Santa Marta Settlement Of A Farm Owned By Francisco Jose Leite

In conclusion, reading about Carolina’s life has had a huge impact on my learnings of Brazil. While reading this book, I was able to reflect on what we learned and discussed about life in the favelas in class. When I hear of Brazil, I always hear of the wealthy places, pretty women and beautiful sites to visit. However, the favelas and life of the poor people living in Brazil is rarely mentioned and talked about. Reading Carolina’s diary gave me a different image of the country and showed Brazil in another light. Carolina’s diary gave me more insight on what the daily life of a favelado is like and what people who live in the favelas experience on a daily

Brazil is one of the most visited place in the world and also one of the most diverse countries in the world. More than 75millon people of African decent live in Brazil, this makes it the second largest black population in the world. Its attracts a large number of people because of it architecture, slums and rainforest. Brazil is contradictory because its was the last country to abolish slavery but also the first to claim that it was a racial democracy. Most people might not know that Brazil has its racial problems and that it has been going on for a long time. Brazilian race relations and conceptions of race are somewhat different from the United States. In Brazil most African descendents are people live in

The mission honors, Saint Francis Solano, a Spanish Franciscan Missionary in Peru and Paraguay, also known as Sonoma Mission. It’s the twenty-first and the last California mission founded by Fray Jose Altimira on July 4, 1823. It has a square shape of long structures made of bricks, wood, and tile roofs and formed into a quadrangle. In one corner, was the church, adjacent were living quarters and parallel were the workshops, kitchen, and storage. In addition, there were orchards, gardens, vineyards, fields of grain, a grist mill, houses for the soldiers and Indian families, a jail, a cemetery, and an infirmary.

Sao Paulo is Brazil’s financial center and is well-known for its breathtaking views, its abundant cultural institutions and for their rich architectural scene. However, there are many negative issues that are ravaging the lives of the citizens in this city. For starters, Sao Paulo has terribly congested traffic, a significant amount of crime and gang violence, a lack of quality in the medicine-health field, a high amount of air pollution, and also water shortages. However, these are not the biggest of their obstacles. Sao Paulo’s most pressing issue of the moment is the informal housing that is plaguing the city. This essay will first analyze Sao Paulo, Brazil’s informal housing issue, then will compare Sao Paulo’s unique obstacle to similar

For administrative purposes such as the national Brazilian census (Advameg, Inc., “Culture”), “Brazil is separated into five regions: North, Northeast, Central-West, Southeast and South”. (IBGE, 2017) These divisions roughly correspond to the geographic, demographic, economic, and cultural variation within the nation. Despite segmentation, frequent racial inter-breeding has made Brazil one of the most racially diverse

“He recorded in his journal that the Casa Grande is a four story building, as large as a castle and equal to the largest church in these lands of Sonora. Close to this Casa Grande there are thirteen smaller houses, somewhat more dilapidated, and the ruins of many others, which make it evident that in ancient times there had been a city here.” (“Casa Grande Ruins NM: An Administrative History (Chapter 2),” n.d.) From this time onward, the Casa Grande received a notoriety that led many travelers to come to the Great House to behold the work of a vanished civilization and to speculate on its origin and meaning. The Great House has stood up well for hundreds of years considering the environment in which it lies. However, after the advancement of the train in 1879, travelers would stop by and rummage through the site looking for souvenirs. Many would carve their names in the walls and some would take sections of the

During the 16th Century, the Spanish laid claims to different territories all across the Americas, including North America. Their claim was brought about by the victories of Francisco de Coronado, Hernando de Soto, and Ponce de Leon. Their first permanent settlement was St. Augustine, which was established in Florida in the year 1565. This was one of their base camps in the region, although it was noted to have slight impact with regards to the presence of the Spanish within America. Regardless of this fact, it was still used as a center where natives were taught about Roman Catholicism in an attempt to convert them from their traditional beliefs.

The mission after gaining government approval, like most of the others around it, was developed by Franciscans, but was constantly mobilized until it made it to its present location in 1731. Due to the lack of Spaniards to colonize the new six missions that served as a barrier, many Dominican, and Franciscan missionaries looking for spiritual satisfaction in the form of converts were allowed to develop the standing missions into towns, with the understanding that they would live as Spanish citizens. The mission was the organized to have the church standing in the center of the mission, and had workshops were the Indians were taught artisan skills, as well as storage buildings. On the mission lands you could expect to find cubicles in the convent that surrounded the church, housing units along the perimeter wall for the Indians; as well orchards, crop fields, and livestock that would help support the growing Franciscan village.

Thousands of tiny, cliffside houses surround the city, climbing up into the verdant hills, packed together like brightly colored sardines. These are the favelas, home to hundreds of thousands of the poorest people in Brazil. Many of Rio’s favelas remain dangerous and unstable, but in the past several years the Brazilian government has begun a movement of pacification. Where once police would simply invade, battle a gang and withdraw, they are now permanently stationed to ensure the safety of neighborhood residents. This safety, however, brings with it a new kind of danger: as the favelas are pacified and begin to develop,

After the failure to keep Afro-Brazilians subjugated through immigration policies, the white elites’ utilized their power over RSAs to further instill “racial democracy” in order to blind Brazilians the persevering existence of the racial hierarchy. To further whiten the Brazilian population, the 1940s census erased its race question in favor for a more “Brazilian race” to convey a false sense of non-conflicted racial intermingling and racial democracy. In reality, it served as a “barometer for how Negroes and Indians are continuing to disappear… and that Brazil is taking from old Europe – citadel of the white races” (Hernández 68). Realizing the danger of the state’s decision,

In San Francisco, the two oldest historic structures that can be seen from the Spanish period are the Presidio and mission established by the Spanish in 1776. The Mission of San Francisco Assisi or Mission Dolores was built to Christianize the Indians of the region and train them to follow Spanish ideals and customs of “civilization”. The mission in San Francisco is the oldest building still intact today. The mission has been a loyal witness to the extent of San Francisco's history, including the Gold Rush and the 1906 earthquake. It was so well built that it was unharmed during the 1906 earthquake and great fire. Today in San Francisco, the mission can still be visited and has become a tourist attraction. The main chapel

Guerilla warfare and drug gangs in the “favelas of Brazil” pushed many families to emigrate to the United States and Canada; separating families (“Latin America” 3). The people of Latin America love pursuing human contact, so those families that did stay found themselves in the cites. That is because opportunity lied in the city, and no longer on the country-side; therefore, leading to a constant flow of people from rural to urban areas. The author says, “In Latin America, urban culture was not created by industrial growth; it predated it” (“Latin America” 4).

From 300-700 CE, it was a prosperous city full of churches and shops. The city is centered around the tomb of Saint Mena who was martyred for his Christianity. It is listed on UNSECO because it is a city full of history that is still in good condition for people to come and visit it and learn about the culture that used to live there. This city tells us that the culture that used to live there greatly valued Christianity. Historians and researchers can use this city to gather information from the buildings to understand how people built cities like this. I chose this site because I was intrigued that an entire city was built to honor one martyr. (UNESCO, http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/90/) (ARCWH,

The article talks about the life inside these favelas. For tourists, these slums may be seen as a place of unique interest, but to the Brazilian people, these slums are the most dangerous places in the country. But the question arises that why can 't the government do anything about these slums. The article describes that these favelas are so dangerous that even the Brazilian armed police are often scared to launch any

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