Summarize the points in lecture, being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage
Altruism is defined as the sacrifices of self interest made by an organism for the benefit of another or group of organism. The reading provides the examples of selfless acts made by human and that of sentinel meerkat for the benefit of other organisms. However, the lecturer finds holes and makes convincing points against the following examples of altruism highlighted in the passage.
Firstly, the lecturer suggests that if a person engages in charitable acts like kidney donation to other person, he/she recieves appreciation from the recipient and from the society against the donated organ. Also, donation enhances the sense of self worth of the person making him/her feel better. This argument contradicts the altruistic nature of act shown in the passage and specifies the benefits that are available to the donor.
Secondly, the speaker expresses disagreement with the example of sentinel meerkat pointed out in reading by saying that sentinel meerkats feed themselves before guarding which negates the point in the passage that sentinel meerkat goes to guard without food.
Thirdly, the lecturer points out that since sentinel meerkat is the first one to notice the predator, it is most likely to survive in an attack which contradicts the risky and altruistic nature of its job mentioned in passage. On top of that, because the alarm raised by sentinel meerkat leads to organization of other meerkats gathering food. This grouping would draw more attention of the predator allowing sentinel meerkat to escape since it is alone, leaving other meerkats in grave danger.
After hearing the lecture, I am convinced that the acts of altruism mentioned in passage have their equivalent benefits and thus are not truely altruistic.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 654, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...iating the activities which are bad for ones development from the ones which are goo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, for example, i think, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 15.1003584229 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 43.0788530466 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 52.1666666667 125% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1908.0 1977.66487455 96% => OK
No of words: 392.0 407.700716846 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86734693878 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44960558625 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59257983884 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 212.727598566 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520408163265 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 601.2 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.8716645499 48.9658058833 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.235294118 100.406767564 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0588235294 20.6045352989 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.23529411765 5.45110844103 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29767177159 0.236089414692 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0885648246599 0.076458572812 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0671134690055 0.0737576698707 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156568661062 0.150856017488 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0535631472491 0.0645574589148 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 10.9000537634 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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