group. To be more specific‚ my background is mainly Italian so people may consider me Italian-American. Most of the Italians immigrated to the United States in small percentages. Most of the immigration occurred in the 20th century during the years of 1880-1960. Many of the Italian immigrants came from southern Italy with very low education. The main reason for Italian immigration was because of the poor economic conditions in Italy during the 20th century. The Italians settled in specific areas where
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`Italian Culture vs. American Culture` Kimberly Nyholm Anthropology 101 Ms. Winn September 2‚ 2009 Cultures 2 Abstract `Being born in a multicultural family I have always been curious on my Italian side. My Mother’s family is all Italian and I have always been so interested in their or our culture. My father is German‚ Irish and Swedish so all together I am a melting pot. The Italians just really interest me I’m not sure if it’s because they are very verbal‚ or what
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Italian Noir: Finding the Darkness in the Place of Contemporary Light According to Erica Jong‚ "What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human‚ which other places‚ other countries‚ lost long ago" (Earles 1). This humanity she speaks of is one that hides under the surface between the exteriors of beauty and power‚ reflecting the common Italian ideal‚ that while something so shallowly beautiful captivates the
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When I was little I used to watch a cartoon titled ‘Popeye the Sailor’ The main character of this cartoon is Popeye. That is my most favorite cartoon character. I watched this cartoon everyday for popeye. At that time I dreamed to be a man like Popeye. Popeye is a fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. In this cartoon Popeye eats spinich and gets muscles and unbelivable strength. He has a girl friend that he is constantly fighting over‚ and an enemy that is constantly trying to kidnap
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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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Chris Hague English 099 April 15th‚ 2012 Favorite Vacation Spot There are thousands of vacation spots in the world I could choose to go to‚ but one spot in particular is a place I’ve already been to. It’s a place not many people would expect to go to on a vacation. This place is Andover‚ Kansas. It’s definitely different from the typical vacation spots such as Hawaii or Cancun. There are three reasons why I would go to Andover‚ Kansas than any other place in the world. The atmosphere and
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THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE IN ITS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND | By: DENYS HAY | | | 5/13/2009 | | European History to the 1500 THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE IN ITS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND By: DENYS HAY Professor of Medieval History University of Edinburgh The Italian Renaissance took place in Europe around 1600 AD between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The word renaissance (Rinascimento in Italian) means
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Innovation‚ Vol. 12‚ No. 4‚ 1999 583 Working Values and the Italian Family MASSIMO BELLOTTO and ALBERTO ZATTI A B S T R A C T History teaches us that it is through the family that new generations are equipped with ethics and values regarding work. The advent of bourgeois society‚ with its characteristic openness towards other social classes‚ appears to have relegated the promotion of working values by families to the background. This study sets out to test the hypothesis according to which the
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their ideas are still relevant in our lives today. William Shakespeare is one of the most well known writers in history‚ and he was born during the Italian Renaissance. Life during Renaissance Italy is similar and different to our life today. Renaissance food was very different from food today. There were no fast food restaurants and most of the food people ate were all organic and healthy. They ate meals like swan‚ vegetable
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Compare and contrast the roles of Cavour and Garibaldi in Italian Unification between 1852 and 1861 It is undeniable that both Camillo de Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi both played integral roles in the unification of Italy. These men dedicated their lives to the creation of one cultural and political entity. They also made many great strides towards this unification that very well may have not happened‚ or at least would not have happened in the same way‚ if they had not existed. Yet
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