Name:

Janiyah Bailey
Background Essay Questions:

1. Why do Brazilians speak Portuguese and not Spanish? They was colonized by portugal.

2. At the time of Brazilian independence in 1822, what percentage of Brazilians were slaves?
It was half of the slave.

3. What are two big problems Brazil has had to deal with for much of its history? Only
landlords become wealthy and other was poor
Overliance cash crop
4. Why do geographers say that it is important to analyze problems using different scales?
Choose influnces conclusions to draw
5. Use https://www.merriam-webster.com/ to define these terms:

● Developing nation:
● Cash crop:readily salable crop(such as cotton or tobacco) produced or gathered
primarily for market
● Social class: Division of a society based on social and economic status
● Industrialization:development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale
● Favelas:Brazilian shack or shanty town,slum
● Scale: each of the small, thin horny or bony plates protecting the skin of a fish and
reptiles, typically overlapping another.

6. Write a two or three sentence summary of the Background Essay.

Brazilians is like everything for people.It have fresh water to drink and fertile.
They sell stuff like coffee and sugar but they had problem though but they did what they had to do.
1. Today, what are the BRIC countries?
Brazil,Russia,India,China,South africa
2. What evidence from this document helps prove Brazil is a wealthy country?
In the document it says that brazil has low national debt
that brazil has nearly has full employment
brazilians believe in future success of country
3. What evidence from this document helps prove Brazil is not a wealthy country?
The ports were barely function,
crime is high
the schools was weak
4. The article mentions that Brazil has given up nuclear weapons and has a free press. How
relevant are either of these indicators to a discussion of wealth?
No nuclear weapons allows brazil to use money for something that will help increase the
wealth. Wealthy countries have free press causes they are not afraid of citizens voicing
5. On a worldwide scale, how wealthy is Brazil? Explain your thinking.
On a worldwide scale brazil is somewhat wealthy
Because I believe this because in document B it say they had low national debt.
In document B it also say that brazil had weak schools and bad roads,crime is high.
1. What percentage of the Brazilian population is defined as poor or struggling?
66% is poor or struggling
2. How much money would a struggling Brazilian make per year if he worked 365 days per
year? (Hint: multiply $6 × 365 days.)
2,190 a year if they make $6 a day
3,650 a year if they make $10 a day
3. Looking at the pie chart and the document by Theresa Meade, write two specific details
about rich Brazilians.
They make more than $50 a day and makeup of 4% of workers in brazil
Document D say rich brazilians live in fortified communities protected by armed guards
4. Is there any evidence in the document that race and poverty are linked in Brazil?
Yes-Document D say that the working class is made up of mostly blacks

5. On a local scale, how wealthy is Brazil?

On a local scale brazil is wealthy because they have blacks working. In
document D it also say that they have to travel to the mall to be protects.

1. Based on the photo, how would you describe favela life?

They have a roof over there head and have cars to get to place to places/ It is really
dirty and not clean as good
2. How does life in a Brazilian favela compare to life in a slum in Lagos or Dhaka?
That it is elevate many favelados to standard of living
3. Are residents of favelas poor? Explain your thinking.
Yes they are poor because they are not enjoy a comfortable quality of life
4. On a local scale, how wealthy is Brazil? Explain your thinking.
On a local scale brazil is wealthy because they have blacks working for them and travel to
mall.
In essay format answer the question below. Be sure to use evidence from the primary source
documents to support your answer. You should have at least 3 paragraphs (introduction,
body, and closing).

How Wealthy Is Brazil?

Type your answer in this box.

Brazil is called Brazilian and they are colonized how they was speaking portugeuse
and half of them was slaves.Brazil had trouble with some stuff like when the landlords
was wealthy and poor so they had to deal with problems. They are
wealthy because brazil got black people working for them and they have to travel in
vehicles to travel to the mall so they can be safe.But brazil is really wealthy country
because they had low national debts, they had bad roads, and they had weak
schools so some people could not go to school.There crime was high. Also brazil had
some poor and wealthy people so they had some trouble on how they had bad things
going on like weak things. The nuclear weapons that brazil give up on

Strengths
-You explain that you think Brazil is wealthy
-You used the primary source documents to help explain your opinion

Grows
-Organization: there are confusing and unfinished sentences
-Evidence: explain where (which documents) the evidence comes from
-Analysis: Explain how your evidence proves what you are saying
-Grammar/Spelling: Double check your spelling and punctuation