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.
Leadership; to a political leader is about service. Every political leader strives to attain greatness through service to the people. However, is greatness in leadership tied to challenges faced or inherent leadership skills? The prompt suggests that the greatness of a political leader has more to do with the challenges he has faced rather than the fundamental skills he possesses. In my opinion, I strongly agree and argue that for any political leader, greatness has more to do with the challenges that have shaped him rather than his inherent abilities, for two reasons.
First, many political leaders that have achieved greatness, were not born great. A handful of them did not possess greatness as a congenial skill or ability. Rather, at some point in time, they all developed these skills and were also sharpened by the challenges they faced and overcame during life. Take, for example, the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, who was born in a very remote village in Nigeria where growing up as a kid was challenging. He grew up with little access to the necessities of life. Poor education, low electricity supply, low access to food, clothing and shelter; are just a few of the challenges he encountered while growing. However, in many of his presidential broadcast, he refers to these challenges as porters that have moulded him to become who he is today. Hence, we leave in a world where been great as a political leader has very little to do with ones' abilities and more to do with the challenges that have confronted one. Political leaders are shaped, bettered, and made to achieve greatness through the challenges they have faced.
Again, the world is ever-changing and a leader's inherent skill today may not be sufficient to deal with the rising issues of tomorrow. The diverse needs of the people and also the imbalance in human wants does not permit a rigid approach in dealing with political issues. As a result, great political leaders had to learn from their past mistakes to attain greatness. For instance, we heard of the great Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for several years while he was defending a course, but after been released, met a new era where he became a change agent; driving complete revolution. The challenge of being imprisoned moulded his character. Also, we learnt that in the past decays, the cries of the people was centred on the provision of food. However, in this current era, the cry is centred on improved quality of education. Dealing with the issue of quality education as a political leader requires entirely different skill sets from dealing with providing food. Thus, to be a great political leader, one needs to have encountered various challenges and also learn from them.
Of course, some might argue that the remarkable skills inherent in a political leader like Fela Kuti, Wole Soyinka, amongst others; were what caused them to achieve greatness. However, were these skills not developed from experiences? were they not brought to light by complexities in challenges? A political leader who wants to achieve greatness should consider as less important, his inherent skills and abilities, but strive to face more challenges.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 898, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...tical leader has very little to do with ones abilities and more to do with the chall...
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Line 5, column 39, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a leader' or simply 'leaders'?
Suggestion: a leader; leaders
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Line 5, column 495, Rule ID: AFTER_BEEN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'after being'?
Suggestion: after being
...rs while he was defending a course, but after been released, met a new era where he became...
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Line 7, column 236, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Were
... skills not developed from experiences? were they not brought to light by complexiti...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, so, thus, while, for example, for instance, of course, as a result, 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: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2679.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 530.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05471698113 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79809637944 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72045179273 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 215.323595506 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469811320755 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 835.2 704.065955056 119% => 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: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.3204714264 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.2222222222 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6296296296 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.59259259259 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => 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: 0.476878990123 0.243740707755 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133147967273 0.0831039109588 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110100221344 0.0758088955206 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.322353080239 0.150359130593 214% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126041150664 0.0667264976115 189% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.1392134831 86% => 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: 12.01 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => 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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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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.