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.
Can we say that the greatness of individuals cannot be assessed by the contemporaries but only by descendants who live after their death? Of course, some great minds of human history were neglected by their contemporaries but rediscovered after they passed away. However, I cannot agree with the given statement asserting that all individuals can only be evaluated properly once they die for the following reasons.
First of all, it is too extreme that the argument excludes any possibility of assessing one’s greatness by the contemporaries. Although it may not be as thorough as taking one’s whole life once he or she passes away, it is still possible to evaluate one’s achievements and exploits. The current President of United Sates President, Barack Obama, has been not only lauded and praised for his accomplishments—in diplomacy and condoling American citizens whenever there was a terror—but also assessed in different perspective by many critics. Admittedly, it is difficult to know whether or not he would be still lauded the same way when he passes away. However, it is still possible to assess his greatness in his small and big achievements, and these evaluations would be valid as an attitude of the contemporaries.
Secondly, the evaluation of one’s greatness by contemporaries is not only just possible, but it could be even more valuable and correct. When assessing one’s achievement, especially which has influenced many people’s lives, it would be the voice of who are directly affected. For example, when examining the impact of Steve Jobs on the public, it would be those who were directly under his impact by using his products with their hands than who can only see the mockups and pictures of the products who can better assess his greatness. Thus, in some cases, contemporaries can make a better assessment of the greatness of an individual with his or her achievements.
Of course, some may still argue that we can truly understand one’s genius only after his or her death, since it is the only way to browse the whole life. This seems convincing when we think about some great-minded people who were disregarded by their contemporaries, such as Van Gogh and F. Goya. However, it also needs to be pointed out that people, whether or not they are born while or after the great people, still remain subjective when it comes to an evaluation. Although the great painters, Van Gogh and F. Goya, are reassessed after they have passed away, it is still possible that the critics—human beings—have made still biased and erratic decisions about their artistic virtuosity. Therefore, it is difficult to say that the greatness of individuals can surely be properly evaluated once they pass away.
To sum, despite the fact that there are a few cases that individuals received adequate attention and assessment of their achievement after their death, I tend to disagree that those cases can be generalized for any individual. The greatness of people can still be evaluated by their contemporaries, and even better when the public is directly affected by the accomplishment of the individual.
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would be the voice of who are directly affected.
would be the voice of those who are directly affected.
with their hands than who can only see
with their hands than those who can only see
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arguments: OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 515 350
No. of Characters: 2538 1500
No. of Different Words: 219 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.764 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.928 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.853 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 156 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 123 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 105 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 70 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.105 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.567 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.895 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.348 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.559 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.143 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 592, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...cs. Admittedly, it is difficult to know whether or not he would be still lauded the same way w...
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Line 7, column 357, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...so needs to be pointed out that people, whether or not they are born while or after the great ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'thus', 'while', 'for example', 'of course', 'such as', 'first of all', 'in some cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.184745762712 0.240241500013 77% => OK
Verbs: 0.157627118644 0.157235817809 100% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0593220338983 0.0880659088768 67% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0915254237288 0.0497285424764 184% => Less adverbs wanted.
Pronouns: 0.0762711864407 0.0444667217837 172% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.115254237288 0.12292977631 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0491525423729 0.0406280797675 121% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.12266717397 2.79330140395 112% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0152542372881 0.030933414821 49% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.00169491525424 0.0016655270985 102% => OK
Determiners: 0.0745762711864 0.0997080785238 75% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0305084745763 0.0249443105267 122% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0254237288136 0.0148568991511 171% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3158.0 2732.02544248 116% => OK
No of words: 511.0 452.878318584 113% => OK
Chars per words: 6.18003913894 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75450408675 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.328767123288 0.366273622748 90% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.26614481409 0.280924506359 95% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.236790606654 0.200843997647 118% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.166340508806 0.132149295362 126% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12266717397 2.79330140395 112% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 219.290929204 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455968688845 0.48968727796 93% => OK
Word variations: 52.5800073059 55.4138127331 95% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6194690265 92% => OK
Sentence length: 26.8947368421 23.380412469 115% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.229319314 59.4972553346 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 166.210526316 141.124799967 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8947368421 23.380412469 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.947368421053 0.674092028746 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 53.5092182511 51.4728631049 104% => OK
Elegance: 1.07291666667 1.64882698954 65% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.438714109233 0.391690518653 112% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.137124355795 0.123202303941 111% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.056443708775 0.077325440228 73% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.55613651815 0.547984918172 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.111183310335 0.149214159877 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.190355468115 0.161403998019 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0888544289628 0.0892212321368 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.352825801021 0.385218514788 92% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0839497127243 0.0692045440612 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.322980335011 0.275328986314 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0620736704215 0.0653680567796 95% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.4325221239 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.30420353982 151% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88274336283 20% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 10.0 7.22455752212 138% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 3.66592920354 218% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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