Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
Scandals have been known to exist since the beginning of mankind. From, politics to business, education to sports, moral to literary or artistic; scandals have been prevalent in wide variety of areas. In contemporary world with the growth of mass media and journalism, scandals have become a popular phenomenon throughout the world. Public interest towards scandals have grown significantly due much independent media exposing and revealing mystic information and data related to a scandal. Also, with the eruption of greed, lust and abuse of power societies today breach those moral and ethical norms and have become more scandalized.
The author claims that scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer could not. Exposing of a scandal often reveal the misdoings of the persons involved in the scandal, breaching those moral and ethical practices and code of conduct. As a result, scandal help out to bring the covert faces of the wrongdoers and proving them guilty of a crime. However, in my view I agree with the author but partially.
Scandals are mainly accusations which receive a huge exposure. They tend to highlight the hidden problems in our society. As a result, the public becomes aware of these so called hidden problems which could prove to be catastrophic in the future if not exposed. Be it any field politics, sports, business, sexual or literary scandals have proved to be of a widespread interest throughout the world. In politics, scandals have been beneficial as they have exposed some of the corrupt politicians and held them guilty to the court of law. Consider the example of 2G scandal in India, in which telecom minister was held guilty for alleged sale of spectrum at lower prices and siphoning off a huge sum of money for several years. In sports, scandals have been beneficial in exposing the malpractices involved in playing them. The most common one is the practice of match fixing. Many cases of match fixing have been exposed in wide variety of sports. Consider the example of 2000 Match Fixing Scandal in cricket involving mainly the Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin along with the South African bowler Hansie Cronje Exposure of these players resulted in permanent ban of them from all formats of cricket. In business, scandals have resulted into huge losses for the company. Consider the example of PNB scandal in which diamond baron Nirav Modi is accused of fleeing away with a loan of 11000 crores to the bank. Apart from public sphere scandals have also exposed private life of an individuals. Sex scandals can be considered one of them. Consider the sex scandals of the famous golf player Tiger Woods which faded away career of the best golf player of all times.
However, many of the times scandals are also used to distract the attention of the general public from the main issues prevalent in our society. Consider the example of the Rafale Jet scandal in India, in which opposition parties accuse the government with baseless allegations to mislead the public. Also, many of the times scandals come out to be false allegations with the motive to defame the accused. Often, scandals are used as means of personal gains by the accuser rather than uncovering them with true accusations for the betterment of society.
Therefore, I assert that scandals are useful as they focus our attention on problems if they are accompanied by accusations holding solid grounds to prove them. Otherwise, they just act as a distraction for the public if used for personal gains without having any solid grounds for allegations made using them.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, therefore, apart from, as a result, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 99.0 58.6224719101 169% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3037.0 2235.4752809 136% => OK
No of words: 603.0 442.535393258 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03648424544 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9554069778 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56392251654 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 289.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479270315091 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 949.5 704.065955056 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.233333333 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.46666666667 5.21951772744 47% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 10.2758426966 29% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 26.0 5.13820224719 506% => 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: 0.271941607735 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0830645572867 0.0831039109588 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.142991778627 0.0758088955206 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19250041427 0.150359130593 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.125394260211 0.0667264976115 188% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 149.0 100.480337079 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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