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.
The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries, as the speaker asserts. Admittedly, in certain areas, people fail to recognize the greatness of pioneers in their time. Yet there are still many cases where the achievement of the great people are appreciated by their contemporaries. Examples in perspectives of art, science, and politics can be used to illustrate the ideas above.
When it comes to deciding the greatness of pioneers in art, people in their era often fail to recognize the merits in their fantastic work. We have to admit that a piece of art can sometimes be very elusive. It usually contains a strong emotion of the artist himself which is hard to understand for the public. Take the post-impressionism artist Van Gogh for example. Though being well-known nowadays, Van Gogh was merely an impecunious painter in his time. When he first created his famous Wheat Field, people were so uncomfortable with the blue and red colors he used and the way he organized them. It took a long time for critics to finally realize how the colors served to express an ambivalent feeling and how gifted Van Gogh and his work were.
Yet, the phenomenal in a single area can not represent many other situations. Since many scientific discoveries can make great changes to society directly, it is safe to claim that the greatness of scientists can be decided by their contemporaries. In physiology, Tu Youyou, the female Chinese pharmacists, is an agreeable example for the argument. Having discovered artemisinin, she was laureate the Nobel Prize in chemistry for saving millions of people suffering from malaria. Her greatness was recognized by her contemporaries without a doubt. In computer science, the example of Bill Gates inventing the widespread Windows system and his well-established fame can also be sufficient enough to draw the conclusion that the greatness of individuals can be decided by the people living in their time.
Obviously, this statement is also substantiated in other areas. Considering the greatness of political leaders, it is always the people who live in their tenure of office that can best evaluate their achievement because the contemporaries benefit most from an effective policy conducted by the leader. During the Great Depression, the president of the states R. D. Roosevelt helped the country overcome the economic crisis by conducting the New Deal. The steady development of economics and the significant fall in unemployment rate made him one of the most beloved presidents in American history. If not appreciated by the contemporaries, on the contrary, the political leader may be condemned by the people and therefore never judged fairly.
To sum up, the statement overlooks the ability to recognize the greatness of a pioneer of the contemporaries. Though seems verified in perspective of art, the statement is tenuous in areas of science and politics.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, look, may, so, still, therefore, well, for example, on the contrary, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2487.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 480.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18125 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0911492997 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535416666667 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 782.1 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.0533750113 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.48 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.16 5.21951772744 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.242264308282 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0659865312496 0.0831039109588 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0781637341618 0.0758088955206 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139463425093 0.150359130593 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0659443059798 0.0667264976115 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => 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: 12.76 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => 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: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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