Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could

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Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could

There are many different types of means to improve our society, and scandal is one of them. I partially agree with that scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in certain fields, such as politics, education, and business, in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could. However, scandals of other fields, such as entertainment, may not be conducive.

Scandals of business can help us to supervise our government and avoid our officials to corrupt. Take Taiwanese government as an example. In 2007, the mayor of Hsinchu city was Cheng Jung-Ching, and he was indicted that he received lots of illegal funds. Initially, people did not believe this terrible news because Cheng Jung-Ching gave a superb impression to the public. However, when more and more solid proofs came to the light, the public began to ask the government to investigate this event thoroughly. Thus, the prosecutors started to investigate this scandal instantly, and they also received more potent clues. Finally, Cheng Jung-Ching was forced to step down his position and was convicted. Also, the Taiwanese central government declared that a new election would be hold in Hsinchu city again, and the government would also build stricter laws to prevent government officials from corrupting. In contrast, if Cheng Jung-Ching had not stepped down, he might have still received more illegal money and seriously endangered the lives of people.

For another example, scandals of education can also help us to improve the quality of education. For example, in 2008, Taiwanese government decided to purchase televisions for each class in every elementary school, and this project would need about seventy million dollars. Originally, this project was anticipated to help many students to study more efficiently. However, most of televisions could not be installed in time because the serious corruption of officials of Education Bureau, and the public was not satisfied with this result. The government decided to investigate this project, and the government discover that many officials received much illegal money. Thus, the government decided to enforce strict punishments to these corrupt officials and select another group of officials to accomplish this project. These new officials finished this project in six months, and the students could improve their efficiency of learning largely. In contrast, if the scandal had not been revealed, this project might have not been finished.

However, scandals of entertainment may not be helpful to our lives. Take Taiwanese star Lao Chi-Shiann as an example. In 2020, some magazines revealed Lao Chi-Shiann had sexual relationship with lots of women. Each media, such as television, newspaper, magazine, was filled with Lao Chi-Shiann’s news, and the public was also talked about this news every day. Yet, this scandal could not have any benefits because it was just a private problem. This scandal occupied the newspaper’s pages, and other useful news, such as environmental protection and public construction, would be crowded out. By contrast, if the media had not covered this scandal largely, other important issues might had been noticed more by the public.

To sum up, I partially agree with the statement scandals can make the public notice some important issues, such as education and environment. However, scandals from other fields, such as entertainment, may not be useful to call the attention of the public.

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Average: 6.2 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 11, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
There are many different types of means to improve our society, ...
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Line 5, column 374, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the televisions') or simply say ''most televisions''.
Suggestion: most of the televisions; most televisions
...nts to study more efficiently. However, most of televisions could not be installed in time because ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, may, so, still, thus, as for, for example, in contrast, such as, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 12.9106741573 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2931.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 545.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37798165138 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83169070408 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80645425872 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.466055045872 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 883.8 704.065955056 126% => 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: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 11.0 1.77640449438 619% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.4816424683 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.068965517 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7931034483 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.51724137931 5.21951772744 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.205307651508 0.243740707755 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0614252778709 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123538946832 0.0758088955206 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161321218151 0.150359130593 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.171565413978 0.0667264976115 257% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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