The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
Slightly different from the statement, I think that the greatness of a person should not only be evaluated from the current viewpoint but also need to consider the his or her contemporaries.
One of the important indicators to define greatness is whether the person leaves great influence on the people who live after him. If we only take the comments of his contemporaries into account, we would definitely ignore such an important aspect. For example, many people in Taiwan couldn't understand why the government spent so much money on constructing a science park at Hsinchu, a rural county at that time. However, the science park now make a lot of contributions not only on making money but also making Taiwan famous for its high quality technological products.
Someone would argue that we need to take the corresponding background into account to evaluate whether a person is great or not. Therefore, how the contemporaries thought of the person would be much more important. Yet, people tend to think of the achievements in their era the best, leading to overestimating their true contributions. For example, many old people in Taiwan thinks that what they did is extremely crucial for the development of the society. Nevertheless, the real contributions they left are relatively small from today's view.
Although what we think of greatness is important, the comments by their contemporaries can't be neglected. Sometimes, the great impact of a person can't be simply evaluated by what he left to the modern society but how he influence the people at the same period with it. For example, though the theory which argued that the earth is the center of the universe is proven to be wrong, it somehow stimulated the scientific research, making people start to think how the universe works. As a result, even if the theory itself doesn't have anything to notice in current scientific society, its impact on the development is not negligible, making it a great step toward deeper research of the universe.
I think although how people after a person can make precise evaluation on his greatness, the impact he made to his contemporaries is also important, and thus should not be neglected.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, for example, i think, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1836.0 2235.4752809 82% => OK
No of words: 364.0 442.535393258 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04395604396 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97147611965 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 215.323595506 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.497252747253 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 560.7 704.065955056 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2737300648 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.4 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2666666667 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.13333333333 5.21951772744 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.195282071238 0.243740707755 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0706479156479 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0630060846902 0.0758088955206 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112744758149 0.150359130593 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0163255223578 0.0667264976115 24% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.1392134831 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 100.480337079 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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