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Dialect on Television - "The Sopranos"

accident but by necessity-of course, I mean biological, not logical, necessity. Thus UG can be taken as expressing the essence of ...

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 ...

Divine Justice and Fate Reflected in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...

Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

of the "longitudinal, three-aisled basilica" (Church of San Spirito) that would come to be the foundation of Western church form. ...

Women in A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo and The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

womans plight in a turbulent time in history. "The Leopard", in comparison, is more of an outline of male expectations in regard ...

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...

Works of Italian Literature 'I Vicere,' 'Gli Indifferenti,' and 'Il Giorno della Civetta' Analyzed

a new way of looking at the world. It is also a new way for a student to look at Italian history, as represented in Federico de R...

Comparison Between Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo

follows "A good painter must paint two things above all others the person and the intent of that persons soul" (qtd. in North 16)....

Ghiberti v. Donatello

nude known to have been made since ancient times (1996). His work during the third period of his life, when divided by artistic en...

Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli

In five pages this report considers this little known 1531 work by Machiavelli and argues that it presents a complete picture of t...

Jael Slaying Sisera and Carol Maratta

In five pages this lone work by an Italian painter from the Baroque period is examined in terms of identification of different inf...

Technical Analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

In five pages this paper analyzes the artist's techniques in the creation of this Italian Renaissance work of art with the subject...

Thousand Years of Italian Music

In eight pages this paper traces the development of Italian music in a consideration of contributions, important works, and compos...

Ter Brugghen, Rubens, and the Italian High Renaissance Influence

In five pages this paper discusses each artist's religious paintings and the Italian influences each work reflects. Six sources a...

American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

Slavery According to Sterling Stuckey and Ira Berlin

order to illustrate why each authors particular perception is more accurate than the others. Utilizing the principles of historic...

The Evolution of Laws Protecting Archaeological Resources and Native American Graves

the varied cultures of the Native American that has developed over time symbolizes "oppression and the pervasiveness of racist pra...

James McPherson's The Negro's Civil War How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

In five pages this paper presents an overview of this American historical texts and assesses the author's arguments in terms of th...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

On Nationality by David Miller

In six pages Miller's contention that nationality is an individual's legitimate frame of reference is examined with several argume...

Critique of William Loren Katz’s The Black West

recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

Swift and Thoreau, Writing Style

a famous series of protest letters under the name of "M.B. Drapier." While his identity as the letter-writer was known throughout ...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...

Article Analysis: American Indian Societies

good for them. One of the best approaches to this subject is in Vine Deloria and Clifford Lytles excerpt, The nations within, whi...

Maxence Fermine's Snow

This essay pertain to a Japanese novel that charts the evolution of a young poet in achieving perfection within this craft. The wr...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Gatsby and Larsen's Passing

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

Objectives and Structure of The Histories by Herodotus

As this indicates, Herodotus intended this work to be more than a history. His ambitious purpose is to capture in writing, in thei...

Comparison of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus and Luis de Gongora's Polyphemus and Galatea

and transform his blood into a river, which flows down the sides of the volcano, Mt. Aetna, into the sea at Catana. De la Cruzs T...

Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

family would become highly educated as well as become involved civically. Following with that, then, he took a position as a...

Analysis of Symbolism in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

reside," with the house representative or symbolic of the society as a whole (Goloversic). If we picture the house as society we ...