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Assignment 1

 * My first article is called English literature. The reason i choose this article because i found this interesting as i have always been intersted in the history of english and how it has changed over the years. English literatrue is a very important, it tells us our history, and how ancestors survived through the rughest of conditions. English literature also shows us how the times have changed (ie when one compares the old english to the  Renaissance literature you can see the differences in the speach pattern.) and how different the times were for the writers who wrote the clasics, such as William Shakespeare, Jane Austin,and Virginia Woolf and compare them to the society now.
 * Wikipedia: has all that is known to mankind on literature, the downside is people can change it take out important information on English literature.
 * Universalteacher: has a shorter more detailed list, include's all the writers, little biographys on each of the genres of literature,


 * My second article is called Irish Mythology. one of the reasons i chose this article is because i believe that the tales of our ancestors is very important to the history and culture of Ireland. i have always been inerested in the irish mythology and stories of the long ago, i love hearing them and i thought it would be nice to know where they came from and where they originated from.
 * Wikipedia: it has all the basic information, and orgins of irish mythology.
 * Luminarium: has more fine toothed information, and facts on irish culture/history.


 * My third Article is called Library of Alexandria. Library of alexandria is one of the first libraries recorded, and it was destroyed in a fire. i remembered one of my teachers tlking anbout and i thought it would be a interseting library to look into and learn the history of .Also to learn as to what was in the library and the philosephers/scholers that used the library to do research. the differences between the wikipedia and the Britanica are astonishing.
 * wikipedia: has much more infromation and facts,has everything there is on library alexandria.
 * the britanica: has one paragraph on the library alexandria. the information is much broader then in britanica.

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature : Wikipedia contributers. "English literature." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 30 Sep. 2012. Web. 30 Sep. 2012.

http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lit/history.htm : Andrew Moore. "Short history of English Literature." Universal teacher. Web. 30 sep. 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_folklore : Wikipedia contributers. "Irish Mythology." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, web. 30 sep. 2012.

http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/ : "Irish literature, Mythology, Folklore and Drama." luminarium, 3 July. 2007. web. 30 sep. 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria : "Library of Alexandria." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 29 Sep. 2012. Web. 30 sep. 2012.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/14417/Library-of-Alexandria : "Library of alexandria."Britanica, The online Encyclopedia. Web. 30 sep. 2012.

Assignment 2
My second assignment i chose to write about the Library of Alexandria.

Summary of Wikipedia article on the Library of Alexandria

The library of Alexandria was created by Alexander the great in the period of 323-283 BCE. The library was successful and the firsrt known library in history. The library has had many famous philosophers visit and work in the library using and writing some of the earliest information on science, mathimatics, astrology and much more. The library was destroyed many times, the first time was an acident made by julius caesar in an attempt to limit comunication for Achilla's men from sea to land. The second happened during the attack of Aurelian where while supressing a revolt by Queen Zenobiaof palmyra, during the fighting that toke place several areas in the city were damaged including where the main library was located. the smaller sister library located in the Serapeum survived however some of the scrollls could have been taken to Constantinople to be  in the new capitalinthe fourth century. The thirld and final destruction of the library occurred when Emperor Theodosius the first made paganism illegal in 391 AD when he believed tat people we practicing "heathen ways". the Emperor first destroyed the Mithreum, then continued on to the Serapeum.

Summary of the Encyclopedia Brittanica

The library alexandria is the most famous library in history. Library of Alexandria formed part of the reesearch insitute that is now known as the alexandrian museum in egypt. the Museum and library were founded and maintained by the ptolemies (all of them) since the beging of the third century BC. the library was organized by Demetrius of Phaleron who helped organize the library in Athens. The library and museum had a President-Priest as head of the facility and the egyptian king was in charge of pay. the sister library was established in around 235 BC in the temple of Serapis. The library of alxeandria was the first library to but "a division of works in to "books" as they are now known ( probably to suit the standard length of rolls) and the gradual introduction of systems of punctuation and accentuation." though the information that the library has held has been destroyed years ago, the symbol it has made is still very clear. In 2002 the egyptian goverment built a new library near the original site of the acient one, it is called the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Out of these two articles summarized above,i would say that the wikipedia article has much mre information and has a better clearer vision of what the library was like, who it served, what the building was like, and how it was destoryed, where as the encyclopedia Brittanica has a basic summary of what the library was like with very little information as to how it was destroyed, when it was started, the reason it was started, it was much less informative. the articles talk about some of the same information, but the Britannica didnt have any extra information that would be helpfull for anyone who needs more then the bare estencial information, the wikipedia is the best place to start for researching this topic, it gives links to other sites that have more information of the library of Alexandria, links to videos, and  the link to the new library in alexandria, so you can see how they are keeping some of the history yet modernizing it to fit todays society.

Is the list of references/further reading, thorough, relevant and current?

Wikipedia: yes the list of  references was very current and i used some of them to further my research, i did not us all of them though as some did not look all to authoritative. The ones i did us had much more information and i had a lot of fun searching the sites, the sites i used were written by someone who is an expert on the library of ALexandria. The site is run by the director of the new library of alexandria, Ismail Serageldin has a B.Sc., M.R.P., and a Ph.D as well as 33 honarary degrees in sociology, lettters, law, internal affiairs, arts, matural resources, economics and mamagnement, four of theses honarary degrees in 2012 alone.

Encyclopedia Britannica: no there was no list of references, contributers, further readiing. the information is current and relevant but it has very little insight on what was in the library and what happened to it.

Assesment on the articles.

Are they good articles in your opinion? yes i believe they are good articles. they have corect infromation, times, and a basic run down on what happened to the library and how it was destoryed. The only problem i had was with my article from encyclopedia Britannica, it had some of the same information but it was a very condensed version of the wikipedia with out the list of reference, further reading, and the rest,the article also left out names, and the story of how the library was destroyed and by whom it was at fault. I found the wikipedia page had more information and is better laid out and to navigate through. Do they provide a comperhensive amount of information? The articles have a good amount of information, its very informative and one of the sites gives a list of sites to go to that are on the same topic. The sites were very infomative and i was very happy with what i found through wikipedia, the sites were authoritive, cleary written, easy to navigate and very easy to find. Is there a notice at the top or i an article from wikipedia saying the article needs more citatitions or other message that it needs improving? yes in the wikipedia article i used it has two messages at the top of the article. one of the messages is about needing to verifying the information and adding references. The second message says that the article may recuire copy editing for grammer, style, cohesion, tone or spelling and to edit it for the creator of the page.

the wikipedia compared to Encyclopedia Britannica.

the wikipedia article has: -more information,- it is condensed so you get a full picture of what happened to the library, - you just get more insight on the library, who worked there, who destoryed it. - there are links to more sites where you can further your search, - the sites are in the order of their usage so you can tell which one has provided the information by importance.

the encyclopedia Britannica: - less information, - more condensed, - only has what the writter thought important, - has exact information on dates of destruction, - very brief history on the library,an example of this is "a subsidary "daughter library" was established about 235 BCby Ptolemy III (Euergetes)in the temple of Serapis,". i put my list of 10 additional sources in my reference list under my citations for Encyclopedia Britannica.

Reference
1. "Library of Alexandria." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 9 Nov. 2012. Web. 10 Nov. 2012. .

2. "Library of Alexandria". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., 2012. Web. 10 Nov. 2012 .

3. James Hannam. "The Mysterious Fate of the Great Library of Alexandria". Bedes Library,Bedes Library, September 12 2012. web. 10 Nov. 2012. 

4. Ismail Serageldin. "The Acient Library". Serageldin.Serageldin, web. 10 Nov. 2012. 

5. Preston Chesser. "The Burning of the Library of Alexandria". ehistory, ehistory archives, web. 10 Nov. 2012. 

6. V.R. "The Alexandrain Library". Richeast, Richeast, 29 March. 2000. web. 10 Nov. 2012. 

7. "Alexandria's famous Library". thelivingmoon. Pegasus Research Consortium. web. 10 Nov. 2012. 

8. Andrew lawler. "Raising Alexandria". Smithsonian. Smithsoian online, April 2007. web. 10 Nov. 2012. 

9. "The Library of Alexandria". Gardian Cats. GardianCats, 16 August. 2012. web. 10 Nov. 2012. 

10.Monica Berti. Virgilio Costa. "the acient library of alexandria, a model of clasical scholarship in the ages of million book libraries". Tuffs. Tuffs. Pdf. 10 Nov. 2012. 

11. " The Universal Library". Greece. Greece. web. 10 Nov. 2012. 

12. N.S.Gill. "Library of Alexandria". About.com education. About.com education. 