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Article Proposal

1. Activity Theory - Who and when the theory was discovered - History of activity theory - Social influence
 * For additional information on article:
 * -Add to section "Human creativity"
 * -Talk about Karl Marx and "species-being" and creative forces
 * -Creativity unlocks human potential through labor
 * -Material Dialect and social change
 * "Marx believes that both non-human animals6 and humans have a specific ‘life activity’ (ibid., 276) that realizes their respective species-beings. Yet, according to Marx, only human life activity is a ‘free activity’"
 * http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.libez.lib.georgiasouthern.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=10&sid=5c66d3bf-2b02-486a-9644-2fd909845e2b@sessionmgr4007
 * "Man is a species-being, not only because in practice and in theory he adopts the species (his own as well as those of other things) as his object, but – and this is only another way of expressing it – also because he treats himself as the actual, living species; because he treats himself as a universal and therefore a free being."
 * Schmidt am Busch, H. (2013). ‘The Egg of Columbus’?How Fourier's social theory exerted a significant (and problematic) influence on the formation of Marx's anthropology and social critique. British Journal For The History Of Philosophy, 21(6), 1154-1174.
 * Karl Marx, a sociological theorist, argued that humans are unique compared to other species in that humans create everything they need in order to survive. According to Marx, this is described as species-being. Marx believed we find our true identity in what we produce in our personal labor.

Article Evaluation

-Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? Everything in the article was relevant to me except for the sentence in the fourth paragraph discussing a study on rats. It seemed irrelevant and out of place.

-Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? The information given in the article seemed neutral and non-biased to the position of aging.

-Check a few citations (hint: focus on the section about Sociology). Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? Where do the citations come from? In the sociology section the link was helpful and linked straight to the page of aging. Although I was not wanting the connection between aging and society, the link was helpful when referring to aging. The source supports the claim in the article and the citations come from many different sources (52 different sources).

-Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? All of the information in the article was referenced with a number that matched the citation at the bottom of the page. Most of the information comes from books or textbooks and appear to be neutral sources.

-If biased, is that bias noted? I did not notice any bias information.

-Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? None of the information appears to be out of date but I know there could be information added to the article.

-Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? In the Talk section on the Aging page, it was pointed out that the word "aging" was spelled incorrectly. This makes a big difference in the article as it appears unprofessional if spelling errors are present in the article, especially in the title! The Talk section seems like a helpful area to spread ideas.

-How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? The article on aging is considered a level 3 vital article in science and has been rated as B-class page. It states that the aging article is of interest to a few (5 or 6) WikiProjects.