In any field of endeavor it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement

A glance at the greatest achievements made by human in history sheds light on a question that has long being debated, that is, whether the preceeding achievements are indispensable to making new ones. Some contend that learning from predeccesors is a must; however, as long as I am concerned, despite a wealth of examples showing younger generations being inspired by older ones, in some certain fields the thought and ideas of some true pioneers are really the brainchild of their own intellectual activities.

Foremost, it is undeniable that past achievements and discoveries lay the bedrocks for...

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nonetheless, really, so, well, while, as to, for instance, on the contrary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2320.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 448.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17857142857 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07090942456 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569196428571 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 730.8 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.6424791647 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.470588235 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3529411765 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47058823529 5.21951772744 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147830584083 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0437984494251 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0354473693329 0.0758088955206 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0813700839568 0.150359130593 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0332985369483 0.0667264976115 50% => 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: 16.1 14.1392134831 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.65 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.5 11.8971910112 172% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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