It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.
Let us start examining this argument by understanding who can be a hero. To millions of people, someone is a hero if he or she wins their hearts by some means. They may achieve somethings that we all dream to achieve, but consider it an impossible task. Or they may have accomplished something that have changed lives of millions in a very positive sense. And of course, they have to leave a long lasting impact too on these people. Short term favorites, forgotten over time, are not heroes. Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandella were worshipped by people while they were still alive, because their actions were already understood to be long lasting.
With this definition in mind, there are a large number of people, of different times, geographies and areas of work, who have won hearts of millions and have left a long-lasting effect in this world. They may have come different walks of life – from politics to cultural sides to sports. Now if we look at the current era, we can obviously see there are still people coming up from these areas who are still regarded and will be regarded for long time for something or other that they have done. For example, in football we have seen from Pele, Maradona to today’s Messi who are living legends, In Tennis, Roger Federar who has won a huge number of grand slam events, is and will be remembered by people for very long period. Steve Jobs reached the status of a hero during his lifetime only, because his work has changed the way we use handheld devices today. He has made lives much easier – from cab booking to online training.
So mere examples are enough to prove the assertion incorrect. But still, we can go ahead and discuss if someone may have some reasons to believe that a living person cannot be considered as a hero any more.
Hero is almost a superlative term. That means, whenever we consider someone as a hero at some specific area, little space is left in our heart to give another one the same status. This may sound ridiculous but this is the reason why supporters of Leonel Messi of Argentina fights bitterly with supporters of Ronaldo of Portugal, another maestro in the same field. Now, given that we have a limited set of areas to work on and excel, and all these areas seem to have been exhausted, one may think we cannot consider living people as heroes anymore, because a dead person has already occupied that position.
And then why do we still see heroes who are living? The reason is, with progress of time, more areas are opened up. Steve Jobs’ area of work in technology was not available a century ago. And another reason, specifically in areas of sports, or any competitive activity, is that someone may surpass achievements of another established gentleman. Someone may win more trophies than what Roger Federar holds.
So although the argument is based on some reasons that are comprehensible, I consider it to be actually untrue.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: many; numerous
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Suggestion: peopled
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, look, may, so, still, then, while, as to, for example, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => 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: 2429.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 514.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72568093385 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5042024362 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515564202335 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 788.4 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0208912166 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.16 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.56 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.32 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.112404036947 0.243740707755 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0339806947988 0.0831039109588 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0388250658768 0.0758088955206 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0607403391543 0.150359130593 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0341306768482 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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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