The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.

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The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.

Great people, of all times, have managed to occupy very special places in our minds, in our books and in our culture. Their deeds have always had a very long-term impact in our lives. Short terms heroes are easily forgotten. So, when we judge somebody’s contribution to the world, one of the most important aspect to be borne in mind is how long people are accepting them as “great”.

Going by this logic, the role of posterity is very important. While contemporary people may get carried away seeing the immediate results of the achievements, the next generations will be able to evaluate from a more unbiased perspective. Who knows? There may be some adverse effect of the inventions of a great scientist, which will become evident only after half a century. To test the perpetual nature of the contribution, future generations are far better placed.

Scientists are doing commendable job in genetic technology, nuclear physics or astronomy. Today, all these seem to be great achievements. But are we sure that these advancements in science will not lead us to some perilous journey such as socio economic problems, or may even be a war with people from another constellation?

Mahatma Gandhi, the great leader of Indian freedom movement against the British, was always regarded as a great personality, so much so that his birthday is celebrated as one of the three national holidays in India. Even then, today’s politicians and historians have started finding him at fault, particularly due to his role during the partition of India that took away lives of millions.

Therefore, greatness will definitely be best measured by people who leave after us. But that doesn’t undermine the role of the contemporary people. They are the people who identify the great person and, sometimes, kindle the fire in him. Moreover, the value understanding of his work can be best understood from the current context which may not be available with the next generations. Thus, a great man and his contribution to society, may get completely lost unless someone from his time notices it, realizes it’s value, and publicizes it. Then only a great man is born which the newer generations can boast about.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 396, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...India that took away lives of millions. Therefore, greatness will definitely be ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, while, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1867.0 2235.4752809 84% => OK
No of words: 365.0 442.535393258 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11506849315 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37092360658 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96759757906 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608219178082 0.4932671777 123% => OK
syllable_count: 584.1 704.065955056 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 55.77553227 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.2631578947 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2105263158 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42105263158 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
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: 0.219371063466 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0632729936962 0.0831039109588 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0583388328468 0.0758088955206 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107062097616 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.051184422333 0.0667264976115 77% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => 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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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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