ITALIAN STEREOTYPES Stereotypes always tend to have some truth mixed in with a few generalisations and a bit of exaggeration. Here a small list that Italians usually do in their life. The typically Italian man has dark eyes and a dark complexion‚ with black hair. He is very passionate and lazy and he works in factory or into an office. The typical Italian woman has a round shape. She is very charming and she works as housewife. The Italians usually live in flats in the city. They pay
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Anthony Wilson 11/10/2014 Italian Neorealism As cultures progress‚ cinema will always revive its past‚ mirror its present‚ and predict its future. Throughout history‚ cultures have inspired new waves of film. Filmmaking has reflected cultural decades of every era. Whether through non-fiction or fiction‚ films still establish the principle of human psyche. From America’s popular westerns in the 1920s to Italy’s neorealist films in the ‘40s-‘50s‚ films have been created to emulate the conditions
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Sonya Black‚ Sidney Frey‚ Diana Zuniga The Italian Unification The Italian Unification was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century. Young Italy is a nationalist group created to fight for unification of the separate Italian states. The two prominent figures in the unification were Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi. The two powerful monarchic figures included Count Cavour and
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official EU language: Italian Italy is mainly mountainous‚ except for the Po plain in the north‚ and runs from the Alps to the central Mediterranean Sea. It includes the islands of Sicily‚ Sardinia‚ Elba and about 70 other smaller ones. There are two small independent states within peninsular Italy: the Vatican City in Rome‚ and the Republic of San Marino. The centre of the vast Roman Empire which left a huge archaeological‚ cultural and literary heritage‚ the Italian peninsula saw the birth
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rulers and ordinary people were influenced by the conservative beliefs of the Catholic Church and the attitude of the Papacy towards Italian unity was often reflected in the actions of Italian rulers and mass support for nationalism. In 1815 temporal power was restored to the Papacy in the Papal States and the Pope shared the conservatism of the other Italian rulers who hoped to maintain their own power in individual states. The dominant power in Italy was Austria and the Habsburg family and
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American derivations of the Italian Mafia‚ such as The Sopranos and The Godfather‚ we will explore the ways in which customary perspectives of the family have molded the Mafia and other criminal organizations. The Mafia evolved over hundreds of years in Sicily. In the mid-nineteenth century‚ Sicilians joined together in groups and began to rely on "family ties" to protect themselves‚ keep themselves safe‚ and carry out their own justice in a place where the Italian government was just recently
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In the period between 1943 and 1950 Italian cinema was dominated by Neorealism which became the most significant film style of post-war Europe. Formation began back in 1936 when propagandists opened modern Cincitta studios and the film school name ‘Centro Sperimentaledi Cinematografia’. Along with the opening of schools such as this was a movement that placed a group of cinematographers under full-year contracts‚ among them was Carlo Montuori who used his classic techniques in creating ‘Bicycle Thieves’
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THE ITALIAN CERAMIC TILE INDUSTRY INTRODUCTION Sassuolo is an Italian industrial city that hosts a lot of ceramic tiles’ companies‚ due to the huge boom in ceramic demand after the Second World War. Consequently‚ supporting industries grew next to the ceramic tile’s factories. Ceramic tiles are very well considered in Italy and around the Mediterranean‚ because of the warm weather; they provide more coolness than other materials‚ for example wood or carpets. The ceramic tile
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Italian Literature A study of Italian literature has strongly influenced not only the Europeans but also the world. It shows passionate sensitivity to goodness and true beauty of life. The Italian love for Christian virtue‚ faith‚ hope‚ and charity radiates in both their prose and poetry. For Italians‚ true love and nobility‚ which are manifested in their literary works‚ are inseparable. FAMOUS POETS PROFILE WORKS SHORT DESCRIPTION of WORKS Horace Virgil Livy Ovid
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Italy according to different literary periods. Classical Italian literature Ancient Rome was the military and cultural centre of the world for centuries. Literature was a well developed discipline in Italy during Roman times producing several classical works of literature that are still read today. It is amazing to think that such great works of literature were written in Italy as far back as 800BC. Some of the biggest names in Italian literature from this period include Horace‚ Virgil‚ Livy and
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