Abstract
This paper argues in favor of implementing "Jessica's Law," a California Proposition created to put harsher penalties in place for violent and habitual sex offenders and child molesters. Supporters of Proposition 83 advocate that Jessica's law is a necessary step in order to protect children. A history of the proposition is given along with reasons why the author feels it is necessary. Details of the bill are presented along with perceived flaws. The author concludes that despite these flaws, it should still be passed in order to better protect children and give more stringent punishment to sex offenders.

From the Paper
"Proposition 83 was named after Jessica Lunsford, a nine-year-old who was taken from her home and brutally murdered three weeks later. It happened on February 23, 2005 in Homosassa, Florida. Jessica lived with her father and grandparents. Living next to them was a registered sex offender with an extensive criminal history and outstanding warrants for probation violations. The family had no idea that this man lived next to them. The man confessed to abducting, raping, and burying Jessica alive only 150 yards from the home where she had lived. Proposition 83 was introduced in memory of Jessica's abduction, and to help insure that it doesn't happen to someone else."

Tags:pedophiles, Proposition 83, child molestation, rape

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This paper explains that Jessica Hagedorn's novel Dogeaters, which takes place in Manila in the Philippines during the heyday of the Marcos dictatorship, is written in a style that is sensually seductive, structurally fragmented and with a multiple-viewpoint. The author points out that this novel reflects, in depth, the contrast between the overwhelming superficiality of the wealthy and powerful in keenly class-conscious Manila and the "dogs", the various down-and-out young Filipinos characters in the story. The author points out that "Dogeaters" is 'radically-disjunctive' in form, which means that instead of writing in a traditional linear storytelling framework, Hagedorn allows bits of memories to surface so that characters can recall past impressions and experiences through their senses.

From the Paper
"Throughout this story, Rio looks back at past times spent in her homeland, by way of adult associations often spurred by memories. In the end, the fragments Hagedorn describes do not quite add up to a clearly recognizable picture. (Proust's, or even Rushdie's do so much better.) Still, Hagedorn's main character Rio continually recollects sharp (for whatever reason) youthful impressions from distant memory. In what still might be loosely but justifiable called "Proustian [sic] fashion", Hagedorn also implicitly "shifts" the former, original, significances of them, in Rio's adult mind, to a more integrated adult one. "

Tags:manila, loosely-connected, narrative, coming-of-age

Abstract
This paper examines the ways in which authors, Jessica Benjamin ("The Bonds of Love") and Frantz Fanon ("Black Skin, White Masks") confront the "temptation" to view the world in extremes. Each author confronts this issue by exploring the mechanisms inherent in vilifying what is seen as opposition through generalizations. The paper examines each author's approach to the issue.

From the Paper
"Two recent novels--Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn and Rolling the R's by R. Zamora Linmark--illuminate different aspects of the Filipino experience, the first set in Manila and so in the Filipino homeland, the second in Hawaii and so a reflection of the immigrant experience in America. Both works reflect the difficulty faced in the conflict between the old culture and the new. In both books, the older generation is tied to the culture of the Philippines while the younger generation is seduced by American popular culture. In Dogeaters, this conflict takes place in the Philippines as the powerhouse of American popular culture beckons to the young. In Rolling the R's, the conflict takes place in Hawaii as people who have immigrated form the Philippines are exposed even more directly to American life and culture. The themes of class conflicts, assimilation, and the.."

Abstract
This paper compares and contrasts Karl Marx and Jessica Benjamin on the issue of power. The paper explains that Benjamin appropriated Marx's view of power to some degree but also points out how Marx's and Benjamin's opinions of power also differed.

From the Paper
"Karl Marx differentiated essential power from political power, arguing that man inherently possesses essential powers that are his to use while also being subjected to the influences of political powers employed by elites within society. This view of the human condition, which was to a degree appropriated by Jessica Benjamin, suggests that there are elements or forces within any given society which seek to delimit the capacity of an individual or a group or even a gender to exercise power."

Tags:philosphy, power, Karl Marx, Jessica Benjamin

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This paper examines the book, "The Ultimate Terrorists", by Jessica Stern, former National Security Council staffer, which explains with chilling lucidity why it is becoming more likely that terrorist threats will materialize into a major terrorist incident featuring a weapon of mass destruction (WMD). It looks at how, after September 11, 2001, the book has taken on a deeper meaning since it was written in 1999, when America held onto the idea that terrorist activity was something that took place on foreign shores. It discusses how Stern's book details in advance many of the factors in play which created the 9/11 tragedy and how terrorists have shifted their perspective from activity that gains power for their political or religious party to choosing targets just for the purpose of making a statement.

From the Paper
"The book's strongest chapter concerns the threat of loose Russian materials (the area that was Stern's specialty at the NSC). Stern's knowledge of security in Russia gives these sections a punch that many who report on this issue have lacked up until now. Stern was portrayed by Nicole Kidman in the movie Peacemakers which was built on this theme. The turning point of the movie is a discussion between a military Russian specialist, who knew the military character who would steal a dozen nuclear warheads and Kidman's character who is a specialist on fringe terrorist groups. Kidman's character, after getting a lecture on how predictable a military terrorist would be, says "I'm not afraid of a man who wants 10 nuclear weapons; I am terrified of the man who wants only one."

Tags:weapons, mass, destruction, 9/11, russia, fundamentalists

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This three-page undergraduate paper gives the summary and important points of the book "The American way of death" by Jessica Mitford.

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This paper will discuss the idea of consumption and investment in the current problems with the California Energy Crisis hearings that are being studied by the media. In Jessica Brice's article "Calif.: Blackouts Weren't Necessary", we can find how consumption can be used to force prices up in the energy market. The basic trouble that is at hand in the way that energy companies were responsible for limiting their investment in energy, and forcing the State of California to foot the bill when the companies shut down power.

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The paper reviews Jessica Hadgedorn's novel, "The Gangster of Love" which depicts the struggle between the Philippines and America and their history of mutual delusion, strife, and misleading affection. The paper explores the main character, Rocky, and explores the relationships and themes of the book.

From the Paper
"Negligent of the cultural tradewinds reeling around her, Rocky constantly constitutes a psychological niche for herself in asserting her independence as a female spirit. Geared up to seek the extent of America's potentialities, she decides to take a chance by embarking on a cross-country trip with Elvis Chang to New York. Armed with little more than a limited amount of funds, a shaky pickup truck, and a repletion of dreams conceiving musical triumph, the couple make plans to start up a rock band called ?The Gangster of Love.?"

Tags:Rivera, Elvis, Chang, Milagros, Dogeaters

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The writer addresses and answers the following questions regarding the two works "Black Skin, White Masks" by Franz Fanon and "Bonds of Love" by Jessica Benjamin. How do subject-object polarities arise? How are they present differently in men and woman? How does this lead to an inherently sexist and racist society? How can these polarities be effectively reversed?

From the Paper
"Of all the great social struggles of modern society, perhaps none are so obvious and so ingrained within the minds of the population as the struggles against sexism and against racism. The source of both problems is rooted in the tendency to create a polar dualism between male and female, between white and black. In nearly all cases, this fundamental dualism extends beyond superficial roles and identities, creating a relational structure involving the superiority of one group and the consequent inferiority of the other. In a futile attempt to close the disparaging gap between the extremities of this polar relationship, many have resorted to means that weaken the importance of the role of the superior and at the same time make stronger and more important the role of the inferior. As a result, the roles women and blacks play in society are argued by many to be just as important as those men and whites play, and many would argue that a woman or a black can do anything a man or a white can. Indeed, Benjamin points out that "Every binary split creates the temptation to merely reverse its terms, to elevate what has been devalued and denigrate what has been overvalued (Benjamin, 9). It is precisely the overwhelming tendency towards this temptation regarding solutions to sexism and racism against which Benjamin and Fanon argue. For inherent within this methodology is the erroneous assumption that the problems of sexism and racism can be solved from within the existing social structure. Benjamin argues extensively against such an approach to solving the problem of male domination, advocating instead the resolution of the dysfunctional dualistic structure, itself: ?What is necessary is not to take sides but to remain focused on the dualistic structure itself" (Benjamin, 9). In a similar argument, Fanon points out that racism towards blacks, at least in the East Indies, cannot be resolved by simply elevating the status of the black man in society"

Tags:benjamin, fanon, feminism, freudian, intersubjectivity, psychology, racism