The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their
contemporaries.
Human history and present have been gifted with great individuals who, from time to time have worked for the betterment of our society. These individuals have been feted for their services in the same era and unfortunately, in some cases, after their demise. While there are several instances of the former case, the instances of later are rare, and mostly date back to days before technology-driven society. Let us discuss these aspects in detail.
First, let us try to find out the reason of why it is that in some case, when an individual gets recognition when she is still alive, and why in some other case, she does not. For example, if the work of an individual is scientific or economic, it would be to say a least, they will get some king of recognition if her work is truly worth of. There might be concerns against her theory or her proposed prepositions, but people do recognize the effort to be notable, and then focus all the attention to scrutinize the work till it becomes reproducible and found veritable. When such process happens on a time scale smaller than the course of a normal human life, it becomes an instance of the former while in vice versa, it becomes an instance of the latter.
To strengthen the points that a large of discoveries made by scientist are recognized by contemporaries, take an example of the famous physicist Einstein. Even though his idea significantly challenged the contemporaries theories, the fellow scientists saw merits in his proposition. Take another example of Darvin who put forward the idea of evolution. This case was even more serious than the Einstein case as his theories contradicted with the widely-established Christian doctrinaire. Nevertheless, his theories met advocates in the scientific community, and he became a great contributor to a field which is now the basis of the biology science.
Similar examples can be found in business area. Instances here are more suggestive of the former case where an individual has a ground-breaking idea and becoming a major influencer, as business tycoons do not have to wait for their demise for their recognition. The leaders in
Tech giants such as Bill gates and Steve Jobs found their ground-breaking idea meeting suitable recognition in their life.
While from these instances illuminates the one side of the argument, in some cases, great individuals were recognized after their demise. For instance, the Pythagoras theorem. The theorem is now a basis of elemental geometry, were once unnoticed unless after thousand years after his demise, people actually recognized the importance of such a theorem. Similarly, other great individuals such as Aristotle and Galileo , who now are referred as fathers of their respective fields faced resistance from their contemporaries. Such instances were mostly due to the absence of scientific reasoning. Since in the twenty-first century, a large number of people believe in science, and logics, and rational arguments, it is unlikely that a great piece of work, whether it is in the field of science, arts, law or economics, will go unnoticed by the contemporaries.
In summary, I believe the assertion to be based on a few instances that are either rare or antiquated to the days before technology, and hence does not evince the true picture. On the other, there are ever-increasing instances of cases where people recognize the greatness of the individuals before their demise.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, hence, if, nevertheless, similarly, so, still, then, while, for example, for instance, in summary, such as, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2882.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 565.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10088495575 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87542086881 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04016171464 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 281.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497345132743 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 927.9 704.065955056 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2486419589 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.083333333 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5416666667 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.95833333333 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.139688796806 0.243740707755 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0416241343038 0.0831039109588 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0414337397699 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0659700858002 0.150359130593 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0370571971716 0.0667264976115 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.1392134831 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.