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Lysistrata, which was first performed in 411 BCE, tells the story of the women of Athens who take control of the city and deny their husbands carnal pleasures in order to stop the Peloponnesian War. The women’s aim is to force their sex-deprived husbands to make peace...
...that is—but the violence that characterized his drug-dealing days in the Jamaica, Queens ghetto is never far beneath the surface of pimps and bitches. Rap would not be rap without puns and guns, and 50 Cent obeys this golden rule. “I aim straight for your head / So don’t push me / Fill your ass up with lead / So don’t push me,” he threatens on “Don’t Push Me,” with Eminem and Lloyd Banks of his posse...
...Piot added that one aim of the first round of conferences was to encourage large companies to be leaders...
...website’s purported aim is understandably questionable for Harvard faculty. “This apparently commercial site mocks the distinguished history of those anti-war protesters, such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who have dramatically contrasted warfare’s intentional wounding with the generous sharing inherent in love and sexuality,” says Brian C. W. Palmer, Lecturer on the Study of Religion and course head for the popular Religion 1528: “Globalization and Human Values...
...female Passenger who came From Calais with us, spotless in array,- A white-robed Negro, like a lady gay, Yet downcast as a woman fearing blame; Meek, destitute, as seemed, of hope or aim She sate, from notice turning not away, But on all proffered intercourse did lay A weight of languid speech, or to the same No sign of answer made by word or face: Yet still her eyes retained their tropic fire, That, burning independent of the mind, Joined with the lustre of her rich attire To mock the Outcast - O ye Heavens, be kind! And feel, thou...