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 may catch people’s eyes but hardly incite effective actions due to its nature focusing on the people who cause the scandals, not the problem itself. By holding this opinion, I only partially agree with the statement.
To begin with, it is no secret that people are attracted by scandals, especially about the private lives of celebrities. However, most of these types of scandals emphasize the ‘individual’ who creates the problem, instead of the ‘reason’ leading to the problem. Therefore, it is rare to motivate productive discussion to truly change the problems that are revealed by the scandals. For example, when the ex-US president Bill Cillinton was involved in the sexual scandal with his secretary, the mainstream reports focused on whether the behavior truly happened, instead of investigating the sexual oppression that may have occurred systematically under power disparity conditions. Underscore the individual who arouses the scandal can actually undermine the real attention to solve the problems.
Another perspective to examine this statement is that with the assistance of technology, more information is transparent to the mass. As a result, speakers or reformers actually hold more critical data to conceal any problem than before. With the powerful data and techniques, the investigation of any problem should be more systematically performed as opposed to occasional reports of scandals. For instance, any government corruption is systematically checked periodically, and there is a worldwide report to compare different levels of government corruptions. By doing so, citizen’s can monitor government's actions in advance, instead of relying merely on scandals to punish any stakeholders who are involved.
However, we should not neglect the scandals that still play vital roles in countries which are led by dictatorship. Due to the lack of a systematic way to monitor the government, the scandals help people to understand the problematic policies. For example, during the outbreak of coronavirus, scandals relating to the chinese government on hiding the real data of the disease do help the world initiate further investigation on chinese government's responsibility on the pandemic.
In conclusion, I still believe the scandal is not the best way to solve the problems while when no formal mechanism is in place, scandals may help the mass to get close to the core of governments’ problematic behaviors.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 437, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...itiate further investigation on chinese governments responsibility on the pandemic. In c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 14.8657303371 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 33.0505617978 51% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2088.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 376.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.55319148936 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.20071362007 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55585106383 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 650.7 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.0567888639 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.5 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.125 5.21951772744 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
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: 0.159397653227 0.243740707755 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0524476964008 0.0831039109588 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0227602377834 0.0758088955206 30% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.087996244776 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.012669614986 0.0667264976115 19% => 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: 16.5 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.21 12.1639044944 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.77 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 100.480337079 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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