Italian American

American nation is overwhelmed by cultural differences. However, it is these cultural differences that make our nation so unique. For example, you can go into a mall and choose from a variety of cuisines. Those cuisines could range from chinese, italian, indian to american. According to my friend, Margjela she believes that culture tells a lot about a person’s personality and morals. She also mentioned that United States of America is a pot of diversity cultures, and sometimes we get so…

specific, the dialect I mostly associate with is Brooklyn accented English, a definite regional dialect. I would say it’s very similar to Staten Island dialect but there are distinctions. Brooklyn dialect is heavily influenced by Italian Americans since back in the day Italians made up majority of the neighborhoods but is seen more as a street/ghetto slang today. You will typically see someone from Brooklyn speak not only with their mouth, but with their hands. It’s a very aggressive style of…

Thomas Jefferson was the most influential person from the American Revolutionary Era. Jefferson was a very smart man since childhood. Jefferson was very kindhearted and cared for people and was very outgoing. Thomas Jefferson was very smart since childhood. As a small boy Jefferson would spend his pastimes playing in the woods, practicing violin and reading. He was very interested in learning. By the age of nine he began his formal education studying Greek Latin and Greek. At age 14, he took…

Italy. Frederic used to be a student of architecture back in America. He volunteers to join the Italian army as an ambulance driver. Proof of this is when Catherine asks, “You’re the American in the Italian army” (Hemingway 22). Before Catherine comes to Italy, she had a fiance who had unfortunately passed away. They grew up together for eight years. She is an English woman who is a V. A. D in the Italian army which is similar to a nurse but they are not as trained. “Oh, no. I’m something called…

This rule has upset many African American players in the NBA because they feel the commissioner of the league is being racist. Players are now expected to wear business casual attire whenever they participate in team or league activities, including arriving at games, leaving games and making…

who is practically my twin, noticed. In hopes of improving my mental health I started homeschooling. Being stuck in a hot Italian apartment with no air conditioning, accompanied by no one but my mom and my siblings was not the best situation. So my mom made the tough decision that she would drive my siblings and I to the nearest American…

The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) was the first major law that restricted immigration in the United States. American-born individuals blamed the Chinese immigrants for taking their jobs and lowering the wages. Therefore, this law restricted the migration of Chinese immigrants for 10 years and made it hard for Chinese individual who were already in the United States to become citizens. Just like numerous ethnic minority, Jewish people wanted to migrate to America for a better life. Back in…

In From Ellis Island to JFK and The Construction of Race, and both the 1880-1920 and 1965-present waves of immigration to New York City, Nancy Foner argues that immigrants have experienced mixed receptions from so-called native-born Americans and earlier generations of immigrants already settled in the city. She argues that the newest immigrant arrivals, although receiving different labels from so-called native New Yorkers, have withstood both negative and positive stereotyping throughout both…

to? What did the progressives seek? Who were the progressives as defined by George Mowry? The progressives or also know as reformist where mostly made up of conservative college educated middle class men and women. Most of the men came from Old American stock with British ancestry, and most of the women came from the midwest. The majority were lawyers with the next…

novelist captured the true lives of people who lived during that time. Ernest Hemingway, an english author who was in the Italian first aid during World War I, is one of the novelist who show an aspect of life during World War I in the novel Farewell to Arms. Hemingway tries to show what people had to deal with during those times. A man named Fredi, who is an american in the Italian first aid, meets a woman who he falls in love with. He tries to live a life with this woman but also having to…