The perceived greatness of any political leader has more to do with the challenges faced by that leader than with any of his or her inherent skills and abilities

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The perceived greatness of any political leader has more to do with the challenges faced by that leader than with any of his or her inherent skills and abilities

A great leader is one who leads his subordinates forward through difficulties and challanges but not merely someone who faces a challenge together with his subordinates. A great leader is not someone who merely learns by facing challenges, but someone who has the inate capability to ameliorate an adverse situation or challenge a difficult challange. A great leader is someone who posesses the grit, determination, prudence and discipline to overcome the obstacles that come their way. My dissent with the argument that a leader's greatness depends on the challenges they face and not with their inherent capabilites is solidified as follows.

There is a saying, "Strong men create good times, good men create weak times, weak men create difficult times". Being a Sri Lankan, I have experienced a lot of shifts in politics with every succession of presidents. A three decade long civil war was ended by one political leader within four years while his successor's incoussiance led to the bloody murdor of hundreds of innocent lives ten years after the establishment of peace and unification of the country. The civil war continued for thirty long years because no one was willing to take any action that would take away their potential voters in the next election. however, one "great" president took the initiative and ended the bloody war . having to face with the same difficulty; which is civil war, how can one president put an end to this blood bath while others merely passed the ball to the next in line. Only by pure strength of character, perseverence and shrewdness does a leader attain greatness. these are all qualities that are inherent to a person, either born with or else acquired.

Ruling a country is no simple task. every ruler, be it the president, the king or the primeminister, has to face challenges during his term as the political leader. these challenges add to their political experience. however, people remember leaders who do 'great things'; that is, the leaders who overcame great challenges during their terms. however, this statement in itself is ironical. while one leader merely circumscribed the challenge, another could have treated the root cause of the problem and successfully overcome the challenge so that the future generations too may benefit from their actions. such leadership requires a specific set of skills including but not limited to prudence, perseverence, strength of personality and honesty. while these skills may be further polished by their experiences, the inate presence of such abilities define whether a leader is great or not.

Therefore, great leaders are those who are born to overcame challenges; they are the leaders who stay right throughout the storm, intransigent and sturdy, with unswaying determination, strenght of character and incisiveness, but not those who are merely shaped by the challenges they faced.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, therefore, while, as to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2452.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 465.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27311827957 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97309445666 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529032258065 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 765.9 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.9823323521 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.761904762 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1428571429 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.38095238095 5.21951772744 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 7.80617977528 179% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.355089768754 0.243740707755 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101065557008 0.0831039109588 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.080999524497 0.0758088955206 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207674610221 0.150359130593 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.062940065081 0.0667264976115 94% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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