Of all the amazing ecosystems in the world among the most impressive are the world’s rainforests. The largest of these rainforests is the Amazon Basin, located in South America. The Amazon is home to an impressive amount of diversity and it’s location in the perfect place on the planet to ensure a wide variety of life. The Amazon basin is one of the most impressive and superb examples of an Ecosystem. An Ecosystem is a complex community of organisms and environment functioning as an ecological…
The Amazon Rainforest, the largest rainforest in the world. Covering over a billion acres in the countries of Brazil, Venezuela, and Columbia; the Amazon is home to 40,000 plant species, 1,300 bird species, 3,000 types of fish, 430 mammals and 2.5 million different insects. That’s a lot of life, not even including the 700,000 indigenous tribal people that are living in the Amazon today. This untamed jungle is disappearing fast, 14% of the world was covered by rainforests thousands of years ago…
the deal was complete and there was nothing more to talk about in regards to the business deal. Again, with no thought on how President Silva does business he offered the contract to them to sign without their input and a legal representative from Brazil. This is not the proper way to do business in this country. Mr. Astro should have gone to dinner and waited for President Silva to bring up the business deal topic and the appropriate time. Mr. Astro’s pushy behavior in turned made President…
International Internet Communication Brazil and Japan contain many differences and similarities with one another. Japan is considered a developed nation while Brazil is considered a developing world. Despite having different governments, economies, bordering nations, languages, etc., the communication system in both regions compare in that Internet has had an enormous growth in both regions, with 139 million Internet users in Brazil and 115 million in Japan. These results show that the Internet…
During the fifteenth century, the slave trade emerged as a prominent enterprise in Brazil causing thousands of Africans to endure racism, violence, and exploitation. The Portuguese stripped the African slave’s identities and cultures away, diminishing their humanity in the process. With this in mind, it was difficult for slaves to maintain their own unique identities as many came from diverse backgrounds in Africa, where they spoke various languages and belonged to separate cultures. To identify…
Jardim Gramacho Introduction The Jardim Gramacho dump. One of the Earth’s largest open-air landfills, seaside dump located on the, once beautiful, Guanabara Bay, Brazil. Only 35km from the world-famous Copacabana beach. Since the unofficial opening in the late 1970’s the landfill continued to grow and at one of the dumps largest state, it spread over 321 acres of land, also the equivalent of 244 American football fields. Jardim Gramacho is home to seagulls, vultures and homes to people. This…
Next, as mentioned earlier the implications of China’s slowdown will not just affected the Chinese economy and the U.S. but also it impacts for the rest of the world economy. China is one of the major commodity consuming countries. There are lots of industrialisation and urbanization took place in China. However, after many years of investments the project unable to deliver the expected return for investors. Thus, a raises of questions about additional investment plans. This as a consequences…
request by Prof. Stephen I will talk a little bit about health in Brazil and the “cliff analogy”. I don’t want to bother you too much, so I will try to do it in a nutshell, but eventually I will need to go back to our colonial history and race miscegenation for a better understanding. Brazil had some particularities among the European colonies, in 1808, as Napoleon invaded Portugal, the King John VI run away along the Portuguese Court to Brazil from where the Royal family reigned Portugal until…
American art history in one gallery. The theme of this exhibition will focus on Academic History painting from the nineteenth century with the title "Contradicting Political Messages from the Academies." The exhibition will cover the countries of Mexico, Brazil, and Cuba, and address key historical subjects for each area that were popularized through the academies. In this essay, I am going to provide the layout of the exhibition, along with information about each specific piece that I would…
been said that the road to hell is paved by good intentions, but is that really the case for Brazil in our present day? From riots to government corruption, Brazil has been struggling to remain a stable democracy. What went wrong in Brazil’s democracy to cause all this outrage? Is Brazil truly a democracy? Brazil has been through some turbulent events in the past couple of years where the people of Brazil have broken out in riots and protests against the government. The height of these events…