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.
Throughout the history of mankind, great individuals have been often time praised for their achievements and contributions to the society. Historians, news reporters, biographers and writers leave no stone unturned to acknowledge the struggles and feats of these personalities. But the question whether the greatness of individual can be decided only by those who live in later generations, not by their contemporaries is rather debatable. The thought that only people of later generations have the sole right or capability to determine the eminence of great humans is flawed due to a several reasons. Although, there are numerous cases when the significance of someone’s work gets realized after they have ceased living – leaving the matter of determination of the importance and impact of such a work to later generations – it makes no sense to completely rule out the role of contemporaries in judging one’s work.
Great individuals have always made efforts to make the world a better place to live. However, these efforts are results of motivation and inspiration of the individual, which spring from the desire to improve the current conditions of life. Every great scientist, author, visionary or eminent person in any field would want that this work has immediate impact and contemporaries are benefitted. Approval of his work by contemporaries not only gives him a sense of validity but the desire to contribute further. Gautama Buddha, as we know was one of the most influential thinkers and preachers of humankind. It is well known that his influence over people living during his physical existence was not as great as after his death. After attaining enlightenment, he had a small group of disciples to whom he used to preach his religion. He wanted to convey the truth of life and spread his religion to every human on this Earth, so that there would be no suffering. Although his group of followers increased as he grew old, there were many individuals and groups who rejected his school of thought. In contrast, after his death, with the progression of time his religion has spread over the entire Indian subcontinent and today Buddhism is one of the major religions of the world. But, what if his thoughts on reality and life did not receive any attention at all? What if he had no contemporary followers or disciples? It would make sense to say that it is the initial realization of people that gets further acceptance with time, even if the number is small.
Also, if your work is not being critically judged by your contemporaries, there is no scope for improvement. No one works blindly in the hope that it would just benefit a fictional, distant future society. One would not understand the limitations, viability and the applicability of his work. Albert Einstein‘s theory of relativity would not have received such acclaim had his theory not created so much controversy and debate since he published an article on it. Most of his contemporaries rejected his work as being great or were stubborn to overthrow the previous school of thought of classical mechanics. Decades after his death, as more and more scientists understood his theory, his fame and greatness knew no bound – today, he is touted as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century.
One would argue that the greatness of an individual gets tested by time if his achievements and contributions are glorified and acknowledged by later generations. In this case, I would refer to my earlier example, when Albert Einstein’s theory had overthrown Newton’s classical mechanics and Newton’s theory were considered invalid in many cases especially for small particles and cosmic entities such as black holes. Did that make Newton not so great? No. Newton is still considered to be among the greats in the field of science. Newton’s theory was accepted by his contemporaries because his theory was true in most cases. The fact that his work was novel for nobody had thought of physics the way he did at his time of existence and that it served as a framework and direction for further improvements makes him great. So, it is apt to say that that the contemporaries play a significant role in determining the greatness of an individual, although there might be cases where his greatness might be better understood by people of later generations. The bottom line is if someone’s work or thought or idea is relevant or pragmatic to a particular time period, whether currently or in the future, his worth will be realized.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 283, Rule ID: WHETHER[5]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "the question"?
Suggestion: whether
...s and feats of these personalities. But the question whether the greatness of individual can be deci...
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Line 1, column 928, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...temporaries in judging one's work. Great individuals have always made effor...
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Line 7, column 865, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: that
...s makes him great. So, it is apt to say that that the contemporaries play a significant r...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, still, well, in contrast, such as, in many cases, in most cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.5258426966 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 14.8657303371 209% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 70.0 33.0505617978 212% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3811.0 2235.4752809 170% => OK
No of words: 754.0 442.535393258 170% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05437665782 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.24013935268 4.55969084622 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0469109929 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 344.0 215.323595506 160% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456233421751 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1186.2 704.065955056 168% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.10617977528 322% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.2370786517 158% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.5263777534 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.09375 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5625 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.84375 5.21951772744 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.115821071969 0.243740707755 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0387635382559 0.0831039109588 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0478984681018 0.0758088955206 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0847812716216 0.150359130593 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.032748748654 0.0667264976115 49% => 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: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 171.0 100.480337079 170% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => 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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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.