I need a hook for the Costa Rica Essay i am writing. Can someone please help me have an interesting hook?

Question

I am writing an essay about Costa Rica.

Its in 1st person;hence i am writing it.

I need a hook that coincides with my topic : costa rica. Please give the source ONLY IF YOU CAN! i don't want to stress you just because of this question. =]

Answer 1

PURA VIDA

That is a much used phrase here.. Means "Pure Life" literally,

to Ticos means  all's good

Answer 2

Costa Rica does not currently have an extradition treaty with the United States.

Answer 3

I would start it with a scenario/visual discrimination or a Costa Rician myth/legend to get the reader intrigued

Answer 4

Please allow me to make a suggestion for you.

Instead of trying to find any particular Book on Costa Rica - why don't you just list the subjects that you would like to include in your essay and put them in the form of a Question on this venue?

That is the purpose of Yahoo Answers - is it not?

And you will get more information than you will be able to use!

VIVA LA PURA VIDA!

Answer 5

Canada Mike Mugged?

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>

> > It's sad but true.  You're getting it right from the horses mouth.  

I got

> > mugged on Friday night at 6:15pm while the police in the form for

la

> > fuerza publica watched and I'm 100 percent sure that they are in on

it.

> > It felt like my windpipe was being severed as 3 a*****e ticos

assaulted

> > me.  Most of all I am pissed off at the police without whose

complicity

> > this couldn't have happened.  They are useless pieces of human

****.

> > Costa Rica has the reputation of being a safe, peacful country but

we all

> > know this is the biggest lie in the travel industry.  This place is

> > dangerous and there is no law enforcement, period.  Some guy

walking down

> > the street in paseo colon on Friday morning at 8:30am was shot in

the neck

> > by thieves who stole his portable computer.  This is one of many

many

> > assaults happening in broad daylight everyday.  On yesterdays front

page

> > of La Nacion the headline read that there's a gun used every 2

hours in an

> > assault.  Like one tourist aptly put it to me.  She said that this

is the

> > most overated place she'd ever been to and you can add that it's  

the most

> > expensive place for what you get but people still keep coming.  

Costa Rica

> > is a ripoff.  They steal the lids off sewers, the bars off bridges,

the

> > soap and toilet seats from fast food restaurants and anything and

> > everything whether they need it or not.  If you come here put a

cork in

> > your *** because they'll steal the **** right out of it if you

don't.

> > Mike