produces twenty percent of our Earth’s oxygen. It also offers the world’s highest level of biodiversity‚ meaning that it has the largest variety of living and non-living organisms. The Amazon rainforest covers nine countries in South America including Brazil‚ Colombia‚ Peru‚ Venezuela‚ Ecuador‚ Bolivia‚ Guyana‚ Suriname‚ and French Guiana. Today‚ the Amazon is being widely affected by deforestation and will never be able to retain its lost forests. Some of the main reasons of Amazonian deforestation are
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barrier as the country has a 35% tax rate on pharmaceutical products compared to a global average of 6.1%. Due to the fact that the government is highly support generic medicine than patent medicine‚ it has resulted 80% of the generics commercialized in Brazil being produced locally and limited access to innovative medicines. The Brazilian government also has great influential power on negotiating the flexibility on pricing strategies and purchasing policy with major companies‚ which in turn has led to
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The Itaipu Dam (Guarani: Itaipu‚ Portuguese: Itaipu‚ Spanish: Itaipú; Portuguese pronunciation: [itɐjˈpu]‚ locally: [ita.iˈpu]‚ Spanish pronunciation: [itaiˈpu]) is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The name "Itaipu" was taken from an isle that existed near the construction site. In the Guaraní language‚ Itaipu means "the sounding stone". The dam is the largest operating hydroelectric facility in terms of annual energy generation‚ generating
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Christianity in Brazil It is almost impossible to consider any part of the Brazilian culture without considering Christianity. It is the dominant religion of Brazil and reflects every aspect of Brazilian way of life: Beliefs‚ Politics‚ Economy‚ National Holidays‚ Media reports‚ festive and community in general. In this essay I will try to focus on the lesser-known aspects and facts of Christianity embedded in the Brazilian culture. Brazil has a population of over 200 million habitants and one
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group of four countries(Brazil‚ Russia‚ India and China). The four original BRIC Countries comprise more than 2.8 billion people or 40 percent of the world‘s population‚ cover more than a quarter of the world’s land area over three continents‚ and account for more than 25 percent of global GDP Building Better Global Economic BRICs In 2001 and 2002‚ real GDP growth in large emerging market economies will exceed that of the G7. At end-2000‚ GDP in US$ on a PPP basis in Brazil‚ Russia‚ India and China
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conditions‚ they now have a president elected for a 5-year term. There are many different political parties‚ and the type of government Paraguay runs under is constitutional republic. Unlike Paraguay’s surrounding countries‚ Argentina‚ Chile and Brazil‚ it is land-locked therefore giving them fewer resources than their neighbors. With a predominantly agricultural economy‚ Paraguay is most dependent on these products. Conflict
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In his article “ Time Talk‚ with an Accent” Robert Levine discusses about culture shock when he lived in Brazil and understand Brazilian people’s habit about time. When he began his scientific journey in his early career as a professor of psychology at Federal University in Niteroi‚ Brazil and he found the hardest part of his life about punctual time rather than different language‚ his own privacy‚ and standards of cleanliness issues. As it described in article Robert Levine was a young American
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just world and it grew to become one of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies. It’s a Catholic Agency for International Aid Development and began in Australia in 1964. One major part that caritas works in is Latin America‚ they focus on Bolivia‚ Brazil‚ El Salvador‚ Haiti and Peru. Bolivia is one of Latin America’s poorest nations. It is landlocked in South America stretching from the central Andes to the Amazon basin. Bolivia has history of internal conflicts‚ dictatorship and tensions between
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as other parts of the world. The best candidate for a new overseas market at this time would be Brazil. This report will thoroughly examine the reasons why it would be a good business decision for Krispy Kreme to enter into the Brazilian market. Why Brazil? There were many qualified markets that would have been great for Krispy Kreme to enter‚ but the best option would be Brazil. Brazil is the fifth-most populated country and Latin America’s largest market. The country has the world
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those that are related by blood or marriage‚ but does not encapsulate all households‚ especially the types we encounter nowadays across cultures. In this essay I will compare the contemporary societies and family definitions of the United States and Brazil. Focusing on various components that represent family life‚ I hope to bring about a clearer picture of the similarities and differences in these countries. The Brazilian population was approximately 201. 01 million as of 2013‚ while the US population
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