Sandra Scoppetino is an American writer from New Jersey best known for the writing of popular crime fiction and young adult novels. The most popular of her novel series are the Lauren Laurano series and the three freestanding novels she wrote in her pseudonym of Jack Early. Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Scoppettone has had a long career that spanned from the early 1960 right to the beginning of the millennium. Sandra was born in 1936 New Jersey at a time when not many women made a name for themselves writing crime fiction. Despite the forbidding environment, she pulled herself literally by her bootstraps to write some of the most popular young adult and crime fiction even if she had to write her crime fiction as Jack Early. Her Jack Early …show more content…
The debut novel in the series was Everything You Have Is Mine that was first published in 1991. Scoppetino writes about Laurano Lauren a short Italian girl in her early forties who is an articulate feminist, articulate, and chocolate loving lesbian in the mold of the author. Lauren is a wisecracking amateur sleuth who packs a pistol as she attempts to resolve several cases in the little village of Greenwich in England. The lead character lives with Kip her longtime lover and psychologist whose family finds it hard to accept their relationship. When a girl is raped, Laurano dives head first into the case to find a family story full of lies. Writing at a lively pace, the novel captures the essence of Greenwich with the characters smart sassy talk and quirky behaviors. In I’ll Be Leaving You Lauren finds herself having to deal with resolving the murder of one of her best friends. Similar to her previous novel, Scoppetoni writes entertaining novels that involve her lead character Laurano working to resolve mysterious murders of her close friends or their loved ones. In other novels such as Lets Face the Music, the tables are turned when her friend becomes the lead suspect in a murder investigation. The narratives are spiced-up with the troubled relationship between Laurano and Kip her girlfriend, which offer insights into lesbian
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As one of the most famous hard-boiled crime fictions, The Long Goodbye enjoys its reputation not only for the story itself, but also for its delicate social criticism. In fact, this novel is representative of how female characters are formed in the noir world. There are basically three main female characters in the book: the victim Sylvia Lennox, her sister Linda Loring, and the criminal (or villain) Eileen Wade. These characters show the typical roles that women play in the noir world – women can be very emotional, and thus commit crimes. Compared with men, who may get involved with crime for money, revenge and other issues, women seem to have more emotional desires, which in most cases involve love. In The Long Goodbye, Eileen, the representative of “Blonde,” somehow also portrays the “femme fatale” image that would often appear in noir fiction, while Linda Loring, who is pure and innocent and who falls in
You’d be hard pressed to find one in a crowd. The average serial killer generally blends in with everyone else (Directory Journal, 2010). In fact, most are soft-spoken and even polite. Their monstrous nature only comes through when you dig deeper into their personalities, actions, and habits. Most seem to have come from dysfunctional family settings and were emotionally, sexually, or even verbally abused as children (Directory Journal, 2010). It is almost as if this background activates some psychological trigger that increases their feelings of inadequacy or worthlessness that led them to seek out their own heinous form of release.
Anthony Petrello is easily recognized as the CEO, President and Chairman of Board of Nabors Industries ltd. According to an overview published on Zoomifo.com, the company runs the largest fleet of drilling rig in the US. Petrello was appointed as board member of the company in 1991. He was later named Nabors Industries President and Chief Executive Officer in October 2011. Petrello holds a Juris Doctor Degree from Harvard Law School as well as Master and Bachelor degree in Mathematics from the prestigious Yale University. Anthony Petrello holds board memberships in various companies and organizations including; Nabors Industries Ltd, MediaOnDemand Inc, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston Museum of Fine Arts and Stewart & Stevenson LLC. He is also a member of National Petroleum Council and Council on Foreign Relations.
The two poems I chose to analyze were “Curandera” by Pat Mora and “Loose Woman” by Sandra Cisneros. They were an interesting read and made sure to reread several times to make sure I got everything I could from them. Both poems are so unique from other poems I have read; they are also unique from each other yet share similarities as well.
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Sandy Skoglund has been in the forefront of contemporary art in the United States, as well as overseas, for nearly two decades. Her dramatic impact to the art world didn’t begin overnight. After sheer dedication to art education she received her BA degree in Studio Art in 1968 from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Upon getting her BA, she pursued further education at the University of Iowa where she received her MD. With her remarkable educational background, Skoglund decided to expand her horizons by teaching. Her teaching career grew at a rapid pace and she found herself teaching at the University of Hartford from 1973 to 1976. In late 1976, she was offered a position at Rutgers University, New Jersey,
Writing in the 20th century was great deal harder for a Chicano then it was for a typical American at this time. Although that did not stop this author, Sandra Cisneros. One of her famous novels, Woman Hollering Creek was a prime example of how a combined culture: Mexican-Americans, could show their pride and identity in this century. In conjunction, gave the opportunity for women to speak their voice and forever change the culture of Latino/a markets. Not only did it express identity/gender roles of women and relationships, but using these relationships to combine the cultures of Mexican and American into a hybrid breed. This novel, should have been a view-point for the future to show that there is more to life than just gender and race.
On February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, a woman by the name of Susan Brownell Anthony was born to parents Daniel and Lucy (Read) Anthony. She was the second born of a strongly rooted Quaker family of eight (Hist.Bio.-1). Because they lived in a Quaker neighborhood, Susan was not heavily exposed to slavery. The family made anti-slavery talks an almost daily conversation over the dinner table. She also saw men and women on the same level (Stoddard 36). “A hard working father, who was not only a cotton manufacturer, but a Quaker Abolitionist also, prevented his children from what he called childish things such as toys, games and music. He felt that they would distract his children from reaching their peak of
Susan Brownell Anthony was a magnificent women who devoted most of her life to gain the right for women to vote. She traveled the United States by stage coach, wagon, and train giving many speeches, up to 75 to 100 a year, for 45 years. She went as far as writing a newspaper, the Revolution, and casting a ballot, despite it being illegal.
This informational novel includes multiple controversial problems that will be examined throughout this essay. The issues explored in this text, that will be brought up are issues of race and access to quality healthcare, Johns Hopkins Hospital then and now, experimentation on humans, and diseases which have been cured/understood with HeLa cells. Each issue listed will be described in more depth and have examples from the book. During this paper, many of the topics that will be later stated are very intriguing. My perspective on this story is that ultimately it brings attention to numerous key problems that are needed to be brought up. The author had a purpose to writing this story and it is obvious that she felt like it was right to enlighten
Susan Glaspell’s most memorable one-act play, Trifles (1916) was based on murder trial case that happened in the 1900’s. Glaspell worked as a reporter, where she appointed a report of a murder case. It was about a farmer, John Hossack who was killed while he was asleep in bed one night. His wife claimed that she was asleep next to him when the attack occurred. No one believed in her statement, she was arrested and was charged on first degree murder.
Leine Basso is a series of novels of crime and suspense thrillers by DV Berkom the bestselling author also known for the Kate Jones series. The first novel of the Leine Basso series was Serial Date that was first published in 2012. Berkom has asserted that her love for creating kick ass and resilient women leads comes from an addiction to reading thrillers, mysteries, and spy novels and a longing to have a female lead that would rival the mainly male protagonist of those novels. DV was born in the Midwest and got her bachelors in political science before she migrated to Mexico where she lived in a sailboat. She spent the next few years touring Mexico and engaging in all manner of adventures in a variety of locations that could very well have
I think it's to do with pleasure, rather than pain. These two are so intimate at this moment that they just want to be as close as possible. They hold each other tight, hands and the position of his abdomen, which lacks movement, suggesting that he just stays as far in as possible. This also indicates that one partner is sexually dominant the other is submissive.
In “The Author to Her Book,” Bradstreet is awash in indecision and internal conflicts over the merits and shortfalls of her creative abilities and the book that she produced. This elaborate internal struggle between pride and shame is manifested through a painstaking conceit in which she likens her book to her own child.