2a Latin America Intro

Interdisciplinary Studies
Wikipedia: Interdisciplinary 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. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinary_Studies)

Wikitonary: Of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study. (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interdisciplinary)

Latin America
A geographic and cultural region comprised of 18 Spanish-speaking countries, Brazil, and Haiti, or generally the areas which Spain and Portugal colonized in the Americas.
(http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/resources/terms.html)

All the nations of Central and South America. For the purpose of this report, nations in the Carribean are also included in Latin America.
(www.pubpol.duke.edu/courses/pps255s/2004/t-team-d/glossary.htm)

The Caribbean consists of 24 different countries. They are:

1. Anguilla
2. Antigua and Barbuda
3. Aruba
4. Bahamas
5. Barbados
6. British Virgin Islands
7. Cayman Islands
8. Cuba
9. Dominica
10. Dominican Republic
11. Grenada
12. Guadeloupe
13. Haiti
14. Jamaica
15. Martinique
16. Montserrat
17. Netherlands Antilles
18. Puerto Rico
19. Saint Kitts and Nevis
20. Saint Lucia
21. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
22. Trinidad and Tobago
23. Turks and Caicos Islands
24. U. S. Virgin Islands
(http://www.prettygreatanswers.com/launch/01-08-2006What-countries-make-up-the-Caribbean.htm)

One cool fact that I didn’t know, was that the Caribbean consisted of so many places, some that I have never heard of.

I believe to the best of my knowledge that all of the sources that I have used to provide information for this blog is to the best of my knowledge, up to date and accurate.