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.
The greatness of an individual essentially depends on the person’s talent; however, often this talent is overlooked by their contemporaries for many reasons. As humans, we have a tendency to not appreciate the things we have while we have them. Often artists, musicians, even teachers and doctors who are worthy or recognition for their craft and hard work go unnoticed because we take them for granted or because there is too much competition to give recognition when it’s deserved. With this said, the greatness of an individual can only be decided by those who live after them, because only they are able to have an impartial decision towards the individual’s work.
Competition is a primary reason why talent so often goes unnoticed by those present during that time and era. Take, for example, the work of past artists such as Beethoven and Picasso. Although both artists excelled at very different crafts, one in music and the other in art, they were both controversial artists of their time. Often their talent wasn’t as recognized or given as much credit as it should have been granted, because other artists were usually competing and attempting to outdo them in their craft. Because of this many critics of their time, although appreciated their talent, focused more on creating a comparison between the artist and someone else. Today, we look back at the talents of Beethoven, Picasso, and other artists of past times and appreciate their art with equitable opinions. The fear of talent going unnoticed is one that exists even in the people of our time today. Often, we see writers, musicians, and educators working hard to be the best at what they do. However, their hard work goes unnoticed because we may see others doing the same thing or someone else we believe is doing it “better.”
Furthermore, unawareness is also a large part of the reason why talent and hard work is unappreciated. This is the case for many teachers who teach at low-income schools. We can easily say these teachers face challenges that are very different from the ones who teach at regular public schools, merely because of the students they are teaching. These students come from families that are not well off and have grown up in very different environments, not having the same luxuries as those in better school districts. These teachers are often not recognized for the difference they make in their community because not everyone knows about it or has simply not paid attention. Later, when the teacher has retired or is no longer a part of the education system, is when people may notice what a big difference the person made and what an essential asset they were to the school. Many musicians will face the same challenges when they are trying to get noticed for music they have written or composed. Musicians will try day and night for any production company to give them a chance, but it is one failed attempt after another, because there are others who are capable of coming out with better music.
Of course, it is true this is not always the case. Musicians, educators, artists and anyone else who excels at their craft is not always unnoticed. There are times when a person becomes well known and is praised for the work they have created or the field they have mastered in. In past times, and even today we see many people receiving accolades for the work they have put out into the world.
In conclusion, the greatness of an individual essentially depends on the person’s ability to excel at their craft. Impartial recognition is received by those not looking to compete or do better than the other person which usually occurs during a time outside of the individuals generation.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 267, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
...lly occurs during a time outside of the individuals generation.
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Line 9, column 291, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... outside of the individuals generation.
^^^
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'so', 'well', 'while', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'of course', 'such as', 'it is true']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.209469153515 0.238963963785 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.173601147776 0.154291517835 113% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0817790530846 0.0886310499679 92% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0616929698709 0.0506014161523 122% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0631276901004 0.0449626384858 140% => OK
Prepositions: 0.121951219512 0.123526278965 99% => OK
Participles: 0.0487804878049 0.0379742944744 128% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.62065395868 2.82910677849 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0143472022956 0.0316879551592 45% => More infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.00430416068867 0.0014075125626 306% => Less particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0932568149211 0.0950106342287 98% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0100430416069 0.0245489744465 41% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0286944045911 0.0157978311181 182% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3723.0 2899.98275862 128% => OK
No of words: 632.0 478.390804598 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.89082278481 6.0591788892 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01394158123 4.65681771538 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.332278481013 0.369966551584 90% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.248417721519 0.285172536893 87% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.159810126582 0.207245337619 77% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.112341772152 0.136322040163 82% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62065395868 2.82910677849 93% => OK
Unique words: 285.0 234.298850575 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450949367089 0.492565540709 92% => OK
Word variations: 55.3820761043 56.8184620615 97% => OK
How many sentences: 26.0 21.1264367816 123% => OK
Sentence length: 24.3076923077 23.7468607788 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.245681013 62.0618507366 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.192307692 143.81877709 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3076923077 23.7468607788 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.576923076923 0.728815259664 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.87931034483 102% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.71264367816 26% => OK
Readability: 49.1494644596 52.2641144681 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.27403846154 1.64547068916 77% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.376040775047 0.39480681544 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.12771866483 0.11556216369 111% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0748224173062 0.0736162880345 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.476756723557 0.531340600358 90% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.110768213794 0.15197228837 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145025797046 0.158818324754 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601364078858 0.0851127212816 71% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.390074582119 0.388921930462 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0883893512799 0.0677916285025 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.275508012964 0.28015025965 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0422859649787 0.0610219844235 69% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.8591954023 166% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30459770115 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.96264367816 81% => OK
Positive topic words: 15.0 8.10632183908 185% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.93390804598 76% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 3.04597701149 98% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 15.0862068966 139% => OK
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Rates: 50 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 3.0 Out of 6