... heavy base beat, together with washing synths and uplifting twiddly bits' enables the listener to lose themselves in the music on both the speedy', or amphetamine-like aspect of the drug, and also on the empathic level. The music became written with the drug in mind. Peaks and troughs, present in all ... music was that one could only like it if one were on drugs'. However other people such as Sister Bliss a well-known DJ saw Ecstasy as enhancing the enjoyment gained from the music. As she said: "If the music sounds great to me and I'm straight, it must sound amazing if you're on pills-. ...

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... as peasant women involved. Was Sparta a gyneocracy like Aristotle says? Aristotle claimed that Sparta ultimately failed (but then so did Athens) because Sparta did not control its independent women; "women love wealth and so society loves wealth and so men are ruled by women." Pointing to the reason Sparta lost to the Thebians, Aristotle claimed it ... poetry. Sappho's poems are primarily love poems addressed to other women, but whether this was reflective of the times when homosexuality and homoeroticism were prevalent in ancient Greece is still being debated. Early Christian writers de...

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... American characters. Moreover, these two episodes display some noteworthy similarities in their portrayal of class differences, white privilege, master/student relationships, masculinity and femininity, children and childhood, as well as showing a self-conscious appreciation of mass-mediated images and the politics of postmodern popular culture. Despite the striking differences between Vanishing Son and Martial Law, these two episodes, ... expedition to purchase all the trappings they need for their decadent adventure. At the Army-Navy surplus store, they try on guns like high fashion clo...

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... degradation of his earlier life (427). She admires his self-sufficiency, his lack of any illusions. It takes a healthier character to see Loerke symbolically. Birkin sees the abjection in Loerke and describes it as though he were reading Kristeva: "He is the perfectly subjected being, existing almost like a criminal" (427). He also notes women's attraction to Loerke, which is interesting, given Kristeva ... Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep' the whole way; he was blind and he had a small organ, one of those portable organs, and he expected money; so you can imagine what that was like; the...

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