The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you t

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The greatness of individuals can be decided only

by those who live after them, not by their

contemporaries.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to

which you agree or disagree with the statement and

explain your reasoning for the position you take. In

developing and supporting your position, you should

consider ways in which the statement might or mightnot hold true and explain how these considerations

shape your position.

According to the greatness of individuals, is it merely defined by those who live after them rather than their contemporaries? The speaker offers a partial argument. Some people’s greatness is recognizable in their contemporaries, such as some politicians and physiologists. Some others’ greatness is acknowledged in the later generations, especially the artists, while the rest may be tested by both of their contemporaries and the later generations.

For starters, it is true that the greatness of some celebrities has only been decided by those who live after them. It holds for the realm of art, some artists’ radical and subversive styles of the art works may be seen as master pieces by people live in the later generations while regarded as something abnormal and contrary to the mainstream during that period by their contemporaries. One paradigm is Claude Monet, who is the creator of impressionism. In his age, the academism is the main stream of art, which is dogmatic and stark without any colour. Claude Monet abnegated this popular painting style and broke the tradition and created a new style characterized with colour and light, which was disdained by his contemporaries. On the contrast, Monet and his painting style has been recognized in the later generations. Van Gogh, the one who questioned Monet’s style by creating post-impressionism on the feature of Monet’s works and added his personal feeling and emotion to the paintings, was also not accepted in his contemporary. As a result, he lived austerely in his whole life and merely sold out one picture. However, he has been considered as the most outstanding painter after he died.

However, we should avoid carrying the statement to the extreme. With regard to some certain areas where the success of individuals can be confirmed immediately, the greatness of those celebrities can be recognized by their contemporaries. The physiology and political areas are both representative of this kind of situation. As for the physiologists, Tu Youyou, the one who discovered artemisinin to treat malaria, can be taken as a good example. She was soon regarded as a heroine after her discoveries being covered and became the laureate of the Nobel Prize for her greatness. As for the politicians, their success has generally been recognized in their age, such as F.D. Roosevelt, the one who implemented the New Deal which brought dramatic economical profits for America during the Great Depression period. Both of the aforementioned two people are respected for their greatness in their ages.

In addition, in the business areas, some tycoons’ great achievements, which may dramatically change people’s lives, are generally acknowledged by both their contemporaries and the later generations. For instance, Steve jobs, the CEO of the Apple company, is considered as the most splendid business man in the contemporary for his breakthrough in smart phones, although he passed away in 2011, he will be remembered forever. Henry Ford invented assembly-line approach to manufacturing affordable cars for the masses and was immediately recognized in his age. Till now, in every field all over the world, it utilizes assembly-line way to manufacture all the products. Even Ford could not have predicted the impact his innovations would have on the American economy and on the modern world. Hence, in the business area where the innovations may have deep and long-term effects, the achievements of individuals can not only be recognized in the contemporary, but also in the next hundreds of years.

To sum up, the statement has raised some valid points under some scenarios, while it is too extreme and neglect the possibilities in other areas.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 957, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...on the feature of Monet's works and added his personal feeling and emotion t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, may, so, while, as for, for instance, in addition, kind of, such as, as a result, it is true, to sum up, with regard to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3163.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 594.0 442.535393258 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32491582492 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93681225224 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.27394507348 2.79657885939 117% => OK
Unique words: 293.0 215.323595506 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493265993266 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 989.1 704.065955056 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.9492469386 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.148148148 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55555555556 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227411221094 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0636474115088 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0640218763102 0.0758088955206 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122967914692 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0706383863642 0.0667264976115 106% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 159.0 100.480337079 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => 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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