America Ferrera

America Ferrera was born on April 18, 1984, in Los Angeles, Calif. The daughter of Honduran immigrants, she started acting in community theaters and school plays at the age of eight. Her film debut was in "Real Women Have Curves," where she won best actress at the Sundance Film Festival. America is also known for her role of Carmen in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." She attended the University of Southern California.Few aspiring actresses could ever hope to experience the early career success of Ugly Betty starlet America Ferrera. In the scant four years after earning a Sundance Jury Award, an Independent Spirit Award nomination, and a Young Artist Award nomination for her role as a first-generation Mexican-American girl teetering on the cusp of womanhood for Real Women Have Curves, the hardworking actress rose quickly through the ranks to become one of television's brightest young stars. She also stared in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and its sequal Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno is a singer, a dancer, and an actress. She is the first and only female Hispanic and one of nine performers who have won an Emmy,a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony and at the time the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award. She has, in fact, been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for this achievement.Ms. Moreno was born Rosa Dolores Alverio in Humacao, a small town near the famous rain forest of Puerto Rico. At five years old, she and her mother moved to New York and the following year she started dancing lessons. At age 13, she had her Broadway debut in Skydrift which starred Eli Wallach. Then, in the true tradition of Hollywood, a talent scout arranged a meeting for 17 year old Miss Moreno with Louis B. Mayer and she was signed for a contract with MGM. She was Dona Dolores in Scooby-Doo and the Monsters of Mexico. She was in 67 movies, T.V. shows, and much more

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"Barcelona Shopping Areas"

If you ever want to by great items at Barcelona, Spain you could go to the winter sale that starts on January 6 and goes to the end of February or you could go to the summer sale that starts in mid June and goes to the end of August. These sales can go from 50% off to 75% off. Passeig de Gracia and the streets to its southwest, the Barri Gotic streets such as Carrer de la Portaferrissa, Carrer de la Boqueria, and Carrer de Ferran, and around Placa de Sant Josep Oriol. These stores have brand named clothes for a great deal.

Barcelona Museums

If you ever want to a museum in Barcelona you could go to the most visited museum the Museu del Temple Expiatori de La Sagrada Familia. This museum was started in 1882 by Antoni Gaudi. This is such an amazing museum that it still isn't finished. They expect it to be finished in 30 years. This famous museum gets about 2 million people every year. You can see the art, history, architecture, science, sports, war, and maritime at this museum.

Barcelona zoo's

If you want to go see cool animals you can go to the Barcelona Zoo. There are over 60 mammals, over 40 birds, 2 amphibians, and over 20 reptiles at the zoo. From Addra gazelles to Nile

crocodiles you can see it all at the zoo in Barcelona. If you wanted you could go see Snowflake. He's an albino gorilla. the zoo is open all summer long. The cost is 75,00 euros. That's 96.77 in U.S. dollars!

Barcelona parks

If you're looking for some green respite right in the city center, the Parc de la Ciutadella is your best bet. Formerly a military fortress, then the main grounds for Barcelona's 1888 Universal Exhibition, the park currently holds the Museu de Zoologia, a couple of small aboreta, the Museu de Geologia, and Barcelona's zoo. This park would be great for getting away from the busy stores.

Barcelona sports

This favorite sport in Barcelona is football! In Barcelona they can soccer football.

Barcelona tourist attractions

Most of the tourist attractions are the famous museums. you can go see a lot of the museums there. They have over 50 museums there. Some are small some are big no matter the size they are all great to visit.

"Semana Santa"

People in spanish countries call Holy Week Semana Santa and they call Easter Pascua.

Spanish people use beautifully decorated floats to depict the story of Easter. In Mexico, papier-maché images of the traitor Judas of all sizes are suspended over the streets or poles on Easter Sunday. They are filled with fireworks and lit at the appropriate moment and then there is much rejoicing. Children often make 'The Eye of God' by weaving brightly colored wools across sticks ties together as a cross in a diamond pattern. In Spain they have the festival of Semana Santa. It is a parade type thing that goes for one whole week.

The traditions are the same in all the spanish speaking countries.

The thing I like the most is the tourist attractions because you can surf, kayak, and all sorts of watersports.

Food



The majority of Nicaraguan meals are founded upon traditional Nicaragua foods like corn, beans, plantains, yucca and peppers. A characteristic Nicaragua meal might include a meat like chicken, pork or fresh seafood from Nicaragua’s expansive coasts, deep-fried plantains, rice and beans (aka “gallo pinto”) and a cabbage salad. As you can see Nicaragua meals are just usually corn, beans, and other things. The most famous dish from Nicaragua is Gallo Pinto.

Family

In the 1990s, traditional Hispanic kinship patterns, common to most of Latin America, continued to shape family life in Nicaragua. The nuclear family forms the basis of family structure, but relationships with the extended family and godparents are strong and influence many aspects of Nicaraguan life. Because few other institutions in the society have proved as stable and enduring, family and kinship play a powerful role in the social, economic, and political relations of Nicaraguans. Social prestige, economic ties, and political alignments frequently follow kinship lines. Through the compadrazgo system (the set of relationships between a child's parents and his or her godparents), persons unrelated by blood or marriage establish bonds of ritual kinship that are also important for the individual in the society at large.

Info from:http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/28.htm