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Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia II - Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration

Brazil currently has 45 million people living in conditions of poverty. This is a critical issue. Poverty in Brazil can be seen in the large metropolitan areas (capitals) and in the "pockets of poverty" (upcountry regions with low rates of economic and social development). The Northeast has chronic problems as a result of its dry climate, with millions of people suffering hunger during the dry seasons. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has proposed a progr ...

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Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Ending Poverty Consciousness

Ending Poverty Consciousness

Definition number one of "poverty" in the American Heritage Dictionary is: "The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts." It is further defined as "deficiency in amount; scantiness; unproductiveness; infertility."

By "poverty consciousness," I mean the set of attitudes and beliefs and feelings and values associated with material lack or fear of material lack. Poverty consciousness equals a belief in limitation, and almost always includes fear.

Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Understanding Concentration

Men of great success have been men of great concentration. Success does not come from outside. It is right within your brain. When a brilliant thought /idea strikes you, it needs to be nurtured and reared with patience, will, focus, and determined action. Only then will the tiny seed of an idea truly flower into a vibrant plant. The entire basis of the flowering is the mind and its powers.

Concentration involves a honing in of the attention so that one's entire field of attention is thrown into whatever it is that one is doing. Concentration entails a focusing of energy-the energy that influences all our actions in life.

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Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Concentration - Dhayana

According to the renowned German scholar Max Mueller, the study of mental states is unique to India. He also opined that ekagrata or one-pointedness that India spoke of was unknown, and to a large extent, incomprehensible to the Western world. And this viewpoint holds true even today.

Dhayana or meditation is a state of concentration or mental activity in which the mind can stay focused on an object chosen for concentration without wavering and without getting distracted. When we are engaged in an activity, which will increase our attention span on `our chosen object of concentration' then we are trying to generate a meditative experience by improving our concentration or attention span.

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Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Poverty

Poverty is the state of being without the necessities of daily living, often associated with need, hardship and lack of resources across a wide range of circumstances. For some, poverty is a subjective and comparative term; for others, it is moral and evaluative; and for others, scientifically established. The principal uses of the term include: Descriptions of material need, including deprivation of essential goods and services, multiple deprivation, and patterns of deprivation over time. Economic circumstances, ...

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Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Income

Income, generally defined, is the money that is received as a result of the normal business activities of an individual or a business. For example, most individuals' income is the money they receive from their regular paychecks. In business and accounting, income (also known as profit or earnings) is, more specifically, the amount of money that a company earns after paying for all its costs. To calculate a company's income, it starts with its amount of revenue, deducts all costs, including such things as em ...

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Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Poverty line

The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. People who have an income below the poverty line have no discretionary disposable income, by definition. It is widely discussed how and where to set the poverty line. In practice, different countries often use different poverty lines. Globally, however, it is more common to use only one poverty line in order to compare economic welfare levels. When comparing poverty across countries, the purchasing power par ...

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Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Concentrate

A concentrate is a form of substance which has had the majority of its base component, or solvent, removed. Typically this will be the removal of water from a solution or suspension such as the removal of water from fruit juice. The benefit of producing a concentrate is that of a reduction in weight and volume for transportation as the concentrate can be re-constituted at the time of usage by the addition of the solvent. See also. concentration ...

Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Concentric

Concentric objects share the same center or origin. Circles, disks, and spheres may be concentric; such concentric objects need not have the same radius. Concentric cable is a cable type used in TN-C-S earthing systems where the combined neutral and earth core completely surrounds the live core(s). This minimises the risk of completely cutting through the combined neutral and earth without first completely cutting t ...

Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Concentration

In chemistry, concentration is the measure of how much of a given substance there is mixed with another substance. This can apply to any sort of chemical mixture, but most frequently is used in relation to solutions, where it refers to the amount of solute dissolved in a solvent. To concentrate a solution, one must add more solute, or reduce the amount of solvent (for instance, by selective evaporation). By contrast, to dilute a solution, one must add more solvent, or reduce the amount of solute. ...

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Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Cycle of poverty

In economics and sociology, the cycle of poverty, or poverty cycle is a social phenomena whereby poverty-stricken individuals exhibit a tendency to remain poor throughout their lifespan and in many cases across generations. The cycle of poverty has been described as a catch-22 and a feedback loop, as it occurs because the financial resources necessary to get out of poverty, namely productive capital, can only be obtained if the individual has financial resources in the first place. This often means the poverty-stricken find it ...

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Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Concentration camp

A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term refers to situations where the internees are persons selected for their conformance to broad criteria without judicial process, rather than having been judged as individuals. Camps for prisoners of war are usually considered separately from this category, although informally (and in some other languages) they may also be ...

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Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Apostolic poverty

Apostolic poverty is a doctrine professed by various religious orders, primarily those sprung from the mendicant orders of the Middle Ages in direct response to the call for reforms in the Roman Catholic Church. The doctrine was seen as a challenge to the wealth of the church and the ensuing corruption it brought. Francis of Assisi formed the Franciscans to emulate the poverty of Jesus Christ and to bring his message through a simple life and example. Dominic de Guzman founded a similar order known as the Dominicans. Some practitioners of this doctrine, most notably William of Ockham, came under h ...

Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Religion in Brazil

Brazil's main religion since the 16th century has been Christianity, predominantly Roman Catholicism. This religion was introduced by the missionaries who accompanied the Portuguese explorers and settlers of Brazil. Brazil has the largest number of baptized Roman Catholics on Earth — about 80% of Brazilians claiming to be Catholics. However, about 20% of the population of Brazil actually attends Mass on a regular basis. Popular traditions of Roman Catholicism in Brazil include pilgrimages to the Appeared Lady, Senhora Aparecida, the patron saint of Brazil. Other prominent festivals include C� ...

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Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Concentric castle

A concentric castle (or multiple castle) is a castle within a castle, with two or more concentric rings of curtain walls and a keep in the centre. Generally, the outermost walls are lowest and the height of the walls increases towards the centre. The walls would include towers and bastions and would usually be crenellated. Gates would usually be protected by barbicans. Concentric castles were introduced into Europe in the late 12th century following the Crusades and were designed to increase the defensive capabilities of ...

Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Concentration game

Concentration or Memory is a card game of the Rummy family where all the cards are laid out on a surface and two cards are turned over each turn. The object is to turn over a pair of matching cards (for example, a pair of kings) and then remove them from play. Play ends when all cards have been removed from the table. Optionally, the player who made the match then plays again. Concentration can be played with one player or many players. This scheme is often used in quiz shows. Other related

Brazil - Poverty illiteracy and income concentration: Encyclopedia - Brazil Nut

The Brazil Nut is a South American tree Bertholletia excelsa in the family Lecythidaceae. It is the only species in the genus Bertholletia. It is native to Guiana, Venezuela, Brazil, eastern Colombia, eastern Peru and eastern Bolivia. It occurs as scattered trees in large forests on the banks of the Amazon, Rio Negro, and the Orinoco. It is a large tree, reaching 30–45 m tall and 1–2 m trunk diameter, among the largest of trees in the Amazon Rainforests. The stem is straight and commonly unbranched for well over half the tree's height, with a large emergent crown of long branches above the surrounding canop ...