Elecciones en Brasil Hola tíos y tías. Hace algunos meses tuvimos elecciones en Brasil y el país quedo muy dividido entre la izquierda y la derecha. Muchas personas que yo conozco jamás votarían a Ascio – de derecha – mientras otras nunca votarían a Dilma – de izquierda. Yo creo en la democracia y que aquello momento fue muy importante para el país. Pero fue un momento muy delicado y en verdad el país sigue dividido. Mi sincero deseo es que este país pueda seguir creciendo y avanzando también con las políticas sociales que mejoraran la vida de millones de personas en el país en los últimos años. Esas son extremamente importantes, muchas personas tan sufridas, muchas veces explotadas pueden tener la esperanza de un futuro mejor justamente por esas conquistas. Hasta Pronto.

To the Trustees, To the Trustees, XYZ Fund Scholarship(s) I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the Board of Trustees for having awarded me with the XYZ Fund Scholarship. I am deeply honoured to have been awarded with the scholarship, which lately means the possibility to reach an invaluable higher education experience that will prepare me to take the next step in my life and carrer. From an early age, my pursuit for a better future through educational endeavors has been met with great obstacles that often seemed insurmountable. It was through these difficult experiences that I learnt the transformational power of education. My university degree played an important strategic role to prepare me to hold an unthinkable position to most people that have grown-up in the same inner-city neighborhood as I did.

Graffiti in Brazil and Political Protests - Part 2 Part 2 From left to right, the first personage is a mix of many symbols. Wearing a green long-sleeve-Brazilian-flag shirt, the person is both maneuvering a ball and holding a bottle – which in my option seems to be of an alcoholic drink – he is also blind. The band blocking his vision is not the only strange detail above the neck of the personage, his face is strange, maybe a horse face, but he smiles, he cannot see but can smile. Next in the picture there is a political activist. He wears a hoodie and writes a political phrase in the wall. His light-blue pants, orange zipper and the hoodie do not allow people to see much of his body and doing so prevents people from spotting his identity. The third element is a phrase that in Portuguese says: Corruption a country of everybody. The phrase paraphrases one of the principal Brazil's Federal Government slogan that says: Brazil a country of everybody. In my opinion, the country of Brazil is corrupt not because of our politicians' manner of doing politics, but because of two principal reasons.. The vast majority of the population is blind, and so is the first person in the figure, and those who do not see, do not fight for their better future without corruption. Moreover, part of the population already got used to corruption; they may want to continue to live their lives as it is today: with corruption everywhere. The two personages in the picture represent the entire population of the country. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the population could be represented by the blind one. Many people argue that politicians are corrupted or that one party is more corrupted than another, and that is why the country is so divided nowadays. However, this is just a reflex of the problem showed in the figure: while a few protest and try to make the country a corruption-free-place, the vast majority seem to be blind. In conclusion, yes, Graffiti has become accepted as art by the vast majority of Brazilians and can be found in most places. Yet, important artist as well as new ones still use the art as tool to protest against politicians neglect with the population in need. http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/633/758275/Os-Gemeos_Corruption_Nov10_4_1000.jpg

Graffiti in Brazil and Political Protests - Part 1 PART 1 The culture of any country changes as time passes. Sometimes what is seen as morally wrong, becomes acceptable, what serves for one purpose becomes used for another, and so on. The urban art called graffiti is a strong example with this dynamic, as both The Economist1, a British magazine that's more-than-100-years-old, and Time Out2, another British periodic, registered how the now called art gained the actual high profile status. Despite the UK's focus of the essays, the situation is pretty much the same in the big cities in the western-world: Graffiti has become popular and valuable. I would like to highlight, however, that in Brazil this art is often used as a means of political protests. Graffiti in Brazil can be seen in many places and serves for many purposes as Young3 registered and for me one of the most interesting thing about Brazilian Graffiti is that it is used many times to protest about political issues. The rise of graffiti and how it transforms itself from simple tags to visual elements identified as art in the country followed the same patter as any where in the world and Young also write about this journey. This year Brazil hold the most important sports event in the world, the World-Futbol-Cup and how the politicians spent money to have all the necessary facilities ready for the games were heavily criticised. And Graffiti artists were also involved in the protests painting many walls about this theme as Huffington post published4. To deeper represent my argument of how deeply involved in political protests are urban artists, I chose to analyse a photo of piece of graffiti painted by the Brazilian renouned artists, Os Gemeos. In a plain grey wall under a highway, the artists write and draw a very simple, yet powerful message. Each of the three elements in the picture bring a specific message and interacting together in the same painting they, in some sense, represent the political scenario of Brazil.

Feijoada – un plato muy rico del Brasil. Feijoada – un plato muy rico del Brasil. Hola mis amigos de Italki. Aquí una posible narrativa más de mi día. Hoy un amigo me llamó a las dos y cuarto para irnos a comer feijoada, que es un plato muy rico y famoso del Brasil. El día de comer feijuada es diferente depende da ciudad que tu estás. Mientras en Rio comemos feijuada en los domingos, en São Paulo es más común hace-lo sábado. Pero el sabor e la riqueza del plato se queda igual. Le dije, claro que me voy, pero le pregunté si podíamos encontrarnos a las cuatro menos quince pues había marcado una conversación a las tres con otro amigo. Es verdad que me gusta mucho comer feijoada, pero tenia que ayudar a otra persona primero. Me dijo que estaba bien, porque sabía que era mi plato preferido y que se yo estuvo posponiendo la merienda era por algo importante. Una cosa final muy importante que lo dice era que él no podría ir conduciendo su coche, porque hay una ley muy restriña que no permite que beban e dirijan. Hasta

La importancia del planeamento en el fomento de las ciudades. Hace poco tiempo visité una ciudad muy desenvolvida. La ciudad tenia zonas distintas para usos distintos. Barrios residenciales estaban en el centro da la ciudad, tiendes y muchas opciones de lazer cerca del centro, y las industrias quederan en las afueras de la ciudad. En esta ciudad los parques no eran muy grandes. Pero, habia muchos parques. Estos estavan en todas las regiones. En el barrio mais central vivian mucha gente extranjera, habia tambien una igresia muy antigua. La plaza principal de esto era muy bonita. En los barrios residenciales las calles son muy tranquilas. Limite a ese barrio residencial, habia un barrio com muchas tiendas, teatros y jardisenes. Este barrio es muy turisticos, los que o visitan compran mucho. En las afueras de la ciudad hay muchas zonas industriales que estan ligadas a ciudad por trem e estradas. Por fin creo que esta forma de planear una ciudad fue muy inteligente. Hasta

My MBA Intro Hello Folks, Here I go with my Intro. I am a Brazilian-Rio-de-Janeiro-borned who studied Business and Administration at University. During Uni, I took a gap year and moved to London to gain an invaluable international experience as well as to become really fluent in English. While in London, I took the advantage of being close to Europe and I went backpacking during summer. Coming back to Brazil, I graduated and went to work, first in Belo Horizonte/Minas Gerais, in the strategy team of a railway-based-logistic division of a big company that was planning to spin-off and unlock the value of that division. As soon the spin-off project began I moved to São Paulo to support the private placement project. Once concluded the private placement, I worked in the governance implementation process. Now it is time to move to Fonty. I love travelling, enjoy a bike ride, and as a christian I always get involved in church's activities related to both espiritual or social servicies. Can't wait to the course begining. Cheers