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Ancient Egyptians, from 4000 BCE, started using makeup and were considered the first being to use cosmetics, such as a complex eye look. They would use it to represent a fashion and wealth statement. Despite the first records of makeup being from thousands of years ago, the types of beauty products we wear today areContinue reading “How the beauty world affect young girl’s life”

Since the school year started, so have the soccer and basketball seasons. In the past two weeks, our Varsity Giants have played against the Chapel Trojans, the PACA Warriors, and Graded Eagles in pursuit of the SPHSL.  On August 16th, Varsity Soccer Girls scored 3×1 against the Trojans. The boy’s games ended at 6×1 forContinue reading “Varsity Sports – August”

Folklore combines beliefs, customs, morels, and practices of distinct cultural groups. It also refers to myths, tales, and proverbs of old times in regard to a specific country. It also involves belief systems such as writes and rituals mostly about coupling, childbirth, initiation into adulthood, and ideas about the afterlife Folklore, in Brazil, did notContinue reading “Introduction to Folklore”

The world cup, a world tradition, in which every four years countries compete against each other to the prestiged title of winning the world-wide competition. This year has been no different from the others, with Qatar hosting this year’s cup, fans are running in from all around the world. But Brazil has an extra elementContinue reading “Threatened Tradition”

Anthem after anthem, victory after victory. She was a singer and songwriter who began writing songs when she was 12 years old. Brazilian singer Marília Mendonça changed everything once she released her first EP in 2014. She made a name for herself as a composer, publishing 17 albums, most while still in her adolescence. MaríliaContinue reading “Marília Mendonça: Feminejo’s Pioneer”

The “bad omen” made rounds on social media after it was found in Chile right before an earthquake.  On July 11th, 2022 fishermen in Arica, Chile, reeled in a 5.8 meter long deep-sea fish. The catch quickly spread around social media getting over 10 million views on a Tik Tok which labeled it a callContinue reading ““Apocalyptic Fish” of Japanese Folklore“

The Legend of the werewolf and how the EAC portuguese teacher, Jaqueline Aguiar, grandfather capture one  The legend of the werewolf dates back to Ancient Greece. In fact, the first testimonies of people who have supposedly come face to face with the creature claim that the Greek emperor, Licaon, was one. Legend has it thatContinue reading “The Werewolf encounter “

By: Gabrielle Hadad and Lina Busato Curupira, the mystic protector of the forests, is one of the oldest legends in Brazilian history. Although researchers are yet to pin down when the folklore was created and exactly by whom, the oldest registers are from the 16th century from a priest. The famous Portuguese priest, José deContinue reading “The Story of Curupira”

In the beginning of 2020, covid was news for everyone. We were thrown into a pandemic out of nowhere. It’s no news for anyone that most people were extremely harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. We had different phases during this crisis, in the beginning the majority of people were extremely scared of the new virus,Continue reading “Growth Of Social Media During the Pandemic”

The “Festas Folclóricas,” which translates to “Folklore Parties,” are cultural celebrations that occur all throughout Brazil during the year. They involve Brazilian cuisine, music, dances, different traditional games, and of course can include story-telling of popular Brazilian folklore legends. In this article, you can get to know 5 different popular folklore parties that take placeContinue reading “5 Popular Brazilian Folklore Parties “