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Chalkboard Challenges: Strategies to Alleviate Stress and Promote Academic Success

Stress is defined as a state of emotional strain resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances, the body and mind react to stresses that come from within or outside. Stress causes reductions to every bodily system. For example, palpitations, perspiration, dry mouth, shortness of breath, fidgeting, rapid speech, intensification of unpleasant emotions and extended stress exhaustion.Continue reading “Chalkboard Challenges: Strategies to Alleviate Stress and Promote Academic Success”

Brazil’s Ongoing Journey: Lucia Ferreira’s Dedication to Unveil and Preserve the Roots of Afro-Brazilian Culture

Brazil’s reputation is stained by its racist past, as the country is responsible for a large part of trafficking africans during the slave trade. The native Africans were killed, enslaved, and ultimately dehumanized. Slaves that tried to escape this disrespectful reality, would form villages named quilombos, where they would establish communities and well structured armiesContinue reading “Brazil’s Ongoing Journey: Lucia Ferreira’s Dedication to Unveil and Preserve the Roots of Afro-Brazilian Culture”