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.
This topic raises the controversial issue of whether scandals are useful, since they are engaging our attention better than speakers or activists. Indisputably, scandals can be deleterious and raise unpleasant and concerning stories to our consciousness. Nevertheless, scandals can be a crucial part of our society in maintaining justice, high awareness, critical thinking and healthy judgment. Thus, I generally disagree with the opinion that scandals are not useful, and would argue that scandals could serve our society, especially the weaker classes, in maintaining its transparency and justice.
First, people tend to relate more to real time instances and relevant news than to theories or stories that happened in the past. Scandals bring a realistic example of something that actually is happening and can affect us as a society. When people in power are exposed of stealing, lying or cooperating in collusions to get to personal interests, scandals of such deviant conducts, bring the society to feel betrayed and abused. Such feelings are immediate and bring people to think more of how these actions are related to their well being and daily routines.
Furthermore, once they are publicized, scandals can be used to raise the right questions. Beyond all the blaming and ridicule publicity of the subjects engaging in the unlawful actions, individuals of the society start contemplating and reflecting of how such behaviors were engendered. Figuring the reasons, as well as learning and concluding from the consequences, helps the society to further decrease corruption and falsehood happening underneath their noses. In addition, revealing the truth, gives people a feeling of transparency and justice, as well as a sense of capability and belonging to a society where they have an input.
Admittedly, one can claim that the press, as well as other opposing politicians can overuse this method (scandals) to erode specific targeted subjects. This is true, especially in the light of modern technology and social media, where some politicians and influential public figures use their popularity to conspire against and try to witch hunt opposing parties. However, most of the reported scandals unfortunately turn out to be true, and the sparse canard ones do not delegitimize the power of scandals when they reveal true facts.
In conclusion, although there is a growing tendency in using scandals as a method to weaken powerful individuals in society, scandals usually bring important information and useful facts to the surface. As long as people do not use scandals for only shaming others, but actually learn and draw the right conclusions, scandals can be very useful in addressing and dealing with problems.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... to a society where they have an input. Admittedly, one can claim that the press...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, so, thus, well, in addition, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2318.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 427.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42857142857 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94087204713 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550351288056 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 706.5 704.065955056 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.7085217754 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.352941176 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1176470588 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.82352941176 5.21951772744 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154307944148 0.243740707755 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0542566204601 0.0831039109588 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0437631428262 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.089257108707 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0515548817912 0.0667264976115 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.1392134831 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.51 12.1639044944 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.61 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 100.480337079 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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