History and Demographics: In the United States today, there are currently 26 million Italian-Americans. According to the US Census Bureau, they are the nation's fifth largest ethnic group. Italian-American's are mainly middle class republicans living in industrial cities primarily in northeaster...
Dead, until the silence was broken by a sudden creak and a shrill loud enough to shatter glass. ... He ran a shaky hand through his tangled hair and for a brief moment his eyes hardened like green glass. ... All he got was the treat of watching his only family shatter into pieces; his dad had just returned from the liquor store and was already halfway done with his single purchase, and his stepmother was slumped on the floor sniffing crack into her nose and afterwards laughing loudly. ...
The American author and journalist Mitch Albom once said "All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair." While th...
