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.
In the given claim, the claimant wants to highlight how scandals can be conducive to focusing attention on problems which can't be elicited by any speaker or reformer. Scandals are actions which are regarded as morally or legally wrong, they also tend to foment public outrage. Scandals can highlight at crucial problems in society and help social scientists and administrators eradicate them. However, scandals come with a cost of instability and disaffection.
Scandals are ignominious for any nation or society. Corruption scandals by government officials or elected leaders can highlight at problems in society or government. Once highlighted, frameworks can be built to mitigate effects of such problems and prevent any future occurences. In wake of corruption cases by elected government in India, a framework was set up which made the laws regarding corruption more stringent and the agency was given power to be more vigilant. Futhermore, lynching scandals have highlighted how fake news can cause killings by mob. Hence, scandals can be regarded as spotlights which help a society or nation to identify deep rooted problems and mitigate its effects.
In addition to that, scandals elicit public outrage because the lines of morality were crossed. This also foments debate around the issue in hand. They question our long held morality and its ill-effects. It can also help drive a movement against certain cause. Just as stringent laws are important for a thriving society, public debates are also important to exchange views and counter-views on questions of morality. Public debate is important to form new beliefs and to strengthen old beliefs when required. Recent emergence of scandals in Hollywood highlights workplace harassment of women in film industry. This caused a movement against sexual harassment of women workers in any industry. Hence, scandals are necessary to foment public debate on crucial topics.
On contrary to above points, scandals by their nature are bad for nation and society. They communicate how society or the nation is plagued by problems. Scandals cause public outrage and without proper control, a state of instability might arise. This state of instability can become fertilizers for ever more ignoble scandals in future. State of distrust and disaffection might lead to failure of governing mechanism by which a nation functions. Corruption case in coveted administrative services can hurt their reputation and affect their efficacy. When politicians connive in mass riots and mob killings to take advantage of instability to establish their power, it can be detrimental to democracy. Hence, scandals can shake foundation of public.
Furthermore, scandals not only affect society deeply, but also it affects sectors connected to society as well. Economy, Businesses, Government machinery, Educational Institutes, etc can have drastic effect from scandals. Companies might discourage to set up their operations in areas where politicians are frequently involved in scandals, bribery is often found to cripple new business establishments by local people. Scandal surrounding judiciary can shake the foundations of trust in judiciary by people. Educational institutes, where future citizens of the nation and society study, can have ideological shift due to scandalous events. Therefore, scandals can cause a ripple effect in other sectors connected to society.
To sum it up, scandals can be useful to identify and understand problems in society or government. Along with that, it can stir public debate on crucial aspects of morality. However, the way scandals affect society can lead to instability and distrust in government machinery. This also causes ripple effect in other sectors which are connected to workings of society.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 123, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...to focusing attention on problems which cant be elicited by any speaker or reformer....
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Line 7, column 328, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...tilizers for ever more ignoble scandals in future. State of distrust and disaffection mig...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, however, if, regarding, so, then, therefore, well, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 90.0 58.6224719101 154% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3210.0 2235.4752809 144% => OK
No of words: 581.0 442.535393258 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.52495697074 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90957651803 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92568693382 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 275.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473321858864 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 1011.6 704.065955056 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 37.0 20.2370786517 183% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.6690206733 60.3974514979 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 86.7567567568 118.986275619 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7027027027 23.4991977007 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.51351351351 5.21951772744 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 28.0 5.13820224719 545% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.149794634167 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0423071013678 0.0831039109588 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0433012864783 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0995323484774 0.150359130593 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0640478698376 0.0667264976115 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 48.8420337079 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.44 12.1639044944 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 161.0 100.480337079 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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