The lecturer has given an contrary idea by giving example of recent study of meerkats. Therefore, the passage and the lecture bears the details which contracts with each other.
First of all, the author of the passage mentioned that the meerkut who acts as a self-guard, while other meerkuts hunt for food or eat food, is willing to sacrifice food as an altruistic act. However, the professor explained that the act is not altruistic as the meerkut who acts as self-guard actually feed himself before taking that job.
Secondly, the passage explained that if a predator comes near the group then the standing guard gives an alarm cry alerting the other meerkats to run and seek. The passage claims that the sentinel meerkat gains nothing by doing that and in fact it risks its own life by alerting others. Though, the professor refutes this claim by clearing more behavioral details about meerkut. She explains that the standing guard would be the first one to see the predator and therefore, after making an alarm cry, it would be the first one to escape. Therefore, the standing guard helps others but he didn't risk his own life for others. Thus, the example clearly explains that this act should not called 'altruistic act'.
At last, the professor gives another contrary example of human behavior. In passage, the writer mentions that humans donate their organs to other people without any expectations. However, the professor lectures that donating organs is also not an altruistic act. If a personal donates his kidney to his family member or even to stranger then the he will gain approval and appreciation from their family or even society. And the sense of self improval would be consider as "non-marerial reward" and therefore, it won't be consider as 'altruism'.
- Argument Topic The following is taken from a memo from the advertising director of the Super Screen Movie Production Company According to a recent report from our marketing department during the past year fewer people attended Super Screen produced movies 72
- Mass media and the internet have caused people s attention spans to get shorter However the overall effect has been positive while people are less able to focus on one thing they more than make up for it with an enhanced ability to sort through large quan 70
- A pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to complaints that pets that had consumed the food experienced vomiting lethargy and other signs of illness After the recall the pet food company tested samples from the recalled food an 58
- A recent study indicates that children living in the Himalayan mountain region in Nepal have lower levels of tooth decay than children living in suburban areas in the United States despite the fact that people in the Himalayan mountain region in Nepal rec 77
- Toward the end of his life the Chevalier de Seingalt 1725 1798 wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure but since he met many famous people including kings and writers his memoir has become a 80
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 24, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
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
The lecturer has given an contrary idea by giving example of rece...
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Line 5, column 288, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Though” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... risks its own life by alerting others. Though, the professor refutes this claim by cl...
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Line 5, column 589, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
... the standing guard helps others but he didnt risk his own life for others. Thus, the...
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Line 5, column 685, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'should' requires the base form of the verb: 'call'
Suggestion: call
...early explains that this act should not called altruistic act. At last, the profess...
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Line 7, column 343, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'he'?
Suggestion: the; he
... family member or even to stranger then the he will gain approval and appreciation fro...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, while, even so, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1490.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 298.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58254126608 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546979865772 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.1585397935 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.3333333333 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8666666667 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.2 7.06452816374 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187437771773 0.272083759551 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0633282597024 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0390667623975 0.0662205650399 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104690891551 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0249636662235 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.