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The Biography of Shakira Introduction Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is a colombian singer and dancer. She was born to a lebanese father and a colombian mother. She has many arab and latin influences in her music due to her different heritages. She also has millions of supporters and fans and continues to do what she does best. Childhood An important part of her dancing started out when she was a child. She was went to eat and when she began to sit down she noticed a belly dancer, without a question she stood up, and started imitating the dance. It sparks in her memory as her yearning for performance while she was still a young child. Young Shakira always had a taste for performing for other kids. She joined her school’s choir but was then kicked out for her significant vibrato. But that never stopped the defiant child, she continued to perform for her fellow school students although she was kicked out of the school choir. Career Shakira would perform in local theaters. Her talent was spotted by one of the producers and gave her a chance to become a star by recommending her to audition for Ciro Vargas. She impressed the talent scouts and won a contract for three albums right after her thirteenth birthday. It sounds amazing that a thirteen year old could accomplish the types of dreams every girl would fantasize about. But, she made her dreams real. Her first two albums did not turn out as well as Shakira hoped for. She claimed that they were poorly produced and designed…

Introduction The Hotel Dann Carlton in Barranquilla faces a new series of challenges because the increase of international and emerging companies have established in the city, that have created the opportunity to another hotels to focus on the potential market on the city. In order to have an advantage over the competition, this report offers recommendations for the Hotel Dann Carlton to improve their weakness and explore new possibilities and to acknowledge their strengths. The information…

columbia played a sport called tejo. People still play this game. Usually on Sundays or feast days Tejo is a game that involves throwing a metal or iron disc from a distance into a box of clay packed with meches (small gunpowder caps). The player who hits the most meches (which explode when hit) wins. This game is generally played by men outside. C. Literature Colombia did not begin to develop a literary tradition until the arrival of the Spanish, and its literature still shows a…

When Shakira shimmied her way onto MTV in 2001 with a steamy video for a slick, cookie-cutter dance-pop song, some people associated the Colombian singer with her American pop-music contemporaries Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. But the stylistic breadth of Shakira's music — elements of folk, Middle Eastern and traditional Latin styles over a foundation of rock and pop — gave her a degree of credibility the American teen queens lacked. What's more, when Shakira broke through in the United…

Children’s Defense Fund, CHOC Children’s, UNICEF, ONE Campaign, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Live Earth, Global Campaign for Education. Also in 27 April 2014 Shakira was honored as the Hero Award at Radio Disney Music Award for her work of Barefoot Foundation. And recently in March 2017, Shakira and Jordi Cardoner – Vice President of FC Barcelona and its foundation has announced the project to build the seventh school for Barefoot Foundation in Colombia, as a part of joint partnership with the “Ia…

Brazil. The capital of Colombia is Bogota, which is a city found in Bogota D.C., Colombia. The Republic of Colombia is the 27th largest country in the world. Overall, Colombia ranks fourth in Latin America. The estimated population of the Colombia is 45,239,079. Spanish is the official language of Colombia. It is spoken with an accent that varies considerably according to region. Colombia is known for its cultural events. One example of an event is Manizales which is a week-long festival…

dramatically all throughout the country of Mexico. During this time of history when “pop” was becoming a thing, other countries in South America were experiencing completely different cultural things. Most of the never seen music of the Spanish speaking countries in South America grew in the Andes Mountains. The music established in the Andes is called “Huayno”, which was a popular thing for the use of flutes. There were other types of instruments used in the region like flutes, rattles, and…

It all started on an Autumn afternoon back in 2012, when my beloved mother told me that she decided that it was best for me, my sister and her to move to U.S.A. Don’t get me wrong, since I was a little girl, I wanted to travel the world, I wanted to experience new things, meet new people, talk different languages. But not at twelve. I wanted to stay in Barranquilla, Colombia; I wanted to stay with my culture, my traditions, my family and everything that I was accustomed to. However I was only…

Introduction of Avianca Airlines Avianca is the Colombian national airline carrier, founded on December 5th, 1919, and is the second oldest airline in the world after KLM airlines. (Timothy, 2013) Avianca is a historical airline created by a group of people from Colombia and Germany and was registered under the name of SCADTA meaning Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transporte Aereo in the city of Barranquilla. (Avianca, 2017b) Transportes Aereos Centroamericanos (TACA) was founded in 1931 in…

third of its manpower – according to the journal El Espectador, from 26,000 combatants in 2002 to 8,000 in 2010. The Colombian military serves as an example to other countries in counterinsurgent warfare. From the economic perspective, Colombia has become a leading economic motor in Latin America, standing as the third largest behind Brazil and Mexico. Moreover, it has led to the creation of blocs of economic cooperation like the Pacific Alliance and the Andean Community, which have promoted…