Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Week 3

a. Using 2 distinct websites, find the definition of "Interdisciplinary Studies", worth .5

An academic program or process seeking to synthesize broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, interconnections, and epistemology in an educational setting.   Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinarity#Interdisciplinary_studies

drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study

Source:http://www.thefreedictionary.com/interdisciplinary


b. Using 2 distinct websites, find the defintion of "Latin America", worth .5

The countries of the Western Hemisphere south of the United States, especially those speaking Spanish, Portuguese, or French.  

Source:http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Latin+America

The parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken

Source: wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn 

c. Find a list of countries that make up "Latin America", worth .5

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

French Guiana

Guyana

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Belize

Costa Rica

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

d. Find a list of countries that make up the "Caribbean". worth .5

e. Cool fact: use any website (eg any you found, or www.google.com videos, www.youtube.com using the keywords Latin America or Caribbean), tell us something you didn't know, worth 1 percent of total semester grade

I did not know that Puerto Rico almost became a US state.



Love in the time of cholera is a love story like most in its time. Two people fall in love, but in this case the woman marries someone else and even though her relationship is over she still can't help, but love Florentino.  Fermina marries Urbino because she wants to be married at 21.  Time goes on Fermina and Urbino drift apart.  Fermina believes that Florentino has become more mature and thinks that maybe it's not young naive love, but something real.  By the end of the book Florentino and Fermina are together again and supposedly in love.




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