Although the sale of rhinoceros horns is illegal worldwide, rhinoceroses (Rhinos) are commonly poached (hunted illegally) for their horns, which can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram. Rhino horns are so valuable that one type of rhino is already extinct because poachers killed too many of them. All rhinos may soon become extinct unless something is done to help save them. Several ideas have been suggested
The first idea is for wildlife experts to “dehorn" Rhinos living in the wild. Dehorning means removing the horns of living rhinos to make them less attractive to poachers Horns can be removed without hurting the animals if medical equipment and drugs to calm the animals are used When this strategy was tried on a small scale in the early 1990s; none of the rhinos dehorned at the time were killed by poachers.
The second possibility is to educate consumers. The majority of rhino horn sold is used in medicines Although rhino horn is believed to have health benefits, this belief has no scientific foundation Rhino horn consists almost entirely of keratin, the same material found in human hair and nails. Keratin has no known health value. Educating consumers about keratin could greatly decrease the demand for rhino horn
The third possibility is to legalize government sales of rhino horn. Some governments have large amounts of horn, taken from poachers they have arrested This horn is often kept in storage. However, if government sales were legal, large quantities of horn that governments already have could be sold at very low prices Poachers kill rhinos because consumers pay high prices for their horns If governments started selling cheap rhino horn, rhino poaching would no longer be profitable and would probably stop, at least for a while. That might help endangered rhino populations to recover.
The reading states that there are three possible solutions by which the exctinction of rhinoceroses can be stopped. The lecturer, however, finds the idea dubious and casts doubt on the reasons proposed by the reading passage.
The author argues that by the approach of dehorning and using medical equipments and drugs, the situation can be changed and none of the rhinos would be killed. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that this strategy would not be practical and good, since people have to catch and prepare these animals for the surgery, and it is time and money consuming method.
Furthermore, the reading passage holds the view that providing consumers with the awarness about this fact that rhinos' horn contain Keratin and this material does not have any health benefits, can be a good approach to preseve rhinos from extinction. On the contrary, the professor underlines the fact that, these people have strong and old believes about healing horns, which is impossible to be changed by new sciences. As a result, changing their opinion and educating them will not be easy.
Finally, the reading states that the government can sell the horns, which have been stored through the arresting poachers, in low prices. This results in the decline the demand for killing rhinos and providing people with these animals' horns. In contrast, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that a lot of people dont buy horns because it is illlega, if the government start to buy them, the demant will grow extremely, which results high tendency to kill rhinos and benefit the large an profitable businees of them in the country.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, furthermore, however, if, so, in contrast, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1368.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 274.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99270072993 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45526874513 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56204379562 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 405.9 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.0825968952 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.8 110.228320801 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4 21.698381199 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.2 7.06452816374 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193153638437 0.272083759551 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0744810259058 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.045669566108 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11228292637 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0318101222292 0.0443174109184 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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