On April 9th the world woke up to the news of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Those who followed the grundge music of Cobain's band, Nirvana, were angry, but not surprised. With songs such as "I Hate Myself and Want to Die" and constant references to suicide and drugs, suicide was the obvious explanation...

Kurt Cobain In 1987 he was living under a bridge in Aberdeen, Washington eating fish and making friends with the turtles. Four years and later and five hundred and fifty million dollars richer, Kurt Cobain is the lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana. Nirvana's second album "Nevermind&q...

Who Killed Kurt Cobain? By Ian Halperin and Max Wallace Reviewed by Wade Miller This book was one that I was very interested in reading and it kept my interest throughout the entire thing. I was mostly interested because I am a fan of Kurt Cobain's music and I didn't know the story of his life a...

Kurt Cobain overcame many challenges in his youth before becoming a musical standout. These challenges ranged from being brought up in town that he didn't fit into, to being rejected by his parents and as a result becoming homeless. All Kurt ever wanted to be was to be like everyone else, bu...

"I'm so tired I can't sleep". Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February in 1962. I am going to cover three areas of Kurt's life; his childhood, his rise to fame, and his tradject death. Kurt grew up in a mid sized town about 80 miles away from Seattle. He was raised in a m...

Rock music was decaying in the late 80's. The rock scene was suffering from a repetetive pattern of big hair, flashy clothes, long guitar solos, and lyrics that weren't relating to the listeners. The music industry was begging for something new. This is the beat up state that rock was ...

Deductive reasoning is defined as reasoning from the general to the particular. It is also reasoning that people use everyday without realizing it. Simply put, just about every time something is solved deductive reasoning in some way is used. Music can be full of mystery, as most people find o...

KORN Korn: a word familiar to most youth for their hard edged, honest sound. This California based band has made a huge impact on the music scene throughout the 1990s. The popularity of Korn is the result of their ability to express to their fans devotion to music through relentless tou...

The most successful or famous artists are not always as happy as successful people are portrayed- living a life of fame, fortune, and glamour. The following examples will show some of the problems that four different artists have suffered in the past century. Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painte...

The most successful or famous artists are not always as happy as successful people are portrayed - living a life of fame, fortune, and glamour. The following examples will show some of the problems that four different artists have suffered in the past century. Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter ...

"Rarely in the history of Rock has a musician switched bands and instruments simultaneously with such a high degree of success as Dave Grohl" (Current Bio. 202). Grohl started his work as a professional musician at the age of 15 in such Ohio punk bands as Mission Impossible, Dain Bramage...

Depression Mental illness will now strike one in five people in the United States alone and the numbers are steadily increasing. In particular, serious depression has risen astonishingly in the recent years. Depression is, by defintion, "A condition marked by an inablity to concen...

Edward Hammer Change in Progress About a Boy by Nick Hornby is about two unusual people who meet in an unusual way. The main characters are Marcus, a man in a twelve year-old's body, and Will, a boy in a young adult's body. Marcus is your average weird boy who has occasional bursts of si...

The alarm went off as it does every morning at exactly 6:00am. I sat up, rubbed my eyes, stretched, pulled the covers off and got out of the bed. Normally, I am not one to stare at myself in the mirror in the morning, in fear that I will see something that could result in complete horror; but as I w...

Teenage Suicide [Suicide] is a self-inflicted act that ends in death. Over the past years the American society has been concerned about the issue of teenage suicide. The individual, in seemingly hopeless conflict with the world, decides to end his or her existence in what he or she considers to...

Generation X Xploited Generation X has been described as lazy, whinny, self-absorbed, slackers with McJob's, but it seems this generation is a product of greed. "Generation X," is technically defined as the generation following the Baby Boomers." Although the age group varies ...