Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could

Scandals happen when people who are able to leverage the flaws of the system to their benefit get caught. Naturally, as scandals involve big names getting caught, people get interested in them because they either were holding them as ideal or were hostile towards their personality. On the other hand side, when a speaker or reformer brings up these same issues we remain indifferent to them as we cannot relate to these issues in any way. The prompt here points out that this irony and asserts that scandals are far more effective in bringing our focus to problems than any speaker or reformer. Undoubtedly, the prompt is completely justified in its assertion for the reasons that are as detailed below.

To begin with, people in general have an array of problems for themsleves making them very disinclined to pay heed to issues that may be prevailing in politics, academia or other area. However, when a sacndal comes out it is not viewed as a problem by these very same people, rather it becomes a moot point for them and sense of joy in how a person with big name was caught. Since, scandals make people talk more about these issues goverment machinery is now pressurised to step in and take strong action not against the people caught but also forced to
fix the inherent flaw of the system to disallow any such scandal from taking place again. For instance, as early as in 1960s, many prominient enviromentalists were warining people about the dangers of nuclear power. People being people as expected did not pay nay heed to their concerns. However, it took only one chernobyl to arouse the insterest of people around the world regarding the imminent danger of nuclear power generation. What followed was several protests around the world against nuclear tech and many goverments were forced to dismantle their nuclear power plants and look for other sources of energy. This particular instance illustartes how quickly and effectively the machinery can be brought into action by public which otherwise would remain indifferent to these very same issues, once a sacndal comes out.

Secondly, media is very rating and viewership oriented these days as more viewership equates to more revenue. Naturally, they prefer spicy stories that could get them more views quickly rather than pursuing investigative journalism that covers important issues that are usually touted by reformers and other speakers. Hence, either media fails to bring up these issues entirley or are presented in very short segmnets on TV or as footnotes in news papers. For instance, the issue of presence of harmful chemicals in baby products was being raised continously by several child healthcare specialists were raising these concerns but media did not find these stories worthy of viewership and hence did not promote them. As a result, this issue remained hidden from public eye from long. However, when the Jhonson baby scandal happened and swedish regulators found that these baby prducts were having many harmful chemicals in them the issue was brought in public eye by the media. This clearly illustrates how important is the role of media in bringing issues to public eye and how scandals make media more inclined to report certain issues which otherwise would have been ignored by it.

In conclusion, that people are usually more involved in their lives to pay attention to issues that do not concern them, and media is also disinclined to bring these issues forth unless there is a scandal.Thus, it can be said that the scandals are definitely more effective at not only bringing our attention towards problems but also forcing goverments to solve them, that speakers and reformers never could.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, look, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, for instance, in conclusion, in general, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3084.0 2235.4752809 138% => OK
No of words: 613.0 442.535393258 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03099510604 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97582523872 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50838246175 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 295.0 215.323595506 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481239804241 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 962.1 704.065955056 137% => 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: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.90983242 60.3974514979 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.857142857 118.986275619 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.1904761905 23.4991977007 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.95238095238 5.21951772744 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => 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: 0.133790021773 0.243740707755 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0391146802793 0.0831039109588 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562495086762 0.0758088955206 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0933554299979 0.150359130593 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0759121889959 0.0667264976115 114% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.1392134831 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.8420337079 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.49 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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