The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them , not by their contemporaries.
How does one decide the greatness of a person? It would be unjust to claim that that the people who live after that person are the only ones who can pass a judgment on his greatness. The people who have lived with him are equally responsible for elevating the person's status to that of a great personality. Therefore, a person's greatness can be evaluated not only by the people who live after him, but also by the people who belong to the same generation and are his contemporaries.
The effects of a person's actions may be seen years after his death. The history of man is full of the works of such persons who were scorned by their contemporaries for putting forth ideas that were opposed by the societies of those times. For instance, the society could not accept the theory of evolution put forth by Charles Darwin as he related the evolution of man to that of the apes. However, years after his death, people have elevated the status of Charles Darwin from a common scientist to that of a great man. This is because he had been successful in putting forth the theory that has been scientifically proven to be true years after his death. Galileo Galilei, Copernicus and Kepler all stood by the theory that the Earth is not static and it is not at the center of the universe and their theory was not accepted by their contemporaries. Galileo was even charged with blasphemy by the Pope. However, today we all know that the earth revolves around the sun and these scientists have found their way into our history books as great men.
On the contrary, if one considers the works of artists and writers, it is seen that most of these people were given due credit for their work by their contemporaries. Writers like Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Robert Frost etc, were held in high regard by their contemporaries and these good reviews helped in making these writers great in their field of work. Painters and musicians like Leonardo DaVinci, Mozart and Beethoven were all admired by their contemporaries for their immeasurable talent. Even today, these writers and artists are accepted as great people because of the appreciation that they had earned centuries ago.
The efforts of freedom fighters can be appreciated by their contemporaries to a great extent because they have lived to see the effects of being under foreign rule and they have also seen the effort and dedication put in by the freedom fighters to free their nation. Hence, they will be in a better position to decide the greatness of freedom fighters as compared to the future generations who do not know the ill effects of being under a foreign rule. Therefore, the people who live after the freedom fighters have long gone will probably not be able to appreciate their greatness as they will not be able to identify themselves with the situation that existed long before they were born.
A careful study of the examples quoted above clearly establishes the fact that it is not necessary that the greatness of men can be decided by the people who live after them. There are numerous instances when the greatness of men has been established during their lifetimes by their contemporaries. Therefore, great men have been given their due by both their contemporaries and by the people who lived after them.
- The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them , not by their contemporaries. 54
- The better a new idea is the greater the opposition to that idea when it is first presented Only later usually once the person who had the idea is no longer around to enjoy its success do we consider the thinker a genius 55
- "Anyone can make things bigger and more complex. What requires real effort and courage isto move in the opposite direction---in other words, to make things as simple as possible." 31
- It is possible to pass laws that control or place limits on people's behavior, but legislation cannot reform human nature. Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts and minds. 70
- Important truths begin as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time. 79
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 76, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: that
...f a person? It would be unjust to claim that that the people who live after that person a...
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Line 1, column 261, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...e equally responsible for elevating the persons status to that of a great personality. ...
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Line 1, column 321, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...at of a great personality. Therefore, a persons greatness can be evaluated not only by ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'therefore', 'for instance', 'on the contrary', 'to a great extent']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.241776315789 0.240241500013 101% => OK
Verbs: 0.167763157895 0.157235817809 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0575657894737 0.0880659088768 65% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0427631578947 0.0497285424764 86% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0674342105263 0.0444667217837 152% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.152960526316 0.12292977631 124% => OK
Participles: 0.0625 0.0406280797675 154% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.6180334539 2.79330140395 94% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0213815789474 0.030933414821 69% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.115131578947 0.0997080785238 115% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0164473684211 0.0249443105267 66% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0246710526316 0.0148568991511 166% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3286.0 2732.02544248 120% => OK
No of words: 569.0 452.878318584 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.77504393673 6.0361032391 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88402711743 4.58838876751 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.304042179262 0.366273622748 83% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.214411247803 0.280924506359 76% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.133567662566 0.200843997647 67% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0931458699473 0.132149295362 70% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6180334539 2.79330140395 94% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 219.290929204 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.413005272408 0.48968727796 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 48.613602261 55.4138127331 88% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 25.8636363636 23.380412469 111% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.5732048117 59.4972553346 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.363636364 141.124799967 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8636363636 23.380412469 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.674092028746 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 47.304761144 51.4728631049 92% => OK
Elegance: 1.6449704142 1.64882698954 100% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.495646827479 0.391690518653 127% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.196638230694 0.123202303941 160% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.094267942933 0.077325440228 122% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.601691729807 0.547984918172 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.144649277296 0.149214159877 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.202146747269 0.161403998019 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106783290761 0.0892212321368 120% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.379688279507 0.385218514788 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0816470888537 0.0692045440612 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.352379633632 0.275328986314 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108753609548 0.0653680567796 166% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.4325221239 125% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 13.5995575221 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.