Altruism

Essay topics:

Altruism

The article states Altruism is the opposite of selfishness, in which individuals portray selfless acts for others and gain nothing for themselves. The reading provides two great examples of it as Humans and Meerkat. The article cites points to support why both species portrays altruism. However, the professor refutes all the point made in the passage and explains the reason for it.

First, the article states that humans show a great deed of Altruism by sharing food with strangers and donating body organs to family or strangers. The professor refutes the point by stating that when a person donates body organ, they get rewarded and thus the act cannot be considered as Altruism. She casts an example as when someone donates a kidney to a family member or stranger, they might receive rewards as appreciation from the community and fellow neighbors. Sometimes they even get valuable rewards from the family of the stranger whom they donated the organ.

Second, the article states an example of the meerkat of Africa. It states that in a group of the meerkat, an individual act as a sentinel and looks out for predator while others hunt and eat food. The sentinel puts itself in great danger, gaining nothing and shows a great example of Altruism. However, the professor posits that sentinel always eats before the others, so that is why others eat without him. The professor also explains that other meerkat’s who are in search of food are in more danger than sentinel as they are away from the safe area.

In addition to this, She explains that in case of a predator sentinel might escape first after sounding the alarm.
Thus, the professor explains that neither human nor meerkat portrays the act of altruism and refutes all the points from the article with a specific reason.

Votes
Average: 8 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 217, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...t examples of it as Humans and Meerkat. The article cites points to support why bot...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, look, second, so, thus, while, in addition

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: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1499.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94719471947 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45125445223 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50495049505 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 450.0 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.5489029461 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.9333333333 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.53333333333 7.06452816374 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.182996180255 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0753624321932 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0938881689488 0.0662205650399 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111328170897 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0699144528758 0.0443174109184 158% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => 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: 11.43 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

---------------------

Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
---------------------
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.