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

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

It’s in human nature to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of great historical figures. The brilliance of an individual can be attested to the fact that if his actions or creations are still concordant with the present generation. One can not correctly determine an individual’s greatness from his contemporaries because of their bias and nearsightedness of his work. In other words, history only can decide the greatness of an individual. However, in case of sports and science, the above argument is belied, as great athletes or groundbreaking inventions are avidly recognized by their contemporaries.

Firstly, I would like to discuss great politicians and authors who didn’t receive apposite fame during the time they were alive. For example, consider the former Indian prime minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who at that time was widely criticised by the opposition members for his reckless decision to make nuclear bombs violating the restraint placed on India. However, at present, he is considered as one of the most successful prime minister of India whose policies brought a reforming change in the thinking of the youth of the country. Not only that, many of the policies instituted by him helped the following government to further increase the economic growth of India. This example serves as a proof that contemporaries due to their affiliation to the opposite side can never truly decide virtuosity of an individual.

Talking about authors especially female authors, it’s clearly evident that in the past they faced severe abhor from the male authors. Most of the female author's stories were rejected by the publishing houses. Take the example of famous crime fiction writer Agatha Christie who wrote her first novel before first world war, found no publisher until the late 1920’s. Her work was severely criticised by many male authors who were dismissive of the detective fiction genre. Contrastingly, Agatha Christie’s novels today serve as a major source of inspiration for various television and movie crime series.

Secondly, the greatness of an athlete or a scientist can only be decided by their contemporary. Take, for example, famous Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar, he stopped playing cricket internationally in the late 1980s, however, he is still regarded as one of the geniuses of the sports. Why?, because Vivian Richard(another great from that era) admitted that he is his greatest nemesis. A similar argument can also be applied to the scientist field, the works of Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Nikolas Tesla were widely appreciated by the scientist community and became a stepping stone for further inventions like the radio, television etc.

To conclude of the topic I can safely say that greatness of an individual can be judged by their contemporaries if they are not biased and completely candid in their opinion otherwise, time is the best judge of them all.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, for example, talking about, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2483.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 464.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35129310345 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02519195719 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 259.0 215.323595506 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558189655172 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 787.5 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.3279586036 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.15 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.3 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => 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: 0.278100228688 0.243740707755 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.083733881817 0.0831039109588 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0930233455088 0.0758088955206 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16287239937 0.150359130593 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0937815864218 0.0667264976115 141% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.61 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 100.480337079 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => 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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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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