GRE Prompt

GRE Topic

People always have a few secrets that we do not want to share publicly because of different reasons. Some secrets are closely related to our private life; some are too embarrassing to mention. However, we are curious and we are eager to reveal all the confidential and well-hidden secrets to the world. In the modern world, terrifying and shameful secrets are more likely to be reported on social media since the audiences prefer to listen to these shocking scandals, which may ruin their privacy. As a result, some say that scandal is the best methodology to attract people’s attention on a specific topic, as everyone is fond of viewing disclosed scandals and discussing the seriousness behind them. I personally believe this statement is not accurate because such statement fails to observe this phenomenon in a long-term perspective and neglects to analyze the significance of revealing scandals.

Nowadays, scandals are most likely to be addressed as negative news about celebrities or corporations. The strength of scandals is significant and effectiveness that they can reverse one’s reputation to a rotten state in a blink of time. As a result, scandals become an effective and favorable strategy to tackle your opponent. During the former election of California governor, the former Mayor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was reported to have engaged in sexual harassment against a co-worker several times. These scandals rapidly deteriorated the reputation of the candidate and several women-rights groups raised their voice to oppose the campaign. However, the scandals twist and distort the idea of election. The ideal situation is to vote for the most suitable candidate that can improve the state’s social and financial performance in order to improve the general public’s living standard. However, strategies involving scandals distort the idea of election to vote for the person who has the least-scandals. These attacks do not focus on the policy direction and future implementation but the past history. I believe that scandals that revealing one’s past is less significant compared to the potential ability one has.

The statement may not be accurate in that most of the scandals do not relate to the important issues the world is experiencing at the moment. This is because the audiences are interested in reading scandals that are related to the person that they are familiar with, celebrities. Scandals that happened outside the country are considered tasteless because the audiences are not able to attach themselves in the situation. As a result, if you walk in a North American supermarket, the observation may shock you. Racks of magazines that writes about the Royal Family’s private life and Kate and William overwhelms the cashier. However, emergency topic such as Ebola and Global Warming which can potentially harm one’s survival never occur on the racks. These scandals mislead the reader to focus on minor problems and blur the sight of global issues. More importantly, these scandals spawns rapidly that the readers are bombardment with massive information. The latest scandals can easily overlap the previous one so each of the scandal does not last longer than a week.