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	ipedia.com: Puerto Rico Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Puerto Rico is part of the Greater Antilles, located to the east of the Dominican Republic and to the west of the Lesser Antilles.
		Puerto Rico's current constitutional arrangements are the result of a treaty signed in 1952, so presumably it could become independent in the same way—a right not possessed by the states of the United States.
		The major differences between Puerto Rico and the states are greater financial autonomy (it levies its own taxes and is exempt from the Internal Revenue Code), its lack of voting representation in either house of the Congress and the ineligibility of Puerto Rican residents to vote in presidential elections.
	www.ipedia.com /puerto_rico.html (2153 words)

	Puerto Rican accents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Puerto Rican accents, both in Spanish and English language, could be described as a reflection of Puerto Rico's culture.
		The Puerto Rican accent is very strikingly similar to the accents used by those from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean basin, including: Cuba and the Dominican Republic and those from the Caribbean regions of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
		The accent of post-first generation Puerto Rican migrants to the U.S. is heavily influenced by their pre-dominantly English-speaking surroundings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Puerto_Rican_accents (957 words)

	Puerto Rico - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Puerto Rico is a self-governing unincorporated organized territory of the United States, in the eastern Caribbean, consisting of the island of Puerto Rico and some smaller islands.
		Puerto Rico is part of the Greater Antilles, located to the east of the Dominican Republic and to the west of the Lesser Antilles.
		The major differences between Puerto Rico and the states are greater financial autonomy (it levies its own taxes and is exempt from the Internal Revenue Code), its lack of voting representation in either house of the Congress and the ineligibility of Puerto Rican residents to vote in presidential elections.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /p/pu/puerto_rico.html (2035 words)

	Puerto Rico Description
		To the west by Haití and the Dominican Republic (La Hispañola), separated by the Mona Passage ("Mona Canal"), to the east by the Virgin Islands, to the north by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Caribbean Sea.
		Puerto Rico is close to the deepest submarine depression in the North Atlantic Ocean.
		The Puerto Rico Trench appears to be part of a complex system of sinistral strike-slip faults in the north Caribbean; the trench seems to have been opened continuously for about 70 million years.
	welcome.topuertorico.org /descrip.shtml (1231 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Puerto Rico is a self-governing unincorporated organized territory of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean.
		Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, is located to the east of the Dominican Republic and to the northwest of the Lesser Antilles.
		Although Puerto Rico does not have representation in the U.S. Electoral College or U.S. Congress, it is permitted a non-voting Resident Commissioner in the U.S. House of Representatives.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Puerto_Rico (1890 words)

	Puerto Rico
		The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico") is a self-governing un-incorporated territory of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean.
		Puerto Rico is the smallest of the Greater Antilles, located to the east of the Dominican Republic and to the commonly called by Puerto Ricans as "La Isla Grande" (the Big Island) and a number of smaller islands- Mona, Vieques and Culebra, of which only Vieques and Isla de Culebra are inhabited.
		Although Puerto Rico does not have representation in the U.S. Electoral College or U.S. Congress, it is permitted a non-voting Resident Commissioner in the U.S. Congress.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Puerto_Rico (2082 words)

	Voices of New York
		The Puerto Ricans of The Bronx do not seem to be discouraged or even affected by the low numbers ever since their arrival to the mainland and they continue to participate in their rich culture despite mainstream America's view that non-English speakers should fully assimilate into American culture.
		Puerto Rican culture, in and of itself, is one of diversity and sometimes one of seclusion.
		Puerto Ricans are not always concerned with educational sectors of their communities; they leave this medium to the Board of Education.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/blake.map2001/puertorico.html (2807 words)

	Current Work: 2005, mural history of the puerto rican people, how puerto ricans became us citizens, community mural, ...
		The rest of the group were third generation Puerto Rican-Americans; they had little or no knowledge of Puerto Rican history or how their parents and grand parents ended up living in the United States mainland.
		The fact that Puerto Ricans are the only Hispanic group "forced" to become citizens of the United States is not known by most Americans (or younger Puerto Ricans).
		Puerto Ricans come in every colour of the spectrum since we are descendants of three very distinct groups: the European, the Native American, and the African.
	www.muralmaster.org /current/curr05/Mural_History_of_the_Puerto_Rican_people.html (1706 words)

	arthritis pain relief - Puerto Rico
		Puerto Rico is composed of Cretaceous to Eocene volcanic and plutonic rocks, which are overlain by younger Oligocene to recent carbonates and other sedimentary rocks.
		A non-voting Resident Commissioner is elected by the residents of Puerto Rico to the U.S. Congress.
		Puerto Rico is said to comprise a White majority, an extinct Amerindian population, persons of mixed ancestry, Africans and a small Asian minority.
	www.painreliefchat.com /arthritis-pain-relief/Puerto_Rico (2265 words)

	"Cultural Life," from Puerto Rico: A Guide to the Island of Boriquén
		Puerto Rico owes the preservation of much of its literature to journalism, as the Island has had few facilities for the printing of books, and writers have often depended on newspapers for the publication of their works.
		Puerto Rican painting can hardly be said to have existed before José Campeche (1752-1809), the son of a San Juan gilder and decorator.
		At the Third Exhibition of Puerto Rican Art in 1933, the Bouret gold medal for the best work of a native artist was awarded to Miguel Pou for a group consisting of three nude studies in sanguine and three portraits in oil.
	newdeal.feri.org /pr/pr03.htm (8344 words)

	When I Was Puerto Rican
		She sees the beauty as well as the poverty in the Puerto Rican countryside where she spent her childhood, and she writes of her hardworking mother, her errant, romantic father, and their wrenching love-hate relationship, with pain but without judgment.
		Santiago's chronicle of her Puerto Rican childhood and her family's move to the alien and frightening new world of New York City is a unique story of the survival of a strong individual, but it also gives insight into the lives of thousands of immigrants to this country.
		Certain contradictions in Puerto Rican culture are symbolized by the juxtaposition in Santurce of the Evangelical church and the botanica.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/puerto (1071 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| American Collection \| Almost a Woman \| Essays + Interviews \| Puerto Ricans in America
		The feeling is that Spanish should be audible and visible wherever Puerto Rican culture exists, an attitude that connects to both observed language use and the postulated life cycle of language competence....
		Puerto Ricans also want to learn English; for most, a person who is more fluent in English than in Spanish is neither a paradox nor an anomaly, much less a case of deliberate or unwitting cultural betrayal.
		I close with a reflection on the Puerto Rican experience, not just because of my own self-interest, but also because it may help enlighten others for whom the questions of belonging, identity, and fitting in are so central.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/woman/ei_puertoricans_nieto.html (1919 words)

	96.04.01: Contemporary Mexican and Puerto Rican Immigration
		In 1869, Puerto Rico became a province of Spain and in 1875 slavery was abolished on the island.
		Puerto Ricans were not American citizens and their governor was appointed by the US government and Congress.
		Puerto Ricans were granted US citizenship but they could not vote for president.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/4/96.04.01.x.html (4226 words)

	Celebrate Hispanic Heritage! Hispanic History in the Americas
		Puerto Ricans begin settling in New York's East Harlem.
		In a protest aimed at raising awareness of the needs of the Puerto Rican community, the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican student activist group, shut down the City College of New York, East Harlem People's Church, and Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx.
		Their activities help establish Puerto Rican studies departments in universities and lead to the creation of other Puerto Rican activist groups.
	teacher.scholastic.com /activities/hispanic/nyhistory.htm (400 words)

	...La Pena ...Berkeley: Bay Area Puerto Ricans bring bomba to La Peña
		Carrillo was weaned on bomba and plena, a Puerto Rican style, characterized by topical lyrics, that arose after bomba, when freed slaves moved into urban areas.
		Shah, who hails from an Indian family that settled in Puerto Rico in the late 1960s, remembers hearing bomba while growing up, but like Lugo she didn't get involved in the art form until she moved to the East Bay to attend UC Berkeley in 1994.
		As a member of the Bay Area Boricua organization, she helped organize a Puerto Rican contingent that participated in the 2000 Carnaval San Francisco, another watershed that eventually led to her teaching dance at La Peña, where she, Carrillo and Lugo have taught a bomba workshop on Sundays for the past four years.
	www.lapena.org /index.php?s=45 (1230 words)

	Puerto Rico \| Latin America \| VivirLatino
		A 48 year old Puerto Rican activist, Alberto de Jesus aka Tito Kayak, who made himself especially known protesting the U.S. Navy presence on Vieques, is currently under house arrest in Israel after he climbed a tower near Israel's West...
		Puerto Rican women have always been at the forefront of activism around issues concerning their patria.
		La flaca mas bella del Universo aka Puerto Rican Zuleyka Rivera is using the power of her crown to represent the Latino community for a very worthy cause.
	vivirlatino.com /topics/latin-america/puerto-rico (895 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Profile: Rita Moreno
		She has proved that Hispanic performers are not limited to "ethnic" roles, and in the process she became the only female artist ever to win the four major entertainment awards: the Oscar, the Tony, the Grammy, and the Emmy.
		The Puerto Rican characters in West Side Story are dark foreigners with heavy accents, living in violence and poverty.
		Many Puerto Ricans abhor this representation and resent that the success of the film has perpetuated such stereotypes among the general American public.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/vol4n32/ProfileMoreno-en.html (1122 words)

	Eastern Bandidios: Hollywood's Representation of Puerto Ricans and Other East Coast Latin@s
		In the article, "From Assimilation to Annihilation: Puerto Ricans Images in U.S Films," Richie Pérez writes, "By 1946, considerable "official" attention was being devoted to "juvenile delinquency" and the "social decay" that many officials blamed for the increase of youth crime and challenging of authority.
		These Puerto Ricans and Cubans became the Urban Bandidos of the East which were associated with violence, crimes, drugs and sex.
		The film emphasizes on how Puerto Ricans are the ones that are violent because they are the ones that will want to fight with weapons.
	www.trincoll.edu /~sramos/bandidos.htm (1093 words)

	Free Press News : Printable Format
		Citing “cultural insensitivity” and failure to live up to required local broadcast standards, an alliance of Puerto Rican media unions and community groups is urging the Federal Communications Commission to deny license renewal to the island’s largest television station, WLII in San Juan, which is operated by U.S. media conglomerate Univision.
		Puerto Rican programming has dropped from about 50 programs a week down to only three since Univision took over in 2002 under a local marketing agreement with station owner Raycom Media.
		Puerto Rican actors have lost their jobs because Univision considers their accents “too Puerto Rican,” clashing with the “internationalized” accents of the network’s programming that chiefly is directed at people who speak “Chicano or Mexican Spanish,” APAGA stated.
	www.freepress.net /news/print.php?id=6069 (514 words)

	Breaking the Sound Barrier - New York Times
		But while Spanish and other foreign accents are familiar in entertainment and politics (think Antonio Banderas and Arnold Schwarzenegger), network television news shows are bastions of the broadcastspeak that makes most anchors and reporters sound as if they had been hatched in the same linguistic incubator.
		People with accents say they are often ridiculed or not taken seriously outside of their social circle.
		There’s the Spanish accent of Mexican-born Cesar Millan, the “Dog Whisperer” on the National Geographic Channel, the German inflection of Heidi Klum on “Project Runway” on Bravo and the Georgia twang of Nancy Grace on CNN.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/07/23/fashion/sundaystyles/23accents.html?ex=1311307200&en=62ed3a581b3c480f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (890 words)

	Dialect Accent Specialists, Inc. \| Accent & Dialect Learning
		WARNING: DANISH accents are not at all similar to Norwegian and Swedish.
		Centers on different intensities of accents for characters from Germany--not dialects from Austria or Switzerland, which are very different and not taught on this tape.
		The accent of native-born Israelis (as opposed to the accent of Yiddish-speaking, Eastern-European Jews).
	www.dialectaccentspecialists.com /whichtape.shtml (1534 words)

	From Caribbean hip-hop to Puerto Rican lament / 1998/1 / Archive / Media Development / Publications / Home - World ...
		As a Caribbean working in the media in Puerto Rico, I relive the history of our peoples: I hear the echo of their forms of communication across the centuries, their rights, their styles of expression, their accents, their silence, their brave struggle against the powerful.
		Many Puerto Rican Blacks, men and women, suffer racial harassment at work, in the street, and in their own families.
		They do not recognise their contribution to Puerto Rican society and to the country's vision as the 21st century approaches.
	www.wacc.org.uk /wacc/publications/media_development/archive/1998_1/from_caribbean_hip_hop_to_puerto_rican_lament (1262 words)

	Amanda Harmon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Her family’s transitions within Puerto Rico and to New York provide a tremendous impact upon the young girl’s examination of the meaning of home and the formation of her identity.
		The Puerto Rican jíbara who longed for the green quiet of a tropical afternoon was to become a hybrid who would never forgive the uprooting" (Santiago 209).
		Dreaming in Cuban shares a significant bond with When I Was Puerto Rican and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents; this takes shape in the expression of loss as the primary communication of memory throughout the lives of the Latinas within each text.
	www.unc.edu /courses/pre2000fall/hnrs030/harmon.html (7264 words)

	JIBAROS.COM... a Remarkable Puerto Rican Website on the Internet!
		Puerto Rican Fairy is not necessarily a human with an alternate life style.
		A Puerto Rican Fairy is a creature, in various ways fashioned by its Creator and endowed with powers, that's been dwelling the deep Puerto Rican meadows and forests since the beginning of time...
		As Puerto Ricans we are, of course, included iool of confusion and struggle in a psychological hand-to-hand combat with our peers.
	www.jibaros.com /index.html (1952 words)

	Accents: Northeast Ohio's Identity Crisis?
		Spanish is spoken in their homes; their families are likely Puerto Rican or Mexican, drawn to the United States by Hispanic friends or family members who settled here previously to work in the steel mill.
		Puerto Rican-born, he's lived in Lorain nearly all of his life.
		So they recruited them, I think a total of 500, they went to Puerto Rico and brought them out here to work the mills and that's how this community started.
	www.wcpn.org /accents/features/1204bilingual-1.html (934 words)

	What is a Puerto Rican American? at Culture, Psychology and Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Puerto Ricans very often find themselves explaining things which are taken for granted by other Americans.
		One quandary we face is that Puerto Rico is part of the United States, but not mainland USA, so when we move from the islands to the mainland we cannot say that we moved to the US, since we were already there to begin with.
		Most of the over three million Puerto Rican Americans in the fifty states are here for good and are part of the growing Latino population that is becoming the largest US “minority.” Many of the four million on the Island will eventually move to the mainland as well.
	www.johnnycpr.com /?p=29 (1238 words)

	Traditional Circle Game from Puerto Rico (Lesson Plan) - TeacherVision.com
		For a classroom situation, a small jump or gesture should be enough to accent the normally unstressed second beat and corresponding syllable in the fourth measure while continuing the flow of the song.
		Repeat until the children have enough familiarity with the music to jump on the accent and not before or after.
		Begin combining the steps by having the children stay in their place, step to the beat, and jump on the accent while you sing.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /puerto-rico/lesson-plan/6753.html (1150 words)

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