In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.
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.
Surely, past achievements set an example of the highest contributions in any field and instill inspiration in most people who endeavor to make remarkable contributions. While it provides a benchmark for future contributions and in some cases guides further achievements, stating that significant contributions are impossible without being guided by these past achievements, is a bit too extreme. After all, the first ever achievements in any field have no prior example or influence of the achievements and what makes these contributions possible is the inspiration which results from multiple reasons. Giving some credit to innovation and talent, two of the various factors that make the greatest contributions possible in any field by breaking the norms, do not always result form the impact of past achievements, as they may occur expectedly or serendipitously at any point of time.
The statement links endeavoring remarkable inputs in any field to prior achievements within that field where the assumption is that instead no other factors could allow notable contributions. Taking reference from the introduction, talent and innovative ideas could also develop from empirical experiments. For example, Isaac Newton the greatest scientist of all time who discovered the law of universal gravitation figured out why things fall down and why the planets orbit around the sun. This could be possible because he questioned the existence of reality and with the help of physical experiments and mathematical aptitude he makes this huge contribution without any influence from previous success in the branch of physics.
In contrast to the statement, one may also argue that venturing to achieve the pinnacle especially in the field of creativity is sometimes hindered by having strong impact of past artistic luminaries. As one who is strongly influenced by them often ends up imitating the customary style of work and their thoughts are limited by its conventions. Besides, influence of prior success is not mandatory for an artist to create an unprecedented and extraordinary work of art as artistic skill is something that occurs naturally. For example, Zaha Hadid the first female architect to win the Pritzker Prize Award is celebrated for her de-constructive style of architecture, liberated architectural geometry giving it a new expressive identity. Natural surrounding like vineyards and farm lands inspire her work to design roof that rises up like a wave. Thus, ideas and talent could play more important role than being influenced by prior successes.
Additionally, the above example presents that to pursue contributions such fields where innovation is the key does not require to be influenced by past success, in fact it requires not to be restrained by them. While past achievements could influence some people positively and do wonders, others who think could never achieve that level of success is impeded by the same. Therefore, it is necessary that the influence is interpreted in a positive way in order to endeavor any field.
Past influences might or not help making significant contributions as it depends on the actual field one pursues and innovation makes it may as well. Thus, it is possible to endeavor any field sometimes without being influenced by the past success. However, endeavoring in any field is never limited to the past discoveries, since infinite inventions and limitless contributions could be made in the future that are not even imagined before.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'from'?
Suggestion: from
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Consider replacing "in a positive way" with adverb for "positive"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
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Line 9, column 35, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to make' or 'make'.
Suggestion: to make; make
.... Past influences might or not help making significant contributions as it depends...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, thus, well, while, after all, for example, in contrast, in fact, in contrast to, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 86.0 58.6224719101 147% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2955.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 549.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3825136612 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84053189512 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11844283541 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 278.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506375227687 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 935.1 704.065955056 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8007028063 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.75 118.986275619 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.45 23.4991977007 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.05 5.21951772744 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.355587924705 0.243740707755 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112898122068 0.0831039109588 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0816948365845 0.0758088955206 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.212010177091 0.150359130593 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0828063412138 0.0667264976115 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 48.8420337079 73% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 147.0 100.480337079 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.5 11.8971910112 139% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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.