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    JANET MORA 66-30 74th Street Middle Village‚ NY 11379 917-913-6072 npjanetmora@yahoo.com   OBJECTIVE To secure a challenging position which will utilize my prior work experience and knowledge‚ as well‚ acquire new skills to achieve full growth potential within the administrative field.   SKILLS PROFILE            Over seven years experience in Bookkeeping/Office Administration.          Great interpersonal‚ phone and

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    Loon Lake by E. L. Doctorow

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    The book is thus a vehicle for Doctorow’s indictments of American capitalism. Author Overview The novel was written in 1980 by a contemporaneous author named E. L. Doctorow. E. L. Doctorow is generally considered to be among the most talented‚ ambitious‚ and admired novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Doctorow was born in 1931 and fantasized about the 1930’s crime life as a child. He is an American novelist‚ short story writer‚ editor‚ essayist‚ as well as dramatist. Highly-regarded

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    Text Analysis Ragtime I am going to tell you about an extract from E.L. Doctorow’s novel “Ragtime”. In the 1920’s Ragtime was a form of music‚ song and dance of black US origin. We can distinctly see the structure of the text: its exposition‚ the story‚ climax and denouement. In the exposition a Negro man who was looking for a young woman named Sarah is described. He was driving along the street in a new car which was shining and gleaming trying to find the needed address. He was dressed

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    E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime was a very interesting historical fiction reading that showed the great wealth inequality that occurred between the rich and poor in New York City during the early 20th century. One interesting passage that I found shocking was how Jacob Riis made maps in the latter end of Chapter 3. I previously knew that Jacob Riis took pictures showing the horrific nature of tenements; a fact that is shown in the novel as well with Doctorow writing‚ “The tenements glowed like furnaces

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    The key scenes employed by E.L. Doctorow to emphasize the notion that Wakefield is a relatable and appreciable character are the description of Howard’s life following his first night in the attic‚ the pride he showcases in his new lifestyle‚ and the relationship he develops with Dr. Sondervan’s

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    more severe the sentence to be served will be‚ and the judicial system has often escalated the means by which this can be achieved‚ by enforcing the law upon persons as young as fourteen. In the case of the fictional character Steve Harmon‚ from the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers‚ he is a sixteen year old being tried as an adult‚ pending the charge of felony murder. He is being defended by his lawyer Kathy O’Brien‚ and being prosecuted by Sandra Petrocelli‚ from the state of New York. The charge

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    Steve Harmon is a 16 year old boy who fell on the wrong side of the law. He was associated in a look out for a robbery gone wrong. Being charged with felony murder‚ he decides to write a screenplay about his time in jail. Mr. Harmon writes it in a journal the guards let him keep with him while he is in the detention center‚ so that people would know what and how things happen. ​Steve starts off the expert by stating that you never really do get used to jail. Right away you can tell Steve Harmon is depressed

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    John L. Gokongwei‚ Jr. was born August 11‚ 1926 in Gulangyu‚ Xiamen‚ Fujian Province‚ China is a Chinese Filipino businessman with holdings in telecommunications‚ financial services‚ petrochemicals‚ power generation‚ aviation and livestock farming. As of 2012‚ Gokongwei is the third richest entrepreneur in the Philippines with a networth of $3.2 billion‚ ranking behind only to Henry Sy and Lucio Tan. His parents are Juanita Marquez Lim and John Gokongwei Sr. Gokongwei being the eldest child among

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    In the classic E.L. Doctorow novel‚ Ragtime‚ we see the juxtaposition of many motifs to represent Doctorow’s view of the early century. By combining history and fiction Doctorow allows himself to write a semi-accurate interpretation of the early 1900’s while also being able to strongly express his own biases and opinions of the era. The biggest‚ and perhaps most important theme Doctorow applies in the novel is social tension‚ or the battle of the rich versus the poor. Other important themes include

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    An example of this is Steve Harmon in the novel‚ Monster. Steve is on trial for felony murder for a robbery. In the book‚ Monster by Walter Dean Myers‚ although Steve Harmon is pronounced innocent‚ he is actually guilty because he lied to the jury‚ is familiar with the crime‚ and is paranoid. Steve always changes his story‚ telling the jury one thing but writing something else in his notebook. While on the stand‚ his lawyer begins to question him: “O’Brien: ‘Mr. Harmon‚ were you in the drugstore

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