... support provided to its clients, and the anti-semitism of the House of Morgan. In modern financial institutions the granting of credit is a complex and specialized activity, for Pierpont and Jack Morgan credit was granted to a party not based on their ability to repay the loan but as Pierpont told the Pujo hearings in 1911, "(the) First thing is his character ... "; the House of Morgan took this code to the extreme. Although Chernow outlines a number of cases when the House of Morgan overstepped the bounds of reasonable behavior I shall use one sovereign and one individual example of the...

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Bicycles Thieves (1948) represents one of the most important films of Italian neorealism. Through a simple story (a man with his son searches his stolen bicycle, extremely important for his survival) ... synopsis, spectators discover the straight revelation of the real, without any filters. It is because all of these features that Andre' Bazin said that Bicycle Thieves is "one of the first examples of pure cinema. No more actors, no more story, no more sets. The perfect aesthetic illusion of reality." The film portrays an odyssey ... that represent the socio-political circumstances of that ...

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... Italy truly believe that a democratic government would serve them best, or did outside interference from America corner the voters of Italy into having only one choice? This paper will examine how much influence the United States government, and the Truman Administration in particular, had in the overall outcome of ... card- to pressure de Gasperi into weeding out leftist opposition in his cabinet. The withholding of United States aid and the cancellation of one billion dollars worth of debt owed to the United States relied exclusively on the Italian Premier dissolving his communist cabi...

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