Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific points made in the reading passage: Our long-standing interest in elephants has led to several beliefs about surprising elephant behaviors. 1- Elephants Are Aware of Approaching Death 2- Representing Objects through Art 3- Fear of Mice
Both the reading passage and the lecture argue some misconceptions about elephants. The reading enumerates several ideas that support why people are interested in elephants. On the other hand, the lecturer is diametrically opposed to those reasons and illustrates that those rationals are only misunderstandings of the elephants' behavior.
In the reading, the elephants’ awareness of their death time followed by leaving their groups, is considered one of the behaviors that absorb people’s attention. Conversely, the professor states that elephants leave their group for other reasons. In old ages, elephants' teeth wear down and make it arduous for elephants to chew foods. Therefore, they choose places with soft vegetation to eat. Their favorite food would be found in the vicinity of water. Thus the reason that elephants' bones are found in “elephant graveyard” is related to their living place near the water when they are dying.
Second, the professor disputes that elephants have the ability to paint. She explains that elephants would learn how to play through training. those trainers use the sensitivity of elephants’ ears to teach them how to move the paintbrush and create a painting. painting an object like flower or animals is taught by stimulating elephant to perform some repetitive behavior. Therefore, these painting is not a product of elephants abilities to draw but they are learned through training.
Third, having fear of mice is a misconception because what elephants are reacting to is not the mice but they startle because mice are strange to elephants. she continues that elephants are inherently cautious about unfamiliar animals and that is why they see mice for the first time and react to them. elephants in the zoo do not cautious about mice since they got used to mice and they are not strange.once an elephant learns that mice are not a threat to them, never react to mice and fear of them.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 320, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'elephants'' or 'elephant's'?
Suggestion: elephants'; elephant's
...onals are only misunderstandings of the elephants behavior. In the reading, the elephant...
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Line 2, column 465, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ould be found in the vicinity of water. Thus the reason that elephants bones are fou...
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Line 3, column 143, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Those
...uld learn how to play through training. those trainers use the sensitivity of elephan...
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Line 3, column 266, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Painting
...e the paintbrush and create a painting. painting an object like flower or animals is tau...
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Line 4, column 157, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
... because mice are strange to elephants. she continues that elephants are inherently...
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Line 4, column 303, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Elephants
...e for the first time and react to them. elephants in the zoo do not cautious about mice s...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... never react to mice and fear of them.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, second, so, therefore, third, thus, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1646.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 314.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24203821656 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95343663259 2.5805825403 114% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535031847134 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 504.9 419.366225166 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => 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: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.9243840651 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.8235294118 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4705882353 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.52941176471 7.06452816374 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.257282153713 0.272083759551 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0911106794639 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0372036050843 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151711382104 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0289079238428 0.0443174109184 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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