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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...

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...

Overview of Political Machines and Immigrants

As a matter of a fact, for a time, it did appear that a new age might be dawning for the political machine because of the dire nee...

Language and Italian-American, New York Youth

The concept of sociolect is examined. Italian American youths are exemplified. There are four sources listed in the bibliography o...

Comparing Italian and Pakistani Customs

to "stare at anyone," but it is particularly rude to "stare at women" ("Pakistan Local Customs"). This cultural prohibition is str...

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...

Sturino's Book on Italian Migration

Sturinos Forging the Chain, Italian Migration to North America, 1880-1930, which was published by the Multicultural History Societ...

Italian Cuisine in the 1400s - Social Divisions and Food

looks at food preferences in a competitive way" (Gustafsson & Draper, 2009). However, this sociological dimension of food is immen...

Human Nature and Behavior: Jews and World War II

Primo Levis classic book "Survival in Auschwitz" is an account of the authors capture and deportation to...

Southern Italian Immigration

24, 1884, twenty-four men said good-by to their families and left the small Italian village of Gildone, bound for Naples from whic...

Films of the Italian Neorealism Movement

This research paper focuses on the films of Roberto Rossellini, specifically on "Paisan" and "Germany Year Zero" and the films of...

Neorealism in "Voyage to Italy" and "Open City"

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Rossellini and Italian neorealism. Two films, "Open City" and "Voyage to Italy" are...

Italian Culture and Hand Communication

over one another in the process. Their facial expressions only add to the animated effects of their hand gestures and body langua...

Violence, Ethnic Stereotyping, and TV

to violence in the media and entertainment business as well, it has often been assumed that violence viewed on television can caus...

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...

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...

Italian 'Risorgimento' of 1815 to 1870 and Economic, Social, Linguistic, and Political Aspirations

In five pages this report examined the Italian campaign against foreign domination and the strengthening of unity. Five sources a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Italian Footwear Industry

The writer looks at the Italian footwear industry using Porters diamond model, looking at factor conditions, demand conditions, re...

Gothic in Literature

is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...

Role of Women in Society: The Rover and The Importance of Being Earnest

to the plays because they were written during the time of the British Commonwealth, a time when the very nation has lost its Empir...

Italian Heritage

very powerful aspect of Italian heritage to many, even Italians. For example, a few years ago Mayor Giuliani gave an impersonation...