Issue 41: The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
Task: 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 assessment on historical events is in general done by later people. In this regard, some people might argue that the greatness of individuals can also be posthumously decided. However, I disagree with the statement because there are some prominent figures who gained the apposite eminence in their lifetime.
Granted, in some circumstances, the greatness of individuals is not fully appreciated by contemporaries. The epitome of this case could be Johann Sebastian Bach, who is in general deemed to be “the” greatest and most creative classical composer in the entire human history. In his lifetime, although he gained his fame as an organist, his significance as a composer was not fully appreciated. Therefore, much of his musical works became oblivious until Mendelssohn found one of his greatest works, “Matthew’s Passion,” in some dingy grocery shop. The complicated, sophisticated, and ineffably majestic counterpoints and tonalities that consistently appeared in that piece of music enthralled him to disseminate the Bach’s musical works to other famous composers, resulting in Bach’s gaining his fame as a composer. Now, as aforementioned, he is considered the greatest composer who ever existed, and his clout can be found every musical works, e.g., even in pop songs. As this compelling example reveals, the greatness of historical figures is often posthumously reappreciated.
Regardless of the previous case, however, there are some historical figures whose greatness is sufficiently evaluated by their contemporaries. In the case of dealing with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was already famous during his lifetime. As illustrated some famous movies such as “Amadeus,” he was already famous as a musical genius in the entire Europe continent. Aside from the musical field, Franklin Roosevelt can be another example. Being the only president who served more than two consecutive terms, he is now deemed to be one of the greatest US presidents. As his long-term presidency reveals, the citizens regarded him competent and suitable to help the US recover form the dismal economic crisis. As these examples reveal, there are many historical individuals whose greatness and competence are contemporarily decided.
In brief, I disagree with the statement because there are historical figures who already gained their fame and got acknowledged during their lifetime, such as Mozart and Roosevelt. Thus, citizens should not only focus on posthumous recognition and awards because there are individuals who worth their appreciation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, e.g., however, if, so, therefore, thus, in brief, in general, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 58.6224719101 70% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2174.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 388.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.60309278351 5.05705443957 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17624917578 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 215.323595506 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.515463917526 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 693.9 704.065955056 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.2560501268 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.421052632 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4210526316 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.94736842105 5.21951772744 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.136488458113 0.243740707755 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0492179240989 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0428077299181 0.0758088955206 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108589624665 0.150359130593 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0400833160658 0.0667264976115 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 48.8420337079 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.1743820225 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.2 12.1639044944 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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.