The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.

Greatness of a person is measured by his deeds. The topic says that the greatness of the individual can be decided only by those who are born after them; The contemporaries of the individual cannot decide the greatness of the person. But this statement does not seem to be plausible in every case. The greatness of the person can be decided by the contemporaries as well. Various evidences can be marked where contemporary of a person often decide greatness.

Today in modern world don't we consider the people like President of America- Barack Obama, inventor of Facebook-Mark Zukersburg, Business typhoon of India-Ratan tata great? Many more examples can be stated of the great individuals in the modern era who are great and magnanimous personalities. The great people serves as the mentors for many for the contemporaries like us. For example, great scientist A.P.J Abdul kalam was great person when was alive and still remain a great person in the future. Our deeds commensurate our greatness. If our deeds are great and benefactor to the society we ultimately become great personality .Our contemporaries will surely recognize our greatness. Mahatma Gandhi - father of nation India, was a great person during his period as well in today's period. His greatness was recognized by the people who lived with him during his period as well as today.

Perhaps, there are many cases where the greatness of a person was decided by the people who lived after them but not by there contemporaries. For example, Copernicus claimed first time in the history that earth is not the center of the universe. He tried to break the heresy which believed that earth is the center of the universe. His discovery criticized. He was banned by parochial church for his discovery which broke the heresy. But importance of his discovery is lauded today and serves as a great milestone in space science. There is a famous story of a old farmer who was sowing a seeds of a mango tree in his field. The farmer was questioned by his grandson that why is he sowing the seeds of mango tree in his old age even when he is not going to be able to taste the delicious mangoes of the tree. The farmer replied, the next generation will surely be thankful to me when they will relish the delicious mangoes. The moral of the story is if we do good deeds today we will be praised by the next generation.

To sum up, our greatness can be decided by our contemporaries as well as people who live after us if our work and deeds are remarkable. It's not always the case that our contemporaries fails to decide our greatness. Various factors like society , culture and fate plays major role in determining our greatness. People who were not great during their era are considered great today. While some historical people were considered great by there contemporaries and remain to be great even today.

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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'if', 'so', 'still', 'well', 'while', 'as to', 'for example', 'as well as', 'to sum up']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.261682242991 0.240241500013 109% => OK
Verbs: 0.147663551402 0.157235817809 94% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0822429906542 0.0880659088768 93% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0448598130841 0.0497285424764 90% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0691588785047 0.0444667217837 156% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.128971962617 0.12292977631 105% => OK
Participles: 0.0355140186916 0.0406280797675 87% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.7582188776 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0168224299065 0.030933414821 54% => OK
Particles: 0.0018691588785 0.0016655270985 112% => OK
Determiners: 0.100934579439 0.0997080785238 101% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.018691588785 0.0249443105267 75% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0280373831776 0.0148568991511 189% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2867.0 2732.02544248 105% => OK
No of words: 497.0 452.878318584 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.76861167002 6.0361032391 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.58838876751 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.315895372233 0.366273622748 86% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.193158953722 0.280924506359 69% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.150905432596 0.200843997647 75% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.120724346076 0.132149295362 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7582188776 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 219.290929204 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.422535211268 0.48968727796 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 47.7815712785 55.4138127331 86% => OK
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6194690265 136% => OK
Sentence length: 17.75 23.380412469 76% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.3149728709 59.4972553346 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.392857143 141.124799967 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.75 23.380412469 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.392857142857 0.674092028746 58% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.21349557522 192% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 37.0658953722 51.4728631049 72% => OK
Elegance: 1.62857142857 1.64882698954 99% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.429603329582 0.391690518653 110% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.200160577814 0.123202303941 162% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.148023064353 0.077325440228 191% => Ideas in sentences are similar.
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.478377064613 0.547984918172 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.167420844684 0.149214159877 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142552738784 0.161403998019 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119616999606 0.0892212321368 134% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.342385771645 0.385218514788 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.117172523107 0.0692045440612 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.312402602602 0.275328986314 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.127228501534 0.0653680567796 195% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88274336283 184% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 12.0 7.22455752212 166% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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