Essays on Sicily

Introduction

The American Mafia, also known as the Italian -American Mafia, is actually a term coined to represent the Italian-American criminal society that actually evolved from the Sicilian mafia and formed the first cartel of organized crime in America in the early 20th century. Although, the actual inception for the Italian Mafia had already been at the end of 19th century in Sicily when Italians migrated from their native land to Sicily in order to manage a living and started practicing unlawful acts to sustain on the American land. In spite of the criminal tendencies of the Italian immigrants, there ...

Brinkley (1992) argues that the Second World War was the largest conflict in human history as it ranged across six continents and cost the lives of fifty million civilians and soldiers (p.774). This essay will identify the reasons why America joined the Second World War. There will be a major analysis of the major American campaigns during the Second World War which includes: the North African campaign, the results of these campaigns, and the overall success for the Allies as a result of these campaigns. The American position in each campaign will be emphasised. Chambers (1999) suggests that even ...

American gangster movies have been in vogue for a very long time and have been a favorite of the American audience. The issues which surround law and order in the country have been captured well by gangster movies which depict criminals and vivid crime scenes. Although the movie is basically about letting the bad guys lose and the good guys emerge triumphant at the end, the movies usually swerve with the bad guys in the movie going about their crimes successfully without getting caught. Although the public has a clear recognition between the good and the bad, it is ...

Landscape Project: Introduction Module

This paper is devoted to the issue of the landscape. The main purpose of this module is to analyze definition of the “landscape” at different scales and provide appropriate examples. One more task of the paper is to choose a site from possible three places in order to analyze it Also, it needs to provide a description of the chosen landscape-site and form the hypotheses of its physical, economic/political and social settings. 1) Find at least two definitions of landscape and cite the source: One definition of the landscape is that it is a particular area of the Earth’ ...

Nefertiti et Akhenaton

Introduction The book that was chose for me to read was Nefertiti et Akhenaton by Christian Jaques. This book is written in French and was published in 2005. This paper will demonstrate the biography of the author, the summary of the book, how the book relates to Mediterranean culture, identify themes that correlate within the Mediterranean culture.

Biography of author

Christian Jacq was born in 1947 and he is French and also an Egyptologist who wrote about ancient Egypt, and he was particularly fascinated by Ramses II whom he wrote five books about. He came from Paris and Egyptology got him interested ...

Introduction

At present, tourism is one of the most promising sectors of the world economy, ensuring the satisfaction of one of basic human needs - the need for rest. Many countries are rich in cultural and historical areas, but Italy should be highlighted among all of them, because of its unique architecture, history, culture, and mainly because of the great importance in tourist activity. The “face” of the country has changed dramatically over the last century. The fame of modern Italy is provided not only by producing automobiles, chemical products, fashionable clothes and shoes, popular worldwide films, but also by ...

Catalunya Imperial plans. Make a list of the conquered lands by Jaume I and the trade cities with Catalano-aragonese Crown and its political consequences. Explain briefly the commercial role of the city and mention the goods exported and imported by Barcelona. Jaome el Conqueridor or James I the Conqueror was one of the most powerful Spanish kings and his policy eventually led to the expansion and leadership of Catalonia. Such lands as Valencia in the southwest and Balearic Islands in the south were added to the kingdom in the course of his regency. He also aimed at taking the ...