User:Yogurtsauce

About Me

Hi, I'm yogutsauce. I'm currently doing the running start program. I plan to get a degree in biochemistry, and then hopefully a masters in pharmacy. I like to listen to music, and play music. I listen to a variety of genres; my favourite artists are: The Strokes, Weezer, Styx, Demi Lovato, Queen, and Kanye. I can play some instruments, like the clarinet, saxophone, and all mallet percussion. I like bananas, socks, swimming, diving, sprinting, driving, and giraffes. I was born in Canada, and now currently attend EvCC. I can speak English and Vietnamese fluently, and am currently learning French.

A Time When I Learned to Like Something

(This is a story about me being introduced to something that I didn't like, and eventually learning to like it. I'm writing this for my English 102 class.)

I joined the swim team my junior year of high school. I had to learn the four strokes of swim: freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly stroke, and backstroke. Not only did I have to learn them, I had to get good at them enough to swim the strokes competitively. I eventually could swim them all legally in a race; however, it looked like I was barely staying alive while doing the butterfly. I looked like a boy in a pool with a pink speedo that was just slapping this face and arms on the water. I hated this stroke through out the whole year because I was awful at it. When my senior year started, I was still awful at it. Two weeks in, and I was practicing the stroke. I put more muscle in the arm part, and it was like I was Michael Phelps. I literally learned how to do it in a minute. I loved doing the stroke after that. It felt like I was flying through the water.

Article Critique

I visited the musa coccinea page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: it's citations, it's age, and it's completeness. (English 101)

Citations

There is a sizable amount of citations for this page which is surprising for how small it is. Even though there aren't many facts on this page, each one is cited by a source. It's worth mentioning that I clicked each and every citation that I was able to, and found out that citation four leads to an error. I have also noticed that all the citations are from reputable sources that do not have anything to benefit from for spreading biased information.

Age

The article is up to date. There are no facts about the red banana that would change over time. There are also no statements that involve time, except for discoveries or discussions. Although, most of the citations are within 20 years of 2017. I guess that these red bananas are just so scarce that it's hard to document about them. You can't document what you don't have.

Completeness

There should really be documented history on this berry. Sure, there are some facts that are on that page. But most of the facts are stuff that I can see myself. I can see the colour of the banana, and I can see the size. But what I can't see is what is the history of this berry, How did this berry get on earth right this minute? How did it get to where it is? What does it grow in? How does the berry taste? I don't know, because it isn't listed.

Summary

I would give this page a thumbs down. There are facts that are cited, but not good ones. The only useful fact that I couldn't see with my own eyes is about it being bat pollinated. I can see the size and colour. I wonder why there's such little documentation on a red banana, when a yellow banana has so much? Is it because yellow bananas are easier to grow? I wouldn't know. When I look at a yellow banana, I don't question what are it's dimensions and colours. I wonder it's history, because I cannot see into the past. Same thing goes with the red banana. However, it seems like all documentations are recent according to the citation dates.