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.

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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.

Many societies have individual people that they look up to. It could be an influential person who has helped them gain independence from colonists or appealed to many others with their words such as Ghandi or Martin Luther King Jr who both have been lauded and mourned in history after their assasinations. Both of these prominent figures were covered in the media and have had both favorable and unfavorable depictions competing with each other to influence their reputations. The prompt says that media scrutiny causes dimishment of that reputation and therefore people view them unfavorably. I mostly agree with this claim and reason.

First, massive disemination of rumors and slander can really tarnish a potential hero’s reputation. Nowadays, long after the invention and subsequent modifications for speed and efficiency of the printing press, gossip magazine articles can be written, printed, and marketed within the same or next day. Often, these magazines can cause Hollywood celebrities who have gained prominence through philanthropy or charity work to been seen as evil as soon as they get famous through rumors such as sex scandals. In order to become a hero in society, good deeds must be widely recognized and associated with that said celebrity. However, their fame can get undone as it comes because magazine writers spread false and unwarrented slander. Thus, men and women have a smaller chance of becoming a hero because of their own undoing by becoming famous in the first place.

In addition, newscasts could also participate in preventing the esteem that could be attributed to men and women by doing extensive research into possible damaging information about heros. Newscasts are resourceful and determined to find stories that can shed light on past scandals. For example, CNN has in the past conducted research into Steve Jobs’ (a famous technology CEO who created arguably the most innovative products and changing the world) personal journal and interviewed several of his past associates to make him appear as a meanspirited and condensending individual. This has caused many people in American society to think less of him as a hero and think that most of his work to be credited with greed rather than passion. Though this is somewhat of a fallacious attribution, it shows how media scrutiny combined with the errorous logical tendancies of the public can cause men and women lose their status as a hero no matter how good their deeds as a hero may seem.

On the other hand, the media can help lionize an ordinary good-doer and turn him or her into a hero. Media outlets such as YouTube can help people to raise awareness about the good deeds of others and turn them into heros. To illustrate, a streetsweeper in China who found a wallet on the sidewalk returned it to its rightful owner and security camera footage was uploaded to the YouTube site and gained over 100,000 views in a day. Comments on the video praised the man and many called him a “hero” for his good deed. Therefore, society is able to lionize others through media scrutiny by allowing ordinary individuals to make heroic endeavors public.

All in all, this is a complex issue where no one extreme can be taken. The many different types of media forms can do both to make or break the amount of heros in society.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 492, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...deo praised the man and many called him a 'hero' for his good deed. The...
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Line 9, column 76, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
... where no one extreme can be taken. The many different types of media forms can do both to mak...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, really, so, therefore, thus, for example, in addition, such as, in the first place, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 30.0 14.8657303371 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2789.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 556.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01618705036 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85588840946 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73562688307 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 302.0 215.323595506 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543165467626 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 877.5 704.065955056 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.6241423398 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.260869565 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1739130435 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21739130435 5.21951772744 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.170862868029 0.243740707755 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0497372740341 0.0831039109588 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0292283902759 0.0758088955206 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0957528814628 0.150359130593 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0190326903862 0.0667264976115 29% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 152.0 100.480337079 151% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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