User:RyeNicole/Evaluate an Article

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Orisha

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I am curious to learn more about the powerful spirits that people of African Culture look up to. The Orisha matter because they are spirits that oversee various parts of the earth realm. My preliminary impression of the Orisha is that the African people devote their time to honoring and worshiping these spirits so that they can bring them great blessings on Earth. Then once they die and pass over to the spiritual realm their souls still live on.

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The lead's introductory section explains what Orisha are but doesn't properly address the topic. The definition of the Orisha is clear but then the writer proceeds to talk about the different spellings of the word rather than having a proper thesis. Though it is good to know that the Orisha exist in other places besides being prominent in the Yoruba culture, it seems as if the other locations mentioned are just thrown in the article to fill up space. The lead section does not include a description of the major parts of the article right away. The only section of the article mentioned in the beginning is the pantheon. Information that is presented in the lead that isn't touched on in the article which I mentioned before are the other countries that the orisha may be present. The Brazilian Capoeira is only seen again in the very last paragraph section of Ase. The mention of these countries could have been left out all together since it seems like the only culture of relevance is Yoruba.

Most of the content stated is relevant in regards to Ase, the pantheon, and the speculated unknown number of Orishas. But the sections seem to be unfinished and short. For example, the pantheon section lists the names of the various Orisha spirits but a few of them are missing links and that all of them have the short sentence saying what they are the spirit of in next to it. I think this section should be the most detailed, each Orisha should have at least a paragraph worth of information stating what they do for the people. Looking through all the references, as the earliest one is 1989 all the content seems to be up to date.

Overall, the article has a pretty neutral tone. Information about the Orisha is just being presented. Nothing is heavily bias or persuasive as the writer is not telling you as a reader to believe in the Orisha spirits or Yoruba religion. In all the entire, briefing on the Orisha is underrepresented because this article simply is not complete. I'm not sure that all the sources are accurate because some of the websites just send you a place to buy them rather than providing at least a summary about the text. When previewing a lot of the articles                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               the ones with books do not take you to a protective site to buy the books. There is only one picture included in the article, it looks as if Yoruba people are honoring and worships the Orisha.

The overall staius of the article is poor because it only gives limited information about the roles of Orisha Looking at the title one of the sections its called "Beliefs" which is too vague. A suggestion would've been to name it the power of Ase. All in all, this article needs a lot of work done to it.