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1.What are some positives and negatives to hosting a World Cup?

2. The Social cost of Brazil hosting World Cup 2014

3. Christopher Atkins, and Bleacher Report

4. Link

5. Website accessed on June 15, 2014 from my house

6.Subject: Problems Brazil and most importantly the public have to deal with because of the World Cup Occasion: Strikes and revolts going on in Brazil, The 2014 World cup, and Brazil and Fifa not following through with what they said they would do. Audience: Anyone interested in the World cup, probably a 14 and up audience. Also anyone interested in human rights and political debates. Purpose: To educate the rest of the world on the problems hosting the world cup has caused in Brazil, and persuade the audience to support the working class in brazil. Speaker: Christopher Atkins, Tim Vickery, Global post, porto, and A Publica Tone: Persuasive, Frantic, passionate, concerned

7. This article begins by saying countries that host world cups often have good economic benefits. it then goes on to tell how Brazil planned on using the public money to better public transportation and the favelas and areas around the stadiums which were supposed to be privately funded. It continues to say that Brazil has not followed through, spending most of the public money on new high tech stadiums, and canceling 13 out of 50 projects to help the poorer class and working class of brazil.The article then transitions into talking about the forced evictions and relocations of approximately 170,000 people in order to build these new stadiums, and the poor working conditions of the workers building them. Lastly it talks about the high ticket prices and law changes that Fifa is requiring.

8.The possible economic benefit for Brazil, is not and will not benefit the public.

9. I agree with the author,thee evidence and facts used through out the article are hard to argue with. And I know it to be all true from other photos and news reports. This article also emotionally appeals to me because I have seen pictures and heard from my dad who has visited the "favelas" and have a good sense of how hard their lives are and how Brazil and Fifa are not fulfilling their word and helping these people.

10 . "Depending on which side of the argument you choose to listen to, the hosting of any major sporting event can both be seen as an opportunity for great development, or an impending disaster."

"Besides the lack of investment outside of the stadiums, other issues such as forced relocation and breaches of workers' rights also threaten the tournament's impact on those most disadvantaged in society."

"A budget of $13.3 billion was set for the tournament, with the majority of money to be spent on projects around the host cities. Instead, as Vickery notes below, a huge amount of the budget for the tournament has been used on building the stadiums—at the cost of improved highways, subway systems, airports and ports."

"An IPS report on the matter suggests that 30,000 families in Rio de Janeiro alone will have been forced to move for the competition. The Americas Program of the Center for International Policy, meanwhile, places the overall estimate at 170,000 people countrywide."

"To quote their translation of the report, the main demands of the strikes "ranged from wage increases and benefits like health insurance, food assistance and transportation, to improved working conditions (in particular, the protesters had complaints regarding the security situation, sanitation, and food), increased overtime payment and the end of 'inhumanely long' working hours."

"with the feeling that the ordinary people do not matter as long as the event runs smoothly"

"There is a common feeling that Brazil's World Cup is being taken away from the lower classes, with all these factors adding to the sentiment. The high cost of ticket prices, also, have done little to soften dissatisfaction."

