Portuguese language Essays

  • Doing Business in a Foreign Country

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    Written communication is expressing oneself clearly, using language with precision, constructing a logical argument, note taking, editing and summarizing, and writing reports.(Spears, R. A. (2001). When doing business with a foreign country such as Brazil, one needs to also factor in the countries political history, religion, and culture of your audience. There are three things that will help with communicating with partners you may have in Brazil or any other foreign country. The first is structure

  • The Relationship Between Africa and Brazil

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    the latest official information in 2011, there were technical cooperation projects either in the design or implementation phases in 38 out of 54 African countries (ABC, 2011). Regarding the top beneficiaries of the Brazilian cooperation in Africa, Portuguese-speaking African countri... ... middle of paper ... ...urplus with most of the African countries, with the exception of Nigeria, explained by the heavy oil imports (Alves, 2013). At the same time, investment funds seek to raise funds to enable

  • The Importance Of The Brazilian Language In Brazil

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    official Brazilian language is Portuguese, and it is spoken by 99% of the citizens there. However, due to their Amerindian (Native American) and African origins and influence, the Portuguese spoken in Brazil is a variation from the traditional European Portuguese (Cabral). Also, due to a strong immigrant presence, there are small portions of Brazil that speak minority languages, which include German, Italian, and others. Because of the prominence of Portuguese as the dominant language, and the fact that

  • The Emergence and Africanization of Catholic Christianity in the Kongo

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    traditional religion. The kings of Kongo did not try to replace previous beliefs and practices with Christianity, nor did they simply mask their traditional religion, but rather they incorporated Christian doctrines, rituals, and some aspects of Portuguese Christian culture such as literacy and medicine, into the framework of the traditional Kongolese lifestyle. Three ways by which we can evaluate the Catholicism that developed in the kingdom of Kongo are through examining how the Kings’ personal

  • Portuguese Immigration Testimonial

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    remember listening to my father tell me stories about New England. My favorite story was about the explorers and how they came to find New England. He told me that there was a nautical map that dates back to 1424 which depicted New England and that a Portuguese Sailor, Dualmo, arrived in New England in 1487, five years prior to Christopher Columbus whom supposedly was the first man to discover New England. My parents and I were the last in my immediate family to travel to New England. My grandfather

  • Vasco da Gama's Exploration of India and Portuguese Voyages of Discovery

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    Vasco da Gama's Exploration of India and Portuguese Voyages of Discovery When asked which nation contributed the most to sea exploration in the fifteenth century, the obvious answer is Spain. What if there were another nation, a nation whose contributions were far more than landing one continent? What if there was a nation that in only 100 years managed to sail in every ocean, every major sea, touched every continent except Antarctica and possibly Australia, and were the first Europeans to land

  • Portugal´s Polulation and Economy

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    Portugal would be agreed to be one of the most beautiful countries in the world. From it natural wonders to its amazing architecture, Portugal would be a great place for anyone to visit. Portugal’s official name is Portuguese Republic or Republica Portuguesa. It is located on the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula, and is bordered by Spain and the Atlantic Ocean. Portugal is mainly popular for its food, history, and sports, all of which they have se important records for. Portugal’s political past

  • The Azores

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    The Azores is located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in between North America and Europe. Azores is a region not a country. The main language is Portuguese. The archipelago is 760 miles from Lisbon and 2,110 miles from New York. The Azores is made up of nine beautiful and fascinating islands, Corvo, Flores, Faial, Graciosa, Pico, Sao Jorge, Sao Miguel, Santa Maria, and Terceira. A group of islands like this is also called an archipelago. They are divided into three groups. The Eastern group

  • Factors That Motivated The European To Explore And Colonize America

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    1. The factors that motivated the European (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and English in particular) to explore and colonize North America and South America concerned material gain and / or religious freedom. True. I believe many of the motivators for the Europeans to move to and colonize North and South America was due to material gain and religious freedom. First I would like to talk about several of the material gains that were either made or expectect to be made in the move to explore

  • Compare and Contrast, South Africa and America

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    We know that South Africa and America are very different countries, but really how different are they? Sure they have different traditions and cuisines, but lets see what things they have in common. Let’s take cuisines for example, very different food but do they use a lot of the same ingredients or do they cook it the same? Education, they probably teach completely different, but are they equally strict or are graduation requirements the same? I’m going to compare and contrast America and South

  • The Effects Of Portuguese Colonization In Mozambique

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    For over 500 years Mozambique was under complete Portuguese domination, which left the Mozambican economy underdeveloped and distorted. In general, Portuguese colonization was characterized by brutal use of coercive force to extract goods and service to the indigenous people impacting greatly on the relations and production within the Mozambique society. Compared to other European nations, Portugal had many economical and human limitations, giving the imperativeness of effective occupation advocated

  • The Unconquerable and Intelligent Nzinga, Queen of Angola

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    the battle against the Portuguese invaders and resisted until the end of1663 without ever being caught. Nzinga Mbandi is known for her courage and shrewdness. 343 years after her death, Angola still remembers her as Queen Ginga. She left an indelible mark on black identity and African. With her daring and successful resistance, the sovereign fought against the Portuguese colonialists and the slave trade. In 1578, began the occupation of African territories by the Portuguese. The king Ngola Kiluanji

  • Education In Angola Essay

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    the new government had the challenge set by 1976 concrete policies that could permit the correction of high illiteracy rates presented across the country, resulting from poor infrastructure, as well as materials to support teaching, inherited from Portuguese colonialism. After a brief incursion into education in Angola before, during, and after independence, sum up that education was not always distributed equitably at all times of the construction of the history of Angola. Until the early years of

  • F1

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    It really all started at the end of the first lap of 1988 Portuguese Grand Prix. Aryton Senna and Alain Prost were nearing the end of their first season driving together in the totally dominant Mclaren Honda team. All season long, the tension between these two great drivers had been building as the battle for the drivers crown intensified. But, even the most informed observer in Portugal could never have dreamt of what was about to be unleashed along with its impact on the consequences for Formula

  • Pelé - One of the Greatest Soccer Players of All Time

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    throughout his soccer career. He would repair his and his teammates shoes because very few soccer teams had people to do it for them. About the time he took that job, he was given the nickname of Pelé. The word, which has no literal translation in Portuguese, was given to him by the boys he used to play soccer with. Pelé didn’t like it at the time, because he thought they were making fun of him. He sometimes got into fights with his friends over it, and asked them to call him Edson, his r... ... middle

  • Resistance to Imperialism and the Zulu War

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    based mainly on conversion, the Islamic armies never penetrated deeply into sub-Saharan Africa. In the middle of the 15th century, Portuguese explorers began to establish trading outposts along the western coast of Africa, thus beginning the first steps toward imperialism by European nations. It is estimated that the first trading of Africans as slaves by the Portuguese began in 1444. The West African kingdom of Benin, however, still suc...

  • Portuguese Exploration and The Widespread of Portuguese Cuisine

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    Portuguese exploration as early as the 1400’s plays the biggest role in the widespread of Portuguese cuisine around the world today. Although the purpose of Portuguese exploration had absolutely no goal of obtaining a universal food market in a multitude of different countries and continents it did lead to such a circumstance. It’s a conception that most people think is irrational and continues to stay under the radar, yet there is enough evidence to support every argument about it. Portuguese sailors

  • Portuguese Essay

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    A nossa associação, ou seja, a Associação de Professores para a Educação Intercultural fez agora, em Setembro de 2003, dez anos. Surgiu ligada a um projecto que existiu no tempo em que o Engenheiro Roberto Carneiro era Ministro da Educação, que foi sem dúvida, para mim, mas também sou duvidosa ao afirmar isto porque ele foi meu professor e eu gosto imenso dele e surgiu praticamente porque ele começou a preocupar-se com estas situações dos filhos dos imigrantes que vinham das ex-colónias e

  • Figures of the Renaissance - Ferdinand Magellan

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    1480 to lesser nobles living near Vila Real in northern Portugal, Magellan was raised as a page to the Portuguese king John II in the royal court at Lisbon. Magellan was educated from then on, becoming interested in geography and astronomy, thus in 1496 he became a squire. In the year 1505 Magellan would get his first taste of the sea, at the age of 20. He was sent to India to install Portuguese viceroy Francisco de Almeida, as well as establish naval bases along the way. As it turns out, Magellan

  • Jellyfish Venom

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    described. Background The marine creatures commonly known as jellyfish are members of the phylum Cnidaria. Of the four classes of cnidarians, jellyfish come from both the Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa classes. Most jellyfish are schphozoids, while the Portuguese Man-of-War (Physalia physalis) is a hydroid. As cnidarians, jellyfish possess two tissue types: endoderm and ectoderm, in addition to a single cell layer of jelly-like mesoglea between the endoderm and the ectoderm (Russell 21). Jellyfish exhibit