into them to get injured, also, people inside the building would not have the problem as they could see in enough light.
Ultimately, the article wraps his arguments by declaring that birds can detect magnetic fields naturally. By placing electromagnets outside the buildings create the magnetic effect, so it will gear the birds to stay away from buildings. The speaker in the listening rebuts this point by insisting that although birds can detect magnetic fields, they only use that feature to travel long distances in order to migrate. For shorter distances, within a city, birds use their eyes to see brightness. Therefore creating a magnetic field would not have any effect.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 526, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'barriers'' or 'barrier's'?
Suggestion: barriers'; barrier's
...designs would alert the birds about the barriers presence and they would not fly into th...
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Line 6, column 496, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...birds use their eyes to see brightness. Therefore creating a magnetic field would not hav...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, nonetheless, so, therefore, thus, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1856.0 1373.03311258 135% => OK
No of words: 367.0 270.72406181 136% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05722070845 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49613887105 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528610354223 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 550.8 419.366225166 131% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 61.8583388205 49.2860985944 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.571428571 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2142857143 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.21428571429 7.06452816374 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.266518211703 0.272083759551 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0935621720095 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0543861343056 0.0662205650399 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127946349579 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0681395964778 0.0443174109184 154% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 63.6247240618 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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