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

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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 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.

It is human nature to continuously improve and broaden their limits. We humans can never be satisfied in what we have and have a serious appetite of further pushing our limits. During this process, some completely ignore the previous knowledge and give a head-on in a different way while some try to make a progress in the banal way. The prompt suggests the possibility of enhancement in any sector is almost nil by not regarding the precedent development. I mostly agree with the prompt in two ways and also present a case where previous knowledge might not be of much value.

Firstly, we all have known that “Failure is pillar of success”; “Mistakes are the best teacher”. We can only progress in a field if we peruse the past activities. This gives us a clear idea about where in the past had we been lagging so we can now focus our attention in the specific part. For example, in a space endeavor, if the space shuttle designed did not cross the earth’s gravity in next approach the scientist must focus on the speed of the shuttle. Next time if the shuttle crossed the gravitational field of the earth and loses its track in space then the scientist must now revise the trajectory of the capsule. A great and historic achievement can never be made on first attempt but is a result of continuous development achieved by overcoming past limitations and wrongdoings.
Secondly, not only success in failure gives a great contribution; a better enhancement of previously so-called successful attempts can also give us great outcomes. For example, Michael Grambell invented telephone. If inventors were satisfied in this, we could never have a cell phone in our hand. It is our perceived nature that we usually are not satisfied in what we have and always desire for more. This leads to better achievement. Even now with mobile phone in almost all of our hand; doing possible all that could be imagined including shopping, communication from home; engineers are trying to make it more thin, small and more flexible. In future, we may certainly have a phone which could be folded and easily accommodated in small pocket like our paper notes. This can be obtained not by completely ignoring the technique now used to develop the phones but redesigning the materials used to make the phones.

However, strongly focusing on the past, can make an individual lose the hope and discourage him from moving forward. A racer who is not able to get in the top 10 position for past 3-4 years now must not look for where he was lagging but must completely change his riding style with better initial speed, good braking, cornering and new mentality of handling unexpected situation. If he focusses on where he was wrong and try to go with it, he may never get to the top position in his racing career which is ephemeral. In this case past experience does not hold good but must have an extraordinary approach for success.

Thus, not only being directed to the past achievement and revitalizing it can lead to suffice but an entirely new approach with complete disregard to the previous ways can lead desired result depending on the cases in real life.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 264, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a different way" with adverb for "different"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...e previous knowledge and give a head-on in a different way while some try to make a progress in th...
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Line 1, column 306, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'progress'.
Suggestion: progress
... a different way while some try to make a progress in the banal way. The prompt suggests t...
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Line 4, column 333, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[5]
Message: The adverb 'usually' is usually put after the verb 'are'.
Suggestion: are usually
...and. It is our perceived nature that we usually are not satisfied in what we have and alway...
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Line 4, column 646, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'In the future'?
Suggestion: In the future
... it more thin, small and more flexible. In future, we may certainly have a phone which co...
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Line 6, column 532, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experience'.
Suggestion: experience
...career which is ephemeral. In this case past experience does not hold good but must have an ext...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, for example

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2615.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 545.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79816513761 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83169070408 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71146723028 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502752293578 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 821.7 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.5505991252 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.958333333 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7083333333 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.120360304129 0.243740707755 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0339766050337 0.0831039109588 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0313973902077 0.0758088955206 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0686198289909 0.150359130593 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0147065621485 0.0667264976115 22% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.86 12.1639044944 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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