In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.

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In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.

Past achievements play a significant incentive for a person passionate to achieve success. Although, it can act as a motivation for people, but getting strongly influenced by it inhibits one to think beyond the possible. Therefore, I am not in line with the given claim that without being strongly influenced by past achievements within a field, it is impossible for a person to make significant contributions.

Firstly, strong influence of anything isn’t very favorable for one who wants to succeed. One has to let himself think freely out of the box. Basing his thinking just on the past events or achievements precludes one to make significant contribution. To verify the veracity of this point, let’s take example of any great scientist- Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein-who could think beyond possible or known. If they let the past influence them then, we would have never learnt about the energy and gravitational theory. The idea remains the same across various domain, be it sports, art or literature. A person becomes the first to do something; example-Neil Armstrong to be first to land on the moon; because he lets himself think beyond the odds, the impossible from the past.

Adding to the previous body paragraph, new plans, innovative ideas sprout only when people vary their thoughts from the one which is achieved in past. One of the leading example can be the inevitable growth in technology. Every year there are series of new innovative products coming in. We are in the era of quantum computers, bullet trains and wireless drones, all of which were not even thought to have existed in the past. If the scientists and the researchers had limited their ideas to the past achievements and innovations-where basic black and white computers were the gods, all of these would not have been possible. In zest, significant ground-breaking contribution can be done only when we let ourselves think without being strongly influenced by the past.

However, it is true that past achievements can motivate us to pursue greater in our journey. As we know, motivation can make a person from layman to an expert in a field. Inventions in the past-like complete cure for small pox, which was one of the deadly disease before then-enjoins the current generation scientists to think beyond the possible to try their level best to achieve whatever they believe in or thrives to be. I, myself, watch motivational videos of the people who have achieved greats in the past to ignite my enthusiasm. Watching these videos inspires me to work hard and have faith for my success.

In summary, past achievements, even though play a prodigious role in inspiring us become what we aspire to be, we surely shouldn’t limit our imagination with these achievements. These achievements should be considered as a base upon which we should seed our ideas, in order to make noteworthy contributions.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 143, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the past'?
Suggestion: in the past
...thoughts from the one which is achieved in past. One of the leading example can be the ...
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Line 5, column 254, Rule ID: NEW_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'innovative'.
Suggestion: innovative
...hnology. Every year there are series of new innovative products coming in. We are in the era o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, so, then, therefore, thus, as to, in summary, it is true

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 84.0 58.6224719101 143% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2431.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 478.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08577405858 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98528234525 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 258.0 215.323595506 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539748953975 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 743.4 704.065955056 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5347350967 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.695652174 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7826086957 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.91304347826 5.21951772744 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.335748087909 0.243740707755 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0928958747334 0.0831039109588 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101799461976 0.0758088955206 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190276502533 0.150359130593 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10222774424 0.0667264976115 153% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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