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.
Every year, our televisions are flooded with news channels flashing ‘breaking news’ of the most recent scandals. Scandals eat up most of the air time on the news channels but the amount of impact it has on the problem is minimum. The memory of a common man is short-lived. A scandal may help bring a spotlight on the problem for a short time but there won’t be any real change if there are no reformers working consistently.
Scandals are tools of slander by powerful people in society. In this information age, it is easy to fabricate and manipulate facts to suit your needs. With so many news sources being influenced by politicians and businessmen, one can not find a single credible source. For example, a politician can spread rumours of a scandal about his/her opponent to garner more votes. It leads to people focussing their attention on a manufactured problem that does not exist.
When any scandal comes forth, all news outlets - television, newspaper, internet, talk about the scandal. They analyze and ask experts their opinion on the topic. The media plays an important role in putting pressure on the government bodies to rightfully serve the people. When the media shifts its attention on scandals, it releases the pressure from other problems. It deviates the attention from more pressing problems that are not as much shocking. For example, a scandal about an actor having an extramarital affair might steal the limelight from the water crisis that has plagued the entire country.
The influence of a speaker or a reformer can not be undermined by the attention a scandal gets. A scandal gets the limelight irrespective of the nature of the scandal. A corruption scandal will get as much attention as an actor’s drug habit. The impact of both the scandals on society is not the same. A speaker/reformer gets to choose the problems that need attention and connect to the people directly. Any change in human behaviour takes time. A speaker/reformer perseveres to bring about that change in society. For example, the attention that Gandhi’s Dandi March got outperforms any scandal in human history.
Despite all its shortcomings, one of the major roles that scandals play is in uncovering corruption, malpractices and sexual violence. It is when such scandal sees the light of the day, it puts the corrupt people behind bars and forces the policies to change. The fast-paced change that is seen can not be achieved by a speaker/reformer. For example, an organisation with a toxic culture is forced to change its sexual harassment policies when a scandal arises.
Scandals are useful because they bring attention to problems that are difficult to bring forth by speakers/reformers. On the other hand, scandals don’t play a pivot role in bringing change in society on all fronts.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 160, Rule ID: MANY_FEW_UNCOUNTABLE[2]
Message: Use 'much' or 'little' with uncountable nouns.
Suggestion: much; little
...ulate facts to suit your needs. With so many news sources being influenced by politi...
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Line 3, column 160, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun news seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'much news', 'a good deal of news'.
Suggestion: much news; a good deal of news
...ulate facts to suit your needs. With so many news sources being influenced by politicians...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, so, for example, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2373.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 466.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09227467811 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64618479453 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00158838041 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502145922747 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 723.6 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 14.0 4.99550561798 280% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.1228894047 60.3974514979 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 81.8275862069 118.986275619 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0689655172 23.4991977007 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.65517241379 5.21951772744 32% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 10.2758426966 29% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 20.0 5.13820224719 389% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181476426911 0.243740707755 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0532568744222 0.0831039109588 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0451674918481 0.0758088955206 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101214978711 0.150359130593 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0361414427507 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 14.1392134831 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.8420337079 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.