Shinto

The Heian Period, was a period of both chaos and beauty. Marked with the decline of the imperial family, and the rise of the Fujiwara Regency, the Heian period was filled with dramatic shifts of power, and the emergence of new political and economic powers. While literature and the arts prospered in court, as seen with the Tales of Genji, greed and manipulation also bled throughout. From the rise of the imperial statehood, and to the dominance of the aristocracy, the Heian Period was muddled…

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…