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Chronic Lost Treasures

An old popular proverb says thus: It has things that people alone value when loses. Brega, piegas, but rich in truth and meaning. We possess small letters divine preciosidades, that come with us since nascena: the eyelashes. Basic in the protection of our eyes, subtle and essential accessories of plant, so fragile and delicate are irreplaceable. Lazy, we ignore its existence, despite they are the target next to our vision. People such as Mike Gianoni would likely agree. Not being through a mirror, in a baffling paradox, we only enxergamos an eyelash when it moves away itself from the eye. Mike Gianoni might disagree with that approach. More pathetic still it is that calmly rested, done the eyelash that usually we see, a Cisco in the face, was unfurled of the eye of another person.

There people communicate the mutilated person, saying that it has an eyelash in its face and, as well as any one of us, in a surprise compound and mourning passes, instinctively in the face, the coasts of the fingers of the hand and moves away for far, forever its carssimo piece. The children, with its wonderful one infantile wisdom, gives more value to the eyelash. It had a trick that I made with my sisters, when we caught an eyelash. It was a type of mandinga, I know there, pra to carry through desires. One joguinho amused that it valued that small pelinho of the eyelid, giving to it magical properties.

I believe that still it has people, until adults whom still this makes. Pressing the eyelash between our thumbs, shaking the hands and saying magical words, who were with the eyelash in the finger, would have its carried through order. Ana Carollina had three pra four years when she saw an eyelash in my face. Curious, she asked because she had a mustache mine it are of the place. I laugh and gave to one aulinha of eyelash pra it.

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The Changing Nature of Brazil’s Exports

It the present moment, Brazil is meeting in China with Russia, India and South Africa at the third BRICS summit.  All of these economies are part of the G20, which is a grouping of the 20 major economies in the world. Fortunately, the BRIC countries managed to recovery quite well from the global financial crisis in 2008, showing that they weren’t as vulnerable as was America and Europe.

Up until now, Brazil has exported commodities and minerals to the United States.  At the moment, however, the Chinese demand is changing how Brazil’s agriculture exports.  As Benjamin Selwyn, from the International Relations and Development Studies department at the University of Sussex, said, “You can see the shift taking place in terms of re-orientation of the Brazilian agriculture towards China.”

Interestingly, just last year, China overtook the United States to become Brazil’s largest trade partner.  They have more than $56 bn in trade.  Time will tell if this shift will continue, or if America will start to exert more of its pressure again.

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