Essays on Brazilians

Environmental Sociology

Introduction The risk associated with significant projects like the construction if the Belo Monte Dam tends to be quite big. Risks tend to affect people in various aspects, for instance, there is a risk that affects people in the individual context and those that affect them in the general aspects (Mythen 2004, p. 11). However, the manner in which people deal with the possibility of an adverse outcome, especially in an investment like the big dam tends to differ depending on the magnitude of the risk. Though the risks related to the project can cause dangerous and catastrophic problems, ...

Culture and customs influence the structure and functioning of organizations (Martin & Chaney, 2009). Brazil is one of the leading economic partners of the United States. Managing an organization in Brazil requires strategies attuned to the local culture and customs.

Background of Brazil

Brazil has a democratic political system. Executive and legislative leaders of the federal republic hold office via election. Brazil’s economy is the eight largest in the world. In 2012, the country’s gross domestic product was $2.25 million. (PwC, 2013) Main exports are agricultural products and natural resources. Industrial production has also grown. Primary imports are oil and natural ...

Introduction

A consumer brand is a product that best suits customer needs and wants as per their expectation. The relationship that is in existence between people, and the brand of product they like most is not different that exists when they relate to other individuals in the society. Understanding the relationship between customers and the product throughout the value chain is critical to marketers. It helps managers to strategize on how to deal with the clients in the best way possible. Marketers who know their customers and their needs are the in a position that they can retain and even ...

Despite the fact that both the United States and Brazil have a history of the institution of slavery, each country documented a different reaction to the emancipation of those in bondage. Racial relations among Brazilians were significantly different in comparison to the documented experiences of African Americans residing in the United States after the abolition of slavery. For instance, while African Americans became subject to discriminatory laws that included Jim Crow Laws and Black Codes, Brazil did not experience the same form of government-imposed racism. In other words, legislations did not institutionalize racism among the people of Brazil; however, ...

Ever since attaining its independence from Portugal on September 7, 1822, Brazil has seldom enjoyed any prolonged spell as a true democracy. In fact, Brazil’s longest period as a truly democratic state began a few years ago in 1985 after transitioning from a military government. The period after independence has been dotted with a monarchy; which was one of the few in the Americas, and a series of military coups that the country became synonymous with in the 20th century. A multiplicity of both domestic and external factors coalesced to create political instability in the country with a ...

Summary of the Thesis or Main Ideas in this Book

Thesis statement Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes use dramatic and compelling narratives to highlight the plight of homosexuals as well as give an insight of transgenderism and biological sex as part of the gendered notion itself. Travestis are a group of males who adopt feminine lifestyles, names, and clothing as well as linguistic pronouns and depend mainly on prostitution for survival. The author gives a deep analysis of transgendered approaches used by society to understand homosexuals and LGBT prostitutes. Kulick examines the causative effects of Travesti prostitution and gives a positive and affirmative explanation to ...

Abstract

Developed countries have long agreed that there is a necessity to assist developing countries if the world is to develop continuously without issues. These developing countries have the capacity to compete against developed countries if they are given enough support and education on how they can bolster their development. Today, two regions are currently succeeding in breaking the expectations of the international community and they are East Asia and Latin America. Since the end of the Second World War, countries for both regions launched extensive economic reforms that enabled prosperity to persist in the region. Considering this change within ...

Women and Births in Bom Jesus

According to Scheper-Hughes, the residents of the place Bom Jesus were living in very squalid condition. The men, women and children were used to living a very hard life. Those poor women in Bom Jesus believed that an ideal family should have two or three children and actually that is what they actually brought up but a striking concern is that they had a range of nine to twelve pregnancies (Scheper-Hughes, 332). The answer to the question, why so many pregnancies and yet the ideal size is just a few can only be given by the culture and the ...

The country of origin is branded and depicted in the marketing strategy of any brand to leverage the secondary associations of that brand with a geographical region or the country. This technique is also used to create the primary associations of a particular brand, product or service to the country of its origin. The country of origin effects was used in designing the marketing strategy of the Sagatiba in the UK. Sagatiba is a Brazilian distilled spirit. It is similar to a distilled spirit widely used in Brazil named Cachaca. It is made from the sugarcane and has an ...

Sports play an essential role in any society considering the impact it has on the public, the economy of the country, mass media and even at an individual level. Many are the times when sports coincide with communal values that every society in every country holds. This and more can be said about football because it has turned to be a symbol of unity in the world because it can change things, people and life in itself. Many fans from all over the world display almost similar qualities when it comes to their love for the game in as ...

Footnote: sources used are Cannon, de la Fuente, Dominguez, Laing, Shecaira,

Skidmore, Steur and Telles. Comparative Racism Between the United States, Cuba and Brazil Racism in the Americas is the societal result of colonization that took place from the end of the fifteenth century to the neo-colonialism of the last century. Then, as these eras ended, different countries adapted to the plurality of races that now existed in their own ways, some better than others. In most cases, but not all, there was European-American sentiment of superiority over other races that they now lived with. They now had freed slaves that they mistreated and subverted for hundreds of years, as ...