Jean Gattuso - Metier de Gestionnaire

When placing the novel in the context of our course numerous topics are illuminated, such as, how these immigrants attempted to hold onto the values and traditions of their ancestors, how the immigrants faced discrimination and what certain immigrants had to do in order to make a living. The Italian Immigrants migrated to the United States eventually making their way to New York City and in particular the upper east side of Manhattan. This migration to a certain location demonstrates how the Italians felt more comfortable living with one another rather than assimilating into the American culture and living with other ethnic groups. Throughout the novel Orsi provides

As an Italian-American, I was and am still told by my mother, grandparents, and great-grandparents how proud I should be of my heritage. I was taught to respect my great-grandmother who, after arriving in America along side her husband, fully committed herself to raising her four sons and eight nieces and nephews in a two-bedroom house in Pennsylvania. She was motivated by the drive of a better life in a new, strong country for the young-ones she loved. I was taught to treasure both food and family, praying each night through the Blessed Mother. I was handed Pizzelles and Almond cookies as snacks throughout the day, and listened to Dean Martin through the stereo almost every night. My grandmother’s family came from Mezzogiorno, while my grandfather’s family hailed from the North Country. Though I had never been to Italy, as a child, I still knew the significance of being Italian and was thankful. It was not until I entered public school that I began to understand the teasing that my own ethnic group was subject to on a near daily basis.

Italian American and Greek American parents are devoted to raising their children, and caring to them well into their adult years. While the Irish American culture allows their children to move out, prepared or not, the Italian American and Greek American cultures would not do this willingly. The Italian American and Greek American cultures believe that they will not have as much an impact or closeness, and their children could venture into trouble if not advised everyday of their lives. With that being said, Italian American and Greek American children often live in their parent’s homes well into their adult years. What might be surprising to other cultures, especially the Irish American culture, is that even newly married couples are welcomed to live in their in-laws home until they find, or until they can afford, their own home. The Italian American and Greek American cultures are even big on assisting their relatives in finding employment, and this ties into the importance of family businesses, where they will hire and keep their success

Entrepreneurs always make efforts to cultivate good relationships with people in general, with the hope that one day these people might be their clients. They always make good relationship with their staff although there are those who are always indifferent to their employees, and tend to exploit them. They have good relations with clients, see human relations as an important resource of the enterprise and regard long-term goodwill as more important than short- term

Family has a large impact on one’s life because they provide support and help guide one in the right direction when making decisions. In Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints and Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, family plays a large role in shaping the lives of the protagonists, Vittorio Innocente and Frank McCourt respectively. A distant father results in the boys’ innocence and naiveté as their fathers never had the chance to explain the mysteries of life to them nor did they serve as proper role models. Frank’s and Vitto’s grandparents results in their distrust towards their own families. The boys’ incapable mother’s results in them not knowing what a family structure is, which in turn causes them to look to alternate people for parental figures. The family dysfunction of absent fathers, unsupportive grandparents, and inadequate mothers forms Vitto’s and Frank’s personalities negatively as it deprives them of the positive influences they desperately need in order to grow up with the right morals.

Today New York City is home to over 3 million Italian Americans. When the Italian immigrants first came to America many settled in downtown Manhattan, in an area that came to be known as Little Italy. Living conditions in Little Italy were terrible. Large families were forced to live in tiny tenement apartments with sometimes up to five or six family members sharing a tiny bedroom. When the immigrants were able to save up enough money many moved their families to Staten Island where it was more rural and land was relatively inexpensive. Phyllis Lamattina, a longtime resident of the Roosebank area, has the knowledge of the Italian immigrants’ relationship to St. Joseph by Rosebank Church and how important the values of family was to the immigrants. In this interview. Ms. Lamattina, shares a brief oral history of her family and tells of this importance of family and church to the Italian immigrants.

Henri Boulangerie: Creating and Using a Master Budget BACKGROUND PART I: CREATING THE BUDGET MEETINGS WITH DIVISIONAL MANAGERS Henri Boulangerie is a medium-sized regional bakery that specializes in providing orders to grocery and convenience stores. Because of the popularity of its brand, it has also opened a small café for walk-in business. In order to maintain its high quality standard, Henri produces only three products: breakfast muffins, fresh bread, and chocolate chip cookies. Although business has been good in the past few years, a lucky contact with a large chain has recently allowed it to expand its brand out of the local region. Growth has been high since the new contract went into effect.

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

The role in which traditional Italian codes of behavior and attitudes towards the family play in the Italian American immigrant experience represents the dynamic interplay in which a distinct Italian American culture developed as a fusion between Italian and American cultures. From this perspective, the changes occurring in Italian culture, as it integrates into the more dominant mainstream American culture, can provide insights to the Italian American immigrant experience. Contrary to the patriarchal nature of Italian culture, Lucia Santa’s perspective of men as incompetent, commenting how “folly” it was for “men should control the money in the house, have the power to make decisions that decided the fate of infants,” provides an example of the changes within family dynamics as a result of assimilation into American culture (Puzo 27).

Orlando shared that he is connected with his large family and that in his culture they love to be with a lot of people all the time which is centered around food and laughter (Garzon, Lecture A). This was different than the majority culture as individualism and often independence from one’s family is the norm. Mahout on the other hand says that he is not use to families being so open with their communication and enjoyment of each other, he was surprised by close-knit families and the optimistic nature of the people (Garzon, Lecture B). He was more accustomed to staying quiet and reserved and primarily hanging out with peers rather than family (Garzon, Lecuter B). The view of family are drastically different between Cuban and Japanese culture which made the lens the interpreted American culture with very

The idea the authors, Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian, are communicating to the audience is that the minority families do not have weaker ties to its extended family relationships compared to the white families. Rather, the ties to kinship depends on racial or ethnic differences.

Ludmilla and Igor, the founders of Iggy’s Bread of the World, had a fairly defined objective of the type of communication network they aspired to create in their growing company. As the case study outlines, the mission statement clearly emphasized that the owners wanted to cultivate a very communicative and caring environment. The following excerpt from that mission statement illustrates many wonderful characteristics designed to achieve that goal; “Our priority is to learn to work well together, and to create an environment that fosters communication and personal growth. Honesty, mutual respect, sharing and caring for the people and the planet are the values on which our business is based.” Both of the founders had a

The 1990's rise of the family style Italian restaurant, which served portions by the bucketful, called for huge groups, replicating a nostalgic image of big, boisterous Italian families. With one wave of a garlic-bread wand, these restaurants offered a vision of the past through a red-and white-checked lens. Now I enjoy garlic-drenched linguine with clam sauce and platters of sausages and peppers as much as the next person, but I find it hard to eat surrounded by portraits of imaginary ancestors with the theme from “The Godfather” playing again and

There have been very few events throughout my lifetime that I feel have impacted or inspired me with such noteworthiness and that I know will change my outlook on the world and affect me forever. One of those events occurred when I traveled to Portugal, my parent’s homeland. From this excursion in 2007, I learned the importance of family, most importantly the distant kind. It provided me with a totally different perspective on the world and how large and extended one’s family can really be; even across cultures and continents. I felt so fortunate learning this lesson at a young age and growing to appreciate the ideals I was brought up with as a child. The family I have in Portugal has always been there; however, their faces have aged and

i Suoi Fratelli, the journey of one Southern Italian family as they migrate to the North