Peligro Essays

‘La Nena’ (little girl) is the nickname that she carries around the world since she entered adolescence. However, even if she is still young and girl-like, Dominique ‘Dom’ Pinto moves around the music scene like a seasoned actress. Her experience is enviable and she can easily be described as a “musician of the world”. She was born in Porto Alegre, but couldn’t settle too much in the South Brazilian city, because she moved to Paris with her parents when she was little more than 8. Then, when se

On February 2, 1977, a Latina musical phenomenon was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her Colombian-born mother and Lebanese-American father named her Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll. The name Shakira originates from Arabic, meaning “grateful”. With parents as racially diverse as hers it’s no surprise that she’s fluent in Spanish, Italian, English, and even Portuguese. Later these cultures would come to influence her music. “Barranquilla is the big breast that fed and nurtured me as a human being, a

CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Family is a group of people that consist of parents, children and their relatives. Our parent’s role is to take care of us, to teach us good manners, to give our needs and wants. They are considered as our first teachers that can teach us until we grow up, but because of lack of money they need to make a difficult decision to go work on abroad and give or provide their family needs. And that’s why we need to understand it; it’s