Sentences with phrase «in the favelas of»

Wenger was stunned when he moved to Manure and just then realized the Falcao he was after, was a 37 - year old futsal Falcao, scouting him in the favelas of Brazil.

The criminal narco - conflict in Mexico, for example, is the source of higher death rates than most wars, and violence in the favelas of Brazil can reach battlefield level.

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The bank also became a «corresponding bank» with mainstream banks, making banking services available to those in the favela: like many areas of the UK, Brazil's favelas have lacked access to basic financial services15.

While in Brazil, the pope will visit one of the world's biggest shrines to the Virgin Mary, who is revered here; visit a hospital for recovering drug addicts; hear confessions from juvenile prisoners; and visit a slum known as a favela.

His moving address in the favela was, outside the Gospels, the most succinct summary of social justice I've ever heard.

In the 2002 Brazilian film City of God (Cidade de Deus), the narrator, Rocket, provides the audience with a kind of social taxonomy of the eponymous favela during a street party.

Acclaimed cooks David Hertz and Massimo Bottura, whose social kitchens have already pulled in a portion of the world's best culinary experts to Brazil's favelas, or ghettos, welcomed Kimani in the wake of being roused by the tale of the bread shop.

europe and north america might have» hoods» but the people here live in low cost houses / flats and stuff, not on top of each other in favela's / kasi's.

The dude came from absolutely nothing and the hellish life of the favela's to rise up and become one of the most dominant champions in MMA history.

Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.

One of the most intensive and longest - running investigations is occurring in Pau da Lima, a crowded favela on the edge of Salvador, Brazil's third largest city.

For his part, Pope Francis eschewed living in luxury, instead resting his head in a small apartment near the Vatican — at least when he is not traveling outside Argentina to places like Bangui in the Central African Republic and the favelas of Rio, where somehow the residents are not especially pleased with their own penurious condition.

The favela in City of God is so well rendered it becomes a character — cruel, alluring, inescapable, says Jo Griffin

City of God's harrowing depiction of daily violence in the favelas exemplifies in shocking detail the Hobbesian view of life as «nasty, brutish, and short,» but the film never casts judgment.

A foot chase through a favela in Brazil sizzles with excitement, as do later scenes in a rural park space and a finale in the streets of Harlem.

Kibwe Tavares / The Kitchen (United Kingdom): Raised in London's first favela housed in an abandoned Council high - rise, known as the Kitchen, Es commits smash - and - grab thefts as a way of redistributing the wealth to the community who took him in.

The film depicts stories of quotidian life in Rio, such as the boys from the favela who sell peanuts at Copacabana beach.

Kibwe Tavares (director) and Daniel Kaluuya (writer) / The Kitchen (United Kingdom): Raised in London's first favela, housed in an abandoned Council high - rise known as the Kitchen, Izi commits smash - and - grab thefts as a way of redistributing the wealth to the community who took him in.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Urban future 2 - Supersized cities 3 - How cities began 4 - Urbanisation in Africa 5 - Favelas 6 - Urban change in the UK 7 - The future of cities ICT 8 - Introducing Bristol 9 - Social opportunities 10 - Bristol's economy 11 - Urbanisation and the environment 12 - Environmental challenges 13 - Social inequality 14 - New housing in Bristol 15 - The Temple Quarter Regeneration 16 - Rio De Janeiro 17 - Social challenges in Rio 18 - ICT economic challenges in Rio 19 - Improving Rio for the city's poorest

Find out what life is like for eight - year - old twins Samir and Samira, growing up in one of the country's most dangerous favelas.

Includes climate and intro to Brazilian weather, human geography (in population), physical geography, the problems and the management of favelas, some mapping and sketch work, natural resources, inequality and development.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Rio De Janeiro 2 - Social challenges in Rio De Janeiro 3 - Economic challenges in Rio De Janeiro 4 - Managing the growing of Favelas 5 - Planning for Rio De Janeiro poor The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Physical Landscape in the UK, The Living World and other Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography shop.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - An increasingly urban world 2 - Megacities 3 - Rio De Janeiro 4 - Social challenges in Rio De Janeiro 5 - Economic challenges in Rio De Janeiro 6 - Managing the growing of Favelas 7 - Planning for Rio De Janeiro poor The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Physical Landscape in the UK, The Living World and other Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography shop.

Ludo's involvement in an ill - conceived supermarket launch aimed at the favela's desperately poor population risks embroiling him in a world of violence and brutality.

Many years ago I worked as a foreign correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, and as part of a series of articles on the 500 - plus shantytowns or favelas that ring the city, I bought a house.

The rampant expansion of favelas can be associated with the unequal distribution of wealth in Brazil.

For people living in the poorest regions of the world without access to, or money for electric bulbs, the bottle light has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life, as Notions Capital describes it, for «billions of poor people in sun - swept favelas, shantytowns, and bidonvilles and scattered rural dwellings around the globe.»

She told me she had used one of my earlier editions to Rio when she first moved here and discovered in the book a local guide I included who led favela tours (a man by the name of Paulo Amendoim, a lovely fellow).

In the filming, Paulo showed Bourdain around the Rocinha favela, and of course, he never would have met him if I hadn't featured him in the Rio guidIn the filming, Paulo showed Bourdain around the Rocinha favela, and of course, he never would have met him if I hadn't featured him in the Rio guidin the Rio guide.

Needless to say, the segment didn't have much in common with the tales of favela - based slum tourism that I've read in the past.

So imagine my surprise last night when this season's crop of would - be models landed in a Sao Paulo favela for an «edgy» Carmen Miranda - inspired photo shoot.

Sharon Gourlay from the Where's Sharon Travel Blog shares her confronting experience of visiting one of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

After hearing a glowing account of the favela tours you can do here in Rio de Janeiro, we decided to do a favela tour.

Here, especially in Rio de Janeiro, the dream of society as a melting - pot has become reality, and the result can often be as puzzling as it is dazzling, privileged wealth overlooked by disadvantaged favelas.

• NEW Taste: Located on the ground floor, it is based on the iconic Favela Chair, with columns covered in long narrow strips of wood, reminiscent of the favelas in Brazil, and pieces of furniture from the old Olympic hotel.

We have a large patio area outside of the «big» dorm upstairs where you can see the whole favela at night you can see stars above and below, or walk up to the next terrace and relax in our hammock space or use the BBQ!

Just as I wrote about graffiti in Papo & Yo back in July, I wanted to share another story and video diary about how we captured the unique music and sound to transport players deeper into the South American favela of Quico's imagination.

Examples of this are with the snowmobile mission from the campaign that is turned into a hectic race against your friend as you try to reach the finish line first and in the Brazil favela you and a friend will have to clear the area of all hostiles while making sure to not kill the civilians or else it's game over for you.

This game is gritty and dark; the city streets have been abandoned in favor of loud nightclubs, depressing favelas, and Brazillian docks.

You can make sure the contestant lives in a favela by asking him to send a picture of his house, I du n no, maybe; 3) I can help because I live in Sao Paulo, where the biggest South American favela is.

Tropicália is thus a sort of parody of Brazilian stereotypes for a Brazilian audience, an in - joke in which viewers traverse sand and gravel paths through favela - like cabins called Penetráveis [Penetrables], encounter a couple of live macaws, brush past potted tropical plants, and listen to Caetano Veloso's canonical song «Tropicália» — itself a parodistic and sharply critical invocation of Brazilian mulatas, Carmen Miranda, and soaring paper monuments rising above the corpses of children.

While working in his home country of Brazil, he drew on traditional production techniques and incorporated iconic elements from the Favelas, Samba Schools, nature, and wildlife.

He juxtaposes modernist architecture with structures common in Latin America — favela shacks, adobe and vernacular buildings — and he incorporates aspects of the do - it - yourself economy to find practical solutions when resources are scarce.

His ongoing work Cadernos de Africa [Africa Notebooks] is presented as part of Journal: a five - year walk he began in 2013 from his home in a favela near Belo Horizonte, throughout Brazil and eventually northwards across the entirety of the African continent from Cape Town.

The young men from the «favelas» of the so - called Marvelous City, in their contemporary Brazilian style, appear at once completely unrelated to their staged circumstances — the old - world postures, the props that they hold, and the floral backdrops that intertwine with their bodies — and at the same time seem to embrace the roles that their director has asked them to undertake.

A toxic yellow rusting gas pipe, the corrugated iron fence of a favela, plumes of acrid smoke and even the «mushroom cloud» of an atomic bomb create a friction not just conceptually but also in their textural contrast.

All the walls and furniture were made of plywood, recalling past Tiravanija works, suggesting the provisional and evoking the favela aesthetic found in artworks elsewhere in «Dreams and Conflicts».

Pineda likened these tours to people wanting to tour favelas in Brazil or to visit Havana before it changes, and reminded him of Luis Gomez's 2016 installation A Sufi Dream, which reads, «Would you like to buy my misery?»

A typical example involves a Brazilian new to Britain, who mistakes allotment huts for slums, on the lines of favela shacks in his own country.

At its inception, If You Say So... was Abney's reaction to a New York Times Op - Ed «In Denial About Racism in Brazil» by Vanessa Barbara, discussing the unwavering and rampant trend of police brutality against young black and brown bodies in the favelaIn Denial About Racism in Brazil» by Vanessa Barbara, discussing the unwavering and rampant trend of police brutality against young black and brown bodies in the favelain Brazil» by Vanessa Barbara, discussing the unwavering and rampant trend of police brutality against young black and brown bodies in the favelain the favelas.