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.
With the advent of technology and mediums via which we absorb the news, it was inevitable that more scandals would be uncovered and brought to focus. Scandals uncover only a part of the problem and when they do, the damage is already done. Therefore we should take initiative and responsibility to find problems rather than relying solely on the scandals.
Firstly, with this mentality of stating that scandals are useful - we are metaphorically sitting with our arms crossed and letting the scandals happen. As it is rightfully said - "Prevention is better than cure", therefore we should try to uncover problems and solve it rather than addressing the problem after it has occurred. Moreover, scandals take ages to uncover and investigate, and by that time, the problem would have caused irreversible damage. For example, immense damage was done to flora and fauna indigenous to the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill incident. BP was able to diffuse the situation with good PR but the damage was substantial. This being said, the incident could've been prevented if someone pointed out the potential for a spill due to faulty systems.
Additionally, media does a poor job in handling scandals. Media in their pursuit for views divert the attention of the public to more catchy headlines and trivial details of the scandal. For instance, in the President Clinton scandal, media was more focused on whether oral sex could be considered sex. Media should have focused on the fact that the president had lied to the citizens while being under oath and how more vigorous background checks could prevent the incident.
On the contrary, it is true that sometimes scandals do let us uncover few unseen problems in the society, but they should not be the only tools for us to discover problems. For example, after Bill Cosby scandal - workplace has become a safer place for women to work. More women have gained the courage to come forward and bring the people responsible for sexual harassment to justice. But still, we should not rely completely on scandals to occur before tackling the problem.
To sum up, while scandals are sometimes useful and bring the focus on previously unseen injustice, they should be treated as the last resort for us to uncover problems. We should actively educate the society so that people know what is right and what should be brought into focus.
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- 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 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 241, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...en they do, the damage is already done. Therefore we should take initiative and responsib...
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Line 3, column 602, Rule ID: DIFFUSE_TENSIONS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'defuse', as in removing the fuse from a bomb? "Diffuse" as a verb means to spread out.
Suggestion: defuse
...e BP oil spill incident. BP was able to diffuse the situation with good PR but the dama...
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Line 5, column 365, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'lain'.
Suggestion: lain
...used on the fact that the president had lied to the citizens while being under oath ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, moreover, so, still, therefore, while, for example, for instance, it is true, on the contrary, 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: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => 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: 1996.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 399.0 442.535393258 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00250626566 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62960621403 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53634085213 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 612.9 704.065955056 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.7969331002 60.3974514979 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 105.052631579 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.78947368421 5.21951772744 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 10.2758426966 29% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 5.13820224719 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168715012695 0.243740707755 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0555423703611 0.0831039109588 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0387520998056 0.0758088955206 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103026886391 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0269424479415 0.0667264976115 40% => 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: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 100.480337079 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.