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 speaker asserts that it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements in any field of endeavor. Admittedly, in fields like mathematics and biology, the previous achievements can be influential to nowadays contribution, works by predecessors may block innovation in fields like literature and art.
In the field of mathematics, all famous mathematicians further develop geometry or algebra based on the principles and theories established by former mathematicians. Take famous mathematician as an example. Newton contributed a lot to the development of calculus, and his work extensively uses calculus in geometric form based on limiting values of the ratios of vanishingly small quantities: in the Principia itself, Newton gave demonstration of this under the name of "the method of first and last ratios" and explained why he put his expositions in this form, remarking also that "hereby the same thing is performed as by the method of indivisibles."
However, in the field of literature and art, former masterpieces may be the hinder of further development. For example, James Joyce, the pioneer of the stream of consciousness, is not influenced by any former novelists, and wrote the brilliant book Ulysses which is full of psychological descriptions and disordered plots. But those tactics were considered insane and stupid in the age of Joyce. And as regard to Paul Gauguin, the painter who is known for The Yellow Christ and Spirit of the Dead Watching, used of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. His expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral.
In other fields of social science, it is not necessary that a scholar must be affected by previous scholars. Lazarsfeld, the famous socialist, first used empirical research to examine the issues about sociology and communication. In the past, researchers in the field of social science only use analytical thinking to explain phenomenon in the society, which lacks scientificalness and are not warranted. But Lazarsfeld applied quantitative method like questionnaire and content analysis as well as qualitative method like text analysis and field research to the study of social science and make the research of social science more substantiated.
In a nutshell, it is not always that the influence of former giants are crucial to the future development of the field.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, well, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 33.0505617978 51% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2195.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 402.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46019900498 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.34486477209 2.79657885939 120% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549751243781 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 677.7 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 121.471168999 60.3974514979 201% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 156.785714286 118.986275619 132% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.7142857143 23.4991977007 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.92857142857 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233972986055 0.243740707755 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.084804278582 0.0831039109588 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121449145566 0.0758088955206 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135894253488 0.150359130593 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112148492137 0.0667264976115 168% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 14.1392134831 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.6 48.8420337079 71% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.98 12.1639044944 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.94 8.38706741573 119% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 100.480337079 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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