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Review of Chicago Crime Article (06/02/2015) - I'm writing this review for the "Crime in Chicago" article. I personally think the that overview goes into to much detail and would benefit from being a more general statement but other then that it is well written and flows well. The writer of this article manages headers really well and the whole article is well organized and easy to locate what you are looking for thanks the the headers. Another thing that this writer did well was that each section is well balanced and are all evenly covered there isn't one section that has significantly more detail then the others. The article also appears to not contain any bias which is an essential part of any Wikipedia article. When looking at the sources for this article you can tell that whoever wrote it did an exhausting amount of research because he has nearly 50 different sources for a relatively small article and his sources are from reputable sources such as police reports from the Chicago PD as well as news articles from prestigious news papers like New York times. All in all this is a good example of a well written Wikipedia article and the only thing that I can suggest is a more general overview section at the beginning.

Wikipedia Article Assignment (05/04/2015)

Intro:

Dr. Gilbert Yves Brodeur (Born November 5, 1935) is a veterinary orthopedic surgeon. He has been the owner and operator of 2 veterinary hospitals. He was also a farmer with his own hog farm and more recently a crop farm. Dr. Brodeur also has a passion for aviation and boats and has owned and operated different enterprises in these sectors.

Early life:

Dr. Brodeur was born November 5th 1935 in Montreal, Quebec. He spent the first 25 years of his life in Montreal living with his parents Lucille and Georges Brodeur and his siblings, Pierre and Dolores. In 1941 he attended Ecole St. Paul, from grades 1 through 8. In 1949 he started his first year of secondary school at College Notre Dame which emphasized the study of the sciences. In his first year at the College Notre Dame he met and started dating Andree Bergeron who later became his first wife. Dr. Brodeur graduate from Notre Dame after completing the 5 year course. In his last year there he had the intention of attending university in engineering, but two of his close friends who were determined to become veterinarians and convinced him to write the entrance exam for vet school at the University of Montreal. He was the only one that ended up passing the exam, and the other two ended up going to university to study geology, and later one of them ended up realizing his dream to become a vet. In 1959 Dr. Brodeur graduated as one of the youngest veterinary surgeon in the university’s history.

Personal Life:

After dating his high school girlfriend for 10 years they got married a week after his graduation from the University of Montreal. For their honeymoon they drove from Montreal to Alberta via Mexico. Once arriving in Peace River Alberta, he set up his farm animals practice and settled down to start a family. Dr. Brodeur and his wife had three children, John, Fancine, and Josee. During his time in Peace River he was appointed as a Magistrate of the Court, and began his lifelong interest in flying when he traded his car for a small airplane on the spur of the moment, after that airplane had landed in a field in front of their house. Between 1980 and 1984 Dr. Brodeur was the President of the Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine, as well as being on the Board of Examiners at the University of Guelph. In 1990 he married his present wife Patricia Millwood. In 2015 retired on his farm he is completing construction of an airplane, realizing his engineering ambition.

Professional Life:

After graduating from the University of Montreal in Quebec Canada, Dr. Brodeur moved to Peace River Alberta with his wife Andree Bergeron where he opened his large animals practice. He would go around to the local farms vaccinating the herds and treating sick animals, often using his small airplane as some farms in his practice area were more then 250 kms away. A couple of years later, in 1962, he started his own farm which produced specific pathogens free (S.P.F) hogs, meaning that they were free of specific diseases. The hog ranch was called the Pork-A-Rosa. In 1975 he sold his hogs and 2 years later closed the large animal practice. After closing his practice and selling the farm Dr. Brodeur took a year abroad to study and gain hands on experience in small animal medicine and surgery.

Dr. Brodeur spent a year in the United States in order to recycle study and gain hands on experience in small animal medicine and surgery. He spent a year at the Sea Girt animal hospital in New Jersey. During his time at Sea Girt he gained useful knowledge in small animal medicine as well as hands on experience in soft tissue surgery. In 1978 upon moving back to Canada and settling down in Toronto he purchased and operated the Banks Animal hospital for 6 years. In 1984 Dr. Brodeur leased the hospital to Dr. Melvin Tonken, a young veterinarian who later purchased the hospital in 1989. After leasing Banks Animal Hospital to Dr. Tonken, Dr. Brodeur moved to Grenada which had just been liberated from communism by the U.S.

In Grenada Dr. Brodeur started his own charter company called Grenada Island Charter. He spent 5 years sailing the Caribbean and operating his charter company. During that time he would often use his newer and larger airplane to fly to his boats whenever any issue arose at a distant island such as St. Lucia, Martinique or Trinidad. After 5 years operating his charter company he decided to leave Grenada and move to Miami.

When he moved to Miami, in 1990, it was in order to further his veterinary knowledge and learn about and gain experience in small animal orthopedic surgery. During his time in Miami he worked at the Miami Orthopedic Referral Hospital. After 5 years in Miami gaining experience in small animal orthopedic surgery he returned to Canada and settled down in Stirling, Ontario. There he semi-retired and works as a free-lance orthopedic surgeon which he continues to do to this date. That occupation took him to Belize in 2013 where he performed surgery on two endangered howler monkeys at the Belize Wildlife Referral Clinic.