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 ta

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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.

How does one decide a person's greatness? A person's greatness that has been established in the society or history was appreciated or discussed among people of his generation and then considered of a great value. It can also be the opposite where they will find it contradictory with their own beliefs. Either way, his contemporaries have helped in building a status for him by making him popular because of his work, action, belief or creation. It is also common in the society that people look up to those who have achieved a greatness for their work and existed in time before them. So, we can’t say biasedly that the greatness of any person can be decided only by those who live after them and not by their contemporaries.

An individual with greatness is sometimes not appreciated by his contemporaries. If we look at the history we will see how Charles Darwin was criticized by his contemporaries for giving a theory of evolution which claimed humans evolved from the apes. But many years after his death when his theory was proven right, he was given a great status in the history by the people as a man of greatness, not just a common scientist. Even today, we remember and honor him for his revolutionary theories on evolution. Great men like Keplar, Copernicus, Galileo Galilei all stood by their ground as they had discovered the earth is not flat and it is not the center of the universe. Galileo Galilei was even punished for blasphemy by the pope. But later down the time, their theory was proven to be true and we certainly know now the earth is not flat and it is not the center of the universe. So, their contemporaries not just opposed them in their belief, but they also wrongfully accused many of them for having a different opinion than theirs. So, in this case these great men remembered for their greatness for more than centuries were not appreciated by their contemporaries.

But if we look at music and art, all of the great artists and musicians were greatly appreciated by their contemporaries and was regarded as a great talent that helped them shape their status of greatness. Writers like Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore were immensely supported by other writers and even commoners for their skills and creations. They were given great reviews by their contemporaries. Artists and musicians like Leonardo Da Vinci, Beethoven, Mozart all of them were greatly appreciated by their contemporaries. Their support and appreciation made them as great individuals of their time. As a result, people who lives after them for generations, even today are apricating their work, because the support they received from their contemporaries from their time.

All being said, with above demonstrations carefully given we can say that, people who achieve greatness are always not just appreciated for their work by people who live after them, but also by their contemporaries. The greatness of individuals can be decided by both those who live after them and by their contemporaries.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 23, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
How does one decide a persons greatness? A persons greatness that has...
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Line 1, column 44, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
... does one decide a persons greatness? A persons greatness that has been established in ...
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Line 5, column 34, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...es. But if we look at music and art, all of the great artists and musicians were greatl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, so, then, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 72.0 33.0505617978 218% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2508.0 2235.4752809 112% => OK
No of words: 506.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95652173913 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7428307748 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92499999833 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.426877470356 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 775.8 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.9843717732 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.043478261 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.82608695652 5.21951772744 35% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265513768749 0.243740707755 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10246710535 0.0831039109588 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.078623388373 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208628701338 0.150359130593 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0572258033766 0.0667264976115 86% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.57 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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