Glass is a favored building material for modern architecture, yet it is also very dangerous for wild birds. Because they often cannot distinguish between glass and open air, millions of birds are harmed every year when they try to fly through glass windows. There are, however, several solutions that responsible businesses can use to prevent injuries to birds.
One-Way Glass
One solution is to replace the regular, clear glass with one-way glass that is transparent in only one direction. The occupants of the building can see out, but birds and others cannot see in. If birds cannot see through a window, they will understand that the glass forms a solid barrier and will not try to fly through it.
Colorful Designs
A second solution is to paint colorful lines or other designs on regular window glass. For example, a window could have a design of thin stripes painted over the glass. People would still be able to see through the openings in the design where there is no paint, while birds would see the stripes and thus avoid trying to fly through the glass. Architects can be encouraged to include colorful painted patterns on glass as part of the general design of buildings.
Magnetic Field
The third solution is to create an artificial magnetic field to guide birds away from buildings. Humans use an instrument called a magnetic compass to determine directions—either north, south, east, or west. Bird research has shown that birds have a natural ability to sense Earth's magnetic fields; this ability works just like a compass, and it helps birds navigate in the right direction when they fly. A building in a bird flight path can be equipped with powerful electromagnets that emit magnetic signals that steer birds in a direction away from the building.
The reading and lecture are both about different solutions for protecting birds from the injuries caused by them flying to glass buildings. The author mentions three possible methods to prevent birds from this danger. The lecturer, however, disagrees. She believes that none of those methods will benefit the poor birds.
First of all, the author mentions that one-way glass can save birds as it is transparent only from one direction.The lecturer does not agree with this idea. She points out that one way glass just work like a mirror. As mirror reflects all the image fall on it, and birds cannot understand the concept of reflection. For example, while a mirror reflects the image of a tree, birds think that mirror is an actual tree and just try to fly to it ,and thus get injured.
Secondly, the author mentions that colorful glasses can be another solution by just keeping small opening for people to see through out the designs. The lecturer feels that this idea is also not convincing. She says that birds perceive these openings as small holes and try to fly through them. She also mentioned that this practical problem can be resolved by making extremely small openings, but it may darken the rooms, thus creating discomfort for the people inside the building.
Thirdly, the author mentioned a last idea of setting a magnetic field on those glass buildings. The article notes that all birds have the natural instinct to understand the magnetic field, thus prevent the danger. The lecturer, on the other hand, claims that birds use these mechanism only on long distance migration, and for short distance they fully depend on their vision and brightness of light .
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, while, for example, first of all, on the other hand
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: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1400.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 282.0 270.72406181 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96453900709 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38696698915 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560283687943 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 403.2 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 46.8484080128 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.3333333333 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.73333333333 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220719803448 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0704179786054 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0414413832099 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132554745937 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0141994863075 0.0443174109184 32% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 53.8541721854 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 11.0289183223 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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