Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
When guns are in good men’s hand, gun protects people and brings order to the society. But when guns are in bad men’s hand, gun hurts people, and threatens the safety of society. So are scandals. Whether scandals are useful or benefit to our society should not be determined by the nature of itself, but how people would make use of it.
Through out our human history, scandals play an important role in improving human’s thought and advanced us to a civilized society. Scandals expose the hypocritical side of authorities, and eliminate over-idolization to public figures. Back in the 16th century Europe, people were manipulated and deceived by Roman Catholic Church, thinking they can be repented through buying indulgences from church, and still praising the holiness of church. It was not until Martin Luther published the Ninety-five Theses, refuted the teaching and the behavior of Roman Catholic Church that people started to realize and focus their attention to the corruption and other problems of Church.
This scandal later led to the Protestant Reformation, and became the turning point and the most influential event in our human history that made people begin to question their authority and protect their own right. Nowadays, we have public media, which is so called the fourth estate, aiming to balance the power of Government and protect people’s right to know. By revealing scandals, media help public to break myths and reveal the problems of public figures and authority, just like Martin Luther did.
However, in today’s world, with the rise of freedom of the press and the spread of media, it is often seen that scandal became a tool for attention, merely to satisfy public curiosity, and to earn higher internet click-through rate. Instead of focusing attention on the real issues, this phenomenon distracts off the society from issues where should be actually focus on. Take the notorious Lewinsky scandal for example. In 1998, the whole nation was crazily focusing on this white house affair, but meanwhile there was actually a more crucial task that needed both the media and Clinton administration to focus on ---- terrorist threat.
In order to deal with this scandal, Clinton administration was distracted to pursuing Bin Laden, and failed to cripple Al-Qaeda, which planted a hidden threat to the nation’s future. Because of Lewinsky scandal, those decisions should be made, and those issues should be discussed were neglected, that ceased the progress of the entire society. In this democratic society, it is necessary that public figures, especially politicians, need to be scrutinized. However, media should always take a deep introspection of that whether the scandal is benefit to our society, and help public to focus on the issues that matter.
Today, scandals are often related to sensational news, which satisfy people’s curiosity, rather than reveal serious problems and gather people’s attention to understand and confront the issues. Scandal can be benefit to our society, like how it took place during Protestant Reformation, yet can also be harmful to our society, like the influences that Lewinsky scandal brought. As so called the fourth estate, press media should use scandals wisely, letting scandals play its role of disclosing hypocrisy and corruption, and fulfill the key role of bringing the important issues to public.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'throughout'?
Suggestion: Throughout
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, so, still, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 30.0 14.8657303371 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2888.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 541.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33826247689 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82280071112 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76479569953 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 278.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513863216266 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 868.5 704.065955056 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 13.0 1.77640449438 732% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 11.0 4.38483146067 251% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.9724927647 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.272727273 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5909090909 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.68181818182 5.21951772744 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => 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: 0.178771303126 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0522130648832 0.0831039109588 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0400565250455 0.0758088955206 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0956116862906 0.150359130593 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329640136522 0.0667264976115 49% => 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: 16.0 14.1392134831 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 144.0 100.480337079 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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