Puerto Rico help!!!?

Question

I am doing a project on Puerto Rico and I am having trouble getting interesting facts and things like that. My teacher doesn't like projects that don't have interesting facts so I need stuff that is REALLY interesting. If you know anything, please help. Don't post anything off of wikepedia because it might not be true. Anyone can change the definition. PLEASE help me and I would really appreciate it a LOT!!! Thanks so much.

Answer 1

http://www.topuertorico.org/descrip.shtml
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A municipality (municipio) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. In Puerto Rico, a municipality is a city and the government unit that is the primary legal subdivision; each municipality has an elected mayor. However, the Census Bureau treats the municipio as the statistical equivalent of a county.
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are located between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. These small islands are considered the Galápagos Islands of the Caribbean Sea. No other reef and offshore island habitat within U.S. jurisdiction possesses such ecological uniqueness, invaluable habitat, and biological diversity within such a reduced surface area. For these reasons, Mona and Monito Islands have been recognized by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as a Natural Reserve. The islands are a critical habitat of endangered marine turtles, sea birds and occasional migratory marine mammals.


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Spanish or Castilian (español or castellano) is, like French, Portuguese, Italian, an Iberian Romance language, derived from Latin. Spanish is a phonetic language, words are pronounced exactly as they are spelt.
According to Ethnologue Spanish is the second language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and ahead of English. Spanish is spoken by more than 400 million people worldwide, primarily in Spain and Latin America. Spanish is the official language in 24 countries, with over 323 million native speakers, Puerto Rico accounts for less than 4 million (figure from the 15th Edition of the Ethnologue). With such large geographic expanse the Spanish language has developed many local variations or dialects.
These variations are the result of different regions and countries integration of their local history and culture - creating differences in concepts, usage, idioms and vocabulary; and distinct accents.

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The language was greatly influenced by Puerto Rico's history. Puerto Ricans integrated thousands of Taíno words, adopted some pronunciation habits from African dialects, and incorporated English words or phrases (known as "Spanglish") into the language.

Puerto Ricans can understand Spanish speakers from other countries, while there may be some differences, such differences are not excessive and does not obstruct communication.
Language has been a central issue in Puerto Rican education and culture since 1898. Until 1930 U.S. authorities insisted upon making English the language of instruction in the schools, the intent being to produce English-speaking persons of American culture in the same way this is done in the United States public schools. But strong resistance to the policy finally brought a change to the use of Spanish as the basic school language, English becoming a second language studied by all. In 1991 the Puerto Rican legislature, following the lead of the pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party and the governor, Rafael Hernández Colon, endorsed a bill that made Spanish the island's official language, thus reversing a 1902 law that gave both Spanish and English official recognition. In 1993 the pro-statehood governor, Pedro J. Rossello, signed legislation restoring equal status to Spanish and English.

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When Puerto Ricans want to express their nationality, they say: Soy de aquí como el coquí (I'm as Puerto Rican as a coquí).
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Here is some interesting info about Puerto Rico.
That Puerto Rico is the third country of the world with more physicians
in proportion to its population?

Good Luck!

Answer 2

The people of Puerto Rico are very proud of their Island and their culture, As you may already know we are born as American citizen However we do not embrace becoming the 51st. state yet for the following facts.
If we do become the 51state the following facts may be at RISK.
1) We would lose our Spanish, English would become the national language.
2) we would lose our native music Like ( LA danza) (wawanco)
3)We would lose Our national Anthem (Borinquen)
4)Our beautiful flag will take back stage
5) in the Olympics we would represent U.S. not Puerto Rico our identity will also take back stage or any competition for that matter.
All of our road signs will be changed to English
we would lose touch with our Culture and adopt The American culture. Our Puerto Rican generation will fight until the end before we give up what we have Grown up with and respect

Answer 3

Research the coqui(small tree frog) and the Chupacabra(goatsucker). When I was there I thought it was interesting all the ways they can prepare a banana to eat depending on the type of banana it is. Not many would just eat a yellow one as we do here in the US. Ah, and their fruit, outstanding. Almost everyone has some form of fruit tree or vine in their yard, and if they don't just take a walk there is wild fruit everywhere.

Another thing I thought was interesting was that there was no heating and air conditioning in most of the homes. Not because of the cost but because the weather is so nice it just wasn't needed.

Oh, the iguanas lots of iguanas all sizes from as little as a lizard or as big as 5 feet.

I could go on and on. Maybe not what you were looking for but talking about it made me want to go back and visit.

Answer 4

here are some things hope they help.travel things about the country are good so i sent one of them and foods they eat,cloths,natural wonders ,cultures ,how houses look and how they live are all some ideas,most of the people do a lot of hand work with embroidery ,sewing ,pottery try a buyers guide and show some of that stuff. women don't work like they do here ,check out some culture and social sites ,good luck hope that helps some

Answer 5

uh...they hated West Side Story?