Minas Gerais

Slavery in the United States - the system of slavery and the use of slave labor that existed in the United States in the 1619-1865. Most slaves were Africans and their descendants who had been abducted from their living areas. The first African slaves were brought to Virginia by British English colonists in 1619. As of 1860, 12 million people in 15 US states, where slavery persisted, 4 million were slaves. From 1.5 million families, living in these states, more than 390 thousand…

Investment Strategy Diversify two stocks per industry to dampen the effects of industry specific crashes, while still maintaining a substantial amount of capital within each industry to benefit from industry specific rises. Our investment strategy would focus solely on capital growth, as such, the three industries of interest would be the Financial, Telecom Services, and Utilities sector as they are currently the top performing sectors with around +60% companies up 0% - 2%. TELECOM SERVICES 1.…

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…

Recipes to do more with less Urged by economic instability and global competitors, companies seek ways to become more efficient In a time of economic turmoil, falling demand, and fierce competition, the route to business survival requires maximized efficiency and reduced costs in a sustainable way. No wonder, the ABM WEEK 2016 plenary "How to be more productive?" aroused great interest among the audience. The session was coordinated by Francisco Coutinho Dornelas, assistant to the executive…

Train Wreck Honestly, I was trying to envision the absolute state of wreckage (pardon the redundancy) my country now finds itself in as something apart from my daily exile experience… when the whole story turned more personal than I’d have expected: A nice woman I know has found herself pregnant during the panic wave surrounding pregnancies in the mosquito-stricken Brazil of these last few weeks. We have been discussing this, and Alan advised me, if I ever wanted to write about it, I should do…

I chose Brazil for my term paper because I have always been secretly fascinated with the mysterious name, “Brazil,” the culture, the accents, the music and dance. I learned a few things that I did not know prior to the research such as the connection between Brazil and African slaves. I grew up believing everyone in Latin America was only Latin just like I thought all Europeans were only white until visiting and there were Africans there as well. I also learned that the Samba was not the…

coffee plantations were created, more slaves came to work the land. Initially the cultivation of coffee concentrated in Rio de Janeiro, and later expanded in the whole Paraiba do Sul River Valley, which has territory in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. This area specifically, was extremely filled with African slaves who served as the primary work force in coffee plantations. However, by 1831 the transatlantic slave trade became illegal, and by 1888 slavery was…

Pedro Rodrigues Filho Also Known as Killer Petey Yunior Rodriguez Lehigh Carbon Community College  Modus Operandi Pedro Rodrigues Filho also known as “Pedrinho Matador” was a Brazilian serial killer of criminals or those who he saw fit of deserving punishment. Filho chose his victims based on a set of principles he held. Most of his killing from the beginning were motivated by anger or were spurred killing when he would hear of a crime that was being committed and he believed that specific…

I hope that throughout the course of reading this paper, you will understand not only more about me, but also why I am this way. I was named after the leader, Joshua, who led the Israelites after Moses. My parents always thought that I would grow into a strong person, and a leader. From my father, Ismael Pereira DaSilva, I received my surname: DaSilva. As my middle and last name would suggest, my family originates overseas, specifically in Brazil. My middle name Endo, is what I consider most…

The increase in labour market means that people will work for lower wages. This aspect depends really if the migratns come from the less developed country and will they work for less money or the situation can be vice versa, and the migrants are not willing to work for such wages because they can earn more money in their domestic country. If in the economy the wages are low, in the short term meaning the production costs decreases and it means that firm produce for less money. The effect, of…