User:Kschaffe

Important Links:
Mhorney's home page

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= Wikipedia Project =

Articles I could contribute to:
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

Gymnastics

Origami

Child Abuse

Hip hop

Mexico city Cathedral:
In the first section of this article,it is mentioned that a Catholic church was constructed by Hernan Cortez in the ancient aztec city, and that then the church was demolished in order to build the cathedral. What is left out though is that the site where the church and cathedral were built was originally the site of the Aztecs largest temple, that was destroyed by the Spanish invaders, and hat both the church and the cathedral were built using forced Aztec labor, and many of the materials collected from the destroyed Aztec temple.

DeLange, George And Audrey. "Metropolitan Cathedral." 2 Mar 2008 .

Gymnastics
In the first Paragraph this article states that gymnastics "evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks, including skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and circus performance skills." I would change the word including, to "including but not limited to" because gymnastics is (and was) also used for improvement of balance and for military training.

The word Gymnastics also originates from the word 'gymnazein’ which means to exercise without clothes.

"History of Gymnastics: Man Gymnastics - Woman Gymnastics." Clearlead e-articles. Clearlead.inc. 2 Mar 2008 .

Origami
For the Origami page I would add a section that explained the different types of origami. Often times the styles of origami models are lumped together under the simple title, but in reality, each style is unique and quite different from the rest. The Different types of origami are, traditional/classic models, unit/modular models, geometric models, complex models,and compound models.

yytan, Benjamin. "Types of Origami." Learning Origami. 18th November 2004. 2 Mar 2008 .

Child Abuse
For this article I would include a section explaining each type of abuse, also providing a definition of each type. The types of abuse include, physical abuse (causing physical harm to a child), emotional/psychological (causing emotional or psychological harm to a child), sexual (using a child for sexual satisfaction), and physical neglect (failing to provide a child with his or her basic physical needs).

"Q. What are the Major Types of Child Abuse and Neglect." about.com. about.com. 2 Mar 2008 .

Hip Hop
I would correct the first section of the hip hop article where it states that hip hop originated in New York. New York may be the first place hip hop was seen in the US, but the style of dance actually originated from African dance.

"THE ROOTS OF HIP HOP." RM Hip Hop Magazine 1986 03 march 2008 .