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.
Quantifying the greatness of a person is a function of the impact such a great has on others. In fact, the greatness of a person is deirectly proportional to the lives touched by that person. The prompt says the greatness of individual can be decided only by those after him or her and not by their contemporaries and I mostly agree with this prompt for the following reasons.
Firstly, greatness is a transgenerational phenomena and not a momentary one. To regard one as being great, such a person msut have affected the lives of those after him. For example, Martin Luther King Jnr. being on the activist aginst racial prejudice in America was regarded as being great because the cause he fought was transcended his generation and the effect of his activism is still seen and felt today by this generation. Without any doubt, his fight for the blacks has earned him such title as the greatest activist for the black community. His "I have a dream" speech during the movement has also been considered has one of the greatest freedom speech in history. To consider a thing or person as being great, one has to quantify its effect on the generation(s) after.
Furthermore, in deciding the greatness of an individual, one has to decide if the work of such person is successful. Success is a key determinant of greatness. If an individual can successfully do a great thing, such person will be considered as a great person. However, more often than not, true greatness can not be realized in one life time. It is diificult for someone to realize the full extent of anyone's greatness ina life time. For example, Isaac newton, one of the greatest scientist that ever lived posited the principles of flight, motion to mention but few. The working principles of aircrafts and automobiles among many are based on the principles of these principles. Isaac Neewton in his lifetime would never have thought that such magnificent creation will be as a result of the principles he posited. Many atimes, great individuals do not get to the effect the their greatest but the generations ahead will which makes them the judge of the individual's greatness.
Finally, many believe that the extent of ones's greatness is determined by the lives of their contemporaries they have touched. This might be true but such a greatness quantified by the individual's contemporaries will never exceed the generation of such contemporaries. The above reason explains the reasons greatness of an individual be quantified and decided by the generation and not the contemporaries
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 208, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Being
...m. For example, Martin Luther King Jnr. being on the activist aginst racial prejudice...
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Line 5, column 335, Rule ID: LIFE_TIME[1]
Message: Did you mean 'lifetime'?
Suggestion: lifetime
...ue greatness can not be realized in one life time. It is diificult for someone to realize...
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Line 5, column 426, Rule ID: LIFE_TIME[1]
Message: Did you mean 'lifetime'?
Suggestion: lifetime
...he full extent of anyones greatness ina life time. For example, Isaac newton, one of the ...
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Line 5, column 875, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'their'?
Suggestion: the; their
...at individuals do not get to the effect the their greatest but the generations ahead will...
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Line 5, column 959, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
... will which makes them the judge of the individuals greatness. Finally, many believe tha...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'reasons'' or 'reason's'?
Suggestion: reasons'; reason's
...poraries. The above reason explains the reasons greatness of an individual be quantifie...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, so, still, as to, for example, in fact, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2133.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 430.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96046511628 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55372829156 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94406939774 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.462790697674 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 659.7 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.2415030067 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.9545454545 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5454545455 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.13636363636 5.21951772744 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.243554842443 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0791457843533 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0667641084241 0.0758088955206 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175663572242 0.150359130593 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0495296538938 0.0667264976115 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 100.480337079 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.