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    Letter of Persuasion

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    The President International Olympic Committee Château de Vidy‚ Case postal 356‚ 1001 Lausanne Switzerland Dear President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Our names are Curtis Buchan and Lachlan Jones‚ 16 year old boys from Sydney‚ Australia and we are writing to convince you that our logo would be the best choice to use for the up and coming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil in 2016. We believe that our logo is of a high standard and we truly believe

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    Greek festival held each spring to honor Dionysus‚ the god of wine (“Brazilian Carnival in Rio”). The Romans adopted the festival to honor two of their gods‚ Bacchanalia and Saturnalia. During the Roman festival‚ slaves and masters would exchange clothes and spend the day in drunken revelry. The Catholic Church later modified the festival as a celebration leading up to Ash Wednesday (“Brazilian Carnival in Rio”). The name Carnival originates from the Italian "Carnival" festival‚ which means "to remove

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    Brazil: Food and Beverage Market Outlook Although inflation and interest rates will continue to fluctuate over the coming years‚ we believe that positive macro trends will drive sustained growth in Brazil’s food and beverage industry and even more attention from multinational companies and private equity investors. Interest in Brazil is predicated on strong fundamentals and a market too large to ignore. In a country famed for income inequality‚ extreme poverty was cut in half between 2003 and

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    Colonization of Brazil

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    establishment of the sugar cane industry and its intensive labor demands which were met with Native and later African slaves. From 1565 through 1567‚ Mem de Sá‚ the third Governor General of Brazil‚ successfully destroyed a ten year-old French colony called France Antarctique‚ at Guanabara Bay. He and his nephew‚ Estácio de Sá‚ then founded the city of Rio de Janeiro on March 1567. In 1621‚ Philip II of Portugal divided the Governorate General of Brazil into two separate and autonomous colonies‚ the State of

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    Favelas Essay

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    Whether it means putting up fences or just keeping them in a distance from the others. These people are being treated like animals‚ forced to live in flooded areas on top of one another. The favelas in Rio De Janeiro are very similar to the shanty towns in Jakarta‚ Indonesia. The Favelas in Rio De Janeiro lie beneath the beautiful part of Brazil. Some of the old famous favelas where made of a mixture of sand and clay. Then eventually they where made of wood‚ brick and sheet metal. The first favelas

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    (around 16% of country’s population)‚ 800 professional clubs and 11 thousand of federated athletes (Jogadas de Craque‚ 2010). According to Robert Alvarez Fernandez‚ from Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM)‚ 82% of the Brazilian adult population (around 87 million people) declare being fan of some club‚ but only 15% of this audience regularly consume products related to soccer (Jogadas de Craque‚ 2010). Beyond this economic aspect‚ soccer also is an element in the identity and social memory

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    tungsten in the Arouca Geopark (Portugal) A. PINTO – aninhaspinto@gmail.com (AGA – Arouca Geopark Association) C. OLIVEIRA – claudiarouca@gmail.com G. BRANDÃO – goreti@adrimag.com.pt (CLDS AroucaInclui‚ ADRIMAG – Associação de Desenvolvimento Rural Integrado das Serras de Montemuro‚ Arada e Gralheira) I. RODRIGUES – museu@cm-arouca.pt (Arouca Municipal Museum / Arouca Council) V. MAGALHÃES – vmagalhaes@geoparquearouca.com (AGA – Arouca Geopark Association) ABSTRACT: The “Told Stories‚ Preserved

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    factors inherent to the country and existing operating knowledge IKEA possesses. Brazil: * 7th largest economy in the world with a GDP per capita of $11‚340‚ concentrated in relatively few‚ large cities including Sao Paolo‚ Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro * The GDP growth rate averaged 4.34% over the past 5 years (World Bank 2007) * The middle class is expanding and is encouraged by the government (expanding from 38% in 2002 to 52% in 2012 according to the Brazilian government) * Brazil

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    Sociology 241 Course Paper Question #1: Using Hagedorn’s analysis of the Hamburgs‚ and the Conservative Vice Lords in Chicago‚ and the Crips and Bloods video’s analysis of gangs in LA‚ discuss how Hagedorn’s concept of demoralization‚ and Cornell West’s concept of nihilism‚ have an objective basis in the historical structure of Chicago’s and LA’s racism. In John M. Hagedorn’s book A World of Gangs he states‚ “An increasingly frustrated and demoralized population will reluctantly turn to

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    My favorite Advertisement’s name is ‘’ Tokyo Dancing Hotel’’ ‚ for the drink Lipton Ice Tea. Ironically‚ it wasn’t shot in Tokyo‚ but in Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil. It stars the actor Hugh Jackman‚ who is known for his role on the ‘’X-Men’’ series as Wolverine and in the ‘Van Helsing Movie’ as the main role. In this ad‚ the only thing you see him doing is basically dancing. Hugh Jackman plays a man who seems a little tired‚ run out‚ and who’s in a place where he doesn’t have anyone around him that he

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