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Italian Americans in New Jersey: An Ethnographic Study

Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey was determined by looking at the major ethnic and social demographics within the community as a whol...

Society and Politics of Italian Americans

For example, they like to focus on characters such as Al Capone instead of individuals who contributed a great deal to America and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

Eliot & Thackeray

to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...

Baudelaire's Dog, Familar vs. Foreign, and E.E. Cummings

being graphic, and sometimes that takes getting used to as well. That same quality of foreign-ness can be applied to the work of ...

Hosea Easton's Legacy

In 5 pages this paper discusses the achievements of Hosea Easton, an African American abolitionist author in a consideration of su...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...

African American Theater and Blues and the Influential Works of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

a line stating the mood of the singer repeated three times. The stress and variation is carried by the tune and the whole thing w...

The African-American Experience in the Short Story - James Baldwin and Langston Hughes Compared

This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...