Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
Today's world is rocked by scandals left and right. Every week there is news about some businessman accused of insider trading, some politician accosted of taking bribes or a sportsman testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. While they do cause lot of damage, I do believe they are useful as they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
When a scandal comes to light, there is news about it everywhere. Newspapers have front page headlines with extensive coverage while TV channels have endless debates and discussions about the incident that occured. The average citizen is drowned in this news and becomes aware of it; much more than he/she was of other news items. Our eyes open only when something happens and the media is blaring it out on all forms of media. On the flip side, if a speaker was talking about this scandal that might potentially happen, people would pay some heed to the news but would forget it by the end of the day. We would just pay a miniscule amount of attention to it and it would be as though nothing new had happened.
Speakers, when they talk about scandals, may talk about something that might happen or something that was quite likely, but it's hard to provide direct evidence as they themselves are speculating to some degree. However when a case of, say insider trading, comes out in the open, it is followed up with a thorough investigation by the appropriate organizations and hard evidence is gathered to determine the facts of the case. When the common man becomes aware of this evidence, he/she pays more attention to the scandal and the general problem it relates to.
Many-a-times scandals are also followed by proposed legislation to specifically reduce the possibility of such incidents from happening in the future. These laws are drawn up fast and are often approved much faster than other laws. When reformers speak about scandals, people get to know about it; yet it hardly causes legislation to be created to minimize the possibility of such scandals happening again.
While scandals do bring forth a lot of evidence and may result in specific legislation being created, they also ruin many lives and result in financial losses as well as emotional damage. There are effects which would not be present if a spearker or reformer would be talking about some potential scandals.
To conclude, scandals are useful as they open the eyes of the general public to the wrongdoings that are happening and often result in creation of specific legislation to prevent such scandals from happening. However, they also do a lot of monetary and emotional damage.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 212, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...mselves are speculating to some degree. However when a case of, say insider trading, co...
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Line 21, column 63, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...are useful as they open the eyes of the general public to the wrongdoings that are happening a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, well, while, talking about, as well as
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 : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2222.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 449.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94877505568 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60321845022 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60321194241 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505567928731 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 704.7 704.065955056 100% => 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
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.9168568923 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.947368421 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6315789474 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.73684210526 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 10.2758426966 19% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235174804212 0.243740707755 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0703587302104 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122822851486 0.0758088955206 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132934025591 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.122268275946 0.0667264976115 183% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 100.480337079 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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