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 several solutions to prevent damage to birds when they encounter glass windows of buildings and provides three reasons to endorse its idea. However, the professor states that the injuries to birds can not be stopped by these adaptations and gainsays each reason mentioned in the paragraph.
First and foremost, the passage begins by asserting the first quick fix which is replacing the standard clear glass with one-sided transparent glass which will make birds understand that it is a solid barrier. So, birds will not try to fly through the glass as they will not be able to see through the window from their direction. On the contrary, the speaker emphasized that responsible businesses cannot prevent birds from smashing onto glass buildings through the one-way transparent glass because it will act as a mirror due to reflection. Since birds do not understand the effect of a mirror, therefore, they will still fly towards the glass by perceiving the reflection of the sky or a tree as real.
Next, the professor in the lecture further points out that drawing lines on glass would not make the situation better. When birds would consider the gaps between colorful stripes as open hollow space, they will make an effort to pass through them. Moreover, the painting on glass is substantial when the unpainted area between different patterns is barely noticeable but, it will create another issue. The rooms inside the building will become dark as there will be no light coming from outside through windows. The professor's these reasons completely refute the writer's implication of adding colorful painted patterns on regular glass windows of buildings which will protect birds from getting injured as they will not try to fly through them.
Ultimately, the article wraps its suggestions by declaring the bird's response towards the magnetic field. The author explains that by introducing strong electromagnets in the buildings, we can escort birds to steer away from that area. Since birds navigate themselves with the help of Earth's magnetic fields, the magnetic signals emitting from the building will compel birds to redirect to another direction which will prevent their collision with the massive glass structures. On the other hand, the speaker in the listening completely opposes this plan. He states that although, it is true that birds can sense Earth's magnetic field but, they use this ability for long-distance traveling when they are migrating from cold places to warm ones before winter. Furthermore, for short-distance traveling, they use their eyes and brightness of the surroundings to move from one side of the city to another. So the artificial magnetic field, creating by the buildings, is not going to affect them.
That's how the professor denies each solution to the problem of birds crashing into glass windows of buildings.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, still, therefore, it is true, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 5.04856512141 376% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 30.3222958057 234% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2462.0 1373.03311258 179% => OK
No of words: 470.0 270.72406181 174% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23829787234 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65612321451 4.04702891845 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63030360557 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 145.348785872 167% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517021276596 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 699.3 419.366225166 167% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.383165956 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.578947368 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7368421053 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.10526315789 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 4.33554083885 277% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.332356605415 0.272083759551 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109460518059 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0713018184131 0.0662205650399 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195023695946 0.162205337803 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0566893435783 0.0443174109184 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.3589403974 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 63.6247240618 176% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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