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.
A common saying in most parts of the world is that experience is the best teacher. This includes personal experience and the experience of others. The prompt argues that scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could. I mostly agree with this contention for two reasons which I will elucidate below. However, I do concede that in some cases, scandals are not necessary to focus our attention.
To begin, scandals are useful because they make societal problems more lucid than any speaker could make them. In the recent past, some scandals have rocked the world which showed how deleterious the decadence in our society can be. For example, the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton was caught having an affair with his secretary. This scandal caused many problems not just in his family but in the state of the country as a whole. It also ultimately led to him leaving after his first tenure and not running for a second tenure as was the norm. I do not think that any speaker would have been able to describe vividly the results of infidelity in marriage without a scandal of that magnitude.
Furthermore, scandals help to expose institutions that have previously been thought to be unimpeachable and also make people wary of such institutions. In the past years, it was discovered that there were cases of pedophilia in religious institutions and the leaders of such institutions tried to cover up the perpetrators of those acts. Without a scandal, such crimes would have remained hidden and there would have been more victims suffering in silence. Such scandals have taught people to be careful of religious institutions and not to leave their children and wards without supervision.
Some may argue that the consequences of some scandals might be too extreme. This is true as in some cases people involved in such scandals end up harming themselves. For example, the Lord Harcourt who the city of Port-Harcourt in Nigeria was named after killed himself when it was discovered that he had sexually assaulted some people in his home country of England.
In conclusion, scandals are useful in making our societal problem clearer and in teaching people to be more careful. However, the consequences of some scandals are deleterious and they should be handled properly to avoid adverse effects on the society.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
...nd wards without supervision. Some may argue that the consequences of some scandals ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, may, second, so, for example, in conclusion, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1994.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 400.0 442.535393258 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.985 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67832036919 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5175 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 626.4 704.065955056 89% => 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: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.2747720634 60.3974514979 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 99.7 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.9 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21117561794 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0713445026877 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0961409826941 0.0758088955206 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128637624822 0.150359130593 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0903300565824 0.0667264976115 135% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 100.480337079 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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