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Americanization of Italians, 2006.
An assessment of cultural assimilation of Italian Americans, as demonstrated in literature and film.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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This paper examines the Americanization of Italian immigrants, as seen in
the novels "All the Nations Under Heaven" by Kenneth Jackson and "The Fortunate Pilgrim" by Mario Puzo and the films "Goodfellas" and "Raging Bull", directed by Martin Scorsese. By analyzing these works, the paper attempts to demonstrate that the immigration of Italians to America caused a dramatic shift in their sense of family values and relationships. The paper explains that the Italian family was once the basis of the collective society within traditional Italian culture, but in America the family dissolved into its respective parts -- i.e. the individuals. The paper goes on to show how these individuals interacted with American ideals and morals to establish a new way of life for their progeny, the American-born Italians.
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"Traditional Italian households centered on the family rather than the individual pieces of the family. This type of collective culturalization tended to express gratifying feelings toward the family rather than personal feelings. However, as the immigration process initiated, the family bond began to weaken in Italian culture as the male patriarchs transcended the seas, leaving behind their cherished families. "Unlike Jews, who came largely as families, and the Irish immigration, in which women were in the majority for many years, Italian newcomers were at first mostly young men who often emigrated with the intention of making enough money in America with which to return home and purchase land."(ANUH , 135-136) With the money they received from work, the Italian men would then bring their kin over The Italian males received the first taste of independence that has lingered throughout their lives and led to the dissolving family values system."
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Assimilation of Jewish Americans and Italian Americans, 2002.
Evaluates the assimilation experience of the Jewish American and Italian American population.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 8 sources, £ 61.95
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This paper looks at the Jewish American and Italian American experience, using Milton Gordon's text, Assimilation in American Life (1964), to evaluate the experiences of both groups.
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Italian-Americans and African-Americans, 1999.
Compares ethnic groups, histories, relations, impact on American culture, family, geographics and biases.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, £ 38.95
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The historical experiences of these two groups, despite some similarities, are substantially different and it is these differences that explain a great deal of their misunderstanding and antipathy to one another. The
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"Introduction
In his 1989 movie, "Do The Right Thing," Spike Lee portrayed Italian-Americans and African-Americans as two ethnic groups with minimal understanding of one another and a good deal of barely submerged hostility toward one another. This depiction was fairly accurate and, at least to some extent, can be explained by the fact that ethnic groups in America are substantially shaped by their historical experiences in the country (269).
The historical experiences of these two groups, despite some similarities, are substantially different and it is these differences that explain a great deal of their misunderstanding and antipathy to one another. The purpose of this paper is to examine the similarities and the differences between Italian-Americans and ..."
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Differences Between Italian and American Diets, 2002.
An examination and comparison of diets and eating habits of Americans vs. Italians.
742 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 18.95
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This paper presents a description of both Italian and American cuisines and shows what is at the root between those differences and between the people who live on each diet. It defines American food as fast, convenience foods, while Italian meals are slower prepared and more nutritious. The health benefits and risks of each form of diet is discussed.
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"There are noticeable differences in the diets of people from different countries, even between those of a similar geographic area. One has only to compare Italian to French cuisine to see that though both share parts of the same landmass, both nations have very differently evolved diets, cooking styles, and kitchen staples. The European attitude toward food, however, is quite unified. Europeans generally enjoy their food for the visceral effects, the beauty and simplicity (or complexity) of the food, and treat it with respect. Americans, on the other hand, have a very different attitude toward food. American culture is based upon speed and convenience. Where once home-cooks prepared complex, multi-course meals for the entire family to savor and enjoy together, now the American household dinner is more often than not divided between the separate eating times of the family members, prepared with a minimum of from-scratch ingredients, and relies heavily upon pre-prepared frozen, canned, and other food items. Because of this, speed and efficiency are the hallmark of the American diet."
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Italian-American Women in Literature, 2005.
This paper discusses the evolving and multifaceted roles of Italian-American women in literature through the eyes of Italian-American male and female authors.
2,110 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 45.95
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This paper explains that stereotypes from whores to the Holy Madonna incarnation encompass the multi-faceted and contradictory roles of Italian-American women in Italian-American literature written by both Italian-American men and women. The author points out that the literature relates that social class, differences in religiosity, the American tradition and construction of success and the often contradictory ways the familial and immigrant experience, have come into conflict with the female experience in American. The paper reviews Pietro di Donato's relatively early novel "Christ in Concrete", Mario Puzo's "The Godfather", Helen Barolini's novel "Umbertina" and her collection of personal and scholarly entitled essays "Chiaroscuro" and Evidge Giunta's text "Writing With an Accent" to demonstrate that beneath these narrow stereotypes more complex and individuated roles of Italian-American women's life do emerge.
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"These images emerge in the depicted reality of nonfiction as well as fictional life come forth, as these women are seen engaged in child rearing, showing impressive work ethics to enable their families to survive, laboring as well as suffering in the role of daughter, and as these women show their strength in their roles of mother as well as their silent compassion. Gradually, as Italian women themselves began to speak, Italian women and authors have grown fluent at showing female Italian working and middle-class sexuality as well as images of long-enduring Mediterranean fortitude, women alone in the role of a wife bent over a stove bubbling with red hot gravy and meatballs smelling of garlic and onions."
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Italian-American Women in Cinema, 2002.
A compare and contrast analysis of the role of Italian-American women and American women in cinema.
1,373 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 31.95
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This paper discusses the role of the Italian-American women in American cinema and the functions that they fulfill within the Italian-American community and draws a comparison between Italian-American female roles and the parts played by American actresses. It examines some of the more famous Italian-American female characters in films such as cinematic masterpieces such as ?The Godfather" and ?True Love? and how they are usually portrayed as working class and victims of violence. It shows how both Italian-American and American female characters in movies are challenged by a patriarchal society. The only difference is that the American character is free to do something about it even if all odds are against her whereas the Italian-American female characters on the other hand do not possess that luxury because their cultural norms do not allow such liberties.
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"Then there are directors such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola who have made powerful Mafia movies ?Goodfellas? and ?The Godfather? respectively. Even though the main theme of their movies is the havoc that the mafia wrecks in the lives of Italian-American immigrants there always exists a strong underlying theme that relates the role of the mothers, daughters and wives of these mafia members. In short the role of the ?family?. For example in a comic scene in the ?Goodfellas? Scorsese makes a connection between food and death when Tommy?s mother serves them a mouth-watering meal just after her son and his friends have returned from trying to commit murder."
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Italian-American Women, 2002.
A discussion of how films reflect the characteristics of Italian-American women.
1,738 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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This paper reviews two films by Italian-American directors, focusing on their portrayal of Italian-American women. The paper illustrates how Francis Coppola's "The Godfather" accepts the general parameters of family and of the place of women in the Italian-American family and community, while Martin Scorsese's "Who's That Knocking at My Door?" delves more deeply into the effects certain myths have on that community.
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"The roles allotted for women in society enable both men and women to know where they fit in society and provide an area of comfort within which they know who they are, what they are to do in support of their families, and how they are viewed by every other member of society. There are cultural differences as to how women are viewed by different groups. Italian women have a different view of themselves than do American women because of cultural differences, and Italian-American women are in some ways between two cultures, embodying elements of both. Film reflects how different groups see themselves, and films by Italian-American directors like Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola reflect some of the characteristics of Italian-American women and some of the tensions that these differences can create."
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"Blood of My Blood:The Dilemma of the Italian Americans" by Richard Gambino, 2002.
A look at the themes of Richard Gambino's book on Italian Americans.
1,210 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the book " Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian Americans," by Richard Gambino. Specifically it discusses several important themes in the book in which Gambino attempts to change the publics' perception of Italian-Americans and encourage more empathy with their problems and their culture.
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"The book is partly a study of Gambino's own life, growing up in Red Hook, Brooklyn in a "typical" Italian-American family, and partly a study of Italian-Americans as a whole. Gambino speaks of how Italian-Americans tend to cluster together in their own sections of a city, called "Little Italies." Gambino gives us figures and numbers, but more than that, he gives us an intimate look at the family, the culture, and the strong ties to home that each Italian-American carry with them. "At least 85 percent of the total of Italians who immigrated to the United States, and perhaps 90 percent of those who came in the great flood of immigration from 1875 to 1920 were from areas south and east of Rome" (Gambino 3)."
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The Uniqueness of Italian-Americans, 2002.
Discusses the unique ethnic culture of the Italian-Americans and how they have contributed to the American cutlure.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 7 sources, £ 49.95
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Italian immigrants began coming to America in ever-increasing numbers. For more than 100 years, they have been one of the most "visible" ethnic groups in this country and have firmly planted their seal of ethnicity in everything from their food to their intellectual achievements. Like all other ethnic groups, they have enriched the culture of America and contributed substantially to the diversity we know and love.
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Italian-Americans, 1995.
This paper discusses the history of the ethnic group, Italian-Americans, since Columbus (focusing on 19th-20th Centuries): Ethnic and cultural cohesion, religion, assimilation, discrimination, socioeconomics and contributions.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 10 sources, £ 71.95
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"This paper will discuss the history and experience of Italian-Americans in the United States since the beginning of European exploration. The first part of the paper will briefly provide a history of Italian immigrants in America. The second part of the paper will discuss the culture and lifestyle of Italian immigrants in the United States. The third part of the paper will examine some of the more famous stereotypes of Italian-Americans. The fourth and fifth parts of the paper will describe the acculturation and assimilation of Italian-Americans into the larger American culture.
Italian explorers were among the first to discover the "New World" in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. The most famous of these explorers was, of course, Christopher Columbus, whose initial ... "
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Racial Groups in America, 2002.
This is a compare and contrast paper on American minorities--Italian- Americans, Mexican-Americans and African-Americans.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper compares and contrasts racial groups in America on basis of their assimilation within the society.
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Italian Opera, 2001.
This paper examines, in brief, the history of Italian opera, focusing on opera in the 19th century, and the ways in which opera has become a part of American culture and influenced American music.
1,235 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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The following paper examines the history of Italian opera focusing particularly on how Italian singers and composers helped to transform opera in the United States from an art form that was something that only the elite followed to something approaching a truly popular art.
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"Opera is simply the Italian word for work and describes a piece of drama set to music, distinguished from plays in which music is merely incidental. Although there are certainly distant antecedents to opera in the music of Greek tragedy and Medieval European miracle-plays, it begins as a distinct art form (as dramas that were set to music in order to be produced as musical works of art) at the beginning of the 17th century. Kimbell, 1994, p. 11)."
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The Canadian Italian Migration, 2007.
This paper describes various stages of the migration of Italians into Canada.
2,660 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 54.95
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This paper explains that the Italian immigrants migrated in various waves of various sizes throughout the last century. The author points out that the early wave of Italian immigration, mostly crossing from the U.S., virtually ceased at the start of World War I and did not pick up again until the late 1920s. The paper relates that, during the 1920s, Italian immigration to Canada expanded so rapidly that Mussolini, the fascist dictator in Italy, attempted to halt immigration completely. The author states that, just prior to World War II, Canada began to curtail or even roll back immigration. The paper stated that, following Italy's entry into World War II, hundreds of Italian men were interned in camps while their families were left to fend for themselves. The author concludes that, continuing after WWII, the large number of Italian immigrants was largely responsible for providing Canada with the necessary labor and tax pool it required to re-establish its economic activity.
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"The result was that by the 1960s Italian culture and heritage, sometimes with the assistance of Hollywood in America, became vogue to some degree. This period of consolidation allowed a new era of commerce where Italian markets, delis, and stores flowered across Toronto, Quebec and other regions where the Italian population was significant. One important factor during this era of consolidation was that Italian immigration virtually reached a standstill by the late 1960s. Italy had managed to substantially rebuild its post-War economy and the mass immigration out of the country ceased with the rebirth of its own robust economic growth in tandem with a healthy tourism industry."
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The Italian Renaissance, 2005.
A summary of the Italian Renaissance and its influence on Italian society.
1,855 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 41.95
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This examines the early stages of the Renaissance. It shows how the Black Death ironically played an important role in its development. The paper also provides an overview of famous figures during the time, including Lorenzo Medici, Dante Alighieri and Michelangelo .
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"Thanks to benevolent people such as the Holy Roman Emperor and princes, artists were able to devote their time to art, and not have to worry about supporting themselves. This helped art flourish even more as artists could be entirely dedicated to their work. Without this support from both the clergy, and townspeople buying and supporting art and artists, the era would have failed to produce works of the caliber that it did."
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