Monday, September 22, 2008

Assignment 2A

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

According to this website, http://www.lesley.edu/gsass/interdisc.html, Interdisciplinary Studies is the combination of different studies from various disciplines merged to become one.

According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinary studies, Interdisciplinarity is a term of art in several professions concerned with education and training that refers to the qualities of studies that cut across several established disciplines or traditional fields of study as stimulated by the advance of knowledge.

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

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America, Latin America refers to the region of the Americas where Romance Languages particularly Spanish and Portuguese, are primarily spoken.

According to http://www.answers.com/topic/latin-america, Latin America refers to Countries of South America and North America (including Central America and the islands of the Carribean Sea) south of the U.S.; the term is often restricted to countries where either Spanish or Portuguese is spoken.
c. Find a list of countries that make up "Latin America"

Belize,Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Aregentina, Boliviam, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico.
d. Find a list of countries that make up the "Caribbean"

Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands.
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
When looking through websites i found out that Mexico is the most populous citiy in the world.
f. Cite your sources used above, and tell us your opinion as to why or why not the sources you used are reputable ones. Be specific. An 8th grader, for example, should understand the reason that you, the college student and authority.
Sites have been cited already. I think that these are reputable sources because the info found seems to be consistent with other websites.