Italian American

While you have excellent secondary sources and evidence for women in traditional Italian society, the main problem with the argumentation is the lack of sources and/or evidence for women in American laws and society, as well as a lack of examples/evidence in support of the analysis of women in our contemporary societies. Overall organization of paper is very good, however at times the line…

The history of mosaic goes back some 4,000 years, with the use of terracotta cones pushed point-first into a background to show decoration. By the eighth century BC, there were pebble pavements, using different coloured stones to create patterns, although these tended to be unstructured decoration. It was the Greeks, in the four centuries BC, who raised the pebble technique to an art form, with precise geometric patterns and detailed scenes of people and animals.By 200 BC, specially manufactured…

between the levels of secularism between Italy and France. Two cases will be analyzed in this section of the essay, the French hijab bullshit and the Italian crucifix being displayed in public buildings bullshit. The law allowing for the crucifixes to be displayed inside the classrooms, the Italian courts, and hospitals was passed in 1924 by Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (Thomas, R. Murray, 2007). After the Second World War in 1948, Italy passed a new constitution, which officially…

Haagen-Dazs Argument Commercial Reflection Paper The commercial starts with an Italian man entering his home with some groceries and flowers. He says “Hello, my love” in Italian. The skinny Italian woman in the kitchen turns around and smashes a dish to the ground. She yells out “I’m leaving” in Italian with which the man responds “Not again”. The woman then proceeds to throw down the towel in her arm onto the floor. The floor already has pieces of the broken dish. She walks closer to him and…

An Italian American Christmas Eve: Being of Italian American descent food plays a major part in all holiday celebrations; let’s face it, food plays a major part in my day-to-day life! Christmas Eve in my family meant a fish and seafood feast. The traditional, typical meal includes at least seven fish dishes. The celebration is meant to commemorate the wait for the birth of Jesus (Vigilla di Natale) at midnight. Christmas Eve was considered a fasting day which means that no meat can be eaten.…

Jersey Shore was a popular TV show on MTV between 2009 and 2012 about “Guidos”, or Americans of Italian descent in their twenties who rented a house together on the Jersey Shore, which was aimed at teenagers and people under thirty. Jersey Shore is affecting our culture in a negative way because the majority of people that watched it might have thought differently about Italians and think that’s all that they do. At one point, Jersey Shore became one of the most watched TV shows and I think it…

The history of Italian Americans is quite storied; we, as Italian Americans, have had a powerful impact on the development and augmentation of America as a whole. From the arts to the Supreme Court, we have made an indelible mark, especially on the culture of America. When our relatives made their way to the United States, they came with hope: a powerful catalyst for change. These immigrants hoped to not only to have a prosperous life for themselves, but also for their children to thrive in the…

How cinema created the Italian American mobster stereotype Migrating to the United States because of economic opportunities, Italians faced many discriminations and stereotypes about their culture. Stereotyping is having a generalized idea of a certain group of people. The American cinema portrayed Italians as mobsters, pasta loving people, or thugs. We choose to accept and believe these stereotypes. Although Italians have made their way in America, they are still affiliated with many cultural…

Southern Italians, upon receiving political, cultural, and social discrimination and mistreatment in their own home nation sought out a better life in the United States beginning in the early 1860s after Italy 's unification. Spurned by their own government, they came to America hoping that life would turn around for them. Unfortunately, this would prove not to be the case because until the end of the Second World War Southern Italian immigrants would face extreme discrimination by the American…

The tale of Italian immigration has never been a simple story, with each individual family having unique and diverse reasons for the decision: decades of internal strife, disease and abject poverty lead many Italian people to make the newly affordable transatlantic voyage to “L’America” 1. Opposed to the earlier arrivals which were “...artisans and shopkeepers seeking a new market in which to ply their trades. The vast majority [of this new generation of immigrants] were farmers and laborers…