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

The author of the issue states that the greatest achievements made by individuals should be tested by time, and judged by the descendants instead of the people living in the same age. At first glance, this statement seems reasonable and a lot of giants of different field, especially art, came into my mind, like Van Gogh. After deeply thinking, I am, however, to a great extent of the conviction that the greatness of individuals can be decided by their contemporaries, who, in sometims, are more qulified to do so.

By and large, it is established beyond doubt that a majority of great accomplishments are achieved when we are trying to solve the big, current problems facing us directly. Therefore, the comtemporaries of the problem-solver are the direct beneficiary. A few decades ago, as a country with a population of more than one billion, the biggest problem facing China was how to grow enough crops to feed her people. Yuan Longping, whose name has been familiar to everyone in China nowaday, spared no effort working at the farmland and making hybrid experiment, and finally cultivated the productive hybird rice sucessfully, which has benefit people from all over the world. In this case, Yuan made a great difference to the people living in his age. No one other than Yuan's comtemporaries can decided his greatness.

Another reason that cannot go unnoticed is that in some fields, greatness can be regreded and be made use of at the time they come up. As a tangible example, Isaac Newton had been regarded as a great physics and mathematician at his time since the rules of kinesiology and the tools of calculus he discovered were applied to find the law of celestial bodies' movement and solve analytic geometry immdiately. These kinds of achievement can be examintated by experiments or careful calculation, not necessarily wait till like a century to be tested as truth.

However, what I alluded to above does not draw the whole picture. In some case, especially when people are fettered by past experience or knowledge, restrained by authority, some great accomplishments do not get fair recognition at their time. For example, Hipposus, who discoveried the irrational number, dropping a big boom to the mathematics world, was thrown into the sea by the followers of Pythagorean School. Simlarily, Darwin got a lot of taunt and unjust treatment from the believers of god at his time for his evolution theory. Indeed, greatness like these only can be decided by people with opener mind and more knowledge living after them. But what I want to rebuke is that, as our societies are becoming more and more pluralistic, people try to treat things with more and more citical mind, I believe that great ahcievements won't wait a long to be recognised.

In light of the reason elaborated, I reiterate that greatness of individuals can be decided by their contemporaries, because those are exactly the ones who witness the achievement and get benefits from them. What's more, like the gold on the sand, a lot of accomplishments can be regconised immediately.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 120, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experience'.
Suggestion: experience
... especially when people are fettered by past experience or knowledge, restrained by authority, ...
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Line 7, column 439, Rule ID: A_LOT_OF_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun taunt seems to be countable; consider using: 'a lot of taunts'.
Suggestion: a lot of taunts
...thagorean School. Simlarily, Darwin got a lot of taunt and unjust treatment from the believers...
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Line 9, column 209, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: What's
...achievement and get benefits from them. Whats more, like the gold on the sand, a lot ...
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, so, therefore, for example, by and large, to a great extent

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2564.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 514.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98832684825 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99249364979 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 281.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546692607004 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 820.8 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0194883068 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.2 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.65 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.332765210895 0.243740707755 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0977050569638 0.0831039109588 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121803145636 0.0758088955206 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204458208989 0.150359130593 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0996355998918 0.0667264976115 149% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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