Sonic Youth

Girl in a Band Book Review “When we came out onstage for our last show, the night was all about the boys” (Kim Gordon). This is the bold first sentence that Sonic Youth vocalist/bassist Kim Althea Gordon writes in her autobiographical memoir, Girl in a Band. The inspiration behind this liberating title is from “Sacred Trickster,” an ode to the quartet’s early 1990s high-gloss hardcore phase that appears on Sonic Youth’s final album, The Eternal. The entirety of this memoir is told from the altruistic world of Kim Gordon’s mind and tangible experiences. This novel focuses on youth-to-adult transition, feminine perceptions in the 70s/80s, separation from a longtime spouse, and the predevelopment of diagnosing schizophrenia as well as its effects on a family. Throughout Girl in a Band, many conflicts are written across as honest and blunt as can be. Gordon is a fierce author and writer; she unleashes all vulnerability into the literary form of her own protective creativity. The author is sure to insert photographic memories that entail within each chapter. The plot is heavily centered on Gordon’s life story and the impact that her youth has on her today. An interesting concept that Gordon includes is that she begins her memoir with “THE END” and transitions her way back to adolescence, flip-flopping in a sense. At one point, Gordon reveals that she “struggles with the idea that she let him make her…

I can hear the voice of the sergeant behind me telling me “go faster, take longer strides!”, as I am trying to catch up to my platoon. As I slowly start to fall behind from my platoon. I feel like an outsider, and I began to question why am I even here? I try going faster, and taking longer strides, but they seem more far away with each step. Now I feel like I don’t belong there anymore, and I fade away recalling the first time I stepped a foot in Virginia Military Institute. Going to VMI for…

This person is about the age of 13 or 14. His name is Titus. He is just another student to some, but to others he is a friend. He has a short, but very fat body. The size of Titus’s fingers look as if he has ten fat sausages on his hands, five on each. If someone was to guess what this student did in his free time they would say he eats, sleeps and plays video games for a living. Some would say this student is like a domesticated animal, he gets food, sleeps a lot and is cooped up in a room for…

of a problem when flying below the sound barrier. When the sound barrier is broken, then a lot changes and the aircraft needs to be as streamlined to do that. To make an engine more streamlined it becomes smaller and more part of the wing of the plane. The engine might be smaller but it has to move more air than a subsonic engine which means the rate at which the engine rotates will be higher, increasing the noise. With hearing protection this might not be a huge deal, but for people who…

Do you know what a sonic boom is? Do you know how a sonic boom is created? After you read this paper you will be able to answer yes to both questions. A sonic boom is a thunder like sound that can only be heard on the ground. A sonic boom is a shock wave created by an airplane or another aerospace object flying equal to or greater than the speed of sound. A physicist named Ernst Mach established a way to measure airspeed to the speed of sound. (Wonderpolis pg.2). Mach 1 is when you are flying at…

that the fingers on the side blocked from the ZPA did not create, or created malformed, fingers which proves that something from the ZPA controls the construction of limbs. This molecule was discovered in 1993 by Cliff Tabin’s laboratory at Harvard by using fruit flies. Fruit flies have a gene that controls which side grows into what shape called a hedgehog. With the shape of the gene from the fruit flies, the lab began to search for the same or similar gene in chickens. The chicken version of…

I am a proud Food Network addict. And lately, I have developed quite a fondness for the reality competition, "Chopped." On this show, four "amateur" chefs compete for $10,000. They are provided with a motley collection of specific ingredients, and are charged with creating an appetizer, entrée, and a dessert; one contestant is eliminated after each course. The chefs are provided all the supplies and ingredients they need to prepare their dishes, while the judges look on. The clock winds down,…

Discursive Essay – Video games, Beneficial to education? Video games, played by millions around the world and often thought of as time consuming and holding only negative effects on young minds. This topic is widely argued and questioned by parents and younger people alike. During this essay, this topic will be discussed and argued from both sides, for and against. To begin, when young minds play video games, emotional and intellectual skills are actually developed. These skills are gained…

A socio-cultural lens offers a contextual approach to understanding children and youth. This approach is beneficial towards young people because it employs a unique methodology in seeking to address issues regarding human behaviour and development, by considering how social relations and environmental context shape an individual. This process allows us to challenge our own beliefs and causes us to question how young people are influenced by their social environment and culture. These methods are…

many of them view that technology help children and youth to become more creative, the most of them are anxious about the hazard impact on child. Social media appears the most common use for the children and youth since they find themselves independent, and they can find and communicate with friends easier. The reasons that children choose the internet or social media are different, such as children suffer from stress, depression and anxiety,also who have ashortage in emotion, and adult are shy…