Some people believe that society should try to save every plant and animal species, despite the expense to humans in effort, time, and financial well-being. Others believe that society need not make extraordinary efforts, especially at a great cost in money and jobs, to save endangered species.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
The universe was built not only for mankind but also for other species and organisms. The prompt describes to situation on opposite ends of the spectrum whether we should protect the species or not at our expense. I believe that both the opinions have some merit and neither can be disregarded. Depending upon the type of species taken into account, a few examples are provided to support both the cases.
Many centuries ago, before mankind existed, various plants and animals used to live in harmony. With the evolution, man started hunting animals for food and leisure. Man also hunted animals for their greed where they sold various animal parts for clothing, beautification and comfort. This over the time, increased the risk of many animal species being endangered with a few animals going extinct. One such example is the dodo bird. The dodo bird prominently found in New Zealand went extinct in the 19th century due to hunting. This disrupted the natural ecosystem and affected the plants and animals in that habitat, who were either directly or indirectly dependent on the dodo bird. Since it is our wrong doings that endanger these species, it should be our moral obligation to protect these animal and plant species.
The natural ecosystem of our planet is built in such a way that every species is dependent on each other for their survival. A simple example would be, we humans need plants for oxygen, plants need animal carcasses for nutrition which in turns help with their growth, and other scavengers need those carcasses for their food. This dependent food chain is vital for the growth of every species involved in the chain. Taking one species out of the equation creates an imbalance.
Conversely, any government has the responsibility of catering to the needs of their citizens. Hence, their top most priority would be to deploy the assets for the welfare of their electoral. Using these resources on species can be considered imperative. Some species are at a considerable lower level threat of extinction and it would be futile to direct the resources towards them. The species that are going extinct due to natural calamities, cannot be given resources or protection because as per Darwinian principle, only the fittest survive.
In conclusion, owing to the moral obligation and need for self-preservation, species that are endangered by human activities or are important for our very well-being, should be saved by the society even if it requires extraordinary efforts. Contrarily, extra ordinary efforts are not justifiable for the conservation for those naturally endangered species whose extinction has either low probability or negligible consequences to the ecosystem balance. Finally, sustainable, not extra ordinary, efforts such as recycling, clean energy, etc. can account for the concerns raised by both the opinions.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, hence, if, so, well, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2404.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 461.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2147505423 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75934869203 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531453362256 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 752.4 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.9329990906 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.16 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.44 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220927500903 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0580167831374 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0419899260647 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122497839715 0.150359130593 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0210442591673 0.0667264976115 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: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, hence, if, so, well, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2404.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 461.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2147505423 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75934869203 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531453362256 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 752.4 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.9329990906 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.16 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.44 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220927500903 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0580167831374 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0419899260647 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122497839715 0.150359130593 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0210442591673 0.0667264976115 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: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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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.