Week 5 Short-Answer Question
1. How do the stories shown in this documentary match up with your own assumptions about life in slums? Explain.
2. What is the economic impact of the Lagos cattle Market?
3. How was Zenzinho able to upgrade from a shake to a house in Rochina?
4. What surprised the author about Rochina when he first visited the neighborhood?
5. In the neighborhood’s early years, how were Rocinha residents able to stay under the radar of the local government ? Explain in your own words.
6. What effect did the community’s in population have on its development?
7. Why would McDonald’s want to be in a favela?
8. Do you think the first favela residents were justified in building homes, even if they were illegal? Explain your answer.
9. In the author’s opinion, what are conditions like in the conjunto (government-funded housing) nera Morro da Providence?
10. What are some of the obstacles kids enrolled in SPIN Rocinha have faced?
The word (slums) is domains in which most inhabitants are in or near to poverty, stores and homes are humble and broken down, and streets are lean and scourged. I have heard this word only once lately and it automatically brought to mind the trashy parts of a city and
