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Jessica Hagedorn's "Dogeaters", 2007.
This paper discusses the structure, narrative voice(s), and political, social and economic stratification and entitlement in Jessica Hagedorn's novel "Dogeaters".
1,490 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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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.
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"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. "
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"Dogeaters" ( Jessica Hagedorn ) & "Rolling the R's" ( R Zamora Linmark ), 1999.
Reviews of works on Filipino experience in Manila & Hawaii. Discusses issues of class & generational conflict, assimilation and language.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"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.."
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Identity, 2002.
Introduces, discusses and analyzes the two works "Dogeaters" by Jessica Hagedorn and "Native Speaker" by Change-rae Lee.
2,221 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the two novels and discusses the way in which the theme of identity has been used in both. It shows how identity plays a crucial role in both these novels, but in far different ways. It links the personal identity of the authors to the characters and shows that their dilemnas and searches for their true indentities were similar to the characters.
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"Chang-rae Lee was born in Korea, but his family moved to New York City when he was only three years old. His father is a successful psychiatrist, so the family always prospered, and lived in well-to-do neighborhoods, but his mother never really learned to speak English. His first book, "Native Speaker," received the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction and the 1995 Discover Award. In addition, the literary journal "Granta" called Lee one of the fifty best American writers under the age of forty (Kich 176)."
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Gossip and Media, 2005.
An examination of the function of gossip and media in the works of Jessica Hagedorn.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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The paper examines the function of gossip and media in the works of Jessica Hagedorn. The paper focuses on how gossip among women represents an alternative avenue of definition of self and expression in an oppressive patriarchal culture.
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"The literature of Jessica Hagedorn, a Philippine American who emigrated to the US in ? at age twelve often illustrates the difficulty in forging individual identity in a culture whose mainstream images often disenfranchise, based on ethnicity, sex and sexuality. The media and other social institutions often provide an official definition or label of events, categories that seldom portray the whole story when pitted against reality."
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Asian-American Writing, 2005.
A comparative analysis of "The Blossoming of Bongbong" by Jessica Hagedorn and "My Year of Meats," by Ruth L. Ozeki.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the short story, "The Blossoming of Bongbong," by Jessica Hagedorn, an established Filipino American writer and a first-time novel, "My Year of Meats," by Ruth L. Ozeki, a Japanese American writer. It looks at how both consider the issues raised about the complexity of being Asian-American.
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"This paper is a consideration of issues raised in two works of fiction by female Asian American writers. The first is a short story written by an established Filipino American author Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn entitled "The Blossoming of Bongbong". The second is ..."
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Jessica Benjamin and Frantz Fanon, 2002.
A discussion on how the authors Jessica Benjamin and Frantz Fanon both view the world in extremes.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 71.95
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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.
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Consumption and Investment, 2002.
A review of Jessica Brice's article "Calif.: Blackouts Weren't Necessary" on the relationship between consumption and investment.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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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 American Way of Death', 2002.
Analysis of "The American Way of Death" by Jessica Mitford.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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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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?Ultimate Terrorists?, 2004.
A review of the book, ?The Ultimate Terrorists?, by Jessica Stern
1,023 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 36.95
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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.
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"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 Nichol 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."
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"The Gangster Of Love", 2002.
A review of the book "The Gangster of Love" by Jessica Hadgedorn.
950 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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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.
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"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.?"
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Subject-Object Polarity and the onset of Sexist and Racist Thought, 2002.
An examination of Franz Fanon's "Black Skin, White Masks" and Jessica Benjamin's "Bonds of Love."
2,500 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 75.95
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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?
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"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"
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Marx And Benjamin On Power, 2004.
Compares Karl Marx and Jessica Benjamin concepts of power.
2,712 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 95.95
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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.
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"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."
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'The Binds of Love' vs 'Cave Allegory', 2006.
An analysis of childhood development in Jessica Benjamin's 'The Binds of Love' and Plato's 'Cave Allegory' in modern psychology.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper presents Benjamin's model for childhood developmental stages, showing a sense of self (as learned from the mother) in relation to the other (the individual objective identity). Plato comparably defines these aspects of self in relation to his prisoners in the cave, as they clearly are mimicking what the shadows are teaching them on the wall after birth. However, according to the paper, identity in Benjamin's view can also come from outside sources that reveal the other that denies the immediate lessons one is taught as a new born.
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"This study will compare Jessica Benjamin's theory of 'self' and the 'other' within the scope of Plato's Cave Allegory. By analyzing the slow maternal sense of identity a child learns within a developmental mode, one can realize how Plato's Cave Allegory reveals a similar pattern within an evolving sense of self. Benjamin reveals the idea of self as being a series of illusions brought about by a maternal influence, but not without the basis of self being dissolved by refusing the 'other'. In this way, Benjamin's freedom or imprisonment of the infant mind is readily comparable to Plato's Cave Allegory as a symbolic representation of the discovery of self and the other. The Cave Allegory is a lesson in the fundamental principles of perception and knowledge that Plato imparts on the reader. "
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How Cultures Determine the Effectiveness of Medicine, 2006.
This paper presents a personal and intellectual reaction to two particular readings: Peter J. Brown's, Jessica Gregg's and Bruce L. Ballard's "Culture, Ethnicity and the Practice of Medicine" and Anne Fadiman's "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper examines two readings: Anne Fadiman's "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" and Brown et al.'s "Culture, Ethnicity and the Practice of Medicine". The paper endeavors to outline the reader's responses to them. Specifically, the paper notes how these course materials have forced the reader to reconsider the wisdom of allowing cultural biases to inform her understanding of what constitutes the proper practice of medicine.
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"What I hope to convey over the next few pages is how these two works have made me appreciate just how much our individual notions of medicine - chiefly, what works and what does not work - are culturally determined. More than that, these two works made me understand how it is less ignorance that leads some cultures to treat illnesses in different ways as it is cultural moorings that are almost impossible for any of us to eschew. "
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Maternal Filicide and Mental Illness, 2008.
An analysis of the relationship between maternal filicide and mental illness.
1,146 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper presents a case that occurred in New Port Richey, Florida, in which a young mother, Jessica Warren, killed her son. It describes her history of unstable behavior and family history of schizophrenia and then discusses research on the link between maternal filicide (or mothers killing their children) and mental illness. The paper concludes with a brief discussion on the need for continued future research into this area.
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Filicide and Schizophrenia
Continued Research
Conclusion
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"Warren may have believed the voices that she heard were real beings, as displayed by her belief that she was killing demons when she accidentally killed her son. Garrett and Silva (2003) suggest that this belief might be an error in "source monitoring," the process by which a person determines the origination of an event (p. 445). Garrett and Silva studied a population of 41 patients with auditory hallucinations, housed at an inner-city psychiatric service (pp. 447-448). Patients were subject to "semi-structured, recorded, and transcribed" interviews, which were then analyzed using the previously developed Source Monitoring Framework (pp. 446-447). Twelve percent of the patients reported hearing command hallucinations that were so powerful as to suggest a real presence. However, these voices were distinguishable from the voices of real people with whom they interacted (Garrett & Silva, 2003, p. 451)."
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