Summarize the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage

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Summarize the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage.

The reading passage talks about altruism which is a selfless act to benefit others. According to the passage, it can be observed in both humans and animals. In humans, acts such as sharing food with strangers or donating body organs to family or even to strangers are considered altruistic acts. Secondly, in animals such as Meerakats, one of the individual acts as a standing guard whose duty is to inform others about any threats that may attack them. While others in the group hunt for food or eat the food they have hunted, the stand guard is looking for potential threats by risking his own life. Further, in case of danger, they are the most vulnerable ones because the group can fight the threat together whereas it can be an easy target because it is alone. However, the lecture opposes these and the points are mentioned below.

To begin with, the lecture mentions that a new methods of study can question older methods and may need earlier results to be reexamined. Suppose for instance, human acts such as that of donating organs to a family member or even to a complete stranger may seem a selfless act but there are a lot on non matrialistic benefits from these acts which need to be taken into account. For instance, the appreciation received by the stranger or approval received by the society which leads to increase in self worth also need to be considered. When these are taken into account, the categorization of the act as altruistic might be called into question.

Similar observations are made for Meerkat. As suggested by the lecture, recent deeper studies suggest that group of Meerkat usually eats before stand guard. This means that the individual that stand guards usually has full stomach. Furthermore, the individual who is acting as a sentinel is usually standing closer to the burrows. Hence, if there are any threats approaching the group such as a hawk, they can immediately escape and hide in the burrows while the group struggles for it. Not only that, the others in the group are in greater danger than the individual. This is because, the group can draw predator's attention leading it to the group first instead of the individual.

Hence, based on the above points, it is clear that the lecture opposes the points made in the reading passage.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 48, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'method'?
Suggestion: method
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, whereas, while, for instance, such as, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 10.4613686534 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1895.0 1373.03311258 138% => OK
No of words: 394.0 270.72406181 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80964467005 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52489600736 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 145.348785872 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510152284264 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 584.1 419.366225166 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8626713402 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.7368421053 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7368421053 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.15789473684 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.144352376936 0.272083759551 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0534705536378 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0830064672763 0.0662205650399 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131949175376 0.162205337803 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.117704705145 0.0443174109184 266% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => 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: 10.62 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 63.6247240618 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => 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: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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