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.

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History

Nicaragua, which derives its name from the chief of the area's leading Indian tribe at the time of the Spanish Conquest, was first settled by the Spanish in 1522. The country won independence in 1838. For the next century, Nicaragua's politics were dominated by the competition for power between the Liberals, who were centered in the city of León, and the Conservatives, centered in Granada.

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School

Nicaragua Spanish Schools opened the Nicaraguan Spanish school industry to the international marketplace in 1995 as the leader in investment and development in the industry. NSS operated as a model of sustainable development, demonstrating how local Nicaraguan resources intelligently applied could create competitive marketable value and fair paying income opportunities for productive local labor. NSS program tuition also helped support community-based social, cultural and educational development programs in the local communities where the schools operated, as well as supporting the Instituto Henry George educational project in Managua. As a result of the NSS project, thousands of international students have been attacted to study in Nicaragua since 1995, and the positive economic impact of the NSS project on the local communities where NSS schools have operated has been significant. The culmination of the NSS project was the transfer of the NSS schools in Granada and San Juan del Sur to local Nicaraguan ownership. As of 2006, there are at least 10 Spanish school programs in five Nicaraguan departments, owned, managed and staffed by personnel who formerly worked with and/or benefitted directly from the NSS program model.

Natural Resources

The natural resources of Nicaragua are gold, silver, copper, tungsten, lead, zinc, timber, fish

Tourist Attraction

San Juan del Sur, 90 miles south of Managua is a watersport paradise. Giant sea bass, red snapper, moray and marlin abound in its shallow bay waters, making sportfishing popular , and the clear waters are excellent for diving and underwater photography. Boats and yachts are available as well as professional diving and underwater fishing equipment. Surfers should head to La Boquita which has excellent surfing waves as does Poneloya, further north. Montelimar is a popular weekend destination for people living in Managua. The wide stretch of beach is fringed with palm trees. There is a luxurious beach resort here, built around a luxurious colonial home once owned by the Somoza family. The Islas del Maíz or Corn Islands, lie 70 km off the Caribbean coast are two tiny islands, one of which has very basic tourist facilities. The big attractions are the clear, blue sea, coral reefs, white sand and absolute peace. Visit here to going fishing with your family.

Money

The currency of the money in Nicaragua is 19.35 Nicaraguan Córdoba =1.00 U.S.

Nicaragua, which derives its name from the chief of the area's leading Indian tribe at the time of the Spanish Conquest, was first settled by the Spanish in 1522. The country won independence in 1838. For the next century, Nicaragua's politics were dominated by the competition for power between the Liberals, who were centered in the city of León, and the Conservatives, centered in Granada. To back up its support of the new Conservative government in 1909, the U.S. sent a small detachment of marines to Nicaragua from 1912 to 1925. The Bryan-Chamorro Treaty of 1916 (terminated in 1970) gave the U.S. an option on a canal route through Nicaragua and naval bases. U.S. Marines were sent again to quell disorder after the 1924 elections. A guerrilla leader, Gen. César Augusto Sandino, fought the U.S. troops from 1927 until their withdrawal in 1933. The president is Daniel Ortega

The government in Nicaragua is Republic.

Nicaragua, approximately the size of New York state, is the largest country in Central America. The country covers a total area of 129,494 square kilometers (120,254 square kilometers of which are land area) and contains a diversity of climates and terrains. The country's physical geography divides it into three major zones: Pacific lowlands, the wetter, cooler central highlands, and the Caribbean lowlands.

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Welcome to Nicaragua!!!!!

click here to hear the national anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtY_SdEqlq8

The thing i like the most would be the forest i always wanted to go hiking in a forest.

The food of Panama is not too spicy and not to bland either. This makes the dishes good for people of all ages. There are many dishes that are modified from the Spanish culture. This is because Panama property was under the control of Spain for more than 300 years. Hence the Spanish culture has also played a major role in the influence of Panama cuisine. Carimanola is one of the most famous dishes in Panama. It is roll that is made from ground and boiled yucca. This is then rolled by filling the inside with boiled egg and pieces of meat. The roll is fried before serving. Empanadas are also very famous in Panama. These can be compared to a Cornish pastry. Some are flour while others are corn. These usually come filled with meat or chicken or cheese. Tortillas are another world famous dish that is found very commonly in Panama. It is made from ground maize and is fried like a pancake. A very popular delicacy of Panama is tamales. This dish is made from boiled ground corn. This dish is filled with spices and chicken or pork inside. It is then wrapped in banana leaf and wrapped before serving. Patacones are another famous dish. These are basically green fried plantain. They are slit crossways and salt is added to them. They are then pressed and fried. There are several other dishes that tickle your taste buds when you try out the local cuisine.

Explored by Columbus in 1502 and by Balboa in 1513, Panama was the principal shipping point to and from South and Central America in colonial days. In 1821, when Central America revolted against Spain, Panama joined Colombia, which had already declared its independence. For the next 82 years, Panama attempted unsuccessfully to break away from Colombia. Between 1850 and 1900 Panama had 40 administrations, 50 riots, 5 attempted secessions, and 13 U.S. interventions. After a U.S. proposal for canal rights over the narrow isthmus was rejected by Colombia, Panama proclaimed its independence with U.S. backing in 1903.There president is Martín Torrijos Herrera

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If you want to get away to a nice forest you can go see the Chagres National Park in Panama. You and you family can enjoy a nice hike.

Almost all the families celebrate Dia de los Tres Reyes Magos. its a national holiday in Panama.

School

Panama has alot of different schools you could go to to learn all kinds of things. They even have its own class for teaching spanish.

some of the natural resources are copper, mahogany forests, shrimp, hydropower

The money in Panama is called a balboa. The currency is 1balboa=$1

Click here for the national anthem:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl3lX1x0PHg

Panama is constitutional democracy.



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Panama's two coastlines are referred to as the Caribbean (or Atlantic) and Pacific, rather than the north and south coasts. To the east is Colombia and to the west Costa Rica. Because of the location and contour of the country, directions expressed in terms of the compass are often surprising. For example, a transit of the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Caribbean involves travel not to the east but to the northwest, and in Panama City the sunrise is to the east over the Pacific.







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This is where Panama is. It's bordering countries are Columbia and Costa Rica.

Hello Welcome to Panama!!!!!!

You will learn about the location, geography, government, money, natural resources, school, family, tourist attractions, history and the food of Panama.

A-almacén

B-Boca

C-Cebra

Ch-chimpancé

D-dinosaurio

E-elefante

F-flor

G-gorila

H- hipopótamo

I- insecto

J- jirafa

K- koala

L-león

LL- llave

M- manzana

N- nido

ñ- ñame

O- oso

P-perro

Q-queso

R-roton

RR- correspondencia

S-sol

T- tortuga

U- uva

V- violín

W- wok

X- xilófono

Y-yak

Z- zanahoria