Favela

preparation for the games, Brazil has evicted over 22,000 people from their residences since 2009 (Douglas). Brazil has the potential to evict 170,000 people before the end of this summer (Romero). The majority of evictions are in Brazil’s local favelas also known as shanty towns. Brazil offers compensation to evicted families or government housing. The government is using the land to build speed bus routes, a waterside olympic park, and other infrastructure. The infrastructure will be used…

1). Lifestyles in large cities like Rio de Janerio are fast. Most jobs for city goers are like bank workers, factory worker, hotel managers, and store owners. Poor Brazilians live in slums called favelas (Hanley par. 34). Brazil’s Congress has a huge board of members. There is an eighty-one Senate and a five hundred thirteen member Chamber of Deputies (Hanley par. 14). Brazil’s local government is formed of the states and the federal government…

I come from a full, born there, Colombian family. My mother and father are both Colombian natives. Although my parents divorced, that did not change what i experienced during my visits. Most, if not all, of my mother’s side of the family currently lives in Colombia. I have had the chance to visit twice in my life. From my visits i can tell you that their culture is much different than the one i am use to here in the United States and, more specifically, Springfield, Massachusetts. Do i like it…

Zika is a very dangerous virus that has affected 4,863 people in Brazil so far. This is an alarming number that will only increase in the challenging years ahead. The amount of Zika cases has shot up rapidly ever since the first case was reported in early 2015. Zika could have a lasting, negative impact on Brazil if the government does not fix the issues causing the virus to spread. Zika spreads rapidly in Brazil because of its limited health care, inadequate education, and substandard living…

seek to create an objective figure from which they can determine the “wealth” an individual possesses, be it material or potential, poverty is often culturally and socially relative. For example, while someone living in a one room apartment in the favelas by themselves might fall under the category of “impoverished”, vis-à-vis others living with dozens of relatives in a similar space that individual is wealthy. Furthermore, as the capability approach tries to address, poverty extends beyond what…

I saw inequality first-hand from the people who lived in Copacabana compared to those who lived in the favelas on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The individuals who were consistently ignored by the government erected neighborhoods on the side of hills. Here there is a lack of safe plumbing, electricity, or mail service. These dichotomous conditions are amplified…

Changes in Gender Roles Changes in Social Structure The United States • Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) fought for women’s rights to vote, obtain professional jobs, participation in public affairs, and formal education in the Seneca Falls convention in New York 1848 • During WWII women entered the work force to replace men who went off to fight and kept their jobs after the war • The Nineteenth Amendment allowed suffrage regardless of sex • African slaves were liberated 1865 in the conclusion…

The Brazilian police force is extremely violent, and corrupt due to inequalities in factors such as, low salaries, and corrupt regulation (Stahlberg, 5). The police forces salaries often result in the members having to outsource, and find other types of work, which are often illegal, and the police will often work as private guards who will accept bribes from drug traffickers to add-on to police salaries, and elevate their personal safety while on duty (Stahlberg, 5). Stahlberg goes on to…

Rio de Janeiro, travel history. Rio de Janeiro is now one of the best known holiday destinations in Southern – America, famous for its carnival and the favela tourism, Rio attracts a lot of domestic and international tourist. A long time before this, Rio de Janeiro already had a travel history. Rio de Janeiro was founded by the Goncalo Coelho in 1502, A Portuguese explorer. He is also the one who gave Rio de Janeiro the name that it still has now. 70 years later, Rio de Janeiro even became the…

tourism where the tourist is taken to meet the community, allowing an direct and in-depth insight into the culture and the day by day of a community, take Rio de Janeiro, for example, where foreigners are taken to the Rocinha, one of the biggest favelas of Latin America, visitors interested in alternatives to mass tourism, will have access to see in firsthand how the local economy and generate impacts on the daily life of the…