Altruism
Recently, there has been a ton of debate around altruism, which is defined as an act of selflessness for the benefit of a group or of the others. According to the article, the author puts forth the idea that individuals performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves. In the listening passage, the lecturer is quick to point out some serious flaws in the writer's claims. In fact, the professor believes that altruistic behaviour provide a lot of reward to the subject, and addresses, in detail, the trouble with each point made in the reading text.
First and foremost, the writer mentions the instance of altruistic phenomenon in human society to strengthen his opinion. The reading affirms that the people who share food or donate organs literally sacrifice a part of themselves without expecting anything in return. The lecturer, however, stand in firm opposition to this claim. By scrutinizing the same case, the professor comes to a conclusion that the people in this scenario, actually gains a lot of appreciation and valuable things for their altruistic actions. In other words, they do earn reputation for their selflessness, instead of nothing as said in the text.
The view of both sides are even more deeply divided when it comes to the next example of altruism in animals, specifically meerkats. The passage supposes that the sentinel in a herd of meerkats has the least benefit since it suffers from hungry while the others are hunting and faces the most risk when a predator attacks. Result of some research provided by the professor show the contrary. It clarifies that not only are the standing guards the first ones to eat, but they are also more likely to escape in case of danger. For that their only job is to warn other meerkats, they have time to run when an enemy approach, while the rest of the herd are busy finding food and in the passive positions.
To sum up, both the writer and professor hold conflicting views about altruism. It's clear that they will have trouble finding some common ground on this issue.
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- When people grow up, they have to choose between living independently as soon as possible or living with their families for a longer time. Which one do you prefer and why? 86
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Our current way of life will have a negative impact on future generations 77
- Altruism 75
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, so, then, while, in fact, in other words, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 30.3222958057 175% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1709.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 349.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89684813754 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59614666463 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 145.348785872 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578796561605 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 515.7 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.7244935512 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.8125 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8125 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.110736025672 0.272083759551 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0377743704822 0.0996497079465 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.079143890725 0.0662205650399 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.07825596467 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0545682981959 0.0443174109184 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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