Portuguese language

The ability for one to effectively, adapt to multiple cultural situations is called cultural intelligence (CQ). “It is defined as the capability to function effectively in a variety of cultural contexts (Livermore, 2011). If a company is going into a foreign market, it will be imperative for them to have a high CQ knowledge. If would be beneficial for all leaders of the company to have a high level of CQ, but it is imperative that one of the leaders has a high level of CQ. The foreign…

In his analysis he discusses how Warren Hasting’s held a study into Indian languages would enable British authorizes to create a body of language that could be utilized to enact effective control . This protocol could thus define what is ‘Indian’ and give way to the creation of a system of rule that could be consistent with Indigenous institutions . Although…

According to King Afonso, the many benefits that came from the Portuguese presence became overshadowed as the people and the economy began to suffer. The west brought over many diseases that reached Afonso’s people. In order to fix the problem, he wrote a letters to the king of Portugal. In one of his many letters, he asked for proper medication to treat the illnesses. But the diseases brought many to believe that God was not helpful or necessary to their health. Once being cured with other…

Have you ever been to a place that left an impact on you? A place that was so exceptional and special to you that it nested itself into your mind? A place that you just could not forget because it was almost too fascinating to seem real? Well, for me that place is Hawaii. As a kid, my parents brought my siblings and I to Hawaii for a vacation, and to this day it remains the most pleasurable place I have ever visited. Although there are so many things that have stuck in my mind about Hawaii, the…

of the Portuguese people becoming collective unit within their music. By describing the history of fado and the development…

Bending Bodhi Yoga Studio, located at Franklin Plaza in downtown Dover, newly opened in October of 2015. The three co-founders, Heather Campbell- Hussey, Lydia Garnhart, and Nancy Garnhart have dedicated the new organization to teaching children and adults to feel empowered, confident, and at peace through the eight limbs of yoga. They offer drop in classes for people of all skill levels, including brand new beginners. The staff is passionate about Yoga and the positive benefits it can have on…

and change names in documents. For instance, a Portuguese military command named himself, “ …governor of Rio Grande de San Pedro”(Herzog, 41) . Soon enough, both parties realize that either one of them could use that legal writing document as a tool to posses a territory by changing and tweaking the information. The lesson here, for anyone interested in power, will be that…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote sonnet 43 in a series of sonnets titled Sonnets from the Portuguese. Although the individuals in the poem ‒ the narrator and the lover ‒ are ambiguous, there is a strong correlation between Barrett Browning's love life and the complex love of the sonnet. Even though there can be an argument made that sonnet 43 is not Barrett Browning’s husband, I will be using the assumption that Barrett Browning is the narrator and her husband is the lover. The theme that…

of the Victorian era, however, she undergoes a metamorphosis and gains the courage to defy the conservative values of the 19th century. Through reviewing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” it is apparent that an idealistic love is only achievable once societies values are questioned. Gatsby is the victim of the values of his post World War I society. He aspires to achieve an unattainable dream, which is founded on flawed…

Context plays a significant role in portraying values of the composer triggered by time and place. ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ (1845) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a reflection of her personal experiences in the context of the Victorian era’s gender issues and female expectation in a Petrarchan form. Similarly F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ (1926) centres of the failure and tragedy of the American dream in the Roaring 20's. Both texts explore the positive and negative effects of…