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.
Centuries ago, greatness was not acknowledged until the passing of an idiosyncratic individual. They were the minds beyond their time due to their knowledge, talent, or whatever particularly set of skills that they hold. Today, a person’s greatness is accounted by their contemporaries and even more so by those who will be living after them.
Way before the 20th century, there was a limited number of great individuals who were in the top of their field and they were only taken notice by few. After their death, these people were upheld to a different standard; it is comparable to a god due to their substantial capabilities. Their amazing abilities were nothing people have ever seen at the time and it was difficult for their contemporaries to note their skillfulness. As the familiar saying goes, ‘you don’t know what you have until it is gone’. It was not until the person passed on that people would take notice because of how great these individuals were. Considering the limited knowledge and perspectives at that time, this was the common occurrence. Though today, this is absolutely not always the case.
With the extent of knowledge, artfulness, talent, and more, today’s great individuals are praised diligently by their peers. There are standards that needs to be met before deciphering whether this person is mediocre or superior. We have the resources and information in order to give credit where it is deserving. Contemporaries are able to shine light on those are display amazing greatness in their area of expertise. Not only are they given attention while alive, but they are also praised after they pass away. Steve Jobs created Apple, the iPhone, Macbook, and Ipod. We praised him for what he has contributed to society, but his greatness reigns on even after his death. Today’s society gives these individuals the recognition they deserve.
In certain cases, this statement does apply to current times. Many of the acknowledgement of greatness that comes after death is due to heroic circumstances. Many of you should be familiar with such news about an officer or family member going out of their way to protect civilians or loved ones. Though they are probably good people before the tragedy, these people have been placed in a position of significance because of what had happened. Looking at cases in history, Beethoven and Picasso were innovators of their time for what they are able to contribute to society and arts. It is with certainty that historians, composers, and artists will say they are originals of their fields and not many can replicate their talent.
The statement is accountable in cases dated way back in history, during a time with limited resources and knowledge. Today’s society is a more prevalent time for contemporaries to acknowledge their counterparts of their greatness. Since there are standards to uphold and compare to, a person’s extreme talent, superiority knowledge, and so on can be given praise long before their passing.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 307, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...mation in order to give credit where it is deserving. Contemporaries are able to shine light...
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Line 9, column 401, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...given praise long before their passing.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 37.0 19.5258426966 189% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 60.0 33.0505617978 182% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2549.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 492.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18089430894 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70967865282 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93242112053 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493902439024 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 798.3 704.065955056 113% => 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.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.1972620247 60.3974514979 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.4074074074 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2222222222 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.11111111111 5.21951772744 21% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208935275718 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0568390862422 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0438447716999 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128330875405 0.150359130593 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0188827215896 0.0667264976115 28% => 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: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 100.480337079 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
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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