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Archive for February, 2008
26
Feb
The Brazilian History
The Brazilian official history starts in 1500, a bit more than five hundred years ago, when the country was discovered by Pedro Alvares Cabral, a Portuguese traveler who was on his way to the Indias, but ended up arriving at Brazil. After some discussions, the Brazilian territory was divided by Portugal and Spain, those countries were the owners of Brazil.
There were indians here when they arrived, the Portuguese people were very surprised,
as the indians here had almost no hair on their bodies, and they all walked naked, what was very strange for them.The Portuguese made friends with the natives by giving them some objects, such as mirrors, thing they did not know. The natives ended up turning into slaves, together with the African ones that were imported.
As soon as the Portuguese guys arrived here, lots of indians were raped, as the men on the ships were traveling for months, with only men on the ships, they were so desperate, and the indians were so vulnerable, that it happened these rapes, added up with the ones against the African slaves, made the Brazilian skin color. A mixture of races. Brazil was on slavery for over 300 years. Right after the country was divided by Portuguese and
Spanish people, other immigrants from all over the world started to come.
Brazil has a sad history, it was filled with slavery, crimes, racist actions, stupid governments, the country had it’s independence, but it is dependant on other countrie’s economy until today, there is a lot of corruption on the government of Brazil and people are too passive, they are being stolen and do nothing, the same happened five hundred years ago.
22
Feb
Economy in Brazil
The Brazilian economy is now estable, Brazil is categorized as a country in
development, such as India, for example. Most specialists believe the country
does not develop as much as it has potential to do so because of the government,
which is filled with corruption, stealing, and lack of will do work and make
Brazil a bigger and stronger country.
The Brazilian currency is now the Real (R$), although it has changed a lot
during the years so that the inflation could be controled, but it has now
been stablished. The real is getting stronger as the dollar price falls down,
that happens because Brazil is a country that still depends a lot on
other countries, it is not a self sustaintable country at all.
Brazil has huge sources of money, such as oil and steel companies, and a lot
of multionacional companies have been installed there, mainly because of
the low salaries the workers receive (the minimum wage in Brazil is R$400,00 which is
no more than $250,00), and the low price of the brute products too.And also,
the government gives special treatment for these companies, such as free terrain,
or make them tax-free for up to 10 years. So it ends up being a very good deal for them.
to have companies there.
Brazil is a country that still has a lot to develop economicaly, and that is
something that is not going to change until there are changes from the government,
one thing that Brazil is also remembered for is that they are the country with the highest
taxes on the world, and unfortunately, this money is not used correctly. It is a country
with a huge potential that is not being explored.
While being on a business trip I had to kill the time but didn’t know what to do as I left my books and magazines in my luggage and had nothing to read. Frankly speaking, I do not like browsing through the Internet when I do not have to. You see, much work is connected with web design and web promotion and I spend roughly 10 hours a day in front of my laptop and I literally hate the Internet and never switch on my notebook when there is no work to do. However, being on a plane there was nothing else but a wireless connection and I decided to browse a little and read my favourite books online. But suddendly an instant message from my co-worker changed my attitude to online Entertainment. Mattew sent me the link to online TV shows that can be watched from the official web site of Entertainment Studios.
You know, people began starring at me as I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw comics unleashed section. Craig Shoemaker and Butch Bradley - the most famous comedians made my day! This is awesome! The jokes of these guys can hardly be repeated.
I have just added a new category, the category places. I’ll be starting with Brazil, my own country. This will be a serie of five articles: general information, economy, tourism, history and culture. Let me know what do you think of it! 
General Information about Brazil
Brazil is a very big country, divided into twenty six states and a federal district, it is not possible to give Brazil a main characteristic, as each part of the country can be metaforicaly considered a different country, there were some movements to make the South of the country a different country, but it was not effected.
Anyway, the Brazilian image on the rest of the world is not so good anymore, the country is seen as a complete mess, where the only important things are Carnival and soccer, which is, of course, not true. The world has a wrong view of Brazil, most likely because of it’s size.
Brazil is a tropical country, the weather is hot the biggest part of the year, but there are some curiosities, for example, the South of the country has a very intense winter, it even snows in a few cities, and the Northeast has no winter, there is no winter over there, the seasons are divided into rainy and dry. It can be a good thing for tourists who are looking for some hot weather, but it must be horrible to live in a place where you are not going to ever feel the cold weather.
So, basically, Brazil is a good place, even though it is not seen like that around the globe, of course, the country has problems, tell me which country does not, one of the main characterisits of the Brazilian people is that they are very warm, tourists are loved over there, and people are generous, Brazilian people are certainly the best feature of Brazil.
14
Feb
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06
Feb
YouTube Vs. Metacafe
Youtube is definetely the biggest videos website ever, but, something a lot of people do not know is that it was not the first one, there were several other video-sharing websites on the internet a lot earlier than youtube.
Metacafe for example, had the plan to pay it’s users for their video views, and they had a real plan, that would certainly work. Now YouTube is testing something that will do the same. Well, metacafe was placed online some years before youtube, and youtube growed a lot more.
That is something that always made me think, youtube was not a new idea, the new idea was to make another video-sharing website that would turn out to be a big one (as it did), one of the only possible reasons I can figure for that is the advetisement they used, this has prooved to true on other websites, while metacafe was slowly advertised worlwide, youtube was being advertised to the USA only, of course it became a worlwide trend, but the point is how it started.
A massive advertising to the USA is what made youtube so big, people on the USA are the ones who spend more time and more money online, that is a fact, and that is why youtube worked. Well, that makes me think, as this thing did not happen only to youtube, and well, I’ll keep on thinking until I get my own multi-billionaire idea.
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