Italian city-states

From the end of the First World War, Italy was in a state of political and economic upheaval. The “mutilated victory” gave way to the beginnings of major political instability, and allowed the Fascist party to come to power. Fascism can be described as a “revolutionary form of nationalism” (Griffin, 1991). Mussolini himself said that Fascism is “everything in the state, nothing against the State, nothing outside the state.” Though the ideas associated with Fascism were new and seen as more of a…

anything on a pizza, you can put any type of food for your toppings. There are pizza places where they put chocolate instead of tomato sauce, and fruits instead of cheese or meat. It would also depend on a certain country’s culture, like in the United States there is such thing as a burger pizza, in Japan there is such thing as a sushi pizza. It is literally for everybody. Another contributing factor is that pizza can easily be accessed anytime and anywhere.…

The European Renaissance began in the northern city-states of Italy during the early 14th century and gradually spread its’ roots over Western Europe in 15th and 16th century. The origin of il Rinascimento, literally meaning ‘The Renaissance’ can traced back to the well-known and wealthy Italian cities of Genoa, Florence, and Venice. Since much of the inspiration behind the cultural changes during this era was drawn from the legacies of classical European societies such as Ancient Rome, and…

Yet Italy’s relationship with and feeling towards the dictator were; and remain, complex and contradictory. We know much about how Fascism functioned in Italy in the 1930s, the major institutions, figures and policies. However, how the ordinary Italian has viewed Mussolini during his lifetime has remained somewhat of a…

Mussolini and the Downfall of the Relish Regime By: Andrew Newbill, Noah Wallace, Hannah Simmons, Chloe Scott Mussolini cleans the mandibles of his moustache with a hot dog comb.He looks down upon the very pasta he has oppressed with mustardy reflection.The streets are covered in the gore of the pasta he has decimated.One standing in the street could easily smell the boiling noodles, if their senses weren’t overwhelmed with the vilified smell of evil: relish.…

labels on different products come from areas across the world, along with people. Houston, Texas is the most diverse city in the USA. People come from all over the world to Houston for business…

miniature scale. The Renaissance in the North and South both strived for a sense of realism, but in differing ways. The South aimed to depict anatomically realistic figures but are less focused on the realism and more on beauty or the overall aesthetic. Italians were more focused on physical form than on surface detail. The north was consumed with details being hyperrealistic and any imperfection in a human figure had to be copied…

so that they can be rented to migrants and used by extended families (Genemo, 2012). Over the years, urban sprawl has directly contributed to the degradation and decline of natural environment resources. It also reduces farm land and productivity in city leading to social loss and open spaces (Haregewin, 2005). In addition, urban sprawl leads to regional imbalance, such as pulling jobs and people further away from poor communities, increasing in equality. Recently, the problem of urban sprawl…

>The second reason would have to be because of the patrons and city states. Both of those had a big impact on Florence at the time, acquiring many new things, people, artists, writers, architects, theorists etc. The reason that had the least amount of impact, in my opinion, would be the architecture because buildings do…

In the beginning there... was… pizza. Biblical references aside pizza is truly a piece of both foreign and ancient art we, as English speakers, call “food”. To obtain even the most primary of ingredients you except you any person speaks the word pizza, a vast array of events must of occurred. I am talking about food items like tomatoes, which are normally used in the sauce in pizza, cheese, the overall topping used to cover the pizza itself and the flat bread, the very basis of all pizza. The…