In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.
Mimicking is an essential part of learning process: young people closely look through what grown-ups are doing and try to do the same thing. By doing this, they can decrease the risk of making failures and efficiently learn the desired way of behaviors and knowledges. Sometimes there are geniuses who seem to make splendid works from nowhere, but it is hard to say that they conjured up those marvels outside the earth.
Past achievements are often basis for further analysis. This is true even when people try to tumble down an established theory. Such phenomenon is most prominent in mathematics; the theorem in the past is the ground for further researches. The nature of mathematics such that the logic is, as human beings conceive, flawless and completely proved with assumptions the theory adopts. One can assert analysis devised on his own, but even for that case the examinations for those ideas requires the logical methodologies from the past. Theories on continuity are basis for the concept of derivative, and it is grounds for integration, logarithms, or real functions, and so on. Analogous mechanisms exist in other fields, and the theories on a field sometimes become a crucial foundation for a completely different areas.
Interdisciplinary environments today are deepening this tendency; more and more researches and artworks requires previously acknowledged skills and endeavors from other fields. After Samuelson adopted mathematical methods into Economics, whose researches were operated mostly with anecdotal reasonings, the discipline became a field of evidence from real world, though not as precise as Physics of Chemistry. Such adoption was possible since there were well-established statistical, mathematical foundations in the early 20th century. Similar examples are ample in business and sociology, where the coalition of scholars from various fields work together. However, sometimes previous achievements are not the sole factor for the innovations in other field. It should be noted that various aspects of existing knowledges can inspire further works.
Sometimes, failures and dwindlings become fuel for an introduction of pioneering works and researches. When photography became available, artists, especially painters who had devoted themselves in realism works, thought their popularity might decrease; and the prediction was true: Laymen no longer wanted sophisticated brush-touches by masters in realism since they can get even better one with much cheaper costs. That was exactly the timing when artists found their new niche. Instead of sticking on copying what they see around the nature, they decided to delineate their mind. Surrealism, for example, tried to depict the world of dreams that is far from realistic. However, such tries were successful in the sense that there are new, much larger realms to work on for artists. This example qualifies what the speaker says in the prompt; even when people are not inspired by previous achievements, it can be possible to frontier a field. Rather, more broad statements like ‘influenced by previous works’ seem to be more correct.
Therefore, it would be pretty hard to say that one’s achievement is truly his own since his idea might have come from, or at least inspired by other people’s ideas. As Keynes, the most innovative Economist in history, once said “All of us are slaves of previous scholars and researchers lying underground.”
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-16 | HAN YEBIN | 50 | view |
| 2024-04-02 | guozhishan | 50 | view |
| 2023-09-01 | Sovendo Talapatra | 50 | view |
| 2023-07-18 | Jonginn | 83 | view |
| 2022-11-04 | raghavchauhan619 | 83 | view |
- Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study because acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated. 79
- The following is taken from a memo from the advertising director of the Super Screen Movie Production Company. According to a recent report from our marketing department, during the past year, fewer people attended Super Screen-produced movies than in any 54
- “Some people believe that government funding of the arts is necessary to ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Others believe that government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts.”Write a response in whic 83
- The general welfare of a nation's people is a better indication of that nation's greatness than are the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disag 50
- People's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.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 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 308, Rule ID: NEEDS_FIXED[1]
Message: "wanted sophisticated" is only accepted in certain dialects. For something more widely acceptable, try 'sophisticating' or 'to be sophisticated'.
Suggestion: sophisticating; to be sophisticated
...ction was true: Laymen no longer wanted sophisticated brush-touches by masters in realism sin...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 869, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... in the prompt; even when people are not inspired by previous achievements, it ca...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, so, therefore, well, at least, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2937.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 536.0 442.535393258 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47947761194 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81161862636 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01632372533 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 313.0 215.323595506 145% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583955223881 0.4932671777 118% => OK
syllable_count: 889.2 704.065955056 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.3486830339 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.961538462 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6153846154 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.53846153846 5.21951772744 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.112757425144 0.243740707755 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0322071075846 0.0831039109588 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0356762389337 0.0758088955206 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0596759641827 0.150359130593 40% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0305152294433 0.0667264976115 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 12.1639044944 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.55 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 167.0 100.480337079 166% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
---------------------
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.