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Article Evaluation - Academic Discipline

Personally I feel like this article uses words that a normal audience might have trouble understanding. However, I like that this article is split into different sections. It has a lot of information about academic discipline that is very helpful. The information is all up to date and there are many scholarly references for me to use to do further research about this topic. Also I feel that this article is not very biased. It just gives information and doesn't appear to sway one way or the other. I noticed that in the talk page a few people have made changes to this article. Someone said that it used barely any references, so he added them. Someone else said that they used made up words but he fixed that as well. After all of the revisions and edits I feel that overall this is a trustworthy article, however, it could use a bit extra to make it perfect.

Article Contribution- Edward Lansdale

This article is very thorough and well thought out, however there are a few things that I would like to add to improve the article. I plan to research more about Lansdales' contribution in WWII. I would like to find out how he got into the army, and what he did in order to be transferred to headquarters. I want to elaborate more on who Lansdale is as a person and how his attitude towards his country had an affect on the people around him. Some of the resources are helpful, such as the reference to the book 'The Quiet American', but I feel that the others are a bit unnecessary. I want to find more resources that can help make this article more credible and interesting.

Article Draft-

Edward Lansdale's had the ability to get to know people easily. Lansdale wanted to communicate and understand people of different cultures during the war. He paid attention to the groups of people in which he interacted with. According to Lydia M. Fish, Lansdale was assigned to go to the Philippines in 1945. He asked his brother if he knew any filipino songs the soldiers played, and when he replied with no, Lansdale played a few on his harmonica. He felt that it was important to be in touch with the things that people believe strongly about in their lives. This certain way of viewing interactions helped Lansdale become a topic of conversation. He introduced a way of coexisting with others by making a connection with them. Every place where Lansdale was sent, he familiarized himself with things and tried to fit into the community as a whole. He wanted to be able to get his messages across to people and thought that by viewing the world the way they did, he would be more likely to get them agree with what he said.

According to Cecil B. Currey, Lansdale joined the army during WW2. He served alongside Army Intellegence and The Office of Strategic Service. This is what set off his career. Lansdale states, in his own autobiography, that he had a love for being in the army. He had been given a taste of what life was like outside his country and he wanted to explore more of it. In 1947, the Americans and Filipinos had arguments that began to get worse and eventually out of hand. Lansdale says that he was appointed as the command's public information officer and was told to fix the situation. He used the knowledge that he had gained of both America and the Philippines and resolved the situation. During this same time he was accepted as captain in the U.S Air Force in 1947. Throughout most of his life he worked with the filipinos. He helped with elections and many other campaigns to help the people of the Phillipines. He then went on to serve in Vietnam for another portion of his life. Throughout his whole career he maintained the idea of getting in touch with people. This mindset helped him get into important positions in his life and allowed him to find solution to many problems in the world.