The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
There are a large number of reasons and a variety of standards to judge the greatness of an individual. Among these, here is only concerned with the extraordinary achievements of an individual, either what he does, or what he thinks. And he, either after his death or in his own lifetime, has played a significant role in the human beings’ society. Therefore, the greatness of individuals can be decided not only by those who live after them, but also by their contemporaries.
Some people’s greatness are decided by those who live after them, because during their lifetime their contemporaries couldn’t understand their ideas or appreciate their works with the limitation of recognition. For instance, Vincent Van Gogh, a great post-impressionism painter in the European art history, hadn’t become famous until his death. It was only one of his 2100 artworks that was sold at the price of 400 Francs a few months before his death. Afterwards his works, notable for their rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, becomes well-known among his colleagues, dealers, artistic critics, and collectors, who recognize the value of his works that broke free of the naturalism of impressionism and pursued unique means of artistic expression. Up to now, his paintings have been providing inspirations to millions of artists around the world, who begin placing Gogh’s artworks on many different novelty items.
Furthermore, the greatness of an individual can be judged by his contemporaries like Bill Gates, an American business magnate and philanthropist. his greatness is not only because he invented the world’s personal-computer software(MS-DOS and Windows operating systems) and introduced us to the world of computers, but because he pursues a number of philanthropic endeavors. For one thing, he, as the pioneer of personal computer software, has introduced us to the era of personal computer, dramatically having changed the world and altered our lives. For another, he, a well-known philanthropist in the world, has donated large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs——finding a solution of the diseases like HIV, promoting the global development, improving the welfare of more of the world’s people, and so on.
In addition, the greatness of an individual can be appreciated by both his contemporaries and those who live after him. Take a look at Deng Xiaoping, he had implemented the policy of reform and opening-up in China in the late twentieth century, lifting millions of Chinese people out of poverty and radically revitalizing the economy in the country. Since then, China’s economy has multiplied and now has become the second economy in the world. Moreover, his idea, ‘peace and development’, successfully solved the return of Hongkong, which had been dominated by the United Kingdom. His achievements—economic reform and peaceful development—have immense impact abroad.
Therefore, I disagree with the standpoint of the greatness of an individual only decided by those who live after him. In fact, the greatness of individuals should be able to stand up to the realistic evaluation made by anybody at any time.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 11, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
There are a large number of reasons and a variety of standards to j...
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Line 2, column 396, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...th. It was only one of his 2100 artworks that was sold at the price of 400 Francs...
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Line 2, column 920, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...o begin placing Gogh's artworks on many different novelty items. Furthermore, the great...
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Line 3, column 147, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: His
...an business magnate and philanthropist. his greatness is not only because he invent...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, look, moreover, second, so, then, therefore, well, for instance, in addition, in fact, for one thing
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2738.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 500.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.476 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.48311125289 2.79657885939 125% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 851.4 704.065955056 121% => 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
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.7460230439 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.9 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 5.21951772744 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.357337698313 0.243740707755 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133111096639 0.0831039109588 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.215150318669 0.0758088955206 284% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.23743207122 0.150359130593 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.132055366552 0.0667264976115 198% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.1392134831 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.52 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 147.0 100.480337079 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.