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    Glossary - The City of Rio de Janeiro The state capital of Rio de Janeiro‚ so often sung in prose and verse‚ famous worldwide for its natural beauty and friendly people—carioca—is also the nation’s main cultural center and one of the largest financial hubs in the country. Its economy is based especially on tertiary and financial sectors‚ foreign trade‚ media‚ and tourism. Furthermore‚ the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro shelters the Brazilian headquarters of major international companies such

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    The Portuguese began the practice in 1444; by 1460‚ they were annually importing 700 to 800 slaves to Portugal from trading posts and forts established on the African coast. These were African people captured by other Africans and transported to the western coast of Africa. Spain soon followed. Throughout the 15th century‚ Arab traders in northern Africa shipped African people taken from central Africa to markets in Arabia‚ Iran‚ and India. With the rise of the slave trade to the Americas‚ wars over

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    The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. The majority of the rainforest is sited in Brazil with 60% of the rainforest contained there. It is also spread throughout other nations in South America such as Peru‚ Columbia‚ Venezuela‚ Ecuador‚ Bolivia‚ Guyana‚ Suriname‚ and French Guiana. (See Figure 1) Land clearing has become a major contributing factor in the destruction of Amazon Forest and the development of its land. This is predominantly due to human activities which

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    Between January 2006 and July 2006 these criteria have been developed. Parallel to these developments‚ in February 2006 this project was commissioned by SenterNovem on behalf of the Dutch Ministry for Housing‚ Spatial Planning and the Environment. As Brazil is one of the most likely countries to export bio-ethanol from sugar cane to the Netherlands‚ the sustainability of Brazilian bio-ethanol is the main topic of this report. The main objective of this report was a comparison of Dutch sustainability

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    Around the world in 80 treasures PART 10 The 7th treasure. Brazil. Umahara Headdress Task 1.Learn the new vocabulary: Kuyab Igbatsa tribe The Variva River rain forests devastation share scale timber logger grazing land to feed the world with beef burgers threshold remains of rain forests tributary of the Amazon to cling to traditional way of life hunter gatherer to threaten cattle rancher Catholic missionaries to forcibly remove headdress immense importance human

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     €7.04  billion     •  22‚000  employes   •  focus  on  small  and  middle  size  vehicles     BRAZILIAN  MARKET  (data  from  2008):   •  25  automa^ve  compe^tors     •  Brazil  was  the  6th  largest  producer  of  passanger  vehicles   •  VW‚  Ford‚  GM‚  and  Fiat  as  market  leaders  (collec^ve  market  share  of  97%   in  1991)   •  s^ll

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    China‚ India and Russia the transformation towards a market-based economy‚ deregulation and the „opening-up‟ towards the global economy marked the start of economic acceleration. http://www.globalsherpa.org/infrastructure-development-china-india-brazil Infrastructure prowess determines all the growth in BRIC countries CONSEQUENCES: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/af6e8b08-1136-11e2-8d5f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2IsMTIAUA Chinese labor force is no longer increasing so fast. But slowing growth also reflects

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    40 to 350 people to a tribe. There shelters are built with logs and poles which are dug deep into the ground which helps their place when it goes under attack. There beds are hammocks‚ placed on top of each other. They live in tropical forests in Brazil‚ they are very aggressive‚ when they first start off they try and handle the situation by communicating trying to resolve it‚ if that does not work then they got to “chest pounding duels” that’s where whom ever is into it takes turn punching each

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    Case Study The Amazon basin (equatorial) - the effects on tropical climate. The Amazon basin in South America‚ vegetated by tropical rainforest‚ lies within the equatorial climate zone and covers an area of some 8‚235‚430 km 2 mainly in Brazil. The Amazon River flows through the basin from its source high in the Andes towards its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean‚ and is the largest single source of freshwater runoff on Earth‚ representing 15-20% of global river discharge. At present the amazon rainforest

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    Rubber Boom Slavery Dating back hundreds of years the indigenous people of South and Central America had discovered the many uses of rubber‚ taken from what is known as a "Hevea brasiliensis" or more commonly‚ a rubber tree. When the latex is extracted from the tree it is hardened and formed into rubber which natives would use for numerous tasks such as making shoes‚ handles for tools‚ and even rubber balls for sports (Dean 23). Due to its useful yet uncanny features it created an immediate

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