The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
Great people, of all times, have managed to occupy very special places in our minds, in our history and in our culture. Their deeds have always had a very long-term impact in our lives. Short terms heroes are easily forgotten. When we judge somebody’s contribution to the world, one of the most important aspect to be borne in mind is how long people are accepting them as “great”.
Going by this logic, the role of posterity become quite important. While contemporary people are prone to get carried away seeing the immediate results of the achievements, the next generations will be able to evaluate them from a more neutral and unbiased perspective. Who knows? There may be some adverse effect of the inventions of a great scientist, or the policies adopted by a great politician, which will become evident only after half a century. To test the perpetual nature of the contribution, future generations are far better placed.
Scientists are doing commendable job in genetic technology, nuclear physics or astronomy. Today, all these seem to be great achievements. But are we sure that these advancements in science will not lead us to some perilous journey such as socio economic problems, or may even be a war with people from another constellation?
Mahatma Gandhi, the great leader of Indian freedom movement against the British, was always regarded as a great personality, so much so that his birthday is celebrated as one of the three national holidays in India. Even then, today’s politicians and historians have started finding him at fault, particularly due to his role during the partition of India that took away lives of millions.
Therefore, greatness will definitely be best measured by people who leave after us. But that doesn’t undermine the role of the contemporary people. They are the people who identify the great person and, sometimes, kindle the fire in him. Moreover, the value understanding of his work can be best understood from the current context which may not be available with the next generations. Thus, a great man and his contribution to society, may get completely lost unless someone from his time notices it, realizes it’s value, and publicizes it. Then only a great man is born which the newer generations can boast about.
To conclude, it seems justified to state that future generations can better decide whether someone is a truly great man or not, but the importance of contemporaries cannot be completely nullified.
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- The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries. 66
- In order for any work of art — for example, a film, a novel, a poem, or a song — to have merit, it must be understandable to most people. 79
- People's attitudes are determined more by their immediate situation or surroundings than by society as a whole. 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 396, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...India that took away lives of millions. Therefore, greatness will definitely be ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2101.0 2235.4752809 94% => OK
No of words: 408.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14950980392 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98742136611 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588235294118 0.4932671777 119% => OK
syllable_count: 662.4 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.866177293 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.05 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.25 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => 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: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255592656876 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0691288877784 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.059882553731 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118521517664 0.150359130593 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0510943767864 0.0667264976115 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => 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: 12.59 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => 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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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.