Italy Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Compare and contrast courtesans in Renaissance Italy, Japan, and India

A courtesan originally means a courtier, a person who takes care of the powerful people in society. There are two traditions of courtesan, which include honest courtesan and the lower class of courtesan. The honest courtesan was portrayed as an intellectual and was often treated and romanticized almost like the women of the nobility. The art of courtisanerie is mainly associated with honest courtesan. They were well educated even than the upper classiest women, which made them hold careers such as artists and performers. They were chosen depending on the social and communication skills as well as their physical appearance. Therefore, ...

How Melissa’s communication Style impacted the performance of the Italian partners?

Melissa Chang’s communication style had positive impact on the performance of the Italian partners. Melissa was initially hesitant to visit Italy as she felt that her company had not upheld basic business standards by not providing the basic product information to the Italians. However, when she provided the necessary information and answered all their questions in an effective manner, the Italians were encouraged by her positive approach and they could listen to her feelings which were genuine. They sat down with her the next morning and provided all the relevant information like their sales records. They even drew ...

I am a born US-citizen but my roots belong to Italy; my ancestors came to the United States during the era that was known as the “New Immigration” during the period of 1900-1915. My ancestors belonged to the Southern Italy and were low-level farmers. During that era, migrations to the United States were made for the economic purpose but upon entering the country, they had to face ethnic prejudices in the labor force. The major factors that contributed to this migration were poverty, natural disasters, and low levels of earning and minimal opportunities in the homeland (Telles, 2012). Another factor ...

The Sardinians were eager to evict Australians from their land. Despite the defeat they suffered during the First World War, they did not lose hope. Instead, they were determined to see that their country was liberated from the grip of Australians (Avery). They were under the leadership of King Vittorio Emanuele when they realized that it was tough to fight the Mighty Australian Empire. The King and Cavour decided to find assistance from the other European States. Initially, Cavour had entered into a secret alliance with the Piedmont- Sardinia Kingdom during the War of Crimea. He was on the ...

1. How does Aeneas’s piety and sense of duty change as the poem unfolds?

Aeneas was a Trojan who travelled to Italy and became the ancestor of the Romans. He was deeply pious, “you bear no more than what the gods ordain” (Virgil, 19). He followed the instructions of gods to set off on a journey to Italy as quoted from book 1 “he came to Italy by destiny” (Virgil, 24). Aeneas’s sense of duty keeps changing as the poem unfolds. The first six of the twelve books making up the poem describe how Aeneas wandered from his native ...

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Adolf Hitler was the head of the Nazi Party in Germany and the Chancellor of Germany during the period from 1933 to 1945. In 1934 Hitler became a Führer of Germany, which meant that he in fact became the dictator of Germany. Hitler was initiator and central figure of the World War II and Holocaust (genocide of Jews).
Information about Adolf Hitler is worth saving, because it has a lot of lessons to learn. In particular, the period of Nazi rule in Germany showed, how important it is to be a responsible citizen. Hitler demonstrated the ...

What has been the evolution of development theories since the “linear stages” period? Have these theories added value to the understanding/explaining the causes of underdevelopment? Give reasons for/against your position.

Among the many fundamental questions that continue to confound economists today, is the issue, what are the causes of economic growth and decline? Economic theories have emerged to locate, understand, and thus, develop the reasons behind the successes and failures of economies. While the original answers for this question were in the form of simple theories, nowadays, the complexity of this question has been better understood as these theories ...

Cosimo di Giovanni de Medici was given the title Pater Patriae of Italy at his death and was also known as the primus inter pares. He was the founder of the Medici dynasty, who were during the Renaissance the de facto rulers of Florence. Even though Cosimo Medici was a powerful man, he was not an official ruler. Medici’s government also consisted of a council who would many times resist the laws that Medici put forth. This paper will look at the accomplishments of Cosimo di Medici.
Cosimo di Medici was born on the 10th of April, 1389 ...

Analysis - Giovanni Boccaccio, "The Onset of the Black Death"

Boccaccio's Decameron is a masterpiece of early 14th century European literature; its bawdiness and its sheer wit are a wonderful, funny indicator of what life was like in 14th century Italy. However, the central framing device of the book itself - the Black Plague, which ravaged Europe around the time of the book's setting and publication - plays a somber but vital role in this important work. The importance of the plague to the story is no less evident than in the introduction, which demonstrates the awesome power of the sickness. Boccaccio's account of the plague during the time it hit Florence ...

World War 1 began in July 1914 and ended in November 1918. This war began in Europe and later spread to the rest of the world. The key players in the war were from the European nations. They included two camps. The triple alliance included Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Germany with the opponents, the triple entente, including Russia, France, and Britain (Sanders et al., 2006). The war began because of an assassination of an Austro-Hungarian citizen (Sanders et al., 2006). A Serbian activist assassinated Franz Ferdinand. Hungary then asked Germany for support to attack Serbia and then Russia decided to ...

The case of Meredith Kercher’s murder in Perugia, Italy became a very sensationalist story due to the involvement of an American young woman, Amanda Knox, who represented both America’s sweetheart, being young and beautiful, and Italy’s black widow, due to her associations with sexual promiscuity and drugs. While no clear evidence was ever found to ink her and her Italian boyfriend to the murder, they were imprisoned, together with a Black man, Rudy Guede, whose drug-related activities quickly turned the media against him. In this high-profile case, the issues of privilege and diversity had a great ...

Book Review

Lane, William L. Hebrews: A Call to Commitment. Vancouver, B.C.: Regent College Pub, 2004.

Introduction

Summary
The commentary by Lane is an exegetical and technical works that is based on the original text of the Hebrew. The author interacts with latest literature to make commentaries about the book of Hebrews. This makes the book fit for seminary students, scholars and people with an understanding of the original text. It has been argued that Hebrews is a difficult book. Hebrews is considered as a very difficult book, many people perceive it to be very difficult and this is what motivated Lane to ...

Justinian I was a Byzantine emperor between 527-565. He was focused on regaining the former Roman provinces that had been lost the barbarian invaders. In 1534, Justinian conquered the Vandals in Carthage Africa and enjoyed victory for some time over the Ostrogoths in Italy in 540. By 562, Justanian had garnered control over the entire Italy preventing the attempted invasion of Bulgars, Huns and Avars. Justinian is credited with reorganizing the imperial government and commissioning the reform and implementation of what was called the Code of Justinian. However, Justinian’s attempts to root out corruption led to a revolt in Constantinople ...

The totalitarian revolutions that sprang up in Italy and Germany were explicitly undertaken to oppose liberalism. Thus a good way to look at developments in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s is in terms of liberalism and anti-liberalism.

Then (using Perry) consider international relations in the 1920s and 1930s. Identify three developments that seem to indicate that liberal internationalism was working in the 1920s. Identify three situations in the 1930s that reflect the failure of liberal internationalism. What reasons might you suggest for the failure of liberal internationalism?
The period after the First World War was one where intense liberalism ...

The culmination of artistic explorations and developments known as the High Renaissance began with the works of Leonardo in 1480´s and ended in 1527 with the sack of Rome. High Renaissance represents a wide range of outstanding talents who worked in the same area and the same period of time, they did not follow strict rules of antiquity anymore. The main ideals of classical humanism were already successfully put into effect in painting and sculpture, now the artists had the tools, technology, ideas and belief in their own powers and abilities to go their own way. The smaller parts ...

The pantheon is an ancient temple which sits in Rome, Italy. The temple was much later converted to a church of Santa Maria ad Martyres. The church is also one of the outstanding buildings in the country dating from 125 AD. The building has also been the largest concrete structure in the world up to the 20th century. Before starting a design of the St. Peter’s Basilica, Michelangelo first studied the Pantheon to gain more insight on the design and architecture. The Pantheon has also been a burial place for significant people like Raphael, the artist. The building ...

Question 1

The Renaissance is the period of the emergence of the individual artist and of art becoming more and more realistic. This was the result of intellectual achievement in other cultural fields which led to the creation of a new philosophy surrounding the arts (Getlein, 378).
Renaissance blossomed in both Italy and the North of Europe. There are however significant differences between the art produced in those two areas. Robert Campin’s Merode Altarpiece (figure 16.17 in Getlein) from 1426 is typical of the extensive attention to detail the Northern artists paid. The picture is full of details, some of ...