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.
Scandals are a common part of politics and fame, and often inform public opinion. However, scandals are detrimental to progression of society because they cause polarity between sides and are irrelevant to the truly important problems.
There are always multiple sides, or opinions, on how to address problems in society. A common way to gain footing to push one’s opinion further than another’s is to discredit the people supporting the opposing side, and not attacking the opinion itself. People often use scandals in this way to bring down their opposition and cause polarity. However, this strategy is faulty in that it does nothing to show how the opinions, recommendations, or beliefs of the opposition are wrong. Additionally, it allows the side, guiltless of the scandal, to latch on to something and potentially cause stagnation in progress on important problems.
Scandals are often blown out of proportion and are completely irrelevant to the real problem at hand. Take a sex scandal for instance. Say a politician was caught renting a prostitute during their time traveling for different meetings to discuss a crisis, such as a natural disaster. Much of society frowns on such an act and thus, the politician would have to spend a load of their time, that they should be using to address the crisis, at press conferences, apologizing to the public for their slip up. Maybe the public would even call for the politician to step down from office. During this time, the victims of a natural disaster would be neglected and a politician, who might be otherwise good at their job, would step down from office.
On the other hand, it is common for politicians, with good qualifications, but hidden character traits that make them unfit to lead, to be elected into office. Imagine a strong, decisive leader with excellent qualifications that has a tendency to be rash. Until said leader is put to the test in a real scenario, voters may be unaware of the extent of their temperance. A scandal might illuminate such a personality trait before it exposes itself in a scenario where it truly matters.
Ultimately, it is unwise of people to allow scandals to obscure what is actually important, solving problems, by distracting the public and stalling progress.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, may, so, thus, for instance, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1911.0 2235.4752809 85% => OK
No of words: 376.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08244680851 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89283346517 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 215.323595506 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542553191489 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 598.5 704.065955056 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.1920961035 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.166666667 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8888888889 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.61111111111 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 10.2758426966 29% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => 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: 0.115341979557 0.243740707755 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0370250277792 0.0831039109588 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0207682052786 0.0758088955206 27% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0605468267191 0.150359130593 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0197676772309 0.0667264976115 30% => 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: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => 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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