Generation Ecstasy For my book report I read Generation Ecstasy. There was so much information in the book about the rave scene and "ecstasy", I didn't know where to begin. ... There are those who might find a book to analyze music that often aims for the effect of a sledgehammer to the head a mite pretentious. ... Such contradictions have something to do with the structure; the book has been in part assembled from countless articles and released in two "mixes," with the American version telling a more linear, explicatory story. ... But these are minor quibbles: whether you'...

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According to the book Civil Society and Government, "productive tension " exists between civil society and government. ... The attempts by the Singapore government to control civil society by suppressing the people's freedom of expression have been highlighted in many news reports, such as, when outspoken academic Cherian George, who has called for more press freedom, was denied tenure at Nanyang Technological University, and when letters of demand were sent by the government to bloggers and online media commentators to apologize and remove remarks that allegedly defamed government off...

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According to the ledger-book of utilitarianism, the advantages of consuming meat would need to exceed the price of animals being tortured in factory-farms. ... Utilitarianism does not report for the lack of knowledge; directly not being informed of animals being tortured does not make the pain ethically acceptable under these circumstances. ...

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Terry Karl argues in her book, The Paradox of Plenty, that developing countries who are resource dependent tend to determine the revenues drawn from the resources in a competing, rather than a complementing manner like Norway. ... New York Times journalist Vikas Bajaj, reported in June 2012 on the paradox of plenty in India's food system. ... Michael Herb suggests in his book, No Representation without Taxation, that when a measure of development that excludes the effect of oil on the economy in place of GDP per capita in statistical analysis of the causes of the democratization, oil rich...

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In his book The Naked Employee, Frederick Lane describes offline ways in which employers have been permitted to intrude on employees' privacy for decades, such as drug testing, background checks, psychological exams, lie detector tests, and in-store video surveillance. ... "The ePolicy Institute, an organization that advises companies about reducing risks from technology, reported that breaches in computer security cost institutions $100 million in 1999 alone" (Flynn). ...

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