Social security consists of a set of actions and social policies that aim to promote the establishment of a more egalitarian and just society, helping citizens and their families in determined...
Romanticism had as its main objective to oppose classicism, rationalism and the Enlightenment, contrary to objectivity, the image of the perfect and realism, which characterized these movements...
Zé povinho is a popular expression that means simple people, individual of the people. It is used to identify a socially disqualified person. Zé, it's a popular way of expressing the man of the people...
Elucidate is a transitive verb that means to clarify, explain, clarify, resolve, make intelligible. To elucidate means to make it understandable, to make information clear so that you have a good...
Ululante is an adjective that qualifies something or someone who howls, that is, who howls, screams, screams and emits whining sounds. Ulular comes from the Latin ululare, which means howl, the sound emitted by dogs and others...
Bit, which means binary digit in Portuguese, is the smallest unit of information that can be stored or transmitted in data communication, and a bit can only have 2 values, such as 0 or 1. You...
Slaughter is the action of killing several people at the same time, a form of cruel and brutal murder, also characterized as a massacre. In the original meaning, slaughter means dismembering and...
Voodoo is a mixture of Christian beliefs and African rites, where the supernatural element is predominant. It is a ritual of worship to gods of African origin and to the most representative saints of the Catholic Church. O...
Near East or Near East is the name of a geographic region that covers different countries in Southeast Asia. The term was originally applied to the Balkan States in Eastern Europe,...
Sui generis is a Latin expression meaning “of its own genus” or “of a unique species”. It represents the idea of uniqueness, rarity and particularity of something or something. Within the...
Devil's Advocate (Latin advocatus diaboli) is an expression originally used by the Church Catholic to designate the lawyer whose mission was to present evidence impeding the admission of a...
Racial injury and racism are crimes provided for by Brazilian law. Racial insult is defined by article 140, third paragraph of the Penal Code, while racism is provided for in the Law...
The bread that the devil kneaded or "ate the bread that the devil kneaded" is a popular expression that means to go through great suffering or great hardship. It is used to describe the degree of despair...
Teúda e Manteúda is an expression existing in the archaic Portuguese language and which means the equivalent of "held and maintained", in the contemporary language. These terms are still used today in a context...
"Segredos de liquecador" is an expression introduced by the poet Cazuza in the lyrics of the song "Codinome Beija-flor", included in his first solo work, the album "Exagerado", from 1985. The enigmatic...