Angelica Hilliard Soc 4800 November 9, 2016 Film Analysis: Favela Rising In the documentary Favela Rising, the viewer is immersed in Brazil's “shanty town”; also known as Favelas. The opening scene shows a child flying a kite, families bathing in the street and men with their face covered cleaning weapons while helicopters whirled overhead. The audience also receives startling statistics of young people being murdered. From 1987-2001, 3,937 minors were murdered in a single city of Brazil (2:06)
evident in today’s Brazil. The working class people are suffering from low wages, dire poverty, and no representation at the local or national level. A majority of these people live in slum towns, called Favelas, on the outskirts of huge cities, like Rio de Janeiro. In Rio de Janeiro, the largest Favela, with a population of almost seventy-thousand people, is Rocinha. In Rocinha many issues are bluntly evident, yet the government seems to ignore them. Lack of resources have lead residents to build
Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus, we see the ambitious mother of three living the daily struggle of living in the poor favelas in Brazil. She provides the best life she can to her kids, while also perusing her dream of becoming a writer. In Testimony: Death of a Guatemala City by Victor Montejo, the readers follow the inspirational
A: According to Forbes.com, “There are more people living in favelas in Brazil,11.4 million individuals, than people living in Portugal, home to 10.6 million”(Geromel,1). C: And according to homeless-international.org, “Without action, 1.4 billion people will be living in slums by 2020.”(homeless-international.org,1). T: While only a few Americans are affected by slums, many of our neighbors in South America live their whole lives in one. If we do not act, this problem will only grow. S: Slums
Shanty towns, as Google defines them, are deprived areas on the outskirts of cities consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings. There is already a countless number of shantytowns around the world, but that number is growing. The main reason why families are moving into shantytowns is economic opportunities…“The driving force behind these migrations is the abundance of jobs in the cities” (Teghrarian, 1997). People, in hopes of pursuing a new career and making money for their family, often resort
From above, the world of the Jardim Gramacho landfill appears to be nothing more than garbage with the catadores (pickers)—as small and as insignificant as ants—sorting through the rubbish. The workers collect and sell recyclable items in hazardous conditions, earning around USD $20 per day. Yet in Lucy Walker’s “Waste Land,” the garbage of Rio de Janeiro is transformed into fine art as Brazilian artist, Vik Muniz, seeks to humanize the marginalized catadores of Brazilian society. The film focuses
Pacifying the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: Towards a Redefinition Clientelism in Favelas Politics Thesis Statement I would argue that the Pacification Policy implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro since 2008 will redefine clientele politics in the favelas. Arias (2006) argues that drug traffic led to a two tierce clientelism where politicians deal with drugs lords, who then transmit the benefit to favelas inhabitants who will then exchange their vote. I would argue that politicians engage
English 240 18 May 2014 Causal Essay Favela [slums or urban areas] are where approximately 11.4 million of the 190 million Brazils’ population reside. These areas are known to be areas with crime and extreme poverty, the people who live there are known to be social outcast and are usually ignored by upper class citizens. These areas are home to the people who cannot afford to live in cities like Rio de Jainero or São Paolo because of the raising housing cost. Favela typically comes into being when squatters
As is described in The Spectacular Favela, favelas and favela violence stems all the way back to the days of colonialism. Portuguese planter classes enslaved Africans using terror to maintain their power creating the foundation for a country with racial and class hierarchies in which an elite class holds the power. When slavery was abolished in 1888 many newly freed slaves fled to large cities such as Rio in search of opportunity. This wave of newly freed slaves combined with an influx of people
The history of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro begins in the final years of the nineteenth century as Brazil transitioned from an empire to a republic. As the nation continued to undergo dramatic political changes throughout the course of the twentieth century, the slums of its second largest city grew in size and number, in turn experiencing significant changes of their own. Initially, these communities were loosely incorporated squatter settlements that sprang up organically in order to house internal
In Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro, Janice Perlman provides a substantial study of life in the 1,020 favelas in Rio de Janeiro. She attempts to relocate and reinterview her previous subjects. Perlman returned to the infamous slums of Rio de Janeiro to follow four generations over 40 years. She has interviewed almost 2,500 people including her subjects’ children and grandchildren. She blends detailed personal testimonies with insightful analyses of the urbanization of
In the favela of São Paulo, Brazil, 1958, Carolina Maria de Jesus rewrote the words of a famous poet, “In this era it is necessary to say: ‘Cry, child. Life is bitter,’” (de Jesus 27). Her sentiments reflected the cruel truth of the favelas, the location where the city’s impoverished inhabited small shacks. Because of housing developments, poor families were pushed to the outskirts of the city into shanty towns. Within the favelas, the infant mortality rate was high, there was no indoor plumbing
Brazil Our nation has been working hard into preserving and improving the standards of competitiveness with nations as powerful as the United States, China, Greece and Japan, for example. Social issues as eliminating urban slums or shantytowns (favelas in Portuguese) and ensuring access to adequate housing became one of the main problematic concerns at Rio de Janeiro and Brazil as a nation. Brazil with an area of 8,515,770 sq/km, represents the fifth biggest country of the world. Known for the most
socioeconomically unprivileged people are depicted through behavior and psychological tendencies. These effects on the marginalized youth portrayed in Burgess’ fictional work parallel what is seen in modern-day Brazilian shantytowns, commonly known as favelas. Burgess’ own life played a pivotal role in creating the world that is seen within A Clockwork Orange. A Clockwork Orange can be characterized as a dystopian novella as a result of the world that Burgess created throughout the book. Alex’s world
accurately depicts the brutality and desperation of life in the Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. The City of God favela is one that began as a living community for poorer people in the early 1960’s and within 10 years decayed into a violent, filthy neighborhood controlled by drug lords. (Arias and Rodrigues, 2006) A favela is another name for a shanty town found in urban areas in Brazil. The favelas in Brazil are crowded and violent; in the film you really see how
census which state that 22.03 percent of the 6,323,037 residents of Rio de Janeiro live in favelas or substandard and irregular housing communities. According to the new report , there are 1,393,314 people in 763 favelas in Rio. (Michael Royster) Therefore in the favelas very dirty, garbage everywhere , also very noisy and the air is not a pleasant in briefprecarious living there. Half the population of the favelas – the immigrants. Nevertheless immigrants good for government . Because they pay taxes
of favelas. The story is told through the eyes of the main character, Rocket, a poor, black youth who grows up in the hostile environment of the hood but manages to break away to become a professional photographer. Oddly, the way of life in the City of God is anything but heavenly. The violent and fast paced film begins in the 1960s when Rio de Janeiro was just a new housing project and the main characters were children and petty thieves. The story then ends in the early 1980s when the favela is
Child of the Dark is a collection of the journal entries of Carolina Maria de Jesus dating from July 15th of 1955 to January 1st 1960 with various gaps in between. In it, de Jesus chronicles her life in the favela (slum) of São Paulo, Brazil and the many harsh realities of poverty. The book itself is a very real at the various aspects of poverty and is often hailed as one of the first works on the subject that is written by someone who experienced poverty directly. The book’s greatest strength comes
fact that all the horrors of this favela stemmed from government planning. The City of God was founded in 1960, under the plan of the Brazillian government to decentralize the slums from the center of Rio de Janeiro to suburbs on the city’s outskirts. The sprawling orderly neighborhood seen at the beginning of the film was a construct of government planning, and with a blank slate the City of God had an