Four Days in September

The United States are so different compared to Brazil, when you talk about people, education, language etc. Despite the differences, we can observe

B. Thesis: Brazil is a country known for its vibrant, colorful and lively culture. It has a lot to offer, from its great one of a kind vacation spots to the captivating sound of the

You probably heard of Brazil but, do you know much about it? Brazil is a beautiful place or country, in South America. It’s great for tourists’ sites; it has amazing land features, and especially cool culture and history. Brazil has a tremendous amount of nature and folktale. Brazil was found actually, over 8,000 years ago. The Portuguese were the first European settlers to arrive there. The journey was led by Pedro Cabral who began in the 1500s. When they finally got there they found Native Americans living there. They were around the seven millions.

The U.S. has a huge influence in the Brazilian culture. This is due to the fact that economical strings tie us, so we are attached whether we like it or not. We buy CDs from America, we listen to the same music, we have MTV, and we wear the same clothes. We also incorporated to our vocabulary a lot of English words such as "Shopping Center" or "Sale". This is a sign that the Brazilian culture has become "Americanized" to a certain extend.

14: Though the landscape is one of rare beauty, to a European or English eye it seems desolate, and even after more than forty years my father could not become reconciled to it. He longed for the generous and

“The landscape, the whole great circle of it, grassheads, scrub, water, sky, quite took his breath away.” (Pg 17)

The setting in the story first takes place in Minneapolis Minnesota and then moves to Maunus Brazil in the Amazon. Minnesota is quiet and friendly where her boss/boyfriend live as well as her job and mother. Brazil is hot and humid with strange people and tourist, it never gives off a good feeling to Marina. After Marina goes with Dr. Swenson she becomes more confident and adjusted to the environment. This shows the readers

Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination is different than the first two stories. Although Silko is describing what she sees, Silko is also describing what other people are seeing. Silko describes people as part of the land and not just people.“Viewers are as much a part of the landscape as the boulders they stand on”. (Silko pg.92) Silko is saying that landscape is everything seen, not just selected items.

This art illustrates the theme of appearance versus reality of April’s identity. I drew more realistic image of her inner emotion which is hidden behind her image she portrays to others. For example, she hides to her peers about her Native identity as she is ashamed of her heritage. Further, she lies to her sister, Cheryl about their parents as she wants to only leave her sister with happy memories of them. It shows that although she tries to keep it together, inside she is suffering as she, herself, is too young to go through this hardship of her foster mom, bullying at school, and looking out for her sister. Her sewed up lip illustrates how her words are not believed by others although the rumour is not true and how she cannot speak up about her mistreatment and abuse by her foster mom to others. This also restrict her from revealing her true emotion as she has no one to let out her feelings and problems she is facing. Her outward appearance is shown with lighter skin tone as April wants to hide that she is Metis by lying to her peers about her true identity.

Brazil is located in South America. It comprises half the area of South America and has a total surface area of 3,287,612 square miles. Brazil borders with all other South American countries except Chile and Ecuador. Brazil is as large as the United States but with an extra Texas thrown in it. Brazil has no great lakes, but it does have the Amazon, which is the largest river in the world in the volume of water and are drained (Hunnicutt, 1949).

Spielberg usage of documentary footage for One Day in September in the opening moments provides us with archive footage from the news reporters; reporting the kidnapping of eleven Israeli men being held hostage by Palestinian terrorists. The News shows footage of the first rescue on live television, being called off. Then shows the hostage and terrorists being transport to the airport by bus. The explosion at the airport, the news coverage reporting that all the hostages are fine and the terrorist are all dead. There is another news coverage-reporting saying that “Our worst fear is realized tonight; reporting of the eleven hostages, two were killed in their room’s yesterday morning, and nine were killed at the airport tonight. They are all

Terrorism is a highly regarded issue in the Middle East. Israel is the victim of this conflict. The movie One Day in September shows how Palestinian terrorist group held Israeli athletes captive during the 1972 Olympic games. I was unaware this occurred in history as the film is a documentary. The film I believe did a great job reenacting the events. It used actual pictures, videos, and even had people who were involved speak. The film also changed my understanding drastically. While staying at the hotel, members of the Palestinian Terrorist group known as Black September jumped over a wall and intruded where the Israeli athletes stayed. Some were able to escape, a couple were killed, and others were held hostage. After news spread, the terrorists put out a list of demands in order to free the athletes. The Germans order a meeting to be set up at the airport where a trap was set. It was no surprise the terrorists were aware and in the end some of them were caught and multiple aircrafts were blown to pieces. I believe that this plan should have been more effectively established. First the snipers at the airport didn’t know there were 8 terrorists. Second, the snipers did a poor job of executing gunfire as friendlies were in their way. One Day in September made me truly feel empathetic for the Israeli athletes. It is very uncomfortable knowing that your life is in danger. And if you are to make one move you

The country of Brazil is located in the South American continent, it has the largest country is South America and is bordered by many countries such as Argentina and Paraguay to the southwest and Bolivia and Peru to the west there is Uruguay to the south and Venezuela to the north. It shares a boarder with every South American country except for Ecuador and the country of Chile. The country is so big that it shares a boarder with Peru and I mention Peru because it is located on the western coast of the continent. Peru’s coastline is the Pacific Ocean and Brazils is the Atlantic that in its self speaks volumes for the shear mass of Brazil. This nation has vast climate changes depending where in the country one is located for example the

Stretching over 2,500 miles form east to west and 2,700 miles from north to south, Brazil is the world’s largest tropical country. The only nations that are larger are the lands of Russia, Canada, China and the United States. Brazil has more then 150 million people spread unevenly over its huge land area, making it the fifth most populated country in the world. (Encyclopedia.com) More then two thirds of Brazil’s people live in the cities and towns and more then 29 percent of them are in the ten cities with more then a million people. These include the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo with more then 15 million people and Rio de Janeiro with more then 9 million people. The rural population is mostly concentrated on the East Coast or

The early 1980’s were a dark time for Brazil. President Figueiredo came into office when debt and unemployment were at its highest. Also Brazil was in $90million dollar debt. This economic struggle introduces Brazilian cinema to a new low. By the early 1990’s President Collar opens the market to free trade. This was to industrialize Brazil, and attempt to cut government spending. Cutting government spending hurt cinema, which is why there will be a large decline in the early 1990s. By 1992 president Franco came into office. The inflation rate by this time doubled. This was a very bad time for brazils government. With the economy doing so poorly the urban crime life was high, acting as a muse for many producers. At this time 40% of the domestic films were documentaries on urban violence.