Growing up in the small fishing village of Giovenza, located on the heal of Italy’s boot, Francesco Camporeale was taught the back breaking work of the town’s trade. His childhood virtually non-existent, he was out at sea for days at a time with the hopes of having a plentiful harvest to help his family put food on the table and clothes on their backs. His life was no different than his father’s or his father’s father, but nobody expected that it would be – except for Francesco. Like generations before, a wedding was arranged and by the age of seventeen Francesco was married to Deloris with the expectation of spawning the next generation of fisherman. Francesco, however, had other ideas. He dreamt about the riches promised in the new world, …show more content…
She quickly learned the language of her schoolmates and became a sponge for everything American; the movies, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Coney Island. She had an insatiable appetite for discovering this new world which remained a foreign place to the rest of her family. It wasn’t long before Clotilda assimilated into her new found world. She quickly became absorbed by the American culture, but continued to maintain two lives. She was the only American in her family. While the “Old World” traditions of fresh fruits and vegetables, walking the neighborhood and opera ruled her life at home, the “New World” order of fast food, big cars and rock & roll dominated her daily life. It was a constant struggle for Clotilda to navigate between these two worlds. When they collided, it often had disastrous effects, which is always magnified in the life of an adolescent. Clotilda reached her teen years generally unscathed but the trough between her “Old World” and “New World” lives continued to grow deeper and wider. Her brothers, more than 10 years her elder, made frequent visits to the local candy store where she would hang out with her American friends. With broomsticks in …show more content…
After stopping in Cannes, Naples and Gibraltar, the ship headed out past the Azores for the nine day journey to New York. Life on the ship was enjoyable: Campari in the bar, poolside lunch of melone con prosciutto, aromas of pesto, garlic and espresso. The voyage had been routine, nothing making it any different from any of the previous fifty trips the ship had made to New York. The night before their arrival in New York, Clotilda could hear the ship’s foghorn bellow every minute or so. She was in her room packing her belongings and rehearsing what she would say if, when she eventually saw John. Then it happened. A thunderous noise radiated through her cabin. The Stockholm had left pier 97 in New York earlier that morning and was well away from New York by evening, cruising ahead at top speed. Disintegrating as it penetrated, the bow of the Stockholm ripped a hole in the Upper Deck of the Andrea Doria from cabin 42 back to cabin 58. Stunned, she raced out of cabin 77 expecting to see down the ship’s long corridor. Instead she saw twisted metal that outlined a gaping hole through the boat’s exterior. Acting on pure adrenaline and instinct, she fetched
her journey, “Here it was –the reason she’d been called here in the first place” (Erdrich 309). She
It is a long-with-standing stereotype that Italians love to gamble. This is true. My great grandfather, Pasquale Giovannone, played the riskiest hand of cards when he immigrated to the United States as an illegal stowaway at the age of thirteen. He forged a life for himself amidst the ever-changing social and political shifts of the early nineteenth century. The legacy he left would later lead to the birth of my father, John Giovannone, in Northern New Jersey in 1962.
his real father. A while after he ran away he traveling down a road when he saw
Michael Ondaatje describes a relative paradise when writing about the first week of the voyage, but at t...
enough of anything to keep him happy. He felt like nobody loved him. When he was born
money and a life full of luxuries. He fell deeply in love with the young
The Ferry stop and the trip to Boston were a major part of the trip through The LIRR. The rail road service made the Ferry hotel, a stop after Green...
Immediately this comes into effect as John says, "But...Between you and me, you understand?... Well, I wake in the night... and watch her dream... and sometimes her mouth even moves, just a little bit. It's like a whisper. I can never make that out. I don't know where she goes, in her dreams. I don't even know if I'm in them...I don't think I can bear losing her."
daughters. She was trying to get to her husband who was stationed in another town in the
The arrival to Manhattan was like an entry to a whole new world: from the sea, its breezes, color, and landscapes, to the heart of the city beating louder than ever at the Whitehall Terminal. I could smell New York’s bagels in Battery Park with a mixture of the most relaxing scents: the coffee people were holding while walking down the streets, the old walls of Castle Clinton ...
to him, something for which he can strive, so he puts all of his energy into
Food is traditionally considered as a simple means of subsistence but has developed to become filled with cultural, psychological, religious, and emotional significance. Consequently, food is currently used as a means of defining shared identities and symbolizes religious and group customs. In the early 17th and 18th centuries, this mere means of subsistence was considered as a class maker but developed to become a symbol of national identity in the 19th centuries. In the United States, food has been influenced by various cultures such as Native American, Latin America, and Asian cultures. Consequently, Americans have constantly Americanized the foods of different cultures to become American foods. The process on how Americans have Americanized different cultures’ foods and reasons for the Americanization is an important topic of discussion.
In hopes to get to the hotel quickly, we left the airport scared to death and hopped onto a h...
As soon as possible she moved to New York City and became an airline reservation
Sunward left Southampton for the first time on June 25th 1966. Unfortunately, bookings were very low. A disagreement between Spain and Great Britain regarding Gibralter –Spain saw Gibraltar as a part of Spain- didn’t help matters either. Part of her brochure when sailing as The Empress for Empress Cruise Line Ted Arison, an Israeli, managed several Israeli passenger ships cruising out of American ports in the sixties. These ships were gradually sold however, so Arison was facing a situation in which he would be left without a ship. He saw many possibilities for cruises out of Florida to the Caribbean. It was his foresight that started Caribbean Cruising. He contacted Kloster and unfolded his plans for Caribbean cruising. Kloster agreed and the Sunward started sailing out of Miami on short cruise to the Bahamas for the newly formed Norwegian Cruise Lines. She was now used as a cruise ship, although her car deck was still in use so passengers could take their cars to the Bahamas. So...