years of 1880 and 1920‚ more than 4 million Italians immigrated to America (Hall 1987: 54). Italy was compromised of many races of different origins‚ and there was a broad distinction between the northern and southern Italians. Southern Italians were poor‚ unskilled workers who worked in agriculture. The northern Italians were generally wealthier‚ more enterprising‚ and more intelligent than their fellow southern countrymen. The group of northern Italians were peaceable and industrious‚ and improved
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The Renaissance defined.-- "Renaissance‚" French for "rebirth‚" perfectly describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. During the era known by this name‚ Europe emerged from the economic stagnation of the Middle Ages and experienced a time of financial growth. Also‚ and perhaps most importantly‚ the Renaissance was an age in which artistic‚ social‚ scientific‚ and political thought turned in new directions. DANTE
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The Renaissance represented a complete departure from the pessimistic and dark times of the middle ages‚ and a transition into a period of optimistic rebirth and celebration of antiquity that the middle ages did not have. Civilians during this period valued individualism‚ and devoted their lives to improving their communities and becoming better citizens. Furthermore‚ freedom city republics which as well were not prevalent during the middle ages‚ were an important aspect of the Renaissance. They
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however there has remained a divide amongst cultures that has not been completely repaired. The Harlem Renaissance was a time period in which the African Americans freely celebrated their culture and their community‚ particularly in Harlem‚ New York. Of the artists of the Harlem Renaissance‚ “Langston Hughes was the most popular and versatile of the many writers connected with the Harlem Renaissance" (p. 869)‚ with his poems‚ “he wanted to capture the oral and improvisatory traditions of black culture"
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Renaissance is the term used to describe the period of European history that saw a renewed interest in the arts. The Renaissance began in 14th¬century Italy and spread to the rest of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. In this period‚ the fragmented feudal society of the Middle Ages‚ with its agricultural economy and church¬dominated intellectual and cultural life‚ was transformed into a society increasingly dominated by central political institutions‚ with an urban‚ commercial economy and lay
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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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cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5m3nb3ft&chunk.id=d0e9454&toc.id=d0e9454&brand=ucpress 9 Renaissance and Reformation An Essay on Their Affinities and Connections This essay was commissioned by the organizers of the Fourth International Luther Congress‚ held in St. Louis in 1971. I tried to demonstrate in it not only the affinities of the Reformation with the Renaissance but also the European-wide character of the impulses underlying the Reformation. I naively assumed that none
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Race Pendleton 4/29/13 Italian Immigration 1880-1920 Many people have emigrated from Italy to America over the past few centuries. During the time period of 1880-1920‚ the largest number of Italians arrived in America as nearly four million Italian immigrants came to the states. Most came from either Sicily or southern Italy and were mostly comprised of lower income people. A majority of the immigrants were known as the "birds of passage". Life was often hard for Italians in America as they were
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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 of life. The
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referred to as the Renaissance was a time of great social and cultural change in Europe. Generally speaking‚ the Renaissance spanned from the 14th to the 16th centuries‚ spreading across Europe from its birthplace in Italy. During the Middle Ages‚ Italy was not the unified country that it is today. The Italian Peninsula was instead made up of a number of independent city-states‚ most of which were ruled by powerful families. The period of time during which the European Renaissance fell was between
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