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Street children in Brazil have always been a hot topic catching the attention of journalists, photographers, the United Nations and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Although street children come under the umbrella of poor children, the former seems to mobilize more social actors than the latter and attracts more funding. The anthropologist Tobia Hecht presents a very interesting ethnography of street children in his book At Home in the Street, Street Children of Northeast Brazil. Through a research conducted between 1992 and 1993 and in 1995 in Recife and Olanda, he tries to understand the reasons behind the big attention given to street children specifically, despite the large number of children living in favelas affected by extreme…

his most famous work, ” Pedagogy of the Oppressed” . According to the Freire institute, Paulo Freire was born in 1921 in Recife, Brazil. In 1947 Freire first began to work with adult illiterates at Northeast Brazil.It was at the University of Recife in the early 1960s that he became more passionate about an educational movement to deal with the massive illiteracy problem his country was facing. Hence he wrote the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”. In his essay on Pedagogy of the Oppressed,…

the third Cycle, Nobre writes five movements that explore folk rhythms from Northeastern Brazil, such as the Capoeira and Cantiga de Cego. Nobre’s most significant contribution to piano literature comes from his large repertoire of compositions that can be characterized as exclusive Brazilian pieces with a unique complexity of native rhythms. One example would be the IV Ciclo Nordestino Op. 43, where Nobre explores on each movement specific traditional Brazilian rhythms and folk melodies, such…

Celso Thomas Castilho’s article, 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…

Author’s Craft Research Benchmark Clarice Lispector has written many pieces of literature throughout her years of writing. The short story that is being focused on is “The Hen”. In “The Hen”, by Clarice Lispector, the author uses personification to create a mood of unease and apathy while conveying the central theme that there is no meaning to people’s lives. Clarice Lispector was born in the Ukraine on December 10,1920. However she left as a one year old because of the Russian Civil War and…

Even though Ivan Gomes kept his academy in Campina Grande he decided to live the life of a “vaqueiro” (cowboy), staying in his farm for the most part. His new Academy in Campina Grande was opened in 1974 on Venancio Street Neiva. He formed a legion of black belts that taught the system called Ivan Gomes Jiu-Jitsu Style until the present day. In Recife, Brazil, there is the International headquarters of the Federação Pernambucana de Jiu-Jitsu Tradicional Estilo Ivan Gomes (International…

Zika virus is sickening around 100 million people every year and killing thousands. It as an epidemic virus that is going on in Brazil and is transmitted by mosquitoes. Recent research suggests that global warming is likely to increase the range of these mosquitoes carrying this virus, over the decades. The worst case scenarios said by scientists is that continuing high global emissions coupled with fast population growth, the number of people exposed to the virus can be doubled, like progress…

themselves “an island in America” to create for “themselves under their own government, religion and laws.” They continuously lived in areas they weren’t allowed to fully commit to Judaism or even give up Judaism entirely. I wonder why they never committed to creating this safe haven for themselves. A renowned philosopher named De Pauw, explained that Jews did establish fro themselves their own state in the Americas in which they can serve their god, but “they lacked the courage and the right…

wealth, peace and prosperity. Sweet goes on to describe Domingos journey after being captured. Traveling by canoe Domingos along with the others enslaved set sail to Jakin. Upon arrival they were inspected by potential buyers and eventually sold then transported to a location desired by their masters. Next their masters forced the enslaved to march in shackles and forced them upon slave ships. Sweet uses a primary source by a Portuguese doctor on the ship to describe the horrible conditions and…

Some drew stereotypical angles e.g. right angles from 12 o’clock. In correspondence to personal experience explained previously, the reasoning to this problem was labeled as insufficient experience to different prototypes of angles which in turn, suggests that children fail to see angles in its dynamic state as a measurement of turn. However, the main limitation of this text is that the sample size consisted of only 5 primary schools situated in South Wales which cannot be used as a…