¶ … unification of Italy was a complicated process that started from the 1790s and lasted until the conquest of Rome by the Italian troops in 1871. During this process various intellectuals were forced to define what a "nation" was and why it was worth the struggle to achieve it (Ardnt, 1813; Ozkirimli, 2010)
What is interesting, Mazzini had in mind a certain image of a republican Italy and when he realized that his vision is unlikely to come true, he gave up -- for example in Milan in 1848. After 1849 he supported Garibaldi in his attempts to conquer Rome but his role in the unification was coming to the end (Beales and Eugenio, 2003)
Giuseppe Garibaldi, a skillful military man that to this day is seen as the Italian national hero and Camillo Cavour, the Prime Minister of Piedmont from 1852 to 1861. All of them shared a great contribution towards the Unification, but they took actions at different paths: Mazzini was an ideological leader, Garibaldi -- a military one and Cavour a political one (Davis, 2000)
The revolution of 1848-1849 gave hope to the Italian patriots all over the country, for they saw that Milan was able to hold back Austria and that Piedmont was beginning to gain the position of a leader within the States. The policies of the Piedmontese and the significant conquests at the South of the Peninsula led to the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 and the connection of Rome and Venetia (Hales, 1954)
Three people clearly played a great role in the process of unifying the State: Giuseppe Mazzini, the ideological leader of the Italian patriots and the creator of the famous Young Italy, which argued for Italian unity at all costs. (Mazzini, 1831)
The lake's long shoreline has been a boon for real estate over the millennia but it also makes the lake singularly fragile: Destructive human activity has a very long periphery to damage the lake. The lakefront beaches of Lake Como bear signs telling people not to swim in them, although this is a caution that is often ignored (Popham, 2007)
The United States The global economic crisis has been affecting almost all of the nations of the developed world. However, despite the fact that the source of the downturn is largely thought to have begun in the United States credit market, all of the countries of the European Union have become mired in the recession more quickly and more deeply than the nation from which the crisis originated (Pfanner 2009)
Germany, France and the Scandinavian countries are mounting billion-dollar stimulus plans and erecting fences to protect their banks" but the "peripheral economies" such as Italy "find themselves caught in an awful policy bind: credit is available, but only at punitive rates; and further borrowing not only breaks with European Commission dictates but raises broader questions about their solvency. Bond and currency speculators have demonstrated that they intend to punish countries with dubious economic prospects, just as they have punished banks," and few EU countries have more dubious economic prospects at present than Italy (Thomas 2009)
Latin, with its complex declensions and regimented meter, is in many ways very different from Italian. It would have challenged the students to think more clearly and precisely - and this was a great deal of its appeal (Grendler 119)
Starbucks' Reputational Risk in Italy Starbucks has built one of the most respected and well-known consumer brands globally through consistently high standards of execution, a focus one exceptional customer experiences, and a belief that consumers needed a third place, away from work and home to relax. These insights and more from the article Grounds Zero: A Starbucks-Free Italy (Faris, 2012) is the basis of this analysis
Legislation was passed to encourage 'ruralization' and internal colonization and there was even some attempt to halt the flow of people from the countryside to the cities. Tax laws and credit policies were altered on several occasions to assist agriculture" (Cohen, 1979)
Legislation was passed to encourage 'ruralization' and internal colonization and there was even some attempt to halt the flow of people from the countryside to the cities. Tax laws and credit policies were altered on several occasions to assist agriculture" (Cohen, 1979)
Today however, with the ongoing chances affecting the micro and macro environments, the Italian agricultural sector is trying to adapt and better respond to the needs of the population. "In this particular innovative attempt to mobilize networks of people, animals, technologies and speciality foodstuffs into a sustainable farming system, these efforts are couched within a broader moral understanding of the particular value of rural ways of life, so that moves towards sustainable farmland management are inter-related with specific cultural, social and economic objectives" (Holloway, Cox, Venn, Kneafsey, Dowler and Toumainen, 2006)
The farm ideally comprises a variety of different resources: arable land (including, if possible, some well-watered plots), olive trees, vines, fruit trees, meadow, pasture land, and woods. The various resources are exploited in a closely integrated manner, in terms of crop rotation, labor expenditures, use of equipment and so on" (Silverman, 1968)
However in the beginnings of biotechnology, Italy received the GM products, they now refuse them. Foremost, they implemented a clear set of regulations, including detailed labelling, without which the items are not allowed onto the Italian territory (Toke, 2004)
Sources of pollution in Italy There are several definitions for the term pollution. In this sense the Tenth Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution considered pollution to be "the introduction by man into the environment of substances or energy liable to cause hazard to human health, harm to living resources and ecological systems, damage to structure or amenity or interference with legitimate use of the environment" (Colls, 2002, 1)
More precisely, "Carbon monoxide and photochemical pollutants (nitrogen dioxide, ozone) appear to be determinants of acute respiratory conditions in Rome. Since carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide are good indicators of combustion products from traffic related sources, the detected effect may be due to unmeasured fine and ultrafine particles" (Fusco et al
Still, due to the increased exchanges in the natural habit, these can become relevant for air pollution as well. In this sense, following intense research at the middle of the last decade in Italy, "three main geographic patterns of metal concentration in mosses could be defined: (1) Fe, Ni, and Cr, all derived both by soil particulates and anthropogenic emissions connected with ferrous metal manufacturing, were mostly concentrated in Northwestern Italy; (2) Cu and Zn, as typical multi-source elements, showed rather high concentrations with little ranges of variation over the whole area and small peaks reflecting local source points; (3) Cd and Pb reflected long-distance transport and showed highest concentrations in the regions with highest precipitation, especially in the Eastern Alps" (Gerdol et al
.) the S02 concentrations detected in this city correspond to the period December 1963 - January 1964 and are the highest reported in recent years; this was during a period of thermal inversion with intense and prolonged fog and no wind" (Grosso and Frangipane, n
The most concerning aspect of the research conducted in this area is represented though by the studies made in North Italy which suggest that people can have serious heart problems as a result of pollution. In this sense, in Lombardy for instance "air pollution has been associated with increased short- and long-term morbidity and mortality from heart diseases and strokes and that hypercoagulability and enhanced thrombosis have been indicated as one mechanistic pathway that mediates such effects" (Hughes, 2008)