City of God

Dancing with the Devil in the City of God by Juliana Barbossa is a deeply written biography of the chaos and trauma that occurred in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Juliana is a Brazilian-native but traveled frequently to Iraq, Malta, Libya, Spain, France, and the United States. She returned to her home city, Rio de Janeiro after over two entire decades. She is an award winning author who received her bachelor's degrees in Spanish Literature and Journalism from The University of Texas and master's…

involves visiting urban area characterized by poverty, squalor and violence” (Dürr 113). This form tourism is a recent phenomenon and scholars have been debating on whether it helps or hinder the slums as a whole. The definition of slum varies from city to city, and country to country. Also, the quality of life, the safety, vibrancy of the local economy and legitimacy of it actually existing all differ from slum to slum. In Rio the slums are called a favela, and in Johannesburg they are called a…

than pay a meager wage to those who labor for these companies. The systems that are put in place by forced democracy are meant to keep separation between the rich and the poor. Three movies that depict how these systems work, or don’t work, are City of God, Even the Rain, and Trinkets and Beads. These movies have commonalities that the people of Latin America deal with day to day like loyalty, poverty, drug trafficking, slums, and exploitation of the indigenous people.…

In the scene “Thirst to Kill” from City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund, 2002) we get a glance into Li’l Ze’s horrific childhood and witness how he developed and satisfied his desire to kill. The film faultlessly captures his desperate hunger for power and thirst to kill with the use of lighting, editing, sound, mise-en-scene, and cinematography to implicitly suggest that Li’l Ze’s lack of positive influences, lack of basic necessities, and lack of respect as a child ultimately skewed…

Brett Krosschell Scene Analyze Paper 5/10/2016 In the movie, “City of God: Want a Gun?” we see this event could be the climax of the story as it is the key turning point for how the hood is being run. A result of this scene is the major war that Li’l Z’ starts in his backyard without even seeing it coming. The scene only builds more and more suspense through the entire duration of the scene for what might happen next. In “City of God: Want a gun?” directed by Fernando Meirellese and Katia…

“God is in the City” by Shawn Casselberry is a truly interesting book which details the author's move from rural Kentucky to the south side of Chicago. His immersion and growing understanding of the city is told in a series of anecdotes taken from events that happened to him while he lived and worked there. This book was of particular interest to me in my Cross Cultural Experience because we spent time in the neighborhoods and areas detailed by Casselberry in his book while we partnered with the…

Timothy Fosbury 9 June 2016 Gender, Sexuality and Family In City of God by Gil Cuadros and The Rain God by Arturo Islas, there is a constant clash between identity and the gender roles one has always been expected to fulfill in the Chicana/Chicano household. The narrator in City of God throughout the book is at different stages of his life and through these stages one can see his journey of acceptance of who he is. Whereas, in Rain God, one of the protagonist through the use of gender role…

How Gender and/or Sexuality challenge Chicana and Chicano identity The Main Character in Gil Cuadros City of God, does not clearly state his name. In “Indulgences” the main character is the only non-adult sitting at the table when someone says “Eat Gilberto, eat” which is a statement usually associated between an adult and child. Asking Gilberto to eat is similar to parent saying, ‘eat before you go out to play’ and because Gilberto is the youngest at the table it seems appropriate and most…

the Ancient World 22 February, 2016 Religion in the Ancient Egyptian City of Thebes Religion and ritual practices played a big role in the process of urbanization in ancient times. A major source of evidence of urbanization in Ancient Egypt is the city known as Thebes. To Ancient Egyptians, the city was known as Waset or Niwt, meaning “The City,” but the Greeks changed the name to Thebes because it was “the model for every city” (Snape 150). In Thebes, having common ritual practices and…

THE LOST CITY- MACHU PICCHU, PERU & THE HIDDEN CITY OF TOMBS - PETRA, JORDAN Similarities The book that I have appointed, exhibits various ruins throughout the globe which even observers today can’t reason about. Two of these wretched ruins come together to debate its similarities and differences. The Lost City in Machu Picchu, Peru and The Hidden…