History of Brazil

Elena Martinez University 175 5/1/2015 United States vs. Brazil race categorizing and history “Think about race in its universality. Where is your measurement device? There is no way to measure race. We sometimes do it by skin color, other people may do it by hair texture - other people may have the dividing lines different in terms of skin color. What is black in the United States is not what 's black in Brazil or what 's black in South Africa.”-Dr.Goodman, Race: The Power of an Illusion Earlier

When I chose Brazil as the subject country for examining its foreign aid received, I ran into a bit of a dilemma. Brazil has evolved from being a foreign aid recipient and less developed nation of the past, to become a major foreign aid provider in recent years. This fact places this emerging country in a unique and interesting position as both a donor and recipient as of 2010 records reveal and Brazil’s donor status is on the increase since this new “middle-of-the-road” development status for this

Brazil Brazil was founded in 1500 by Pedro Cabral. Brazil’s flag is a dark green banner with a yellow diamond with a night-blue, star-studded Southern Hemisphere sky. In the sky there are 27 white stars representing each state and the Federal District. The stars are arranged in the pattern of the night sky over Rio de Janeiro on November 15, 1889 or the date when the last Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II was deposed, and the republic was proclaimed, A phrase across the sky says “ORDEM E PROGRESSO

determining feature of each country’s level of economic and social development. The more controlled and civilized the correctional system is the more civilized and controlled the overall image of the country appears. In the United States, the long history of the penitentiary system has significantly contributed in the improvement of legal principles of corrections and criminal justice: the prison life in the U.S. has lost its negative features, and a range of recovery and rehabilitation programs work

Fire and foremost, how did Brazil all start? Or what’s its history? In the 1500’s Brazil was founded by Pedro Cabral. So called adventurous Pedro Cabral was from Portugal and since the poverty was horrid he decided to look for new land. Pedro and some other Portuguese explorers joined him in his journey to find new land. When they arrived, they were the first European settlers to arrive in Brazil. But they weren’t alone, in fact, they reportedly found around 7 million Native Indians. But most of

culture, and history. Brazil and the United States share similar, yet vaguely different ideas about race. In the United States, race and racism is in the forefront of the cultural mind set, for better or for worse. In Brazil, Brazilians claim to use a color-blind approach to race, where race is nearly deconstructed and removed from the global mindset. Artists such as Angélica Dass from Brazil tend to produce art that connects to this unified race concept, even if her native Brazil

The history of the slave trade is one that most people would want to forget. Though, forgetting such an important era in the history of the world is not only wrong but a recipe for repeating other such mistakes. According to Capone (2007), more than 11 million Africans were taken to the New World in the period between the 16th and mid-19th centuries. More than any other colony in the Americas: Brazil received the largest portion of the slaves. The Brazilian coastline was especially a major hosting

IV. Methodologies and trends Caribbean Many often consider the study of Latin American history or subjects like race to show that Much of Latin American historical studies are comparative. Many of the Latin American countries have their own history but share similar cultural conductions concerning race. The history of race relations in Latin America has become a central theme in a fair amount of scholarly activities. This in turn has made the historiography of Latin America to become much more relevant

however later during the 60s the political development approach was the most dominant one. However the Vietnam War -along with other events like Watergate, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the Cold War- can be considered a turning point in the history of the study as it gave rise to many alternatives to political development including the dependency theory and the world system approach. The Dependency theory was especially popular among leftist scholars, the theory supposes that “development in

country looks. In the United States, the long history of the penitentiary system has significantly contributed in the development of humane and legal principles of corrections and criminal justice. In distinction from the U.S., Brazilian system of corrections is surrounded by an array of legal and human rights controversies. Page Break That the quality of correctional and criminal justice system interactions is the determining feature of