The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
The author of the statement stated that the deciding factor of greatness should be based on the number of people followed his path or appreciate them not by their contemporaries. Many of us will argue that this will hold all the time, while others will counter this. In my essay, I will highlight both the side of the argument and will provide sound reasoning for the same.
A person can be called great, if he/she bring changes to the society in a positive way, for example, in India during the struggle of Independence from Britisher, a man later known as Mahatma Gandhi brought all Indians together and fight with the Britisher through non-violence and also brought changes like equality among all, try to enlighten people about how we can get independence and many more. And now considered as the father of the nation in India and respected by the whole world. So, we can measure his greatness through the number of people that follow him and appreciate him.
However, now the time has been changed we are living in the internet era where you have access to anything of your need or required and in the same way you can also decide the greatness of a person by searching him on the internet as the internet will provide you the all the records and data related to the person, for example, if want to know how great Portugal footballer Ronaldo is, then just type his name on the internet and you will find a lot of information about him. As we are talking about the internet how can we forget the importance of social media in judging the greatness of an individual? The criteria for the greatness in social media is through the number of followers an individual has on his page like on Instagram footballer Ronaldo is only one who has 200 million-plus followers on Instagram, so here you can see that how he influences a large section of society.
Furthermore, another factor that will help us in deciding the greatness is through television, because it a tendency of the Televisions channels to cover all the news related to the famous personality in their country or in the world. For example, we can evaluate a politician on the basis of her work records and manifestos. Similarly, a sportsperson can be judged on grounds of her performance in concerned sports; her games could be easily viewed on television, and we can then decide her greatness on the basis of her gameplay.
In sum, the author recommendation is somewhat old for the current scenario, as we are living in the internet era all pieces of information that we need are available there, so if we want to know that a particular individual is great or not we can find out it over the internet.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 41, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'brings'.
Suggestion: brings
...A person can be called great, if he/she bring changes to the society in a positive wa...
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Line 3, column 70, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a positive way" with adverb for "positive"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... if he/she bring changes to the society in a positive way, for example, in India during the strug...
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Line 7, column 13, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...arge section of society. Furthermore, another factor that will help us in deci...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, if, similarly, so, then, while, for example, talking about, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2202.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 473.0 442.535393258 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65539112051 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66353547975 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69572523642 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467230443975 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 696.6 704.065955056 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.2370786517 64% => 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: 36.0 23.0359550562 156% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 121.366918862 60.3974514979 201% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 169.384615385 118.986275619 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.3846153846 23.4991977007 155% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.92307692308 5.21951772744 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226013000845 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0814943510829 0.0831039109588 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0576850931247 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120549583383 0.150359130593 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329250797197 0.0667264976115 49% => 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: 18.7 14.1392134831 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.4 48.8420337079 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.1743820225 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.34 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.4 11.2143820225 146% => 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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