The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
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.
Whether the people who lived during the lifetime of an individual can ascribe greatness to such person or not is a difficult question to deal with. Some would argue that the greatness, or legendary status, of an individual can only be determined after the demise of such person. They would argue that it is only then that the life of the individual can be analysed with a holistic approach to decide where he/she falls. However, I am of the opinion that people who are contemporaries of a person can decide from what they have witnessed whether the life a person is living can be described as “great”.
A category of people that are right described as “great” are war veterans who have fought for the unity and continuity of their respective nations. Such individuals have put their lives on the line and it would be an injustice to not acknowledge their greatness when they are alive. Countries all over the world do confer titles and present medals to such individuals to show that they understand and appreciate the greatness of such individuals. This shows that it contemporaries of people who have patently done things that could be describes as great can and have been acknowledging that.
Just like war veterans, footballers are also a set of people that have always been described as great by their contemporaries as great. In fact, some individuals have gone on to coin the term “Greatest of all Time” to describe some living footballers in order to describe the greatness of such individuals. To pass the point even further, there are awards like World best player for the male and the female categories. What greatness can be more than been given the title of the world best player by experts in the field.
Although, some people like the a former military head of state of Nigeria, Muritala Muhammed, were not overwhelmingly described as great by their contemporaries until after their death, such situations are few to come by, perhaps that is because they have not done what can be incontrovertibly described as awesome when they were alive. In conclusion, the “football world”, lives of war veterans and other fields like science where scientists are awarded with Nobel Prize for world-changing discoveries have shown that individuals can be described as great by their contemporaries.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 462, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...owever, I am of the opinion that people who are contemporaries of a person can decide f...
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Line 4, column 28, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'a' is left.
Suggestion: the; a
... the field. Although, some people like the a former military head of state of Nigeri...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, then, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 58.6224719101 89% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1934.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 388.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98453608247 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92672314446 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 215.323595506 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.458762886598 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 599.4 704.065955056 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => 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: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.6544707484 60.3974514979 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.142857143 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.7142857143 23.4991977007 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.64285714286 5.21951772744 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207455338651 0.243740707755 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0940944175546 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.036860084683 0.0758088955206 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147085646408 0.150359130593 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0370613816769 0.0667264976115 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.8420337079 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.1743820225 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 100.480337079 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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