Unfortunately, in contemporary society, creating an appealing image has become more important than the reality or truth behind that image.
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.
With the development of information technologies, news and messages are widely spread with a much faster speed than before. Thus, anything positive or negative influences the people around the world instantly. The statement claims that creating an appealing image overweighs the truth behind that image. However, personally, in most of the time people living around the world deserve the truth, but in certain circumstances hiding the truth behind the pleasing image would be beneficial for the society.
The truth, reflecting one of the moral standards - integrity, should be treated as an inborn right for every citizen. People deserve truth as a tool to supervise how a government functions. In many countries in the world, corruption is a severe issue that can not be solved from the root. Those officers who are corrupted often conceal the truth by posting positive news or images for the public, showing that they are devoted to the work for citizens. Should we torent this kind of appealing image? The answer is absolutely no. Thus, there are institutions, media, and even citizens themselves to observe what officers do and investigate what they own.
The truth, is also needed for the fairness, and it is especially necessary in terms of laws. If a court disobeys the truth behind a crime and judges based on whatever can mislead the judgment, the society will lose its confidence in the authority institutions. In the past few years, the Chinese government has been criticized for concealing the truth behind sever public accidents. For example, in the high-speed train accident happened in Zhejiang Province, two trains crashed due to a signal transmission issue, resulting in that the trains fell out of the track with hundreds of people injured. However, as an unspeakable routine, the death number of people in the accident is below 35. In this case, the highest direct officer which refers to the head of the province does not need to be deposed. There are more severe accidents in the past with such number below 35, thus, citizens have been censuring the government for hiding the truth behind.
Certainly, it is true that in certain circumstances, creating a positive image might be needed if the purpose of this is to ensure the stability of the society. If the truth behind the event might cause a commotion or even revolution, the government have the right to weigh the pros and cons of revealing the truth, and conceal the truth if necessary. For example, in the 60s, the Chinese government has committed a wide-range action across the nation to clear the opponents and censure the scholars. It was roughly mentioned in the history book without elaborating on how severe the action resulted. From a citizen, we might childe the government due to its dishonesty. But if we consider the problem from the government's perspective, it is undertstanble that by doing this the party which is in charge of China now could stabilize his authority. It sounds self-interest, but it might be beneficial not only for the government but also the public.
To sum up, knowing the truth is a privilege that we deserve and we should fight for, but it is not always necessary to reveal the truth for everyone. In certain circumstance concerning with a higher priority like social stability, public health issue or other major issues, the truth might need to be concealed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 712, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...But if we consider the problem from the governments perspective, it is undertstanble that b...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, thus, for example, kind of, it is true, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2823.0 2235.4752809 126% => OK
No of words: 563.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01420959147 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87110059796 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75947765724 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 278.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49378330373 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 866.7 704.065955056 123% => 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: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.8206679096 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.555555556 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8518518519 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.85185185185 5.21951772744 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.156588464209 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0465347129233 0.0831039109588 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0590448204391 0.0758088955206 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0981160446446 0.150359130593 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0532770242758 0.0667264976115 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 140.0 100.480337079 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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.