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.
The author here claims that to make a significant contribution it is necessary to be successful before irrespective of the field one is working in. While most of us will strongly agree with this, some of us might say it is not always true. Prior success is an important motivating factor and pushes one to work harder, it is not necessary the first few attempts will fail miserably. A deeper look into the subject is necessary to reach any conclusion.
There is an age-old saying "practice makes a man perfect". It is true that to achieve big one needs to start small and work their way up. But the smaller achievements should be appreciated too. Prior success or failures help one to identify their mistakes and correct them. Take, for example, the mars mission by the Indian Space Research Organization. After the failed attempt to reach the moon, the world's eminent space organization assumed ISRO will not be able to make any significant contribution. The Indian scientists learned worked on their mistakes and decided to launch an even bigger mission than Chandrayan, the mission to Mars. Since it was the first mission to the planet, not many resources were available. Not only the organization completed the mission but also develop a satellite with one-third of the budget of an eminent space organization. This clearly shows in order to reach heights one has to look into the past achievements and failures and draw inspiration from them. Prior achievements help one understand ones' strengths and weaknesses.
One's past achievement can become a motivating force to work harder and put more effort. For example, if one can code simple algorithms quickly and have a tight grasp on the subject it will motivate one to delve deeper into the subjects of interest. Thus, past achievements become a guiding force behind one's success.
Most of us will agree that this is not always the case. In many instances, people have achieved what we call midnight fame or success. What we fail to see here is the amount of hard work that went behind the midnight fame. For example, Mahatama Gandhi, Rosa Parks are heralded as the revolutionaries or non-violent human rights activists who successfully lead a bunch of people against authority by passion and perseverance. They never had the experience of leading people against injustice but learned on the go. It is preposterous to assume that one cannot achieve success without past achievements.
The only thing necessary to make a significant contribution in any field is a glut of passion and hard work. Sure previous achievements can act as a motivating force. There is always room for improvement. Learning from one's mistake, and acting accordingly will lead one to the path of success.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, if, look, so, third, thus, while, as to, for example, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2298.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 458.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01746724891 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88568983299 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506550218341 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 718.2 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.2713192554 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.0714285714 118.986275619 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3571428571 23.4991977007 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.39285714286 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.129556678713 0.243740707755 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0398231178832 0.0831039109588 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0454198620773 0.0758088955206 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0825683771271 0.150359130593 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0344386571483 0.0667264976115 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.8420337079 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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