Introduction History‚ beauty‚ cultural achievements are words that come to mind when Italy enters the mind. Italians take great pride in their culture‚ it infuses every aspect of their daily lives. As an American business man or woman in order to conduct business effectively and respectfully in an Italian society it is imperative that there is a complete understanding of this culture. The following elements of society must be researched and understood by an American preparing for an international
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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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In the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo‚ the protagonist is a victim of all three of these crimes. She is mistreated and taken advantage of because she is a female. Although she has been the victim‚ Lisbeth is able to retaliate and take back her life and power. This film shows the female
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Evaluate the relative importance of Mazzini‚ Cavour‚ and Garibaldi for the Italian Unification between 1848 and 1871 In order to achieve the unification the Italians had to go through a long struggle starting from 1830 and ending in 1871. Thanks to the leading of Mazzini‚ Cavour and Garibaldi‚ the Mediterranean peninsula was able to defeat its foreign enemies‚ especially the Austrian Empire‚ and create a united nation under the King of Piedmont‚ Viktor Emmanuel II. Although Mazzini was the starter
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rebirth of the arts‚ and Italy an ideal location. In the Italian Renaissance‚ people began to look beyond tangible ideas‚ alternatively‚ pondering the abstract world‚ the philosophy of life‚ reforming the Christian Church into art‚ and artist freedom along with commissioned work were brought into practice‚ but not only was there a rebirth of the art‚ there was a changing of the government and people. To begin to unveil that story of the Italian Renaissance‚ one has to look into the philosophy of the
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is part one of a three part trilogy called the Millennium Trilogy. The novel was written in Sweden in 2005‚ by Stieg Larsson. The book sold millions across the world and has been translated into several different languages‚ including English in 2008. It also has two films‚ one filmed in 2009‚ and the most recent one in 2011. I believe the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is one of the best crime novels on the shelves because of the twisting plot
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In the Italian Renaissance‚ about the late fourteenth century‚ the idea of humanism was created; likewise‚ it was given a name by Leonardo Bruni. The idea of humanism was centered mainly on human beings and their achievements‚ interests‚ and capabilities. Interest in human achievement led humanists to point out the importance of individualism. Many loved the idea of individualism for the very reason that it glorified their personalities as individuals. Therefore‚ the Italian Renaissance idea of humanism
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belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. They are spoken by about 670 million people in many parts of the world. Among the more important Romanic languages are Catalan‚ French‚ Italian‚ Portuguese‚ Romanian‚ and Spanish. My report is particularly about Italian and Spanish borrowings to the English language. Spanish borrowings appeared in English in 16 century. Historic circumstances which influenced on these borrowings are associated with some geographic discoveries
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characteristics and cultures of the art. The difference between the French Opera and Italian opera reflects their respective cultures and their history as well. Italy was the birthplace of opera. Italian opera was opera in its purest form. This Italian tradition was the central tradition‚ which all other nations admired and imitated (Kimbell 1). Operas usually took place at the palaces of nobility (Kupferberg 21). The Italians in terms of opera were mostly known for singers (Kupferberg 22). Peri’s Euridice
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Mini project a) All my great-grandparents were Italian immigrants who stablished themselves in Colombo‚ South of Brazil‚ around the end of the 1800s. They were speakers of Veneto‚ a variety of Italian spoken in the North of Italy until nowadays‚ and so was the second generation. The third generation‚ my parents‚ are capable of understanding it‚ but not always of speaking it. My father would communicate with his parents exclusively in Veneto‚ but in Portuguese in any other social context. My mother
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