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

Every individual wishes to accomplish great goals in life. Whenever an individual is thinking of achieving great heights he always has someone to look up to for inspiration. We all get inspired in our day to day lives. It is very much possible that when a person aspires to do something remarkable in life he gets influenced by some past achievements. I believe it is very natural on part of an individual to get inspired by the past achievements of people as then only can they create something new and better.

Inspiration in ones life keeps that person going and if we do not have inspiration this life would be colorless. Inspiration of any sort makes a person do things which were never thought of. If singers of today were not inspired by the singers of older days they would not be able to create such different and unique melodies. Similarly, if the present generation scientists do not get inspiration from the older generation scientists then these remarkable developments in technology would not have been possible. Inspiration lays foundation for creation of something new or rather it can be said that out of inspiration something new and different is obtained. The achievements of the past are the basis of our present knowledge. Past achievements are like the roots of a tree and if roots are missing how can a tree ever grow or prosper? Past achievements work as a study which could yield outstanding results in the respective fields of research. Theories of the past are used to solve the problems of present.

Getting inspired from the past achievement certainly does not mean deadening of individual creativity. Inspiration does not mean copying past achievements rather they help the present generation people to achieve new heights. Getting help from past achievements does not mean that innovation is lost; rather innovation is triggered and a better outcome is achieved.

Although is very unlikely that people do not get influenced by past achievements of people. There are people who have done remarkably well on their own without getting inspired by anyone. Such people make a stand and recognition of their own and without the influence of anybody. They become the trendsetters and then they are the basis of inspiration for other people. It is also true that if too much dependence is on past achievements for inspiration then the chances of creating something unusual are lost completely.

Therefore, we must look upon our great achievers from past with due respect and get encouraged and inspired but we should not get so influenced that our work has the traces of their work. We must have an individuality of our own. Whatever we create from any inspiration should contain an imprint of our individuality and it should bear our style. It should be so distinctive from the inspired work that they both appear to be separate and not concluded parts of each other.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 16, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...thing new and better. Inspiration in ones life keeps that person going and if we ...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Although” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ed and a better outcome is achieved. Although is very unlikely that people do not get...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'look', 'similarly', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'well']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.21083172147 0.240241500013 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.195357833656 0.157235817809 124% => OK
Adjectives: 0.10251450677 0.0880659088768 116% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0676982591876 0.0497285424764 136% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0599613152805 0.0444667217837 135% => OK
Prepositions: 0.137330754352 0.12292977631 112% => OK
Participles: 0.0522243713733 0.0406280797675 129% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.89810611967 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0193423597679 0.030933414821 63% => OK
Particles: 0.00193423597679 0.0016655270985 116% => OK
Determiners: 0.0773694390716 0.0997080785238 78% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0251450676983 0.0249443105267 101% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0135396518375 0.0148568991511 91% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2903.0 2732.02544248 106% => OK
No of words: 488.0 452.878318584 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.9487704918 6.0361032391 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.58838876751 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.323770491803 0.366273622748 88% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.262295081967 0.280924506359 93% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.200819672131 0.200843997647 100% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.155737704918 0.132149295362 118% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89810611967 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 219.290929204 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.436475409836 0.48968727796 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 49.2534167103 55.4138127331 89% => OK
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6194690265 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.7692307692 23.380412469 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.2146692612 59.4972553346 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.653846154 141.124799967 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7692307692 23.380412469 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.346153846154 0.674092028746 51% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 44.998738966 51.4728631049 87% => OK
Elegance: 1.23952095808 1.64882698954 75% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283491765928 0.391690518653 72% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.153732799217 0.123202303941 125% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0862586630286 0.077325440228 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.507185221381 0.547984918172 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.102865856579 0.149214159877 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107908544018 0.161403998019 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0488808899042 0.0892212321368 55% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.279180907368 0.385218514788 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0353583771619 0.0692045440612 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181591619724 0.275328986314 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0571146446427 0.0653680567796 87% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.4325221239 173% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 15.0 7.22455752212 208% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 22.0 13.5995575221 162% => 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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