Brazil is a country that has very interesting culture which is the result of the mixing of several different cultures. What is now Brazil has been colonized by the Portuguese people. As they did, they started to settle in, but it was not just Portuguese that settled, there was also lot of Italians as well. As they were the ones that controlled this area, they set up the basis for the modern day culture of Brazil. But that is not all. The colonists encountered lot of native tribes, and over time the natives and the Europeans started to mix. Also, the colonists brought lot of African slaves too, and once the slavery ended, they too started to mix with the Europeans and natives. Each of the three sides contributed with their own cultures, gradually creating one melt resulting in the modern day Brazilian culture. Some of the well known traits of the Brazilian culture is the dancing, carnivals, masquerades, practicing of old traditions, being passionate Catholics, having excellent football skills based on the ginga etc. The ethnic composition too has been influenced in the same manner through the mixing of the people from three different races, making the modern day average Brazil having genes from three sides of the world.
The answer is maintenance. Maintainance is considered a variable operating expense of an automobile. The more the car is being driven, the higher the expense for the maintenance since the tires are used and oil-lube are executed.
Insurance experts have estimated that extra costs of up to <u>$10,000</u> a year may be required to replace the services of a homemaker in a family with small children.
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because the river's annual flooding ensured reliable, rich soil for growing crops
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- These works had significant influence on social, political, and economic reform.
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As per the question, the given authors, as well as their texts, had a quite considerable impact on the social, economic, as well as the political realm of the American society. 'How the Other Half Lives' by Jacob Riis displayed the social evils like poverty, widening gap between the poor and rich, corruption, the terrible condition of the immigrants in slums of New York, etc. while 'The Jungle' authored by Upton Sinclair reveals the economic evil of 'wicked and destructive consequences of capitalism.'
In 'The Grapes of Wrath', Steinback discusses the 'condition of migrant workers and inhumanity faced by them' and 'Unsafe at Any Speed' comments upon the 'dangers of style-oriented behavior of American Automobile industry and ignorance of consumer safety act which makes people unsafe at every speed.' Thus, all four texts display significant issues prevalent in American society at the time.
