Barbara Gordon

drug seen in overdose victims in American hospitals. (Herzberg, 2006). As news of these findings started to spread, many famous figures started reaching out with their own addiction stories, including former First Lady Betty Ford and filmmaker Barbara Gordon, who’s autobiography formed the basis for the movie I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can. Several years of these media horror stories caused Valium sales to drop dramatically, and the year of 1982 marked the last time the drug would top…

When Gordon stopped taking Valium all at once she ended up going into a mental institution twice. Gordon finally didn’t need any pills and she began to warn women about Valium. The so called “cousins” of Valium like Prozac and Xanax are widespread as well. “According to respected national surveys, 15 percent…

Jamie is from Britain, while Gordon is from Glasgow, Scotland. It doesn’t matter where you are from or what religion you are, you have to realize that no matter what, there is and always will be a chance for major success in life. Gordon and Oliver realized these goals have been accomplished when they created there own cookware, cookbooks, starred on their own television shows as well…

Smokey Robinson. When Ross was seven, her mother contracted tuberculosis, causing her and her family to move to Bessemer, Alabama. After her mother recovered, her family moved back to Detroit. Ross began singing with Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard, and Barbara Martin in a female group called “The Primettes” and were later called “The Supremes” after Martin left. The Supremes…

known for being the savior of now thousands of lives across the world. Very little is known about Nicholas Winton’s life before his involvement in the Holocaust. He was actually born under the name Nicholas Wertheimer to his parents, Rudolf and Barbara, who were of a German-Jewish descent. (Howard) It was not until 1938, when World War II was starting to be imminent,…

A person does not need to have superpowers to be considered a hero. Most people perform heroic acts by saving someone’s life or by preventing a crime. Heros do not have to be real people, they can be fictional characters in movies or comic books. Comic book heroes like Batman or Superman are fascinating to those who want to escape reality into the superhero realm. Of course not all superheroes are created equal or as realistic as others, some are more skilled and intriguing. Compared to to…

and not stopping crime, he is Clark Kent who works at “The Daily Planet” or sometimes referred as “The Planet”. They both are not working alone in fighting crime, Batman has a long list of allies, but a main few are Robin, Batgirl(Barbara Gordon), Jim Gordon, Alfred. Superman enlisted the help of his wife Lois Lane, and some help from his cousin Supergirl, Superboy which is a clone of Superman or in some cases his. Batman has a lot of enemies, but the most iconic is the Joker, The Penguin,…

Self Portrait, Myself at 66, is an oil on canvas, painted by Mathias J. Alten at his home studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan. and is most likely his final self-portrait. It currently resides in the George and Barbara Gordon Gallery at Grand Valley State University as a part of a collection titled ‘Mathias J. Alten: An American Impressionist’. Alten painted himself as a gray-haired man with a white shirt and gray pants, holding a palette and paintbrushes. It is evident in this work that Alten has…

What are you really afraid of?" At the end of the words, slim needles pressed into her skin, the muscles became numb which was replaced by a dull ache. Barbara 's veins swelled and became a green colour that glowed. At first Barbra thought the toxin hadn 't worked, she felt normal, but then Jonathan began to fade and all that surrounded her was darkness. The thick darkness engulfed her and she couldn 't…

no less capable of instructing than of pleasing” (Taylor 27). According to Barbara Taylor, the radical press was “most enthusiastic” and embraced the book, while more conservative journals managed to “ignore or understate her [Wollstonecraft’s] challenge to men’s authority” (27). However as England and France moved closer to war, criticism of Wollstonecraft’s “philosophical treatise on education” became harsh. As Barbara Taylor points out “philosophy had become a synonym for revolutionary…