In the United States, it had been common practice since the late 1960s not to suppress natural forest fires. The "let it burn" policy assumed that forest fire would burn themselves out quickly, without causing much damage. However, in the summer of 1988, forest fires in Yellowstone, the most famous national park in the country, burned for more than two months and spread over a huge area, encompassing more than 800,000 acres. Because of the large scale of the damage, many people called for replacing the "let it burn" policy with a policy of extinguishing forest fires as soon as they appeared. Three kinds of damage caused by the "let it burn" policy were emphasized by critics of the policy.
First, Yellowstone fires caused tremendous damage to the park's trees and other vegetation. When the fires finally died out, nearly one third of Yellowstone's land had been scorched. Trees were charred and blackened from flames and smoke. Smaller plants were entirely incinerated. What had been a national treasure now seemed like a devastated wasteland.
Second, the park wildlife was affected as well. Large animals like deer and elk were seen fleeing the fire. Many smaller species were probably unable to escape. There was also concern that the destruction of habitats and the disruption of food chains would make it impossible for the animals that survived the fire to return.
Third, the fires compromised the value of the park as a tourist attraction, which in turn had negative consequences for the local economy. With several thousand acres of the park engulfed in flames, the tourist season was cut short, and a large number of visitors decided to stay away. Of course, local businesses that depended on park visitors suffered as a result.
Both the the reading and lecture have conflicting views on consequences of 'let it burn" policy. while, the former provides three types of damages caused by the fires in Yellowstone park, the latter argues that fire are natural and creative.
First, professor points out that vegetation become diverse after the fires in Yellowstone. Small plants that couldn't grow because of shadow of larger trees, were able to develop and flourish after the fires.
In addition, some seeds need high temperature to germinate, after the fire, they were able to grow in new plants. As a result, the speaker refutes the writer's idea that fires destroyed plants of all kinds in Yellowstone.
Furthermore, the lecturer avers that animal actually increased after fire, small plants that grow in the forest attract small animals like rabbit. The predators also come to hunt these small animals, so the food chain grow. Thus, this argument counters the author's point that animals are affected by the fires.
Finally, the speaker contends that the Yellowstone fires were caused by multiple factors at the time, these factors are low rainfalls, and strong winds among others. After that fires these factors were not frequents. consequently, the activities resumed as usual and tourists were able to come back visit the park. The business were not hurt at the extent the writer suggests.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, so, thus, while, in addition, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => 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: 1157.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 222.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21171171171 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8600083453 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46111303024 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.599099099099 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 349.2 419.366225166 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.1856669927 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0769230769 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.69230769231 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.141080293849 0.272083759551 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0477190595826 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0460129747903 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.078964451313 0.162205337803 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0476716266677 0.0443174109184 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.64 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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