Brazil

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…

The Amazon River, for which the Rainforest was named for, begins in the Peruvian Andes and expands over the northern half of South America. The river is approximately 4,080 miles long, and lies in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, and the Guyanas. Almost thirty billion gallons of water travel to the Atlantic Ocean every minute (Blue Planet Biomes, 2003). True to its name, the rainforest receives about nine feet of rain per year…

Erika Robb Larkins’ ethnography entitled The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil documents Larkins time spent doing fieldwork for her dissertation in Brazil’s largest favela Rocinha from 2008-2010. The book discusses themes of drug trafficker control within Rocinha and other favelas, the concept of spectacular violence, as well as the commodification of the trafficker image by Brazilian and foreign outsiders. Larkins dissects the role that violent spectacle plays in the everyday lives…

Venezuela, located at 6.4238 degrees north and 66.589 degrees west is a South American country located in the northern region of the continent bordering countries such as Guyana, Brazil, Colombia and the Southern Caribbean Sea. The Country is known worldwide as a main exporter of millions of precious amount of petroleum oil. Venezuela comprises a continental mainland that also consists of numerous islands in the Caribbean Sea, such as Margarita Island which is the best known of these islands.…

Sao Paulo, a megacity located on the south-eastern Brazil has been facing an ongoing drought since February 2015 which has been said to be the worst drought the region has been facing in more than 80 years. Although Brazil contains 12% of world’s water, it has been suffering from a drought that has affected a large amount of people all around Sao Paulo and later Rio de Janerio followed by other regions of the country. The reason behind the drought occurring are understood from the anthropogenic…

Uruguay is located in South America, east of Argentina and south of Brazil. It is the second smallest country in Latin America. Uruguay gained its independence from Portugal on August 25, 1825 after it seized the 33 Orientals led by Juan Artino. Uruguay is known for the foods it produces such as cattle meat, fresh cow milk, and paddy rice. Some traditional dishes are Asado con cuero, Empanadas and Milanesa. My paper will demonstrate how Uruguay’s colonial history has become a cultural melting…

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…

democracy. A survey by the Global Agenda in 2014 asked “What are the biggest challenges facing Latin America in 2015?”. The number one answer given by Latin American citizens was corruption. The greatest example of corruption in the region can be seen in Brazil. The Petrobras scandal, uncovered in 2013, of the state run oil company revealed that more than $5.3 billion was illegally allocated to various business and political leaders. The Petrobras scandal, along with the accusation against…

Since the Amazon covers many portions of Brazil, this gives loggers and other farmers a great opportunity to destroy the forest in order to benefit themselves. There are industries that strongly believe they are not hurting the forests of the Amazon based on their actions against nature. Unfortunately, there are issues going on that are caused by the same people who destroy the forest, and it leaves negative results one of many affecting people in brazil. Nearby residents may have a problem, but…

on an almost daily basis, it is often important to reflect on the circumstances of the past as they continue to shape events occurring today. The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. Tomlinson can offer the reader an insightful glimpse into the history of Brazil through the lense of fiction, as though peering through the lush foliage of the Amazon rain forest and happening upon the events of an entirely different era of travel and communication, before the advent of a world connected by a global network…