Sunday, March 27, 2011

Webquest La Republica Dominicana


Post a summary of your findings as a comment to this post! Remember to include your group members names.


Here are some resources to get you started:


Dominican Republic: http://dominicanrepublic.com/index.php 
Google Search Engine: www.google.com
The CIA World Factbook: www.cia.gov
Infoplease: www.infoplease.com/
FactMonster: www.factmonster.com
Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org
US State Department: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1103.html 
Immigration: http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Bu-Dr/Dominican-Americans.html
Geography: http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/dominican-republic-guide/

9 comments:

  1. Adrian, Tiana, Mishael, Michael: The geography Of La Republica Dominica Is That It Is Bordered By Haiti & shares island of hispaniola.It has a mountain range with a valley field. It also has High Temperatures all year round

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  2. me marvin tasha & shiniqua leanred that baseball was the first popular sport in the dominicana rupublic. also basketball was the second pouplar sport.Some famouse dominican baseball players are George Bell , Sammy Socaa , Miguel Teejada , Alex Rodriguez , Vladimir Guerro . These players played in great team that are well known thoughout the world , Teams like White Sox , Texas Strangers , Seattle Mariners and even the Baltimore Orioles . They had a long time becoming what they are now . Hard work and dedication earn them the spot in Baseball history .

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  3. Renetla,Ryan,Shameika and Ummahani

    Some famous Dominican are Marlasela Alvarez, Denny Merdez, Ruth voumarez, Amelia veq,Claudla cruz and Renatn Sone.The popllar dance for Dominican Repiblic is called the merengue.The popular musice in the Dominican repubilic us called vmegry and Bachah.Dominincan made musice rapper Papi Sanchez,Alexy Eury and Jimmy Flavor.Papi picture website.
    http://fgshow.com/live-radio/upload/Toplive/Papi-Sanchez.jpg
    Jimmy picture website
    http://www.tradebit.com/usr/djmixtapez/pub/9001/Jimmy-Flavorr-Welcome-To-My-Block.jpg

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  4. Marcus Harewood, Isiah Reeder, Niasia Lawrence, Akim Wartin.

    Rafael Trujillo was the 36th president of the Dominican Republic. After he won the election against Huracio Vasquez, he established the secret police force that tortured and murdered the opposition to his rule. The current president of the Dominican Republic is Leonel Fernandez. He has been in office since August 16, 2004 and is the 52nd president.

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  5. anika khan michael knight
    the dominicana republica shares the island of the hisponnila with the nations of hati. it has aproximately 5.5 million people.lies in the middle of the hurrican belt and subject to severe storms from june to october.the climate temperature variations in the rainfall.

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  6. shalanda n alissa
    during our research,we discovered why dominicans left Dominican republic and headed to the United States.

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  7. Stephanie G, Ade I, Gayvell T. The most popular sport in Republica Dominicana is baseball. Some famous players from D.R. are Jose Reyes, Sammy Sosa, and Alex Rodriguez.

    for other famous baseball players go here:
    http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/birthplace.php?loc=Dominican%20Republic

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  8. Ederle,otis,mikami. some of the famous Dominican artists/painters are Jamime Colson-born dominican republic, modern painter. Aurelio grisanly-Dominican born american painter,graphic artist etc and Paul givdicevi.the language and religion in Dominica is Spanish and mostly roman catholic and the secondary language is English

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  9. sra ward, sr gordon, sr steinke, sr floyd

    we found that the most famous baseball player is....

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