Politics of Brazil

to the people and industries of Brazil, the main target will be to concentrate on two specific areas; the hotel industry and the middle to upper class home owners. As of the last two to three years, home owners have had an increasing disposable income and special governmental programs such as “Minha Casa Minha Vida” (“My House, My Life”) which has helped them increase their standard of living. Because of this, home ownership has increased rapidly in Brazil with a large number of…

2010; Richey et al., 1986). Located between latitudes 5°N and 20°S and between longitudes 50°W and 80°W, the Amazon basin covers 4/10 of South America and 5% of the worldwide continents. It is spread over several countries: 63% of the total area is in Brazil, 16% in Peru, 12% in Bolivia, 5,6% in Colombia, 2,3% in Equateur, 0,6% in Venezuela and 0,2% in French Guyana (Goulding et al.,…

Contributing to existing scholarship does not always mean forging a new or innovative methodology. Sometimes a book can be a worthwhile read and follow the structure of earlier works. It is in this manner that readers will most appreciate Timothy Silver’s A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, colonists, and slaves in South Atlantic forests. The author quickly acknowledges his appreciation for two earlier works in environmental history that inspired this book, Alfred W. Crosby Jr.’s The…

country. However, despite its success, Sertenajo is still seen as a lower musical style. Data collection The music web portal Letras.mus.br is the source of this corpus. As advertised in the portal, “Letras.mus.br is the most visited lyrics website in Brazil. It 's been online since 2003 and today has more than 2 million lyrics from all styles of music, news, awards, plugins and more.” The portal also offers Top 1000s for different musical styles, including the three styles analyzed in this…

River to the Brazilian Highlands is known as Brazil (Central Intelligence Agency). Northern Brazil is dominated by the basin of the Amazon River, which occupies two thirds of the county, whereas southern Brazil has a large plateau called Brazilian Highlands which is 300-910m. above sea-level. Due to the country being 3.288 million mi², its climate varies from the northern part of the country to the southern part. According to The World Factbook on Brazil near the basin of the Amazon River the…

Project was a scheme to pave an already existing 1,500 kilometer dirt track, the BR-364, from the overpopulated south-central area of Brazil into the more sparsely populated Amazon, in order to encourage resettlement and develop the Amazonian area as an agricultural development. The word “Polonoroeste” means “North-East Pole” and refers to the north-east area of Brazil, incorporating the states of Rondonia and Mato Grasso. Other aims of the scheme were to develop the road system at the end of…

adventures themselves, sailing around the globe. They hoped to find places, colonies, that they could use as means to sustain themselves, whether by exchanging goods, like they did with India, or by carelessly exploring the resources, like they did to Brazil. The creation of colonies led European nations to accumulate wealth on the expenses of the countries they were exploiting. But when independence movements started erupting around colonies, a different, yet similar systems was implemented,…

documentary, “The Salt of the Earth,” Juliano Salgado gives the audience a look into the life and career of his father, Sebastiao Salgado, a successful photographer. Sebastiao Salgado began his career as an economist who traveled to countries bordering Brazil. While traveling, he studied different societies and the nature that provided the basic needs for these societies. He would take photographs of the people and their ecosystem to give insight into their life which led him to pursue his…

largest and most biodiverse tropical forests’ in the world is the Amazon, covering an area of 5.5 million square kilometers and shared by nine countries. Brazil holds the majority of it, over 60%. It also, according to most estimates, holds the fastest deforestation rate in the world. INPE, the Brazilian national institute for space…

Brazil Among the various regions in South America, Brazil is widely known for what is considered the biggest carnival in the world. With a whopping two million people per day in attendance. Everyone may know of the famous carnival, thanks to the vibrant and exciting Blue Sky Studio’s movie Rio that was centered around the carnival festivities. The upbeat film inspired me to want to dig deeper and find a connection that speaks to me as a culinarian in the heart of Brazil. Carnival is thought of…