issue36 我们的九月小组---第三次作业

maggie-leeUID: 2220892

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The statement that the greatness of a person can be valuated or judged merely by the later generations sound to be a little extreme. As we know, the greatness mainly indicates that a person is superior in quality or character or what he or she has done has outstanding significance of importance to a field or to the whole society, which can be judged usually through a length of time. Admittedly, the greatness of people, which is valued by the next generations usually is more objective and fair for many reasons, however, sometimes the contemporary could also present a justifiable and fair judgment for current people.

In the first place, it is true that later people generally are able to produce a relatively fair and correct evaluation on the precedent individuals due to several reasons. To begin with, the later generations have precious opportunities to observe the influences in different ages to the society, which are produced by the deeds or achievement of a person. This is to say that the evaluation of the later generations should be made based on more evidence and observations, without the constraints in many aspects of the time, such as historical background. Therefore, the relevant conclusion tends to be more convincing and persuasive than that of the contemporary. On the other hand, the views of the next generations tend to be more objective, since no complicated interest conflicts may exist, so that people just judge a precedent person calmly and objectively.  A case in point is Vincent Van Gogh, a celebrated, prominent, and representative Dutch postimpressionist in nineteenth century, received no recognition and appreciation from the contemporary and the society, thus sold only one work when he was alive, which are because that the profound cothurn, peculiar artistic form and striking characteristics were not understood by the contemporaries. And until the twentieth century, people began to appreciate and recognize the significance and importance of his works. Consequently, the contemporary might fail to value a person's greatness.

In the second place, sometimes the contemporaries can also make appropriate and fair evaluations of the people of the same time, particularly when the profound influence and tremendous momentum what the people have brought or will bring to the society can be rationally, effectively calculated and predicted in both the current development and the progress in the future. Then, it is reasonable for us to decide whether the person is great or not. Take the celebrated German-born American theoretical physicist Einstein for example, the moment he acknowledged the results of his research on the theory of relativity, the relevant field and the society recognized and highly appreciated his new theory since they confidently and rationally anticipated the profound significance and enormous impact in the future. In addition, the invention of Internet is also a convincing example. It is well known to all that since the appearance of the internet, it received recognition and appreciation in the world wide range in rather a short time. Certainly, considering the spectacular changes brought to our life, both contemporary and the later generations will not deny the greatness of the people who devote themselves to the research and development of Internet.

Finally, with the acceleration of the social progress, we can expect that it might need less time than before for the society to realize and evaluate the greatness of a person, because the influence of what a person has done might be observed in a relative short time. Compared with the past, the time in making a judgment on the greatness of a person decreases conspicuously. A good example is that a famous econometrician, C l i v e W .J .G r a n g e r，who won Nobel Prize in economics in 2003. His greatness in promoting the development of econometrics is acknowledged by the society decades after his research.

In summary, the greatness are mainly valuated by the later generations which is relatively objective and fair, meanwhile, the contemporary might also produce a fair judgment only under certain conditions.

kevin_6603UID: 2170493

老大，这篇晚上再改哈，等我再多看看issue再说哈