A SUCCESSFUL SINGER: SHAKIRA

Shakira Isabel mebarak Ripoll was born on a wednesday, february 2 - 1977 in Barranquilla (Colombia). Daughter of a respected jeweler of lebanese descent, Don William Mebarak Chadid, and his Colombian wife, Nidia Ripoll Torrado. Shakira, an arabic name derived from the word "Shukram which means "Grace".

When Shakira was a child, Nidia discovered that Shakira had a gift for writing. According to Colombian Columnists, Shakira Knew the Alphabet by the age of eighteen months, at three she knew how to read, and by the time she was four, she was ready for school. In school shakira was sensible and disciplined, but also absentminded. In class she just did not pay attention. she immersed herself in writting lyrics on the back of her notebooks. She wrote her first song at the age of 8 and signed her first record deal at 13. After her first two albums flopped, Shakira took the reins of her third album, becoming involved in every aspect of its production, released in 1996, Pies Descalzos, meaning "bare feet," sold more than three million copies. It sold more than three million copies and the follow-up record, Dónde Están Los Ladrones? (1998) which translates as "Where are the thieves?"

Shakira became a music superstar in the Spanish-language markets, known for her strong vocals and incredible hip-shaking belly dance moves. She moved to Miami with her family to further her goal and taught herself to write songs in English. She enlisted Emilio Estefan of Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine fame to act as her manager and producer.Her first English-language album, Laundry Service (2001), provided Shakira with the success in the United States that she longed for the album was number three on the charts, selling more than 200,000 copies in the first week. The songs "Whenever, Wherever" and "Underneath Your Clothes" were both big hits.

Previously, she had won a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album for 2000's Shakira: MTV Unplugged.

BEACHES CONTAMINATION OF THE CARIBBEAN REGION

The great majority of beaches in the Caribbean Coast is seen very contaminated by remainders like: glasses, plates, plastics bags, cigarettes, bottles, food tins of beer among others. These remainders harm the health of the people who live in these cities, moreover does not allow to the visit of foreigners and tourists to certain beaches.

On the other hand it is important that the community makes cleaning every week to improve the quality of beaches as far as scent and sand. Some times you can to see itself people who bathed in those dirty beaches that soon to appeared infections to them in the ears, the eyes and the skin. What it cannot be is that a Saturday to ten in the morning already they are the sweepings earthenware bottles full; the containers, also; and the beach, done a disaster.

Much people think that in years this no longer will be worth nothing and that what was a paradise will be finished by the dirt. In addition, these places of coast are taken advantage of by the young people to practice their nighttime activities, remote of the police control. There are testimonies of Those who visit these beaches can verify that in the sand already any type of remainder can be found almost.

In conclusion it is sad to see as the inhabitants and tourists destroy beaches with rubbish. it is important that these people learn to take care of, to cultivate and to improve these beaches by the good of all those that visit them.

THE AIRBUS, MORE CHEAP AND PRETTIER THAN THE METER?

ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

40,000 passengers per hour who travel through cables suspended in the air, at a speed of 100 km/h, are reasons to consider to the Airbus between the deck of options for the new system of massive transport of Bogota.

In addition, the mini levels of contamination that this type of vehicle generates due to that he is electrical locate it in the vanguard of the sustainable technology in relation with environment.

For that reason, at this moment in which it is point to open the licitation process to advance to the feasibility studies and layout of the Meter for Bogota the experts and the citizenship must know the options and models other countries.

A system more cheap, basically the Airbus is a cabin to which they are possible to be connected up to twelve modules - high of the ground up to 50 meters through cables connected by towers that have a distance of half kilometer, in average.

This characteristic causes that the city-planning landscape is not invaded by heavy structures visually; moreover it allows that their auditory contamination is low - almost null -. and since its motricidad is electrical does not affect the air.

In conclusion the creation of this Airbus is a facility of transport for all the Colombians, a growth and enormous evolution for ours pais. Although I think that with this great advance, they could be to educate and to concientizar more to the Colombians and to happen to be pais third-world with these great as much technology advances as in the Colombian community.

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