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Assignment: Article Evaluation 10/06
Chinatown, San Francisco This article is well organized with multiple subheadings trying to incorporate as much history and information as possible. It has some bias in terms of being the largest Chinatown in America. In the talk page, there are arguments primarily about the size of Chinatown San Francisco versus Chinatown Manhattan.

Assignment: Robert Gober 10/13
I want to add on more about Robert Gober's early life and background, however, it is difficult to find any information on it. I also wanted to add on about how his exhibition 'The Heart is Not a Metaphor' is one the first large-scale exhibition in the US. The Art Story Matthew Marks MoMa Tammykchao (talk) 18:00, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Assignment: Plague Article - Angel Island (California)
I found a governmental reference regarding preservation and restoration of Angel Island. It gives legislative history of how the H.R. 606 was introduced and passed to appropriate $15 million dollars to the Secretary of Interior for restoration of the island. Prior to that, in 1999, the National Trust and the White House Millennium Council donated $500,000 to preserve the Chinese poems that were carved into the walls. Then in the year 2000 California passed a measure to set aside $15 million specifically for the restoration of Angel Island Immigration Station which the H.R. 606 would later authorize. H.R. 606 was not the first to be proposed. There were other similar legislation that were introduced but had no further action take after those were passed. Introduced in February 2005 and passed in May 2005, H.R. 606 sets congressional findings and authorizes he appropriation of $15 million. Later the National Park Service would disperse the money over 3-4 year span as grants. Before I added anything I checked if it was already mentioned but I didn't see it on this Wiki page, so I went to the other Wiki page [Island Immigration Station] to check if it was there. It's not either. Would it be more accurate to add the information to this page or to the other? Or it is it not relevant information? Tammykchao (talk) 22:50, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Assignment Plague Article: Angel Island (California) Continued..
In response to Wong Chut King's death, San Francisco quickly quarantined the area to neutralize possible disease-causing agents and searched for persons suspected of having any contact with Wong Chut. If they were suspected of it, they would be sent to isolation facilities. Tammykchao (talk) 05:43, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Prior to the National Quarantine Act of 1893, the plague posed such a threat to the U.S. that Angel island opened as a quarantine station in 1891 to screen Asian passengers and their baggage prior to landing on U.S. soil (Risse).

In response to more deaths, tissue samples were sent to angel island for confirmation of the bacteria that is spreading the suspected plague. At that time, the plague was difficult to diagnose due to other diseases that mask its presence along with fear.

Bacteriologist [|Joseph Kinyoun] who was stationed at Angel Island in 1899, believed that the plague would spread throughout San Francisco's China Town after the bubonic plague bacteria was confirmed from one of the deaths. The samples were discovered by Frank Wilson, an assistant city health officer, and Wilfred Kellog, another bacteriologist. (Risse) Tammykchao (talk) 06:30, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Even with a vaccine to inoculate and protect the residents of Chinatown, the Chinese believed that the vaccine was experimental and did not want to receive it. City officials tried to explain that it was not particularly aimed at the Chinese and that other San Francisco residents were receiving it too as a preventative measure to ensure that people do not get quarantined and the district burned down (Risse) Tammykchao (talk) 18:01, 1 December 2017 (UTC)