Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific points made in the reading passage.
Humans have been battling the tropical disease malaria since at least the late fourth century B.C. This debilitating and deadly disease is actually a parasite which reproduces in humans and is spread through the saliva of mosquitoes when they suck blood from humans. While there is still no cure for malaria, there are three main strategies that we hope will lead to the eradication of this disease which kills nearly half a million people around the world each year.
The first strategy is to fight the malaria parasite itself by treating patients with powerful prescription medicines. Patients are tested to determine which strain of the malaria parasite is present, as different areas of the world have different strains of the parasite. Then, an effective medicine is administered to combat the symptoms of the infection.
The second strategy is to kill the mosquitoes that transfer the parasite to humans. Killing the adult mosquitoes using chemical sprays is a common option, but the larvae of the mosquitoes can also be killed where they develop, in pools of warm, still water. These larvae can be killed using chemicals, but another popular approach is to release fish into the water that prey on the larvae such as guppies to eat the larvae before they mature into adults.
The third strategy is called the sterile insect technique. "Sterile" means the insect cannot reproduce. This strategy involves breeding and hatching millions of mosquitoes, sterilizing the males with low-level gamma rays, and then releasing them into the wild population. Females that mate with the sterile males produce eggs which do not hatch, and this causes the mosquitoes to die out. This strategy has been effective in wiping out a number of insect pests including the screw-worm and several types of fruit flies.
The reading passage primarily deals with strategies to eradicate malaria. Specifically, it mentions three ways to effectively combat this deadly disease. However, the speaker in the lecture launches a scathing attack on all of these strategies and claims that none of these techniques would actually help defeat this fatal disease.
The first strategy that the author of the passage mentions is to treat patients with powerful medicines. The speaker, however, casts serious doubt on the effectiveness of medicines in curing malaria. He retorts that none of the medication available today is capable of completely curing malaria. He specifically mentions the name of the two most common drugs in malarial treatments and explains their ineffectiveness against certain strains of malaria. Additionally, he hypothesizes that eventually, the parasites may develop resistance or immunity to all sorts of drugs.
Secondly, the passage proposes that killing off all mosquitoes which are the carrier of malaria, including their larvae, can be an effective strategy. On the contrary, the speaker refutes this claim by explaining how it is quite impossible to eliminate or kill all disease-carrying mosquitoes. He expounds that sprays and chemicals can't reach and eradicate this huge population of mosquitoes.
In addition to these two strategies, the author posits another effective technique for combating malaria. This technique, named 'sterile insect technique', utilizes gamma radiation to sterilize male mosquitoes. However, the speaker rejects this idea by discussing how the gamma radiation also makes these sterile mosquitoes less attractive for mating and hence does not serve the intended purpose of wiping out mosquitoes entirely.
In light of the above, we can conclude that the author and the speaker are poles apart.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 333, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
.... He expounds that sprays and chemicals cant reach and eradicate this huge populatio...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, in addition, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1556.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.65818181818 5.08290768461 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96402674506 2.5805825403 115% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592727272727 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 488.7 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.5828245581 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.733333333 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3333333333 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.53333333333 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => 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: 0.121643262325 0.272083759551 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0415234593105 0.0996497079465 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0298498512692 0.0662205650399 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0619776878114 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384953334271 0.0443174109184 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.28 53.8541721854 67% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.55 12.2367328918 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.58 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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