HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH

FACTS ON HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH!!

• We celebrate it from September 15 to October 15.
• Christopher Columbus created this but Lyndon Johnson approved it.
• We celebrate people that come from Spain,carribean, Mexico.
• We celebrate because it the independence of 5 Latin American countries.
• There are 7 countries paying tribute to hispanic heritage month.

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JUANA DE IBARBOUROU

• She was born march 8 1892.
• She was born in Melo, Uruguay.
• Her husband was Lucas Ibarbourou.
• She had a son named Julio Cesar.
• He was born 1917.

JUANA DE IBARBOUROU (CONT.)

• She married lucas Ibarbourou in June 28 1913.
• She just had a civil ceremony.
• She then moved to Montevideo, Uruguay.
• She got married again but had a religious ceremony.
• She had a religious ceremony on June 28 1921.

JUANA DE IBARBOUROU (CONT.)

• Her husband died January 13 1942.
• She then died July 15 1979.

ACHIEVMENTS

• Juana wrote poems.
• La Higuara, Como la Primavera, and la Cita.
• La Higuara is about a pear tree that is better then the other trees.
• Como la primavera is when she says authenticity is more attractive.

PEOPLE THAT ADMIRED HER.!

• She wasnt really known back then.
• She was born in a small village
• She didnt have anything/anyone to share her thought with.

SHE WAS ADMIRED BECAUSE....

• She was admired because she expressed her feelings
• She was so honest and put so much emotion in her poems.
• She talked about herself in her poems.
• She also connected herself to life objects.

MORE IMPORTANT FACTS.!.!!

• Vicente Fernandez and Valentina del pilar were her parents.
• Her nickname was Juana de America.
• Her real name is Juana Fernandez before marriage.
• When she was 17 she published a prose piece.
• They say her birth day was in 1895 but 2 witnesses say she born in 1892.