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$6.00 Latin America social history
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- Due on Mar. 12, 2009
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Research the types of social protest movements in Brazil. Possible types of protest include environmental, feminist, peasant, labor, minority, indigenous, and religious protest, although not every nation will have experienced every type of protest in its history. Focus on examples of social protest, not social revolutions or general political history. Your essay should discuss specific examples of social protest, but it need not cover every type of protest in Brazil.
1. What were the motivations or reasons given for protest? Are they linked to economic conditions?
2. Oftentimes, religious groups play a role in addressing social and economic problems. How have they been involved in your country?
1. What were the motivations or reasons given for protest? Are they linked to economic conditions?
2. Oftentimes, religious groups play a role in addressing social and economic problems. How have they been involved in your country?
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Latin America Social History - Social Protests
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Preview: ... hydroelectric power plants, after China's Three Gorges and the Itaipu dam shared by Brazil and Paraguay. More than 1,000 environmentalists and tribal Indians gathered in May 2008, in the town of Altamira in the northern state of Para to protest against the dam. In 1989, an Indian protest forced a similar dam project to be abandoned. The motivations for this protest was that the Belo Monte reservoir would flood around 170 square miles and divert part of the Xingu, which flows north to the Amazon river. Residents feared their source of fish and water was endangered and said construction and new roads would draw more settlers and farmers, accelerating deforestation.<br><br>Another prominent protest was against the anti-deforestation drive called the "Arc of Fire", carried out by the Brazilian Government in the Amazon town of Paragominas. The reason for this protest was that many ...
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