In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.

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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.

The issue states that it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within the field. While some people may feel that it is possible to make significant contribution to the field without studying or referring to past achievements but in my opinion it is impossible to do so. I believe there is at least a slight reference or study required to make any kind of contribution in any field.
One reason for my fundamental agreement with the author is that without learning or referring to the old work how could one make development inn that filed. For instance, Karl Benz invented the automobile car. Today each and every car is based on the basic principle of the first car by him. There is improvement in horsepower, comfort, shape, economy, etc. But the basic engine, transmission, wheels, etc remains the same. These contributions to the field are only done by studying the past achievement. Some people might argue that Karl Benz did not refer any past achievement but he also referred the past horse cart and replaced the horse with engine and transmission.
Secondly, we can also talk about the great contributions in the field of aviation. Today we have more big and long air travel times as compared to past. The first invention of the airplane was done by Wright Brothers and after neatly referring to these past achievements the further contributions were made in the field. Today we have great fighter planes, jets, etc . We have achieved this by being influenced by past achievements. An age-old adage goes as follows: One should learn his mistakes. We learn from the past mistakes by studying the past contributions and develop we technologies in the field.
However, there are also some cases where there was no study of past achievements and great contribution was made in field. But these things are very rare. For instance, the invention of X-Ray, X-Ray was accidentaly invented in an experiment which had different aim. There are some cases where some extra ordinary minds have made significant contribution without being influenced from the past. But there is some influence, study or learning which is indirectly related to the past achievements .
To recapitulate, from the examples presented above, it is, finally, lucid that it is almost impossible to make any significant contribution without referring to the achievements of the past. The presented examples of the automobile invention and its development and also of the aviation industry substantiate my position.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, at least, for instance, kind of, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2141.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 419.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10978520286 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96471502049 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 215.323595506 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.463007159905 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 676.8 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.3749808693 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.2083333333 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4583333333 23.4991977007 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.21951772744 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.462161798065 0.243740707755 190% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134008881594 0.0831039109588 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.165624990901 0.0758088955206 218% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.28427012509 0.150359130593 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.181044788111 0.0667264976115 271% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.31 8.38706741573 87% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 100.480337079 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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