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=Disorganized Essay Example= I've always been interested in music, and learning about different musical instruments. When I was a kid I played clarinet in the school band, and the clarinet has been around for a long time, longer than the saxophone for instance. But clarinets aren't as old as drums. Maybe the drum was the first musical instrument. But I was never particularly interested in drumming. I don't have a good sense of rhythm. Other kinds of instruments have also interested me, and eventually I found out that instruments are grouped in families, like there is the string family, which are instruments that have strings that are bowed or plucked. One example is the violin. I didn't play violin when I was in school, though, because I played clarinet. The instrument groups I am interested in are reed instruments, percussion instruments, string instruments, and weird instruments.

Clarinet is a reed instrument, which is an instrument that has a reed you blow through to make the sound. Instead of a string vibrating, the reed vibrates. Which is different from percussion, where you hit the instrument, like how you hit a drum with a stick.

Another group of instruments I am interested in are the percussion instruments. Percussion instruments are instruments that you hit, whether it is with your hand or a drum stick. Also, xylophones are percussion instruments. One funny example is the piano. You'd think it was a string instrument, because it has strings in it, but it's a percussion instrument because the strings are hit with little hammers.

A third group of instruments I enjoy are the string instruments. String instruments are instruments that utilize a string or may strings. There have been many famous violin players, and also the violin has spread all around the world.

One of the weirdest instruments I know of is called the "glass harmonica." It was invented by George Washington. It's a bunch of glasses that make a singing sound. I don't know what orchestra family that would fit under. You don't strike it, you don't play it with a bow, and there's no reeds. I wonder where a singer would go, too.

Sean Grieshop
Sean Greishop is an american competitive swimmer born November 23, 1998. While competing at the 2015 World Junior Championships, he set his first world junior record in the  4 X 200 meter freestyle relay with teammates Grant Shoults, Maxime Rooney, and Grant House. At the same meet, he won the gold medal in the 400 Individual Medley as well as bronze in the 200 Individual Medley.

Other notable meet Grieshop has competed at are the 2016 FINA world cup, and the 2016 US Olympic Trials

At the 2016 Olympic Trials, Sean Grieshop set the World Junior Record in the 400 Individual Medley with a time of 4:14.00, over a second faster than the old record.

Article critique
List of Junior world records in swimming

Make a page for Sean Grieshop and link it to this page.

Article Review
I have been swimming all my life, but more recently I have been looking into the national and international scale of things. I was visiting the wikipedia page for the list of all of the Junior World Records in swimming and noticed a few problems. Although the page is overall pretty decent, some aspects of the page are worth critiquing. The aspects of the page worth critiquing are the abundance of red links, the emphasis on American/Australian swimming, and the lack of global interest.

Red Links
Although there were many red links scattered throughout the article, I will mainly focus on the link about Sean Grieshop. Greishop has two Junior World Records and is well known across the swim community. Grieshop had two red links associated with his name. The first was a link to his name for having a Junior World Record in the 400 Individual Medley and the second was a link to his name for sharing the Junior World Record in the 4 X 200 freestyle relay. Considering world records are pretty notable, I decided to create a page for the person Sean Grieshop and link it to the red links associated with his name.

Emphasis of American/Australian Culture
As I was scrolling through the list of Junior World Records, I noticed an abundance of red links for swimmers in countries other than America or Australia. For instance, the Junior World Record holders for the nation of Italy have empty links, in other words, the links to their names are all red, and all four Italian swimmers have no link associated with their name. On the other hand, most of the swimmers with Junior World Records from America, five out of six to be exact have a link to their name.

Lack Of Global Interest
For the many red links associated with other countries, I can conclude that the editors of that page concern themselves only with swimmers of there home country, which would explain the lack of interest and abundance of red links associated with swimmers of other nationalities.

Summary
I would have to rate the page as "ok" simply because of the lack of links to notable swimmers names. The article gives the reader all of the information they need about the records, ie who set them, what year the record was set, where the record was set, etc.