assignment 2 a.

a.) Interdisciplinary studies is an academic program or process seeking to synthesize broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, interconnections, and epistemology in an educational setting.
b.)Latin America refers only to those territories in the Americas where the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail: Mexico most of Central and South America, plus Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rican the Caribbean. A different website offered this as a definition: the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.

When I started to look for lists of the countries that are considered “Latin American” and “the Caribbean” I found that every website varied. Some would include counties that were continental as a part of the Caribbean others would only include them if they were islands. Some websites did not include the French islands, and so on. So I think that I came up with a list that will make everyone happy by focusing on the task as a geographical one.
c.)CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES:
Anguilla, Aruba, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turk and Caicos. (Include US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico)
d.)LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES:
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, El Salvador, Panama, Jamaica, Honduras, Paraguay, Bahamas, Nicaragua, Haiti, Barbados, Surname, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica.
e.)*An interesting fact that I didn’t know about Barbados: the word Barbados means bearded in Portuguese. It refers to the bearded fig trees indigenous to the island
f.) Sources used above:
http://youtube.com/
http://about.com/
http://wikipedia.com/
http://bajanproverbs.com/
I can’t say that youtube in a reputable site. For all I know I could have been watching a video of Turks and Caicos while thinking that Suriname looks great! It is however amazing. About seemed like a solid site. It was well organized and there didn’t seem to be any funny business going on. Wikipedia is great because the amount of people that use the site makes it difficult to have any wrong information posted. Wikipedia is generally my go to site. Bajanproverbs was really entertaining; take a look if you get a chance, as for me knowing if it’s the truth…I don’t know.
g.) Well I’ve noticed by looking at other classmate’s profiles that I am not the only one in my thirties. There are a handful of us in the group. Linda and I both live less than five miles from the JC. Katy and I have newborn babies…