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 asserting that Scandals are useful due to the fact that they focus our attention in ways that reformers or speakers could not the author failed to acknowledge other diverse issues-big scandals which are all but useless – besides small scandals which could help focus the attention and therefore finding a use out of it. Nevertheless, I agree with the statement to the extent that the usefulness of scandals in directing our attention on problems “ONLY” regards subtle scandals which have little effect on the society and the country.
Due to the ambiguous nature of the statement, usefulness of scandals in directing our attention on problems, I assume the clause to mean finding a diagnosis and a cure for the problem. Admittedly, when we are dealing with small and subtle scandals, getting to know them helps us to find the corrupted root which no speaker or reformer, as the statement itself suggest, could focus our attention on. Take for instance the currency market of Iran eight years ago. The fluctuations regarding the value of the dollar had begun to show itself after the sanctions. Because of the coincidence, so many believed that it was only due to the sanctions. However, not only it was due to the black market that controlled the entire currency market, but also the sanctions themselves had little effects also negligible. Not to mention the mere fact that after it was discovered that the rapid changes in currency value were due to these scandals, the National Bank of Iran prohibited any transactions out of the legal market and postulated penalty for those who commit the crime. It is obvious finding out about small scandals like these, which have little to no effect on the total welfare of both the community and the society, is useful.
With these examples, it could be argued that scandals are all useful for focusing our attention on problems, but when viewed holistically it is not so because more serious scandals can break the infrastructures of a society, which could lead to chaos and mayhem. A vivid example can shed light on what has elaborated above. Five years ago, when Ahmadinejad, the former president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, declared that more than 300 billion dollars were stolen by government representatives, the government quivered for having no power over their deputies. To elaborate on, after that specific incident, although the government is taking more prudent actions, but the aftermath of the incident was so negative that even focusing our attention on the problem was of no use. Notwithstanding, people might want to undermine this assertion by saying that such thinking only applies to communities where the rate of such serious scandals is high. However, just like I earlier said, I will maintain my stand that serious scandals are not only useless but also harms the foundation of the society.
In conclusion, in contrary to the claim above. I agree with the statement only to the extent that the scandals are small ones. Otherwise, there is no use out of big scandals.
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'besides', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'nevertheless', 'regarding', 'so', 'therefore', 'for instance', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.222024866785 0.240241500013 92% => OK
Verbs: 0.145648312611 0.157235817809 93% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0834813499112 0.0880659088768 95% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0479573712256 0.0497285424764 96% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0479573712256 0.0444667217837 108% => OK
Prepositions: 0.133214920071 0.12292977631 108% => OK
Participles: 0.0373001776199 0.0406280797675 92% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.75850298457 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0337477797513 0.030933414821 109% => OK
Particles: 0.00177619893428 0.0016655270985 107% => OK
Determiners: 0.117229129663 0.0997080785238 118% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0159857904085 0.0249443105267 64% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0248667850799 0.0148568991511 167% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3059.0 2732.02544248 112% => OK
No of words: 510.0 452.878318584 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.99803921569 6.0361032391 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.349019607843 0.366273622748 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.278431372549 0.280924506359 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.211764705882 0.200843997647 105% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.13137254902 0.132149295362 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75850298457 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 219.290929204 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486274509804 0.48968727796 99% => OK
Word variations: 56.9699998123 55.4138127331 103% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6194690265 92% => OK
Sentence length: 26.8421052632 23.380412469 115% => OK
Sentence length SD: 81.2522490633 59.4972553346 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.0 141.124799967 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8421052632 23.380412469 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.631578947368 0.674092028746 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 54.6852425181 51.4728631049 106% => OK
Elegance: 1.625 1.64882698954 99% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.404140242226 0.391690518653 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.146982938462 0.123202303941 119% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.108986109479 0.077325440228 141% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.580953583307 0.547984918172 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.161281927732 0.149214159877 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.178780827672 0.161403998019 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107817297455 0.0892212321368 121% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.552552292882 0.385218514788 143% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0998690415609 0.0692045440612 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.339854868124 0.275328986314 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0879541975157 0.0653680567796 135% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 10.4325221239 19% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.30420353982 226% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 1.0 7.22455752212 14% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 11.0 3.66592920354 300% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 13.5995575221 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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