Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
Scanals in our society, which are based on some malicious social, economic or political problems leading to huge public outrage and anger, are definitely useful in focussing the society’s attention. Take the example of 2G scam in India during the governance of UPA alliance let by Indian National Congress. This scnadal not only revealed the prevelant corruption at the top level government officials and politicians to the public but also unified all the political and social opposition fronts against this wrongdoing.
If we go into more details, scandals and scams which are indeed very devastating to the country and society, they brings down the reality to everyone’s attention in true sense. Every country tries to potrait an clean and impeccable image of their society to the citizens and the world. But, scandals help remove that gossamer layer of goodness. Recent events of Gangrape of a young girl in a bus running on the busy roads of New Delhi shows another face of the social evil in India. The girl was abducted from a busy market, and was raped for more than 3 hours in the bus. This incident, which led to a huge outrage among the youth regarding the security of girls and increase rate of crime in the national capital, it also drew attention on the pressing issue of ignorance and apathy so serious that no one tried to take victim lying naked on the road to hospital but just witnessed the whole scene waiting for police and ambulance.
Furthermore, scandals with active and neutral media have helped in past to bring socio-political evils to general public notice. 2G scandal conspired by none other than A. Raja, the communication minister of India was estimated to be about 1000 crores scam. Common Wealth Scam, where ministers played with the quality of the event and health of the atheletes for their own profit. Fodder Scam by Lalu Prasad Yadav, a well known figure in Indian Politics and ex Railway Minister. These scandals have exposed how deep rooted the corruption is in India, where not the just government officials but even the cabinet ministers are freely indulging in these corrupt practices.
Therefore, scandals like these help draw attention of the public to real and pressing issues. However, one needs to be careful of the superfluous scandals which are used to create media sensations and sway public’s sentiments in one’s favor. A recent example that comes to my mind is "Rakhi Sawant Kiss” Scandal which brought many women sympathizers and activists to streets. Incident as frivolous as this, could not have drawn more attention when the country and the government needed more focus on issues of poverty, unemployment, insecurity and corruption.
Consequently, it would be prudent to conclude that scandals and scams, as the history has witnessed, proves to be useful in focussing attention of the general mass on the real problems and serious evils prevelant in the society, which could have been very difficult for any reformer or leader to bring to notice. But, as useful as they are, fake scandals can be used as tool to sway public’s opinions and sentiments.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'consequently', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'regarding', 'so', 'therefore', 'well', 'as to']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.280879864636 0.240241500013 117% => OK
Verbs: 0.135363790186 0.157235817809 86% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0981387478849 0.0880659088768 111% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0372250423012 0.0497285424764 75% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0152284263959 0.0444667217837 34% => OK
Prepositions: 0.108291032149 0.12292977631 88% => OK
Participles: 0.0423011844332 0.0406280797675 104% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.7190369586 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0372250423012 0.030933414821 120% => OK
Particles: 0.00169204737733 0.0016655270985 102% => OK
Determiners: 0.0964467005076 0.0997080785238 97% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00676818950931 0.0249443105267 27% => Some modal verbs wanted.
WH_determiners: 0.0186125211506 0.0148568991511 125% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3149.0 2732.02544248 115% => OK
No of words: 520.0 452.878318584 115% => OK
Chars per words: 6.05576923077 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.369230769231 0.366273622748 101% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.276923076923 0.280924506359 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.2 0.200843997647 100% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.126923076923 0.132149295362 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7190369586 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 219.290929204 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559615384615 0.48968727796 114% => OK
Word variations: 70.4536168097 55.4138127331 127% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.380412469 111% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.730942521 59.4972553346 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 157.45 141.124799967 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 23.380412469 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.55 0.674092028746 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 53.6923076923 51.4728631049 104% => OK
Elegance: 2.2972972973 1.64882698954 139% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.149057080649 0.391690518653 38% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.100235546102 0.123202303941 81% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0635383719536 0.077325440228 82% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.536170729933 0.547984918172 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.143304063623 0.149214159877 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0637509128674 0.161403998019 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0583127439653 0.0892212321368 65% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.443569626451 0.385218514788 115% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0748685363301 0.0692045440612 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112792802536 0.275328986314 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.042216908274 0.0653680567796 65% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.4325221239 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.30420353982 245% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88274336283 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 6.0 7.22455752212 83% => OK
Negative topic words: 10.0 3.66592920354 273% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.70907079646 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 16.0 13.5995575221 118% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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