Culture of Brazil

largest and most biodiverse tropical forests’ in the world is the Amazon, covering an area of 5.5 million square kilometers and shared by nine countries. Brazil holds the majority of it, over 60%. It also, according to most estimates, holds the fastest deforestation rate in the world. INPE, the Brazilian national institute for space…

Could Deforestation of the Amazon lead to the extinction of Brazil? Brazil is one of the most diverse and multi-cultural countries in the world. It is a beautiful country and is the home to the Amazon Rainforest. In 2016 the world was introduced to Brazil through the world Olympics. Through the Olympics the world was exposed to Brazil’s people, music, and what a rich culture Brazil has to offer. But like every other country Brazil also has its problems, and as you can infer from the title…

sale in their shops. They sell well-made, mass produced products of one-of-a-kind works of art, almost indistinguishable from the original. Huxtable states that imposing an exchange of attributes between the museum and the shopping mall, between culture and commerce has now become similar. Museums, which are supposed to be…

Brazil offers many business opportunities, ideas and innovations to become a leading international market. Being the home to thousands of species in the amazon rainforest and the home to the land of football. Brazil’s tourism industry has increased over the past couple of years. Brazil is the largest country in South America in terms of land mass and economic power. The major part of this economy depends on the export of goods to other countries. This includes the dependency of industries and…

When the Portuguese first arrived in Brazil during the 1500’s they expected to find a land more colonized and full of abundant resources such as metals. It was also expected of them to see a more socially disciplined land of people. To their surprise they found Brazilian hunters and gatherers who had barely started working in the agriculture business, using different techniques like the slash and burn techniques. The natives had low technological advances and low resources and were on thin…

Manaus, on the banks of the Negro River in northwestern Brazil, is the capital of the vast state of Amazonas. It was known at the beginning of the century, as "Heart of the Amazon" and "City of the Forest".It's a major departure point for the surrounding Amazon Rainforest. Just east of the city, the dark Negro River converges with the brown, muddy Solimões River resulting in a striking visual phenomenon called the “Meeting of the Waters.” The combined tributaries form the Amazon River. Manaus is…

History of Brazil’s Government After gaining independence on September 7th, 1822, Brazil became a Federal Republic (University of Oregon, 1995). When under Portugese rule, Brazil’s capital was Salvador, but after gaining independence from its king, son of a Portugese monarch, Brazil’s capital went inland to Brasilia (Gale Sites) (Pimlott, 1988). Today, a female president governs Brazil, her name is Dilma Rousseff. Economy Brazil has an extended amount of exports due natural features in the…

The article talks about poor cities in Brazil, Shantytown called “alto do Gruzeiro” (Crucifix Hill), and Bom Jesus de mata. There is a bell that rings each time an infant or a baby dies. Most of these kids die unnamed and during birth but the fortunate babies who do survive will mostly last two or three months. Alto do Gruzeior is one of the three counties in shantytown that has the poorest representation of the third world countries, shantytown has mostly farms, ranches, sugar plantations and…

really creative and nice as it has low and high pitch with slow and fast tempo. I love how all the instruments mix with each other trying to follow the tempo with each other. One thing that is great about samba is that it also combines with different cultures around the world. Samba is a really lively type of music that everybody may enjoy to dance at and much more. Samba music also has families of instruments more likely of percussion instruments but also brass, woodwind, voices and many more. …

Performing Abolitionism, Enacting Citizenship: The Social Construction of Political Rights in 1880s Recife, Brazil, provides an understanding of influence of performance on the abolitionist movement and politics in Recife, Brazil. The purpose of this article is to see political activism and influence on abolitionism from a different lens. Castilho gives great details about the abolitionist movement in Brazil, while drawing distinct connections between abolitionist performance and theater.…