Claim: It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.
Reason: The reputation of anyone who is subjected to media scrutiny will eventually be diminished.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
It is undeniable that nowadays people get information about almost everything from the mass media, and most of us depend heavily on that. Among this atmosphere, the statement claims that no living man or woman can stand a chance to be regarded as a hero, since the close scrutiny from these media will eventually destroy their shining figures. Personally, I partially agree with the author’s reason that the image of those heroes would be influenced in a bad way to some extent under those close scrutinies. However, I argue that under this circumstances, it is possible that people still treat someone as a hero.
First of all, for the reason part, I have to admit that mass media nowadays tend to dig really deeply to find out something really bizarre or even immoral of someone currently under the spotlight, so that the media could use those clues to catch people’s eyes and make a fortune from that. This interests-driven atmosphere would somehow be detrimental to people we recognized as a hero initially. For example, if a firefighter sacrificed his life to save people in fire, intuitively we would call him a hero. However, some media might have done a really detailed investigation about him and found out his adultery in early years. This would of course distain his figure and some people might hesitate to count him a hero since he was not a perfect role model. Examples like this are actually quite common in a lot kinds of fields. Considering this, I agree that targeted by the scrutiny of the media, heroes tend to somehow lose their colors.
That being said, I also have to argue that this is not always the case, and there are always different voices among people and among media. Thanks to the First Amendment, people as well as the media have their rights to express what they think about everything. Not necessarily every media will focus only on their interests and overlook a hero’s precious quality. So is it with people who have their independent judgement and undertanding of heroes. It is exactly because of those different ways of perceiving the world, our society would be filled up with different or even contradictory voices, thus making it impossible for everyone to overlook someone’s heroic doing only because of his/her some other wrong-doing.
Based on the analysis on the reason, I strongly disagree with the conclusion: although those heroes might have something not perfect or even scandals regarded as immorality, it will not cover up their doings which make them a hero. Still take the firefighter as an example: he sacrificed himself to save others, and that is what makes him an hero. He might have other problems but those problems can by no means change the objective fact which make people admire him and regard him as a hero. No one is perfect, those minor defects makes these people real human beings.
To put it together, I partially agree with the reason that media’s scrutiny upon people would have a negative impact on a hero’s image, but will by no means totally destroy this person as a hero; besides, I strongly disagree with the conclusion, because those minor defects make a person a real human being and cannot cover up people’s shining personalities.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 266, Rule ID: CLOSE_SCRUTINY[1]
Message: Use simply 'scrutiny'.
Suggestion: scrutiny
...nce to be regarded as a hero, since the close scrutiny from these media will eventually destro...
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Line 1, column 456, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a bad way" with adverb for "bad"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...age of those heroes would be influenced in a bad way to some extent under those close scruti...
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Line 1, column 542, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...scrutinies. However, I argue that under this circumstances, it is possible that peop...
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Line 7, column 340, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...save others, and that is what makes him an hero. He might have other problems but ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, first, however, if, look, really, so, still, thus, well, for example, of course, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 74.0 28.8173652695 257% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2710.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 549.0 441.139720559 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93624772313 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84053189512 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72607440239 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 204.123752495 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475409836066 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 863.1 705.55239521 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 4.96107784431 363% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.8290206413 57.8364921388 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.047619048 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1428571429 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42857142857 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.190516169278 0.218282227539 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0615583495852 0.0743258471296 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053012643562 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120864327722 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0468550161022 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 98.500998004 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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