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    Welcome to Brazil! Home of soccer... When thinking of Brazil‚ some think of the beaches‚ some think of the food‚ some think of the Christ the Redeemer statue‚ and some think of other things. But when I think of Brazil‚ I think of soccer! In Brazil‚ soccer is like a religion. At every corner of every street‚ you’ll see people‚ all ages‚ playing soccer. At the beach‚ you’ll see people playing soccer. In Brazil‚ soccer is every where. Brazil and its national team have changed the sport as we know it

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    Introduction The South American country of Brazil is well-known for its biodiversity and wealth of natural resources. The Amazon River and rainforest are located in Brazil‚ a country with more than 800‚000 square miles of coastline‚ and a landmass so large that its borders touch all but two of its neighboring countries (Rich‚ 1999). The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest‚ and for purposes of comparison‚ "its size is equivalent to one-half of the entire United States" (Rich

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    Music There is nothing better in life to me than music. Since the 5th grade I have loved music; playing it‚ making it and listening to it. Over the past few years I have learned to make repairs to band instruments. Music has become my passion and I plan to make it a part of my future. One day I plan to work with music through its ever expanding technology. I also plan to continue playing perhaps in a jazz band or the symphony. In jazz I can play fun pieces of music‚ and in a symphony I could play

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    Brazil is located in South America‚ takes up almost half of the continent‚ and is the fifth largest country in the world(1). Problems of poverty are prevalent in Brazil 40% of the county’s income goes to the top 10% of financially richest people where only about 1% of the income goes to the bottom 10%(1) about 35% of Brazil’s population lives in poverty(19). As of 2010 90.4% of Brazil’s population is literate (17)‚ out of Brazil’s total population approximately 50.8% are female although women only

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    communities in both Brazil and South Africa. However‚ there are differences between these two cultures that show how gay communities adapt to changes. Before the introduction of Western ideas‚ Brazil and South Africa had their own definition of homosexuality. As Western ideas begin to spread through the media and internet‚ their ideas are incorporated with Western ideas. This creates an identity system that is not fully Westernized‚ but a hybrid of both the original and new. Brazil was under a dictatorship

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    possession using music mostly from the hand-held mbira. British rule highly disapproved of this‚ and in turn left many Zimbabweans alienated form their ancient culture.[1] There are several different types of traditional Shona musics‚ including mbira‚ singing‚ and drumming. Very often‚ this music is accompanied by dancing and participation by the audience.[2] In Shona music‚ there is little distinction between the performer and the audience; both are actively involved in the music making‚ and both

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    Gluckel of Hameln #2 Following her husband’s death in 1689‚ with eight of her children still unmarried and living at home‚ Gluckel continued single-handedly to manage the family’s business affairs in Hamburg and at the trade fairs she attended in various cities. This is the focus of Book Five in Gluckel’s memoir’s‚ she mourns over her husband’s death‚ engages in the kiddish‚ and continues to read the Torah day and night. A major theme within Book Five is the aspect of a positive Jewish community

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    Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Travesti Sex Workers in Brazil Introduction Travestility in Brazil has been used to refer to the disparateness of travestis’ identities. On the other hand‚ travesti is an emic idea widely used in Latin America and Brazil. Scholars argue that trying to explain who travestis are can seem paradoxical‚ especially when travesti identities are talked about as heterogenous‚ plural and multiple. Travestis are individuals who change their physical appearance to

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    ‘Samba Diallo is the victim of forces beyond his control’. Discuss this view of the protagonist of L’aventure ambiguë. In L’aventure ambiguë‚ the colonization of Senegal by the French have led to different and often conflicting views from different characters‚ clashes of different cultures and practices of religion‚ as well as the education that was provided by the Diallobé and from the new foreign schools. These few examples are useful in explaining the term ‘victim’‚ i.e. what he is a victim

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    Body Image in Brazil and USA Four thousand years ago the last of the mammoths were roaming the earth before extinction‚ anesthesia was still 3800 years away from being discovered‚ and tools were still being made out of stone. What else was happening that long ago? Humans were performing the first known cases of reconstructive and cosmetic surgeries‚ documenting back to skin grafts in ancient India. Between the first documented procedures and the early 1800 ’s not a lot progressed aside from the

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