James Gordon

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…

In the last century there has been major changes to higher education. “Going to university, an experience confined to less than 2% of 18-year olds before the Second World War, is now almost a rite of passage for a third of young people in the UK. The present government aims to see half of all 18-30 year olds experiencing some form of higher education.”(Anon, 2015) As early as 1939 there was only 39 universities in Britain and a small number of 50,000 students attended. This was because…

Economics case analysis report on “Cafe Coffee Report” BY Nikhil Gunda Bharath R Heena Manjusha Ankur kumar Abhilash INTRODUCTION The case proclaims about the coffee war between café coffee day and starbucks. Cafe coffee day: It was started by V.G.Siddhartha in 1996. Initially it had opened 20 stores in south Indian cities like Bangalore and Chennai under the brand name of café coffee fresh and café coffee ground. By April 2013, cafe coffee day was ranked No. 2 in food and…

My memories are bleak, I have little recollection of the events that lead my friend, Montresor, to chain me within this recess. I remember I saw Montresor at the height of Carnival, dressed in a dark grey robe. I approached him, and he greeted me with a smile. I just assumed that he wasn’t mad about what I had said. This surprises me now, but then I had enough alcohol that it seemed as if everything were fine. After some conversation, he said that he received a pipe of amontillado, yet he didn’t…

In the beginning, there was only sadness. Everywhere you looked you would see villagers of Athens crying, plants dying, and no sunlight just darkness. Markeus’s mother, Kares was very depressed. She was trying her very best to raise Markeus to be a great hero and take the right path of life. Kares was a poor villager that had to grow her own crops in order to survive. But, the sunlight were blocked by the clouds, and there was no happiness. Her crops were constantly dying. Kares and her son…

Introduction The main character of our story is Bailey, a Golden Retriever who wants to know what his purpose is, the meaning of his life. He thinks about milk and siblings, contemplates what life is like from other’s point of view and in between enjoys playing and eating and spending time with his humans. He tries to develop relationships with his humans, attempts to understand what they are feeling and what they want from him, he tries to discover what he can do to please them, and how he can…

There many personality theories that can be related to the film Divergent. Two of which are Alfred Alder’s theory of individual psychology, looking specifically at striving for superiority and Gordon Allport’s trait theory. Personality is the “organization of a person’s character, temperament, intellect, and physique, which determines his unique adjustment to the environment” (Eysenck, 1970). These two theories examine how personality develops and features of an individual or group’s personality…

An Influential Legendary Fatality “You win some, lose some, and wreck some,” said by ‘The Intimidator’ himself almost exactly one year before the day he would be the one to have such an influential crash in NASCAR’s biggest race on the final lap, through the final turn directly behind his two teammates; one of which even being his very own son who would go on to claim second place. Announcer Darrell Waltrip was seen crying as he watched his brother Michael take first place at Daytona for the…

1. What Is Motogp ? The History Of Motorcycle Racing And Different Class Of Racing The MotoGP Championship is the pinnacle class of world championship road racing that developed primarily in Europe for the first time in 1949.The race consist of an eighteen-race series visiting 13 countries, 4 continents and almost entire world television coverage. MotoGP now entering the 65th year celebration and is oldest motorsport championship of three different class.At the moment MotoGP has three classes,…

become a staple, but not a requirement, in the genre of dystopian science fiction in video games many gamers know and love today.(DOOM, 1993) Franchises that followed in DOOM’s footsteps include the Half Life series, which follows a scientist named Gordon Freeman as he fights to save the world even after the destruction of an entire city.(Half Life) (Half Life 2: Episode 1) Common motifs found in this popular genre are one man to defeat all, revolution and revival, and unexpected events each…