Posted in English, tagged Art, Big Screen, Blindness, Blogs, Book, Brazil, Cinema, Commentary, Culture, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Essay, Film, Jangada de Pedra, José Saramago, Literature, Movies, Nobel, Novel, Opinion, Portugal, Random Thoughts, Reading list, Reflections, Saramago, Suggestion, Suggestions, The Stone Raft, Thoughts, Travel, USA on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m pretty busy these days, becaus we are finishing this semester at University. This is almost one of the last on my way to be a graduated guy! =D
Maybe tomorrow, maybe on Sunday, I’m going to finish the last big homework! We need to work out on a journalistic tv program every week. This week I present it and I need to [...]
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Posted in English, tagged Barack Obama, Brazil, Brazilian Voting System, Early voting, Election, Election 2008, Electronic vote, Joe Biden, John McCain, Lines, McCain, News, Obama, Politics, Sarah Palin, USA on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I can hardly believe that someone can stay 10 hours waiting for voting in US!Technology is THE word in US and this thing still happens! Ok, I’m quite ingenuous to tbe scared, ’cause we can just remember what happens with Gore/Bush election counting!
But, anyway… It’s understandable my surprise, because here in Brazil we [...]
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Posted in English, tagged Ayers, Barack, Barack Obama, Brazil, Columbia Universisty, Democrats, Election, Fox, International Republican Institute, Israel, John McCain, Joseph McCarthy, Khalidi, Liberty, Los Angeles Times, McCain, McCarthy, News, Palestine, Palestinian Question, Politics, Presidential Race, Rashid Khalidi, Republican on October 31, 2008 | 7 Comments »
BY: LUCIANA COELHO – From Folha de São Paulo – One of the Brazilian main newspapers – From USA – READ IN PORTUGUESE HERE
TRANSLATED: VINÍCIUS WERNECK (me!)
Last year, on March, while I was visiting New York, my friend Gustavo Chacra carried me to watch with him, a master’s class that he was doing in Columbia. [...]
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Posted in English, tagged Alderman, Brazil, Brazilian Election, Custódio Mattos, Election, Juiz de Fora, Majority, Majority Election, Margarida Salomão, Mayor, Minas Gerais, Politics, Proportional, Proportional Election, Second turn, Second turn election, two turns election, Voting Machine on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From 8 am to 5 pm, Brazilian election took place yesterday. We voted here for mayor and alderman. The Brazilian system is proportional for alderman and majority for the mayor.
The majority election system is simple: the candidate who receives the most number of votes wins. Ah, it`s always good to remember that our system is with [...]
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Reading Saramago and trying to improve this blog!
Posted in English, tagged Art, Big Screen, Blindness, Blogs, Book, Brazil, Cinema, Commentary, Culture, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Essay, Film, Jangada de Pedra, José Saramago, Literature, Movies, Nobel, Novel, Opinion, Portugal, Random Thoughts, Reading list, Reflections, Saramago, Suggestion, Suggestions, The Stone Raft, Thoughts, Travel, USA on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m pretty busy these days, becaus we are finishing this semester at University. This is almost one of the last on my way to be a graduated guy! =D
Maybe tomorrow, maybe on Sunday, I’m going to finish the last big homework! We need to work out on a journalistic tv program every week. This week I present it and I need to [...]
Read Full Post »