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 t

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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.

It is debatable whether the greatness of individuals can only be determined by their descendents rather than by people lived in the same period. I suggest to surpass the limited view since the greatness of individuals can either be recognized by descendents or contemporaries; in some cases, both.

To begin with, contrary to what the given statement is arguing, the greatness of people, in fact, can be evaluated by their contemporaries. This is especially true in this day and age with the radical development of technology. These days, it became so much easier for one to promote oneself through social media. Take Michelle Phan, a successful CEO of a cosmetics company, Youtuber, and a beauty blogger as an example. She started her career as a blogger and Youtuber via promoting herself on the internet through her personal channels and websites. She instantly drew tens of thousands of people, which later enabled her to grow big enough to launch her own brand. All these was possible because a myriad of people saw her value and excellence.

On the other hand, there instances where one's greatness is acknowledged by those who lived after the individual. This seems to happen more frequently in arts field. Picasso, El Greco, and many renowned artists' pieces are highly after their death. 16th century aritist, El Greco, especially, was not following what was mainstream in his time, thus being harshly criticized for his works. However, his work influenced 20th century charismatic arts movement; he was lauded by his descendants. The prices of pieces rose exponentially as time passed by. This shows that the greatness of an individual can be assessed by those who lived after that individual.

Lastly, one can be venerated by both their contemporaries and descendents. Nelson Mandela, a social activist, who ended an apartheid in South Africa, had a lot of followers when he was alive, and he is still commemorated by people in this day and age. His feats and accomplishments were that great of an impact, which moved people's heart regardless of time frame.

All in all, measurement of people's greatness is irrelevant to a specific time frame. They can be recognized by their contemporaries, descendents, or both. Therefore, the given statement is a very limited perspective where in actuality, celebration is not contingent to a specific timing.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 148, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggest surpassing'.
Suggestion: suggest surpassing
...n by people lived in the same period. I suggest to surpass the limited view since the greatness of...
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Line 5, column 42, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...n the other hand, there instances where ones greatness is acknowledged by those who ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, lastly, so, still, therefore, thus, in fact, in some cases, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalization wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1982.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 386.0 442.535393258 87% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13471502591 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02092979161 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575129533679 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 613.8 704.065955056 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.9188019411 60.3974514979 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 90.0909090909 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5454545455 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.77272727273 5.21951772744 91% => 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 : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209268863399 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.061483466197 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0667542426038 0.0758088955206 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116356082788 0.150359130593 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0373072445706 0.0667264976115 56% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 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: 12.18 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => Gunning_fog is low.
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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arguments: OK
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flaws:
The readability is low. You may put more content. For issue essays, around 450 words, for argument essays, around 400 words.

Avg. Sentence Length: 17.545 21.0 //make the sentences longer.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 386 350
No. of Characters: 1916 1500
No. of Different Words: 215 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.432 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.964 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.919 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 132 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.545 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.63 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.409 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.276 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.495 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.117 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5