Brazil

business from the United States to Brazil, even though it is still in the Americas, I would have to think about laws, public, marketing, economy, government, the country’s beliefs, currency, etc. To start with, I would have to adapt my public, since the economy in Brazil is not as strong and the medium / low class is predominant, differently from the U.S. On the other hand, I would not have to adapt the company on the religious side, because even though Brazil is a Catholic country, religion…

historical landmark for Brazil, and all of female politics because she is the first female President of Brazil. Rouseff identifies with the Workers Party of Brazil, which is classified as a left-winged party. Dilma Rouseff has been repeatedly stated in Forbes most powerful women in the world, including the year 2015 (Forbes). She has been detrimental to women’s rights through a national and global scale with her representation of gender issues and issuing significant legislation to Brazil.…

us perceive Brazil as the country of Carnival, nice sandy beaches and sunshine - on the surface, Brazil is a country which enjoys religious peace. Or does it? What most people don't know - and up to a point, the international media too - is the raise of religious fundamentalism in Brazil in the last 15 years or so -the last place on Earth one could associate with that. To understand a bit what's been happening, let me tell you a little about the country's religious history: Brazil is still a…

means the income gaps between the groups with different educational backgrounds will most likely be big. An increase in economic returns to education might therefore result in an increase in income inequality, and vice versa. In terms of inequality, Brazil is an interesting case, as in 1989 it was still ranked 2nd on the world inequality rank, whereas in 2004 they were ranked 10th. Brazil’s inequality has been fluctuating a lot. Its Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality, rose from…

I. Introduction In Brazil, extreme wealth inequality has persisted since the arrival of Portuguese colonizers and the highly stratified race and class-based society they created. The nation’s role as an exporter of natural resources and agricultural goods – such as sugar, coffee, rubber, and diamonds – in the international economy has only exacerbated inequality by preventing economic diversification and failing to absorb a large labor force. Its transitions between different economic…

This summer, I was meeting my family in Brazil for the first time. All the expectations and stories were soon to be lived up to or shattered. We were cooking dinner at my aunt’s house. Well, at least she was because she didn’t want me to help. I was the guest. The tiny one person kitchen was filling up as every one of my cousins came over to talk, to help out, and to get to know me. My aunt was stirring the stew in the huge metal pot, which held all the food for the family. Directly behind the…

and darker narrative; although an ongoing festival, Carnival is a remnant of the immoral and unjust system of colonialism. The Portuguese, one of the pioneers of globalization, first arrived in Brazil in 1500, and what followed is one of the largest stains on humanity. Economic exploitation based on brazil-wood, sugar production, and gold and diamond mining was fueled by inhumane slave labor. Not only did the European conquistadors begin the largest transoceanic migration in pre-Industrial…

As a result, these informal communities situated near urban centers developed and would greatly expand in size and population over the years.Today's modern growth of the favelas is attributed to the influx of migrants from the poorer rural areas of Brazil seeking improved…

The day started the same as any other. The sun was hot, it must have been almost 100 degrees, which isn’t out of the ordinary for Brasil, but on this particular day the heat seemed as though if you threw an egg on the street it would fry right on the pavement. I took my usual route through Bento Rodrigues to get to work. Stopping at the corner store by the farm to get my favorite candy before going to work on the docks. I had stopped there every day for the past seven years before work, it was…

master. Every colony in Latin America would eventually tire of being exploited, and would begin to revolt slowly relating to each other rather than their ancestry. One of the outliers in this process was Brazil, who experienced a much different road to independence. Portugal’s settlement of Brazil was different from the beginning, it had been settled slowly and Portugal was nowhere near the force that countries like Spain were at the time. Portugal was limited financially, had a much smaller…