Corriere della Sera Essays

  • Meaning of Nature in Deserto dei Tartari and Visconte Dimezzato

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    In Il Deserto dei Tartari1 and Il Visconte Dimezzato2, written respectively by Dino Buzzati and Italo Calvino, the omnipresence of nature sets its role as much more than a passive setting. Kate Rigby in Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century, defines the role of nature as being a background of images bearing symbolic meanings. Marie- Helene Caspar completes this statement by saying that: “Il paesaggio non e solo una cornice, qualcosa di esterno, senza importanza. Anzi, esso fa da complemento al

  • Reports of the Pope's Miracles

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    wouldn't count toward John Paul's saintliness. "But since you only need one for beatification and one for canonisation, if there are so many of these 'signs' that you hear about, it shouldn't be difficult to have new ones," he told the newspaper Corriere della Sera. Some of the old "miracles" have been given prominent play in Italian newspapers, including the case of an unidentified American Jewish millionaire afflicted with a brain tumo...

  • Benetton Group's Sustainability and Ethical Controversies

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    The company’s move comes after more that 1 million people signed a petition in less that a forthright , demanding the company to pay up . But its huge delay of payment , has raised many questions. On October 1998 an Italian newspaper , Corriere della Sera, linked Benetton Group with a child labour scandal. A textile factory in Turkey subcontracted by Benetton , was putting children from nine to third teen years old , to work in terrible conditions for a little as 80 dollars a month . The newspaper

  • The Positive and Negative Impact of Media on Teens

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    Each day, the importance of mass media is increasing among society. More people are becoming dependent on the media and are being affected by it unknowingly. “Over the past five years, the time kids spend using media has increased significantly” (Media's Grip on Tweens and Teens). “According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 87 percent of teens with cell phones use them for texting, sending an average of 50 messages a day. It's not just teens; the same study showed that 72 percent of

  • Genesis 45 Analytical Essay

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    Structure The literary structure of the Joseph account in Genesis presents itself as sequential. This is evident in the smooth progression of events from the moment Joseph reveals himself to his brothers in verse 4 towards the conclusion of this narrative, where the brothers return to Jacob to tell break the news that Joseph, his beloved son, had invited them to settle in the land of Goshen close to him. The sequential structure of the narrative affords further subdivision of Genesis 45 into four