"How Have Brazilians Added to the Quality of Life in Broward County?"

Sandra Bouzas
Silver Lakes Elementary - 5th Grade
Finalist

Brazilians have added to the quality of life in Broward County by sharing their dancing cultural. People celebrate Carnival in towns and villages. The Carnival capital of the world is Rio de Janeiro. The Rio Carnival is the biggest Carnival, and one of the most interesting artistic events on the globe. Mostly everyone has heard about the Rio Carnival. To it alone foreign visitors number around 500,000 every year.

Rio Carnival is forty days before Easter, it's a four day celebration. It officially starts on Saturday and finishes on Fat Tuesday, then it's the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday after which one is supposed to abstain from all bodily pleasures. Carnival with all it's excesses can be considered to the pleasures of the flesh as an act of farewell. It usually happens in February, the hottest month, when the Rio summer is at it's peak in the Southern Hemisphere.

Virtually every corner in Brazil there are Carnival celebrations. The best-known ones taking place in Recite, together with the neighboring Olinda and Salvador. The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is the biggest and most famous Carnival, and is shared by many people in Broward County.