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

The reading talks about altruistic behaviors of animals, which mean them sacrificing their own interests for the sake of others or the group. It is exemplified with the example of the meerkat. Conversely to the arguments of the reading, the professor does not share this opinion.

According to the passage, while meerkats are searching for food, there is always one meerkat standing guard as a sentinel and looking out for predators. So that meerkat is the only one who cannot eat and thus shows an example of a sacrifice of its own interests. But not so for the lecturer, who says that the sentinel meerkat actually eats food before its duty, which is why this is not an altruistic behavior.

Moreover, after giving an alarm as a signal for nearby predators, the reading contends the alarming puts the meerkat in the position of a target. The lecturer posits this argument by saying that the alarming makes the other meerkats gather together making them more defenseless to the predators. The sentinel is in such situations often the first one, who flees, which shows, again, no sign of selflessness.

The article points out that such supposed-altruistic behavior can also be seen in people. The professor, however, claims that events like sharing foods with needers or even donation of organs cannot really be considered as selfless acts because the person still gets recognition in return. For some people, such a reward can be more valuable than a material gain.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, conversely, first, however, if, look, moreover, really, so, still, thus, while

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1234.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0162601626 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71656663551 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613821138211 0.540411800872 114% => OK
syllable_count: 369.9 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.1787671953 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.833333333 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.25 7.06452816374 117% => 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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.187367334546 0.272083759551 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0702879374881 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.063401032547 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115097756408 0.162205337803 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592309219415 0.0443174109184 134% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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