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    Jersey Shore Summary

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    Summary: Jersey Shore stars seven twenty-somethings living‚ partying and working together at the Jersey Shore. Much of the show revolves around alcohol and all the debauchery that comes with it. In this episode‚ the roommates go to a club and invite one of their sisters. Later‚ a physical altercation takes place between the roommates and girls who were invited back to the house. Format note: One aspect of the show that I found interesting is the communal telephone. This is also seen on the Real

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    Growing up in an Italian-American family‚ I have participated in a great amount of cultural traditions over the years. Some of these traditions include watching soccer games with my family‚ attending an annual festival known as “Italian Fest” and cooking meals in the kitchen together as a family. Although my favorite tradition by far is sitting down as a family on a Sunday afternoon and eating the meals we prepared together as I feel it brings us all closer together. Eating dinner as a family on

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    Kimberly Allen English 101 Mrs. Larrivee 9/30/13 Spaghetti with Meatballs Spaghetti with meatballs is an Italian-American combination that contains spaghetti‚ meatballs‚ and tomato sauce. Italian American cuisine is the food of Italian immigrants came and their descendants‚ who have modified Italian cuisine under American culture. Around the 1920’s this dish of Spaghetti and meatballs became a go-to‚ very popular dish in America. Replicating this dish is moderately easy‚ if you know

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    Rise Of The Mafia Essay

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    Even though the mafia had become successful in the early 20th century‚ the demise of the mafia came in the mid-20th century‚ a lot quicker than most thought. Stated by the history.com staff “In the early 1950s‚ Estes Kefauver (1903-1963)‚ a U.S. senator from Tennessee‚ launched an investigation into organized crime and held televised public hearings that represented the first time any part of the federal government publicly recognized the existence of the American Mafia. “At this time is when the

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    “La Famiglia: The Importance of Traditional Italian-American Family Values in Modern Day America” Intro The tradition for most Italian-Americans is to have family at the highest priority. Families spent most of their time together. Every meal they had was with each other. And each meal was homemade. Fresh pasta‚ sauces‚ breads‚ baked goods‚ olive oil‚ wine. Everything they ate was made by hand. And all the meals were made by the women of the home. The women were the ones who stayed at home. Women

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    Gang vs Mafia

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    Explain Why this is Important? A mafia is an organized secret criminal organization that engages in illegal activity such as gambling‚ drug dealing‚ protection‚ and prostitution. Mafia’s started in the 19th century in Sicily and migrated to the United States. They are still popular in the United States and in Italy. The members of a mafia are usually people of the same race nationality. A gang is a group of members who form together to commit street crimes. These crimes can be murder‚ assault

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    Italian Immigration

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    poverty‚ a series of natural disasters‚ civil war and oppression from Northern Italy the Southern Italians started coming to America in flocks between 1876 and 1976. The most concentrated migrations of Italians happened between 1880 and 1920. Italians came to America not to escape these hardships‚ but to work and send money home to Italy in order to get their families out of poverty. Seventy percent of Italian immigrants were men and less than ten percent of them worked in agriculture‚ a sign that their

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    Mafia vs. Gangs

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    gangs. The Capone gang and other mobsters began terrorizing neighborhoods in the early 1900s. Today‚ many American gangs are formed not only in cities but in suburban neighborhoods as well with the common purpose of dealing drugs. Function A gang usually functions through high levels of organization and within their specific cultures. The Mafia‚ for example‚ was mostly limited to Catholic Italians from Sicily.

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    important part of America’s history . During Prohibition there was the mafia and their notorious characters such as Al Capone and the young Federal Bureau of Investigation. In the 1920’s during the period of prohibition a new kind of Gangsters came about which specialized in illegally transportation and selling of alcohol. Prohibition in the 1920’s played a huge role by increasing criminal activity. In January of 1920 the American government banned sale and supply of alcohol‚ which was known as the

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    Goodfellas" is a dramatization of life in the New York Mafia. It is based on the accounts of real life ex-gangster turned state evidence. He tells his story from when he was hired by a wiseguy as a teenager in the fifties‚ to the time he is put in the witness protection program in the seventies.The movie portrays the spirit of the Mafia and demonstrates their distinctive values‚ customs‚gangster like lifestyle. The Mafia is groups of criminals that developed for the purpose of protecting those

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