2a Latin America Intro

A. One website defines interdisciplinarity as: "interdisciplinary studies may be defined as a process of answering a question, solving a problem, or addressing a topic that is too broad or complex to be dealt with adequately by a single discipline or profession."
http://www2.truman.edu/~mseipel/Interdisciplinarity.pdf

Another website defines interdisciplinarity as: "Interdisciplinary refers to research or study that integrates concepts from different disciplines resulting in a synthesised or co-ordinated coherent whole."
http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/glossary/interdisciplinary.htm

B. A website defines Latin America as: "the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. "
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=27284

Another website defines Latin America as: "Latin America can designate all of those countries and territories in the Americas where a Romance language (i.e. languages derived from Latin, and hence the name of the region) is spoken: Spanish, Portuguese, French, and creole languages based upon these.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America#Definition

C. A websites lists the countries: "The 20 republics are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The term Latin America is also used to include Puerto Rico, the French West Indies, and other islands of the West Indies where a Romance tongue is spoken. Occasionally the term is used to include Belize, Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname."
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=27284

D. A website lists the countries of the Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.
http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blrcaribbean.html

E. In a speech by Ricardo Lagos, former preseident of Chile, who was a visiting professor at UC Berekely Center for Latin American Studies(2006) he explains that during the last year all Latin American countries had a reasonable growth rate, if you take the average. All Latin Americac countries with the exception of 2-3 countries are now middle-economy countries and no longer qualify for foreign aid.

F. My opinion as to why my sources are reputable relies upon the reasoning that there is little cntroversy over the information being described. Most of the information received was very consistent between the two different websites which leads to the information being considered more reliable.

G. Trevor and I both are taking this class to finish our humanities requirements. Jessica and I both know Lacey who is the SRJC ladies basketball coach. I have played with Lacey in basketball classes as well as intermurals at the junior college.