The favelas started in the late 19th century by people‚ mostly freed slaves‚ who had no where else to live‚ this is how they continued to grow. They have always been a refuge for people who have no where else to go. In a recent census for Brazil‚ about 6 percent of the entire Brazilian population lives in a favela‚ that is equal to about 11.4 million people. They are located in the suburbs of major cities‚
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different path in live while growing up in brutal favelas of Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil. The movie is based on a novel of same name by Paulo Lins‚ who grew up there‚ left it and spends eight years writing the book. Cidade de Deus translated as City of God is favela where poor people. A favela is defined from Portuguese as slum established on outskirts of Rio. Favelas in Brazil are crowded‚ and according to Ricardo Geromel’s
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Carolina Maria de Jesus’ journal "Child of the Dark" is a complete account of five years spent living in a favela in Sao Paolo‚ Brazil. Carolina and her children spent their days and nights trying to survive in the most horrific of slums while the rest of the nation looked down upon them‚ scolding them for being poor and complaining about how the residents of the favela were nothing but a burden on the rest of the world. Rarely did anyone take pity on the single mother and her young‚ defenseless
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1955‚ the birthday of her youngest child and daughter; her daughter’s name is Vera Eunice. The story continues to detail her life during 1958 and 1959. Carolina wants to buy her daughter new shoes for her birthday but they are poor. They live in the favela (ghetto) and Carolina struggles everyday to manage to feed her family. She has three children total‚ two sons and one daughter. Her sons’ names are Jose Carlos and Joao and there is never any interaction between their father and Carolina only a brief
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advantages. Part One By simply review‚ I will say‚ "City of God" ("Cidade de Deus") is the story of a boy who lives in a "favela" what is the word of slum in english on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The "favela" is like a shantytown witch called "Cidade de Deus" in the film. And from the beginning to the end‚ throughout this stylish movie both the boy and the favela grow. In the film‚ we can see the story telling styles are quite like the some Hollywood films such as Shawshank¡¯s Redemption
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City of God (Meirelles 2002) was an eye opening film about the life of the people living in favelas in Rio de Janeiro. It depicts the gruesome details of growing up in a slum and the choices youths must make in order to survive their reality. In an article by Joanne Laurier called “Sincere‚ but avoiding difficult questions”‚ Laurier attacks director Fernando Meirelles on his artistic choices when creating his film City of God (Meirelles 2002). However‚ Laurier completely misses what Meirelles brought
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to ethical issues such as prostitution or poverty. The immense growth of favelas‚ meaning shanty towns‚ in Sao Paulo throughout approximately the last 40 years‚ almost doubling in quantity‚ gives evidence to the growth of poverty. The population of people living in favelas was estimated to be around 2 million in the late 1990’s. A more recent census report from 2007 showed that the number of shanties within the favelas went from 14‚504 to 377‚236 since
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not everywhere in the South is rich. In fact many who come seeking opportunity from the countryside end up in favelas which border the big cities. This is because even though they may be supplied with a job they cannot afford the hefty city lifestyle and therefore are forced to stay in temporary housing. Many families will work in the city for hard earned cash and return to the favelas at night. People struggle to ever leave and many children will grow up and live
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helicopter. The government responded by heightening the crackdown on the city slums of the favelas. As a result many of the favelas in Rio are now under police control (Jazeera). The questions we are now asked is if the coming Olympics provided the motive for the increased importance that have been placed on controlling drug trafficking while also disguising as a strategy and justification to clean up the favelas of Rio? Or are the Olympics irrelevant and merely a beneficiary of the crackdown? It seems
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Tipping Point. Hamilton Spectator‚ D13. Retrieved January 12‚ 2008‚ from Canadian Reference Centre database. McCann‚ B. (2006). The Political Evolution of Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas. Latin American Research Review‚ vol. 41. Retrieved January 10‚ 2008‚ from Academic Search Premier database. Monteirol‚ M. (2004). Brazilian Favelas. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health‚ vol. 58. Retrieved January 12‚ 2008‚ from Academic Search Premier database. Pearlman‚ J. (1999). The Myth of Marginality: Urban
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