The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the
statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting
your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true
and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The author contends that the greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them but not by their contemporaries. Admittedly, contemporaries are constrained by their time, yet contemporaries can paint a more comprehensive picture of prominent figures.
Many individuals who made a lot of contributions to the development of arts, science and literature were underestimated by their contemporaries because of their transcendence of their own time. Take Marshell Mcluhan as an example. The Canadian philosopher was criticized a lot in his lifetime for his support of Technological Determinism and self-contradictory theories. However, with the development of social media and the establishment of “global village”, scholars finally understood the meaning of “media is massage”, the core claim proposed by Mcluhan, which means media can change human’s lifestyle, values and psychological condition in a subtle way. This is what is happening now, but for people living in 40 years ago when there was no smartphone or Facebook, they could not understand his theory.
However, only contemporaries can draw a comprehensive picture of an individual. For instance, the famous film director Roman Polanski, known for Chinatown as well as the Ghost Writer, was arrested and charged in Los Angeles with five offenses against Samantha Geimer, a 13-year-old girl in March 1977. Those who live after him may only watch his masterpieces which won the Golden Palm and the Golden Bear, but did not know his accusations of rape. Moreover, it is possible that people who live after them may only get biased and edited documents about their achievements. History is always controlled by the winners and never objective. Some people, thus, who in fact made great contribution to human-beings may become invisible even infamous among people who live after them.
In addition, contemporaries are more familiar with the historical background and thus make more objective evaluations towards certain people. For example, nowadays Chinese people regard Emperor Qing as a tyrannical and cruel ruler, but actually he made great achievements in unifying language and currency all around China and in drafting law. It is understandable that living in a more democratic nation, people now are angry about the torture used by the emperor, but as a ruler living in more than 3000 years ago in slavery time, he is far-sighted and ambitious.
In a nutshell, although contemporaries are limited by their own time, they have benefits in understanding certain people in more all-around way.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 668, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a subtle way" with adverb for "subtle"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...yle, values and psychological condition in a subtle way. This is what is happening now, but for...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, however, if, may, moreover, so, thus, well, for example, for instance, in addition, in fact, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2218.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 404.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.4900990099 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.31088113333 2.79657885939 118% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579207920792 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 693.9 704.065955056 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 63.0937129118 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.470588235 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7647058824 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.47058823529 5.21951772744 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => 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: 0.21492251235 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0720771119583 0.0831039109588 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0897617004803 0.0758088955206 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123247362409 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0925651533543 0.0667264976115 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => 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: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.