Italians symbolize a value system organized primarily around protecting the family. I feel that the family is one of the most important elements in our family. My grandparents are full-blooded Italians. My grandparents\' parents came over to America from Italy. As I read this article I am learning ...

Human nature leads us to be curious. Due to this we have acquired a thirst for knowledge about many aspects of life - one of these is the past. The city of Rome was founded in 753 B.C. By 275 B.C., it controlled most of the Italian Peninsula. At its peak, in the A.D. 100's, the Roman Empire covered...

Looking for Alibrandi is a novel which mostly deals with Josephine going through a journey of self discovery. Josie discovers who she is through both positive and negative circumstances; however, they all combine to help her find her true identity. Through a number of characters, Marchetta demonstra...

The Book Immigrant Voices by Thomas Dublin is focused on giving readers a close view of what things were like for immigrants between the years of 1773-1986. It contains diaries, letters, autobiographies, and interviews of actual immigrants during this time period. The book tells many facts a...

Verbal and visual representation of the matriarchal rule. Ursula Buendia in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Mama Elena in Like Water for Chocolate are two of the prominent and powerful female characters in the novels. No less important than men, these women assume the leading roles in the fam...

Family relationships and the flaws of society are two issues explored in After the Ball and American Beauty. In each text there are similarities and contrasts between the two issues though they both project the same meaning. Another audience viewing and reading these two texts will look at and res...

The Strength of Love The Bicycle Thief is considered a masterpiece Neorealist film that incorporates a unique relationship between father and son. Antonio Ricci, the father, and Bruno, the son, grow to depend on each other throughout the film. The intense search for Ricci's stolen bicycle ...

Giving Thanks "As the leaves on the trees begin to turn colors, I sit here and sift through piles of snapshots and realize how thankful I am for the gift of friendship and for memories of times past." That is a quote from one of my favorite authors of children's books, Mary Engelbreit. Rea...

Analysis of What A Girl Wants The movie What A Girl Wants could be said to be a modern take on Pygmalion. It focuses mainly on the relationship of Daphne Reynolds and her parents. Because Daphne's dad was not in their lives, Daphne and her mother's relationship is very close. Although t...

Family relationships and the flaws of society are two issues explored in After the Ball and American Beauty. In each text there are similarities and contrasts between the two issues though they both project the same meaning. Another audience viewing and reading these two texts will look at and res...

osephine Alibrandi, a Catholic girl, narrates the novel in her final year of High school. She attends St Martha's, a wealthy catholic school in Sydney's eastern suburbs. Her academic scholarship ensures her place at the school as she is not as well off as the population of largely wealthy Anglo-Celt...

Iris Midlam Erin's Daughters in America The migration of women to America was a difficult move on any level, whether it be following a man, coming with a family or migrating alone. The economic opportunities for women in America were limited. In the nineteenth century America witnesse...

In Buchi Emecheta's "The Joys of Motherhood" novel, the main character, Nnu Ego shows what it means to be a woman and a mother in Nigerian society. Also, Emecheta explores the idea that women having the ability to bear children are the only way to define femininity and womanhood in t...

A Raisin in The Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry is a short novel set in Chicago in the 1960's. It revolves around particular events in the lives of the Younger family when they receive an insurance check for ten thousand dollars. The Younger family is immediately introduced and we immediately become fami...

What makes us?Webster's defines identity as, "sameness of essential or generic character in different instances; or oneness." But what makes us who we are?As we walked into Hubbard Park, as we did every Sunday, my father would ask, "Do you think they know we're coming?" Of course he was asking abou...

Kate Chopin is a brilliant writer. Her writing career is during the late 1800's. She lives in a time where women are sexually suppressed and their opinions are not valued. Her writing holds more in common with our time than the time just after the Civil War. Although her life was full of death, she ...

Virtually everyone has heard one version of a fairy tale at some point in their lives whether they realized it or not. Some fairy tales change from generation to generation while others remain more or less the same for centuries. When examining adaptations of fairy tales you must look at the origi...

I am Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, the 32nd First Lady of the United States.I was born on October 11, 1884 in New York City. I was raised with unhappy parents. My mother was always criticizing me and saying that I wasn't good enough. She even called me "Granny" because I was so solemn and timid. My fa...