Brazil

In Brazil, the use of social media is increasing and has transformed the way that citizens address social issues, access and share information, and interact with others. In this literature review, I am going to use the ideas of Bastos (2014), Horst (2011) and Margetts (2016) to examine the extent to which social media has influenced political communication, activism, society, and culture. The first article looks at the relationship between political discussions on social media and offline…

that makes me different from others. One thing that makes me stand out is that I actively look for new experiences and challenge myself. Going to Brazil was the biggest challenge. It’s still vivid in my memory when my dad told me that we were going to Brazil, and my reaction was like a bolt from the blue. I didn’t even know there is a country named Brazil. At first, everything was strange and weird because we spoke totally different language than Brazilian do. While I lived there, I met friends…

year-and-a-half I've been studying in my home country of Brazil, but originally I studied for 8 years in the US (from 4th grade in elementary school to junior year in high school) until my mother (my only biological parent that lived with me in the US) passed away from lung cancer. This disaster left me in a very difficult position. My mother was never technically married, so my only possible choice was to drop everything in the US and to return here (Brazil). Now, in my last year of high…

Garibaldi Fernandez, it was revealed that 74% of the Brazilians do not have faith in the judiciary. The Issues include the following: 5.1 Judicial Delay Judicial Delay is a major problem in Judicial system in brazil. On an average, it takes about 5 years for a law suit to be decided in Brazil. Some of the cases are pending since 1940s. Such Excessive delay leads to injustice. The main reason behind…

Mozambican cultures that we studied this semester, specifically spiritist healing in Brazil and “traditional” healing in Northern Mozambique. Spiritist healing treats a “perispirit” which causes changes in the physical body of the patient (Lynch 2005: 14). “Traditional” healing involves a medium using their “indigenous knowledge” to decide how to treat their patients (West 2006: 23). The main symbol for spiritist healing in Brazil is Dr. Fritz. Dr. Fritz is a German doctor whose spirit…

occurs worldwide and already permeates all social classes. This type of violence in Brazil, until recently, was treated as a trivial and insignificant problem. Consequently, several were types of violence committed by men against women with whom they often have emotional or living bond, ranging from a simple injury, considered against honor, to get to the murder, typified in the Penal Code as crime against life (BRAZIL, 1940). Soares (2009) defines the problem with the term violence against…

have to learn to adjust their products or services to the culture of the country where they are going to operate. Failing to do so may lead to business stagnation expansion or worse, lost the market to competitors. The failure of Campbell’s Soup in Brazil is an example for this. Although…

For instance, in Brazil and India the high poverty, unemployment and prostitution rates contribute to the nation’s huge exploitation problem. Brazil’s long-time problem of human sex trafficking has seen an outstanding rise in the past years, with Brazil’s poor economy, many women and children are being forced or given away to help their families, many of whom are trafficked to other countries to work as sex slaves (Shelley, 2010). Because prostitution is a large problem in Brazil, which is…

During the year of 2013, Brazil was in a place of political turmoil; after years of getting the short end of the stick thanks to an overall incompetence of a corrupt government, a bus fare increase was the tipping point of a much greater development. After a short time and without bringing about revolution, however, the crowds grew quiet again. Why couldn’t we achieve anything? Our people’s claims fell on deaf ears. Couldn’t we have tried harder, louder, more insistently? I believe the apathy…

The operation called car wash (lava jato) is the biggest investigation on corruption and money laundering in Brazil. The name comes from the use of gas stations and car washs to move illicit resources in one of the criminal organizations initially investigated. The judge of the first instance responsible for the operation is called Sergio Moro; he is a Federal judge, writer and college professor, and he is considered a brave, effective and very well qualified judge. Even though the operation car…