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Umberto Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet

Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...

The Godfather and The Sopranos Italian American Stereotypes

that mirrors such interpretation as brought about by the likes of popular culture, but it has also been quite successful at reachi...

Louis de Berniere's 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' and Cultural Perspective Differences

throughout the novel. Although they try and maintain their cultural identity through music, they are morally lost in environmental...

English Words Borrowed from Italian

years. Some of these include gondola, cameo, arsenal, regatta, fresco, studio, vendetta, broccoli, motto, piano, opera, grotto, vi...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and the Setting of Italy

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

Italian Mafia of New York

the violence and power that renders its members fully able to take possession of whatever they want any way they can obtain it. O...

Contemporary Application of the Ideal Leadership Theory of Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli had been imprisoned by the opposing Medici and he saw how the conflict between politicians can destroy what issues are...

West Indian and Italian Immigration to the U.S.

cities could eventually be found in New York, Chicago, Boston and other metropolitan areas (Hutchmacher, 1967). It was these Littl...

Landscape Architecture and Italian Designs for Pavement

finished and beautiful look to the landscape. The versatile usefulness of paving stones can be seen in the fact that they can b...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

Mexican Drama and Xavier Villaurrutia

to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...

Robert A. Orsi's Madonna of 115th Street and Catholic Identity

reader see that the various gestures and postures of the people, as well as the kinds of prayers said, and the way in which they w...

Italy's Children and Benito Mussolini

ideas of modernization did not apply to the role of women in Italian society. Population growth was a sign of national strength, t...

Heroic or Villainous Christopher Columbus?

This paper exposes Italian explorer Christopher Columbus as a villain in six pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

U.S. Ethnic Family Profiling

In nine pages profiles of Amish, Mexican American, and Italian American family structures as featured in 3 chapters from the text ...

Julia Alvarez, Italian Americans, and the Immigrant Experience

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares an interview with an Italian American with How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by ...

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg

The writer analyzes the book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg and argues that ...

Strategic Theories and Organizational Success

In six pages this paper examines Zanussi, an Italian manufacturer, that was overtaken by Electrolux in a case study that examines ...

Biography of Giambattista Bodoni

his collections in the Bodoni Museum, located in the old ducal palace of "La Pilotta" (Fabian bodoni.htm). Bodonis editions beca...

Modern Science and Galilei Galileo

In six pages this paper examines the text Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo by Stillman Drake in this consideration of the impor...

Early Italian Fascist Movement and Patriotism

In five pages this paper discusses the exclusion of patriotic sentiments in Italian Fascism, which was cemented mostly upon a foun...

Capitalism and Exploitation of Chinese, Irish, and Italian Immigrants and Native Americans

In seven pages the ways in which capitalism has exploited the Native Americans and discriminated against immigrants most notably t...

A New York's Little Italy Sociological Analysis

In eight pages this regional Italian American community is examined in terms of an historical overview and theory based sociologic...

Italian Continental Cuisine

In five pages the food of Italy is discussed and its impact upon defining Italian cuisine in America is assessed. Six sources are...

Italian Mafia's History

In twenty pages this historical overview of the Italian mafia traces its roots back to the 9th century. Seventeen sources are cit...

An Analysis of the Classic Film, The Godfather

This paper analyzes Coppola's classic film depicting the rise of Italian organized crime in America, The Godfather. This eleven p...

Modern Criminology Theorists and Positive Thought

In twelve pages this paper discusses modern criminology principles and the Italian school's positive thought. Eleven sources are ...

EMU and Italy's Government Push Towards Membership

In ten pages this paper discusses how the Italian government has progressed toward becoming accepted into the European Monetary Un...

Human Nature, Machiavelli, Erasmus, and Pico della Mirandola

This paper compares and contrasts the views of these three Italian humanists regarding human nature. This seven page paper has th...