The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries
The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries. In my opinion, the propounded statement expresses a biased opinion. If we look back in history, there has been incidences of both cases; greatness of a person being appreciated by his contemporaries and at times only by by people who lived after him/her.
One of the best examples to quote here would be Mr. M.K. Gandhi; the man whom we call ‘Mahatma’, with reverence. Every Indian, in fact many people across the globe, is well aware of his role in the struggle for freedom of the country against the colonial rule. Although, every Indian, in whatever way possible, contributed to the freedom movement, Gandhiji’s role has always been deemed most significant. Such was his respect, that even the coloniast’s; the Britisher’s; respected him. It was the high respect commanded by him; both among Indians as well as the Britisher’s that he was chosen as representative of India for the ‘round table conference’ in London to discuss issues pertinent to India’s freedom. I believe he is the best example of a person whose greatness was well reverred even by his contemporaries, not just the people who lived after him; the Indian’s today.
However, there is no denying that there has also been several cases wherein the greatness of an individual was not evident to his contemparories but was decided by people who lived after him/her. The examples include many great poet’s, writer’s, leaders, social workers, artists, sportspersons. Let’s take sportspersons. There has been instances when a sportsperson achieved great laurals for the country in the sport that he played. But unfortunately for him, that sport was not popular during the time he earned success. After several years, or even decades at times, when that particular sport started gaining popularity, the followers started to respect the acheivements of the former player. The talented did get the due recognition but not at the time when he made his achievements but a later time whence his sport gained popularity.
In the end, I would like to stress that it is not an ingrained principle that greatness of an individual is only decided by those who live after him and not by his contemporaries. As has been analysed above, there has been instances of both the cases. Thus, it cannot be predicted when an individual would achieve greatness or who would decide his/her greatness. An individual who performed great deeds would, some day definitely get applauds.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 326, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: by
...by his contemporaries and at times only by by people who lived after him/her. One...
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Line 3, column 573, Rule ID: BOTH_AS_WELL_AS[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
...ct commanded by him; both among Indians as well as the Britisher's that he was chosen...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, look, so, thus, well, in fact, as well as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => 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: 2187.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 419.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21957040573 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.25725909111 2.79657885939 116% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513126491647 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 668.7 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.1022504397 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.35 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.95 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.35 5.21951772744 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => 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: 0.309806397088 0.243740707755 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11321923262 0.0831039109588 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.197266297881 0.0758088955206 260% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260013865549 0.150359130593 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.207517030174 0.0667264976115 311% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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