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Paulo Colho

Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho (Rio de Janeiro, on August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian novelist.
Paulo Coelho was born in a family of middle class and of fort catholic influence, in Rio de Janeiro, where Jesuit studied in a college. Contrasting with the strong discipline that imposed him, it(he,she) became rebellious and, at the age of seventeen, it was hospitalized(sent inland) three times in a psychiatric clinic.

At the end of the decade of 1960, it(he,she) joins the movement hippie, leaving the studies in 1970 to realize a trip for Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and Chile as well as for Europe and the north of Africa. Two years later it(he,she) returned to Brazil and began to compose letters for songs, working together with Raúl Seixas. In 1974 and during a brief period of time it was stopped in a military center of tortures accused of subversive activities against the Brazilian government. In 1987, a parishioners' route crossed between(among) France and Spain, which inspired his(her,your) first book of success, The Pilgrim of Compost Her


As writer, it(he,she) has occupied frequently the first positions in the classifications of the books most sold in countries as different as Brazil, United Kingdom, The United States, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Mexico, Israel, Greece and Spain. It(he,she) has sold more than 65 million books, with translations to more than 40 languages, being the author most sold in Portuguese language of all the times, exceeding even Jorge Amado (whose sales add 54 million books). Between(among) his(her,your) novels The Alchemist is of that more than 11 million copies(specimens) have sold in the whole world and that has translated into 41 languages inspiration was in the writer Jean Pierre Santiago.


In 2002 it(he) was chosen to occupy the seat number 21 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters In spite of The success of obtained public, some critics of Brazil continue speaking about him(it) as(like) about a minor author. His(her,your) choice(election) like member of the Brazilian Academy of the Letters (ABL) has been an object of controversy between(among) the readers of Brazil.
It(He,She) lives with his(her,your) wife Cristina Oiticica, a painter, in Rio de Janeiro or in his(her,your) Saint's Martin mill in the southwest of France (High Pyrenees)
Obras
The Files of the hell - 1982

• The Pilgrim of Her(It) Compost (Diary of a magician) - 1988 The Alchemist - 1988 · Bridle - 1990 · On the banks of The river Stone me sente and I cried - 1994
• The Valkirias - 1995 · The Fifth Mountain 1996
  
• The Manual of the Warrior of the Light - 1997
• Verónika decides to die - 1998
  
• The Demon and the Miss Prym - 2000 · Essential Words · Maktub - 2002
  
• Eleven Minutes - 2003 · The Zahir - 2005
  
• To be Like the Rio that The Witch of Portobello flows - 2006 · - 2006

Canada

CANADA

The hunters of beavers, the carved tótems and decorations, the waterfalls of the Niagara, the immense lakes and forests, the abominable man of the called snow Sasquatch, the red jackets of the Mounted Police, the Eskimo or inuit of Nunavut, the maple syrup, the Tower CN of Toronto (that is one of the highest buildings in the world)... The images of the Canadian tradition intermingle with the modern cities of spectacular sky-scraper. Did you know that this one of the countries is with better quality of life of the world?

WHAT TYPE OF COUNTRY IS CANADA?

Canada is an independent State. Their government form is a democracy federal parliamentarian. It is sovereign country of the Commonwealth: the queen of United Kingdom is the boss of the State, and her representative in the country she is a general governor. The government's boss is the first minister. Canada is governed by the Constitutional Records of 1982.
It belongs to numerous international organizations, as the UN and the NATO. Also, it forms part of the TLC or NAPHTHA (Treaty of Free North American Trade). Their official currency is the Canadian dollar. The official languages are English and French. The majority religions are the Christian: Catholic and Protestant.
Their territory is divided in 10 counties and 3 territories (Yukón, Northwest and Nunavut). The federal capital is Ottawa. The county of Quebec has a system judicial matter and, in successive occasions, it has summoned elections to be able to obtain the secession of Canada.

Population (inhabitants)
32.200.000

Surface (Km2)
9.970.610

CENTRAL PLAINS AND OUTLYING MOUNTAINS

Canada is in America of the North and it is the second more extensive country of the world: single Russia overcomes it!
The plateau Laurentina occupies almost half of the territory. The most fertile areas are the low lands (lowlands) of the center and the east, and the western interior plains. These are a continuation of the plains of United States, country with which limits for the south along about 6.000 kilometers!
The mountains dominate the landscape of the region of the Appalachian Mountains, in the southeast. They also cover the whole western territory with the names of Rocky mountains and Coastal mountain range. In this last one the highest summit in the country, the mount runs off with Logan, with almost 6.000 meters of altitude.

THE COUNTRY WITH MORE KILOMETERS DE COAST OF THE PLANET

Canada has more than 240.000 km of coast, five times more than Indonesia that occupies the second position in the world ranking! It is a coast clipped with big bays and gulves, wide peninsulas and countless islands taken a bath by three oceans: the ocean Atlantic surrounds the island of Newfoundland, located in the east; in the coast west, skirted of fiords, the island of Vancouver that blunts in waters of the ocean Pacific, is and other many islands are in the Glacial ocean Ártico (Baffin, Victoria, Ellesmere, Banks...).
Canada has more lakes and rivers that any other country of the world. It shares with United States the Superior lake, the most extensive in the world, together with other three of the Big Lakes (Ferret, Ontario and Erie), all them connected to each other by means of channels and together to the ocean Atlantic by means of the river San Lorenzo.
However, the water is scarce in the immense cultivated plains, where the dry climate prevails. And it remains frozen by the area glacier of the north, where the alone arctic climate allows the tundra vegetation. The continental climate is characteristic of the rest of the Canadian territory: it favors the dense forests where the taiga of coniferous alternating with leaf trees it expires (walnut, oak and maple whose leaf was adopted as national symbol).

AN UNION OF TOWNS THAT YOU/THEY COHABIT IN HARMONY

In Canada, most of the population concentrates on the southern fringe of the territory, next to United States. The main urban masses are Toronto (with more than 5 million inhabitants), summoned in the county of Ontario, and Montreal (something more than 3 million and half people), located in Quebec. Other important cities are Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton. In all them the modern sky-scrapers play the sky.
But the origins of the Canadian establishments go back behind to 30.000 years, when towns coming from Asia occupied the current Canadian territory.
" The Indian algonquinos and Iroquois, and the inuit (Eskimo) they still inhabit Canada. Their stone sculptures, of ivory and wooden (did you know that they call themselves totem?), together with those sculpted in whale teeth, are they testimony of their presence.
" The Vikings the first browsers that arrived from Europe were and they settled down about 1.000 years ago in the north of the island of Newfoundland.
" About 500 years later, the French and the Britons, attracted by the trade of skins, established the first commercial colonies. The French bequeathed grandiose cathedrals, as those of Nôtre you Give me, in Ottawa, and Saint Michel, in Toronto. The Englishmen highlighted as expert cartographers and official of the army.
" In 1867 he/she was formed the Domain of the Canada, subjected to the British crown, but already independent nation.
Their cultural and social diversity is reflected in the universal dimension of its artistic personalities. Have you heard speak of the singers Céline Dion, Bryan Adams, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell or Neil Young? And of the Circus of the Sun (Cirque du Soleil), of the cosmetic Elizabeth they do Burn...?

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All About the USA

Land Area

The United States has an area of 9,666,861 sq Km. This makes it the fourth larges conuntry by land area after Russia, Canda and China.

The highest point in the USA is Mount Mckinley, which is 6,194m above sea level.

States

Forty-eight of the USA’s 50 states make up the main landmass between Canada and Mexico. Alaska, the forty-ninth state, is separated from the rest by Canada. Hawaii was the last satate to be made part of the USA and lies in the Pacific Ocean.

The USA has a federal government that organizes the whole conuntry and is responsible for business between the USA and other countries. However, each their own taxes and make their own laws. Alcoholic drinks are not allewed to be sold in parts of Alabama and Georgia, for exemple. In addition in the states of California, Florida And kentucky, the death penalty can be given for serious crimes, while it does not exist in Iowa, Maine and Minnesota.

Largest Citiesa

The largest cities in the country are New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Population

The United States is the third largest country by population after China and India. The estimated population in the year 2000 was 281’421,906.

The highest proportion of the population is white 80%. Black peole make up 12% of the population, while 3% are Asian and Pacific Islanders, 5% of the population are of the other races, including Native Americans. 75% of the population live in tows and cities, while 25% live in the rural areas of the country

Languaje

English is the main language of the United States and is spoken by the great majority of US residents. However, nearly 32 million residents aged five or older speak a languaje other than English at home. Of this total, approximately 54% speaks Spanish, making it the second most widely spoken languaje in the United States. Other languajes spoken include Chinese, Polish, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Japonese, Greek, Arabic, Russian and Yiddish.

Religion

56% of the USA’s population are Protestants of which there are many diferent groups. The largest single American religious group consists of Roman Catholics, representing 25% of the population.

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CHINA

China is tradition, technology, education and culture.

Its official name is “República Popular China”. It has 2.900 islands and 9’511.300 km2 of surface. Its capital is Pekin. The culture of China hardly has changed in the last 3000 years.

In addition, China has a fortress: “La muralla China”
China has many historic places for example: “Jardin de Quianlong”: it is a palace, it has imperial jewels, jade’s sculptures, and others relics.

China has special food , interesting, dissimilar to the world.
Also, in China the education is free, for all the population. In China, the people believe in the immortality of the spirit.

I want to visit this country because this is more attractive, its culture is different from my culture.