Minestrone Essays

  • Mount Vesuvius's Influence In Campania, Italy

    270 Words  | 2 Pages

    Italy was founded on April 21, 753 B.C. by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus. It was inhabited by the Indo-European people, until it was over thrown by the Romans in 3rd century B.C. , the Etruscan civilization was the dominant people. For the next 7 centuries, until the barbarian invasions destroyed the western Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D. Italy became a nation-state during the Risorgimento on March 17, 1861. Mount Vesuvius is a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples

  • Pizz Central And Southern Italy In The 1920's

    703 Words  | 3 Pages

    Country Report Pizza is a popular dish all around the world. You might think that it was created some time in the 1900s by Americans but that isn’t all true. Pizza was actually created in Naples, Italy in the 1860s. Shortly after the pizza was created, a favorites dish, the calzone was created. Italy is a big mass of land in the southern part of Europe that is shaped like a giant boot. The Mediterranean Sea,Tyrrhenian Sea and Ligurian Sea border Italy to the West, the Adriatic Sea borders the

  • The Youngster: A Short Narrative Fiction

    4098 Words  | 17 Pages

    The youngster was very, very tired. He had come a long way, bounding along as fast as he could. He had never once looked back, and he had had only one thought on his mind: to get as far away from those cruel teenage boys as fast as he could. His heart had now stopped pounding and had changed into a whirring engine – an engine that was finely tuned on fear. His paws were sore, but he couldn’t stop, not yet; he had to find a safe place to rest. Granny C. lived in a cottage with a very, very big garden