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 sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Scandals are useful in the way described by the claim, but not in all cases and with some important caveats. Scandals have some negative qualities that merit due consideration when assessing the overall usefulness of such events. In this response a scandal is defined as any kind of misconduct previous unknown to the public being broadcasted to the masses, usually propagated by the media.
I agree that scandals can be useful to focus attention on problems that would not have received attention otherwise. Consider a situation in which the president of the United States evades taxes or colludes with a foreign country. A scandal that brings out this information would invariably focus the public’s attention on an important problem that puts the moral character and loyalties of the president into question. Such a scandal might lead to impeachment, effectively ousting an undesirable leader. With that being said, it is not the case that a speaker or reformer could not accomplish a feat of similar importance. To support this claim we need only to look at MLK Jr. who led a social revolution that produced profound changes by focusing the public’s attention on a huge problem in society.
Furthermore, it is important to consider some of the negative aspects of scandals. Firstly, they are sometimes drawn-out, over-publicized, and blown out of proportion. The media loves a good scandal, and scandals get great ratings. This leads to potential overemphasis on an undeserving topic. For example, a small scandal might arise over a video of a president not saluting a military officer as he/she walks by. This event might lead to extensive news coverage and public attention, taking away from coverage of more important issues like health care or poverty rates. In a similar vein, scandals can be used and reused to unfairly discredit a person. Drawing on the previous example once again, lets imagine that the president did actually salute the officer, but the video starts after this occurs. Once the public and the media perpetuate the scandal, it is difficult to mitigate the damage done to the person’s reputation and image. So although scandals can be useful in the way the claim proports, they can also lead to overreaction, unwarranted public scrutiny, and less media coverage of more important problems.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 42, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...urthermore, it is important to consider some of the negative aspects of scandals. Firstly, ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, look, so, for example, kind of, in all cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1958.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 379.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16622691293 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90864757475 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551451187335 0.468620217663 118% => OK
syllable_count: 619.2 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.3808030064 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.052631579 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9473684211 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.15789473684 5.70786347227 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.217485974914 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0668153604042 0.0743258471296 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0604983882288 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157469943475 0.128457276422 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0657774042809 0.0628817314937 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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