Paulo Coelho

Due to the negative impact our company has made to the local traffic, I have thoroughly analyzed our workforce's transportation methods and provided potential solutions. I've conducted an employee survey discussing employee carpool habits, public transportation, and telecommunication. Employee Carpool Habits In the following chart, I recorded how many employees carpool and divided the responses into four categories : Every day , Certain days , Randomly , Never . As shown in Figure 1, out of…

Brazil When you hear of the country Brazil, you may think a beautiful country, a great tourist attraction, or a great place to take a vacation. What you did not know is that isn’t always the case. Located in South America, Brazil is bordered by French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Colombia and Venezuela to the North; Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia to the East; Uruguay to the South; and the Atlantic Ocean to the West. There are several ups and downs to not only this country but many others too.…

General Information The city of Brasilia is the capital of Brazil, located in Northeast South American. The country has a population of 2.48 million people. It is described as having a tropical climate, with more rain during the summer than the winter. The dominant religion of Brazil historically was and still is Christianity. Brazil possesses a richly spiritual society formed from the meeting of the Roman Catholic Church with the religious traditions of African slaves and indigenous…

education. However, as education has changed throughout the years, so has the quality of the education. In “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education, Paulo Freire uses the comparison of a bank to the current style of education in order to reveal several problems within the education system, suggesting that students are not being taught how to think critically. Paulo Freire uses similes to describe the current education system. In the system, he essentially compares knowledge to “gifts” or “money”,…

vital role. What students learn and how much they learn depend a lot on the way they are taught. In the excerpt "O Americano Outra Vez," by Richard Feynman and in the essay "The Banking Concept of Education," by Paulo Freire, two distinct methods of teaching are discussed. Although both Paulo Friere and Richard Feynman, believe that education should not be taught to memorize information, I…

education is to raise active members of society and that education can indeed change and improve our social system, I selected John Dewey and Paulo Freire as the two pillars of my teaching philosophy. From Dewey’s point of view, learning and real life are intrinsically related and the school should be an “embryonic society” that echoes the community itself; Paulo Freire recognized the school as a reflection of society as well and, as such,…

Paulo Reglus Neves Freire is a Brazilian educator whose revolutionary pedagogical theory influenced academic disciplines that include theology, sociology, anthropology, applied linguistics, pedagogy, and cultural studies. Freire’s revolutionary pedagogy starts from a deep love for, and humility before, poor and oppressed people and a respect for their “common sense”, which constitutes knowledge no less important than the scientific knowledge of the professional. The book is…

Federative Republic of Brazil or simply Brazil is one of the world’s largest countries, in land mass and with a population of about 205,053,000 people. (Britannica) Brazil’s capital used to be Rio de Janeiro, but was switched to Brasilia in April of 1960, because of the size and wealth of the city. Brazil or as the Portuguese spell it Brasil, runs on a democratic system, and currently has a female President in office. It has in the past been a predominately male-oriented society, which has…

The Federative Republic of Brazil or Brazil as it is also known is a country in South America, which has a population of 190,732,694 people according to the 2010 census (IBGE 2014). Brazil is the largest country in South America, occupying 47.3% of continental South America and has the world’s fifth highest population for any country. It also has the world’s fifth largest geographical area for a country (Philander 2012). Because of its size, Brazil shares a border with all of the countries in…

"The formula for this is as such; here is a list of all our U.S presidents thus far." Memorization after memorization. Paulo Freire expresses his view about our current education system in his essay, "The 'Banking ' Concept of Education", and points out its many flaws. He classifies the education system to be that of a "banking" system. Banking education refers to the learners being mere containers or vessels waiting to obediently be oppressively "filled" or "deposited" with information by…