20th Century and New World

Sixteen-year-old Lina Emerson, the main character, had recently moved to Italy to live with her unmentioned father. This new experience consists of gelato, the beautiful Italy scenery, and a significant life lesson. It was her mother’s dying wish for her to move to Tuscany, Italy to finally get to know her father. Reluctantly, she agreed to go for a short period of time over the

The first episode takes place south of Sicily as an American soldier, Joe, and an Italian teenager, Carmela, try to communicate after Carmela safely led a group of American soldiers. At one point, Joe and Carmela are alone and struggling to converse because of the language barrier. They do not understand each other’s ways and dialect. Joe and Carmela end up bonding as Joe speaks of loneliness and homesickness, demonstrating a connection aspect between varying cultures. This feature of communication is broken when violence interferes and Joe is killed. Carmela shows obvious sorrow over the loss, displaying realism and progressing the relationship between Italians and Americans. This episode introduces a multitude of themes that present themselves again later in Paisan. Joe and Carmela’s language barrier is an effort at a mutual understanding and interaction between Italians and Americans. As an opening episode, this scene shows a level of vivid reality and brings awareness to humanity.

The beginning of the twentieth century brought with it relative peace and growth of economies throughout the world. New technological developments such as airplanes, radio, cinema, and automobiles were created during this time frame. Europe’s powerful countries consolidated in their colonial conquests from earlier decades that balanced their alliances. However, after only a few decades into the twentieth century multiple tensions between the great powers surfaced. These tensions caused the great powers to separate into different alliances and eventually lead to the Great War.

Culture highly shapes the identity of characters in ‘Looking for Alibrandi’. Josephine Alibrandi is Italian with a bit of Aussie in her, her mum (Katia Alibrandi) and her Grandmother (Katia Alibrandi) also Italian. Jose struggles are school and doesn’t fit into many groups for two reasons, she has a traditional Grandmother and her Italian background is avoided by other backgrounds. Christina and Katia live together with Jose, Katia gets along with Jose’s dad (Michael Andretti) unlike Christina, Michael turns up to family events even though he doesn’t talk to his ex-wife and daughter but that soon will change, we will now discuss the ways that culture has an effect on the characters in ‘Looking for Alibrandi’, focusing around Josephine, Christina

Alessandro Rago gazed off into the horizon, on his rural farm in the mountains of southern Italy, which had been untouched by the new industrious technologies. These changes had not yet climbed their way into these treacherous mountains, a season of failed crops would likely kill off many of the village, for the people were already impoverish. However, there was hope of a new life, a land of unknown, but growing opportunity, America. Alessandro moved to Chicago, where he made a new life for himself and his family. Starting with a farmer looking for a chance in the new world, the generations that have come before me have shaped a family history that I can be proud of continuing.

Before the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, we see the United States claiming and expanding beyond their original borders that are even today still claimed as theirs. Even though this expansionism had been against the Farewell Address of George Washington, it had led to established borders we have today in the United States and added to much prosperity eventually earned in the lands. After the Spanish-American War, the United States had been growing in their amount of power and control to the point where they were considered to be a world power. They had been conquering more and more land and territories during the Progressive Era than ever before, this had been considered to be a continuation of earlier expansionism of the American people and states. Some of this expansion had been due to the help of allies, treaties, land purchases, and war. In fact, the way in which these lands were gained had been a departure in how the expansionism of the United States played out in both the past and present periods.

the modern america is a free willed, full of history and multicultural. Modern america in the time perid where slavery was abolished and the 19th century when martin luther king jr decresed the levels of racism and earned the rights for people to be treated equally no matter the color of their skin. Modern day americas includes many economic and political changes, technology improvements, more reliable transportation, people are allowed to believe in what they want to without punishment

Change is inevitable in life. Everything around us is changing as time flies. That includes our emotions, our actions and our perspectives on things. Looking for Alibrandi is a novel about a teenage girl’s struggles in life and how she changes her views on others and herself through a series of events which eventually leads to her ‘emancipation’ by the end of the novel. Throughout the novel, the author, Melina Marchetta clearly demonstrates the concept of change and changing perspective through the main character, Josephine Alibrandi’s actions and thoughts. Some of the most significant changes about Josephine’s actions towards herself, her father, Michael Andretti and her Nonna, Katia will be discuss in this essay.

Two weeks after arriving in Florence, while walking home from dinner across the river, stumbled upon Piazza della Signoria, for the first time. With the sound of a street performer’s violin in the crisp night air, I sat on the edge of the open-air gallery of statues. I still do not know why the piazza affected me the way it did, but with tears in my eyes, I knew I had found a place in Florence where I could be bitter sweetly happy.

A new world developed between the 16th and 18th century focused on growing empires establishments of ‘power and profit’. Ogborn argues that through various types of global connections and the rise and fall of global powers, a global history was created. In particular, the exchange of goods and services by Britain and the English colonies was only obtainable through utilizing transportation. As a result, an advantageous Atlantic economy was formed . Britain applied transportation as a method of ridding the country of undesirables, which included convicts, and consequently created the criminal transportation system. Beattie notes that Britain was simultaneously able to benefit the English colonies, providing the colonists with servants

It is 1892, the time when coming to America is anyone’s dream. But for little Beniamino it is a foreign place where he has never wished to be. His mother leaves him alone on a cargo ship heading to America in hope to give her son a chance to start a new life. However, once Beniamino reaches the New World, he has only one thing on his mind: return back to Napoli. Soon, he figures out that getting on a ship back home is not as easy as it looks. Doubtless, any child in his place would have given up, but Beniamino has always been exceptionally clever and quick witted. No trouble or danger can make him put his hands down, as he has hope beating in his heart, the hope to see his mother again.

Progressing through the novel, Miss Lavish, an extravagant woman, guides Lucy to release control and embrace the unknown. Coming from an upper class, Lucy’s perspective on life has always been encompassed on social norms. The people she interacts with and rules she must follow all have a distinct relationship to her social class. Italy has given her the opportunity to go beyond the social standard that her upper-class stature puts forth. Miss Lavish tries to rotate Lucy’s close-minded view of the world because she believes that exploring will always lead to a wide variety of opportunities. When Mrs. Lavish says "One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon Giorno! Buon Giorno!" (2.12) She is forcing Lucy to look up from the Baedeker which subtly begins to introduce the idea that this, in fact, represents Lucy slowly peering up from the metaphoric barrier the society has created for her. Lucy has always been a shy girl who was influenced by other people’s opinions on her, but coming to Italy gave her a new outlet to discover her own personality. It’s a new environment where she can explore not only the streets of Italy but the streets of her thought process as well. Mrs. Lavish unintentionally introduces to Lucy that in order to explore, you must be patient. Lucy finds that solutions to all issues are not just given. When she says, “As to the true Italy--he does not even dream of it. The true Italy is only to be found by patient observation." (2.12) It points Lucy in the direction of solving

1: The era of the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe was largely defined by imperialism and nationalism. How did these concepts influence the manner in which the world wars were fought? In what ways are they global ideals? How did these notions cause the wars to become global in nature? What role did the colonies play in the wars? What changes did the wars bring to relationships between European countries and their colonies?

Although the King’s son, Ferdinand loses his luxury life and has to face the test of survival, his determination and valor enables him to live a time of jubilation. Living in Naples, Ferdinand struggled to find his true love, but shortly after he arrives on the island, a spirit named Ariel uses his mellifluous voice to guide Ferdinand towards Prospero’s daughter, Miranda. With one glance, Ferdinand falls for Miranda, who he claims as, the “perfect and… peerless” (III, i, 47) lady he’s been waiting for. In addition to love, Ferdinand is also living every adolescent’s dream; being away from their parents. Without his father next to him on the island, Ferdinand gets to make his own decisions and lives his life without his father’s ruling; obtaining the feeling of independence and discovering what he is capable of doing on his own. Ferdinand finds pleasure with the feeling of freedom, wanting to “live here [forever]”

This week’s paper we were to research and identify three prevailing philosophical perspectives at work during the 20th Century. To begin I will research the history of a few new tendencies in contemporary philosophy. Then I will discuss the Tom Rockmore interpretation of such tendencies. Tom Rockmore is Professor of Philosophy and a McAnulty College Distinguished Professor, Dr. Rockmore's current research interests encompass all of modern philosophy, with special emphasis on selected problems as well as figures in German idealism (Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx) and recent continental philosophy (Heidegger, Habermas, Lukacs). He is continuing to explore the epistemology of German idealism as well as the relation between philosophy and