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Virginia Courtauld
Lady Virginia Courtauld (born Virginia Periano; born in [there are different birth years out and about on the Internet) was a progressive liberal and philanthropist, along with her husband, Sir Stephen Courtauld, in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, during the 1950s and 1960s. Her humanitarian efforts promoted culture, education, and racial equality. She was the daughter of Ricardo Peirano, an Italian shipping merchant, and Rosa Balint, a Romanian peasant. She had two older brothers, Riccardo, Junior, and Enrico.

Wikipedia is about providing information from sources, which I did not do (well, most all of my source material at the moment is from your book and Wiki doesn't like one-source articles) and is also about having links/connections to other information. With that in mind, I didn't haven't mentioned her marriage to Paulo Spinola. He isn't famous enough to be mentioned in Wiki; however, the 1st Marquess of Balbases Spinola family is. I didn't know if that was his line as well.

Oh Wiki also only likes "facts", so they would frown on mention of Vlad the Impaler - which is sad because I could do a link!!! =)

They also like noteworthy, so that's why I framed/narrowed the time period because that seems like the noteworthy period. One of the tricky balancing acts of building a page for Ginie would be that it needs to be different from Stephen's; otherwise, the Wiki editors would consider it duplication. So what would she have been noteworthy for on her own?

'''Anyway, this was just to show you that, yes it can be done, and you do have your sources that could be readily used to build the page. One of your children could also build it, if that's the type of thing they are interested in doing.'''

You can create an account and build the page in your sandbox, like I did here. My graduate advisor had several of us receive training from Wikipedia (they have an 'education' program) about how to build and write pages and sections as well as revise certain information.

The Old Craft Hall was restored to its former glory. The project achieved Lady Virginia’s request in her Will to use La Rochelle as “a venue for conferences either of a public, national, international or educational character”.

Article Evaluation
My selected topic is the impact of Roxane Gay's book, Bad Feminist in regards to current popularization of the term, bad feminist, with the feminist movement. I read the Bad Feminist article as well as the Reactions section in the Feminism article. While I will be adding a section to the Bad Feminist article, it was important for me to read the other article as it provides the context and background.

While the Bad Feminist article has drawn from many sources, much of the text are direct quotes from those sources. I just re-read Pillar Three and I think that the article is quite weak in this area because of that, especially in the two paragraphs that discuss the reviews of the book. I think that the article could be improved if those two paragraphs had fewer direct quotes and more text that was in one's own words. It could also benefit from some transitional words or phrases, as currently it just slings out: review A said this, review b said this, review C said this.

I've moved to looking at a third article, Roxane Gay, as there is a brief subsection about her books there. I expected the main article, the book's, to contain quite a bit more information than the subsection in the Roxane Gay article; however, much of the information is the same. The primary additional information in the book's article focuses on the criticism her book received.

In regards to the guiding questions for this assignment: The Talk page indicates that this article was a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, with most of the initial work done by one person in 2015. The Talk page also indicates that this article is within the scope of two areas:  WikiProject Literature and WikiProject Women Writers. Both rate the article as a stub-class. The article has not received a rating on the importance scale from the former and a low importance rating on the latter.
 * ·        The information in the article is relevant.
 * ·        What distracted me, as already mentioned, is all of the direct quoting and sentences thrown into the article with little cohesion.
 * ·        The article is neutral. All of the links for the citations work.
 * ·        Not all of the facts are referenced (for example, the publication history).
 * ·        The sources are appropriate and reliable; depending on one’s world view, some would argue that the sources are not neutral ones.
 * ·        The information is current.
 * ·        My plan to add a subsection about the impact of the book and the popularization of term, bad feminist, will address a missing part.

The history reveals that most of the work for this article was done in 2015 and 2016, with some organizational revision being done during the summer of 2017. Since most of the content was added two or more years ago and there is little about how the term is being widely used today, my subsection will be useful.

We have not yet discussed this topic in class; however, in class, when we express our thoughts, we do not usually include our sources, as is done here. That's likely because we are not only about facts, but about opinions and voices as well.

Youth Activism in the 21st century
Youth activism continues to take place in the 21st century at local, regional, national, and international levels. Youth activists today use technology and social media to share their message. This makes it easier for a local or regional protest to gain national and international recognition. Additionally, a local or regional protest may, in fact, be focused on inequity or oppression in another part of the world.

2001

Since 2001, various legislation in the United States, commonly known as DREAM, has been proposed to help undocumented migrant youth and young adults who arrived as children. In 2012, President Obama authorized the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has a similar purpose. United We Dream is an immigrant youth-led community established in 2015. In collaboration with other activist groups, they have coordinated four campaigns: #RIGHT2DREAM in 2012; #WECANTWAIT in 2014; and END OF 287G IN HOUSTON and PROTECT IN-STATE TUITION IN TEXAS in 2017.

2007

In 2007, Jazz Jennings gained national attention in the United States at the age of 6 when she was interviewed by Barbara Walters on 20/20 about being a transgender girl. Also, in 2004, she and her family founded the Transkids Purple Rainbow Foundation, whose mission includes financial resources for homeless transyouth in need, education, and advocacy. In 2014, Time magazine included Jennings on their list of most influential teenagers in the world.

2010

In 2010, the Student/Farmworker Alliance worked with Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to improve work standards for migrant workers in Florida.

Also, in 2010, student activist groups successfully campaigned for Nike to improve standards for their workers in Honduras. Their slogan was an effective play on words of Nike's slogan: Just Pay it.

2011

Heather Jarvis is a youth activist who co-founded SlutWalk with Sonja Barnett. SlutWalk's core principle is that women should be able to wear whatever they choose without being harassed. SlutWalks have occurred in numerous countries.

2012

While Malala Yousafzai has been an activist for female education, initially in Pakistan, since 2009, support for her cause reached international levels after she was shot by a Taliban gunman in 2012 because of her activism. Since then, Yousafzai has established a non-profit organization and received the Nobel Peace Prize. She also was the catalyst for a United Nations campaign for children's education world-wide.

While there has been controversy associated with the KONY 2012 documentary video, it nonetheless became a viral sensation, in part, due to activist college students and teenagers.

2013

While the Black Lives Matter movement is not entirely a youth activist group, its founders were three young women who established it in response to the acquittal of the man who killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African American. Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) was also established, but it limits participation to those aged 18 to 35. These two groups have worked together, and with others, to protest police killings of black people. Unlike BYP 100, Black Lives Matters has become an international movement with chapters outside of the United States

When the Ukrainian president presented a drastically reduced budget for fighting AIDS, Liza Yaroshenko, then aged 14, addressed the parliament, asking them to veto that budget. As of 2017, Yaroshenko was still continuing her awareness campaign online.

2016

While the causes of the Flint Water Crisis have been determined by independent investigators, the crisis is not yet resolved as work to replace the corroded water lines is slightly more than one third completed, with 7,750 of more than 22,000 lead-contaminated water services lines to replace. n 2016, Flint resident Amariyanna "Mari" Copeny, aged 8, wrote President Obama to bring to his attention the public health crisis caused the Flint Water crisis. President Obama accepted her invitation to come to Flint. In April 2018, Governor Rick Snyder announced that water quality is "within the standards" and the lead level doesn't exceed federal limits. This has resulted in the termination of a free bottled water program. Since then, Copeny, also known as Little Miss Flint, continues to work to improve the lives of youth in her community. Not only has she, in collaboration with Pack Your Back, raised more than $27,000 to provide thousands of bottled water since the government program was stopped, she has also raised money to provide 800 seats for under-served children to see Blank Panther and  crowdfunded to send Flint youth to see A Wrinkle in Time. Prior to these fundraising endeavors, she first worked with Pack Your Back to fill 1,000 backpacks for Flint students.

At age 7, Bana al-Abed started using Twitter with her mother's assistance to share her experiences living in Aleppo, Syria. Al-Abed has become a world-renowned youth activist, publishing a memoir in 2017 and receiving the Asian Awards' Rising Star of the Year award in 2018.

2018

The Stoneman Douglas High School shooting has resulted in not only some Stoneman Douglas students becoming youth activists for gun control legislation, but has also spurred a nation-wide resurgence of youth activism, including school walkouts. A group of Stoneman Douglas students also founded the advocacy group Never Again MSD. Never Again MSD led March for Our Lives. "Never Again" is also one of the group's hashtags, with the slogan having its roots as a resistance rallying cry during the Holocaust and is used by the Jewish Defense League.