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 statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
It is debatable whether scandals can be helpful since they focus people's attention on issues differently than any speaker or reformer ever could. Although there are some merits to debunking reality in a form of scandals, scandals on their own do not reap much merits in solving problems.
To begin with, a lot of scandals, especially scandals related to entertainers such as actors, singers, and comedians, are strategically exploited to conceal bigger issues usually related to politics and law. Sex scandals, marriage and divorce scandals, all alike forcefully gravitate people's attention; at the same time, political fraudulence is forgotten and new laws are being passed. Politicians and law makers often work with media and magazines to underscore what is relatively petty and private to cover issues that actually have impacts on people's everyday lives. In this case, scandals are only used and abused to shift people's attention on wrong problems, which means they are not giving any better information that former speakers and reformers have provided.
Furthermore, generally, without the aid of speakers and reformers, just scandals themselves can only do so much about a certain problem. Scandals surely is an effective means to trigger and galvanize people; however, tangible transformation occurs only with actions, and actions led by speakers and reformers like media and activists. There needs a leader who can push through all of the logistical process for a change to occur. Despite scandals' remarkable talent of attracting people's focus, scandals have strict limitations in the whole problem-solving process. In fact, that first part can be done with speakers and reformers, probably in a more healthy and practical way without harming innocent people.
Admittedly, scandals can be useful because they can surely attack different aspects of a problem; nevertheless, people often times abuse this feature of a scandal for their own good. Also, scandals have a high likelihood of shifting our focus on what is more provocative and sensitive than what is actually important and integral to the issue. Take South Korea's protest as an example. Citizens of South Korea are protesting against president Park for her to resign after huge political scandals. Nonetheless, her resignation is only a marginal issue and not the real solution to the problem. However, since scandals are only revealing her misconduct, people are missing that the entire system is corrupt, and that system will hardly change even after her resignation.
All in all, because of aforementioned reasons, scandals are not always useful and more helpful than actions and words of speakers and reformers. If being used, scandals would have to be plotted properly in order to avoid any misinterpretation and abuse. Nevertheless, the speakers and reformers are always integral parts of solving or making people aware of certain problems.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
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arguments: OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 457 350
No. of Characters: 2407 1500
No. of Different Words: 240 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.624 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.267 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.769 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 192 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 155 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 108 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.85 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.142 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.332 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.538 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.107 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 256, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...dals, scandals on their own do not reap much merits in solving problems. To begi...
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Line 5, column 378, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...ere needs a leader who can push through all of the logistical process for a change to occu...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, in fact, such as, to begin with, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2470.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 457.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40481400438 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85403598531 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551422319475 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 770.4 704.065955056 109% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.1697401012 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.5 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.85 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.25 5.21951772744 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.194474562557 0.243740707755 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0591812035382 0.0831039109588 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0510954894693 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113674944588 0.150359130593 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0195190273111 0.0667264976115 29% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.1639044944 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 100.480337079 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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