Favela

but they were evicted so they became migrant farm workers. This caused Cesar to leave school right after completing 8th grade and join his family on the farm. 1946 - Chaves enlists in the Navy and serves two years. 1948 - Cesar gets married to Helen Favela, together they have 8 children. 1952 - He becomes a part of the Community Service Organization(CSO), which is an important Latino Civil Rights group. 1958 - Chaves rises to the top of the CSO and under his leadership, he helps improve the…

long-term effects, like learning deficits in young children (Bailey, 2016). Those who have visited Rio say there is a constant stench that reeks of fecal matter coming from the streams of raw sewage. These streams often run in the backyards of many favelas. Not only is Rio’s water pollution affecting citizen’s health, it is depleting many jobs. Eating seafood contaminated with heavy metals, industrial chemicals including PCBs, and hydrocarbons from petroleum products, cause long-term health…

A being that uses expression or application of their imagination and creativity to create a piece of work that causes emotion or a reaction in any sort of way is an—artist. The reaction do not have to be necessarily positive nor does the piece itself have to be aesthetically pleasing (if visually presentable); nevertheless, I do consider that the "cherry on the top" or a bonus. If the piece is controversial, it does not necessary mean the piece is bad itself it only proves that art is all about…

At first citizens of Brazil were intrigued when the news broke out about hosting the 2014 World Cup, the most entertaining and famous sports event in the world and a host in 2016 Olympics. After discovering there was a corporate conflict of interest in regards to Brazil’s economy and the money was being displaced towards other projects instead of rebuilding community schools, hospitals, etc. This lead to major protesting which this country hasn’t endured in years, Brazilians feel as if they are…

While in Brazil on a mission trip to volunteer in schools with Saint Vincent College, I worked closely with the children in the favelas and visited their homes to better understand how they lived. Every house contained multiple families and in a one room basement lived the most loving family who changed my life forever. The youngest child in the family was only seven years old and he had more surgeries than years on earth. During his time he had lost his legs and right arm but never his spirit…

Economics is the choices people, communities, and government makes regarding the use of their limited resources. In our Economics class, we are making political cartoons to show how the Olympics are an important and unifying event or if they are a demonstration of our inequalities. We discussed the Olympics to see if the Olympics are a unifying event or are they just a demonstration of inequalities and economic waste. There is controversy behind the Olympics, a lot of people believe that the…

It’s become home to a large, lower middle-class, even though vast numbers of economic deprived still take to the favelas outskirts. The city is not chock-a-block exhibiting striking must-sees with, myriad museums and ever-changing art exhibitions. Lovely parklands are also interspersed between countless shops, malls and skyscrapers. There are more pizzerias in the…

had moved to California, due to the fact they had lost their farm and their store 1937. Cesar had attended 38 schools and stopped when he was done with 8th grade. They had to be moving from farm to farm. He married his high school sweetheart, Helen Favela, in Delano. They moved to San Francisco and their first child was born. Over the years they had seven children. Cesar met a local priest in San Jose, Father Donnell McDonnell. He introduced him to the writings of St. Francis and…

Throughout one’s life, he or she will encounter an opportunity that will likely impact his or her perspective on a given situation. In Wasteland, Vik Muniz embraced the opportunity to travel to Brazil in hopes of making a difference with the pickers. Muniz traveled to the landfill in Brazil in hopes of using art to improve the lives of the pickers at the landfill. While at the landfill, he experiences the life of the pickers which helps him to create the art that will transform the lives of the…

The story is set in what is well-known as the Favela. Vieira (2005: XIII) explains Favela as a “word that shares with ‘shantytown’ or ‘slum’ the meaning of squalid habitation, or the class reference with shantytown, namely, the depressed area where the very poor live”. In South Africa, this will be reminiscent of townships, kasi, and skwata camps. Four Corners is set in Cape Flats, one of the areas in the country that will perfectly resemble the Favela. The Cape Flats for years has been…