Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be

Scandals can happen in many areas such as politics, celebrity lives, work environment and other ones. In this sense, there are people that consider scandals as a way to distract society from real problems, while other ones believe that scandals are useful to highlight problems and discussions which were forgotten, ignored or feared to be touched. Even considering negative elements of scandals, it’s possible to affirm that these events are very important to bring some issues into our focus, since it may be considered difficult to be discus some of them in ordinary conditions.

One can argue that scandals are pure sensationalism made by the media companies. In general, people that don’t like to follow this kind of news tend to see it as a way to distract society from elements that really matters. For instance, while a sexual scandal could be discovered in Hollywood, this person could argue that this could be a way to distract audience from what is happening in the political field or this person could argue that many women in certain parts of the world face sexual harassment everyday and nobody cares because they are not famous.

While this kind of argument could be considered true in many ways, one cannot ignore the importance that scandals could be in order to discuss questions about our society that many people don’t have the courage to talk. Take the case of the sexual abuse scandals that were recently discovered in Hollywood. It was discovered that many actresses and some actors from Hollywood were victims of certain types of sexual harassment. In general, these acts were made by influential movie producers and actors for many years, however no one has the courage to talk about it. When the scandal was discovered, many professionals from this business field revealed that were victims of sexual abuses in Hollywood and this raised a big discussions about the quality of this environment, especially for women. In this context, emerged the #MeToo movement, where women and men started to openly discuss about sexual harassments that happened in their lives and tried to find justice for the victims.

Moreover, scandals in the political spectrum are very important too. The Brazilian Corruption scandals are an interesting example. In this case, Brazilian prosecutors discovered complex bribe schemes involving many politicians and influential business people. These cases of corruption in the country raised an intense discussion about how the democratic apparatus of the country is flawed which was something important to start discussion about how to overcome this kind of problems in the country.

In conclusion, while some people can argue that scandals are not useful because they are only distractions to an audience, we were able to demonstrated that scandals can be a way to open discussions about sensible questions. These questions might be related with all sorts of elements within a society, which can result in healthy discussions and look for answers that all of us face.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 512, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...rts of the world face sexual harassment everyday and nobody cares because they are not f...
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Line 5, column 730, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'discussion'?
Suggestion: discussion
...uses in Hollywood and this raised a big discussions about the quality of this environment, ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, look, may, moreover, really, so, while, for instance, in conclusion, in general, kind of, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2553.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 492.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18902439024 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70967865282 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7038624838 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475609756098 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 804.6 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.6940467325 60.3974514979 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.833333333 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3333333333 23.4991977007 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.11111111111 5.21951772744 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172590363498 0.243740707755 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0568388669877 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0492146678521 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113575107646 0.150359130593 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.038247270398 0.0667264976115 57% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.1392134831 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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