Kim Kardashian

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.…

In 1971, Elia Kazan told Movie magazine regarding the process of adapting Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, that: “I took the script of the play, and I just made the play. And that’s all I did.” Discuss whether the adaptation was as simple as Kazan makes it seem through a careful analysis of both the play and film of A Streetcar Named Desire. Adapting a text to film is a difficult task for any screenwriter. There are many challenges that must be overcome, including limitations…

Trentavious White, better known as Bankroll Fresh, was murdered at Street Execs on March 5th, 2016. He was an up and coming rapper out of Atlanta and was 28 at the time. Still, even nine months later his assassination is still argued by many. He was killed by a retaliation shot by rapper No Plug who claims Bankroll shot first. Claims still go around today to justify his murder. On the night Bankroll Fresh was tragically murdered, a lot of tension between him and No Plug had spilled over from…

surgery on parts of their body that they believe will conform them to the societal expectations they lie in. Unfortunately, there have been examples of celebrates that will go even further then plastic surgery. Pop star Michael Jackson and Rapper Lil Kim did something that allowed them to become a lighter complexion. This is called Skin Bleaching,…

Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin. In 1893, this short story was published as “The Father of Desiree’s Baby” in a magazine. Madame Valmonde and Monsieur adopted Desiree for the reason she was found abandoned when she was just a little girl. As she grew older, she found the love of her life, Armand as they had so much love for one another. They had a child, and as soon as they had the baby, the relationship turned out to be bitter and complicated. After a few months passed, Armand and Desiree…

Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) portrays a man's (John’s) passion for control and the dangers of idealisation and desire. Vertigo; "a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height”1 is a metaphor of protagonist John “Scotty” Ferguson relationship with Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster. The narrative structure of Vertigo is fundamentally driven by the encounters between John and Madeleine/Judy. The relationship between the two progresses on the…

In the sports of women’s professional tennis and U.S. college football, athletes can often times be constructed as a body with a talent in athleticism, and at the same time be neglected in the acknowledgment of their citizenship through discourses, language, and institutional networks. In the sport of U.S. college football the athlete that is constituted by the network of institutions discourses, and languages as an overworked and underpaid laborer who is denied their ability to exercise their…

Everywhere you look in life there are different sorts of symbols and conflicts, especially in literature that’s what makes reading it so interesting, the things these authors can do with words. I have chosen three different works; Survivors by Kim Addonizio, American Gothic by John Stone and, The Blizzard by David Ives. In this paper, I am going to give you some examples of symbols and conflicts in these works and my responses/thoughts on those topics. The Blizzard was written in 2006, in this…

I have to say 2015 was a pretty good year for me. Of course to go along with those good things of course there has to be some that aren’t as wonderful. An example of this would be like when my grandma had to go to the hospital. She had to go because she was becoming very ill since our grandfather had died. She hadn’t been out of her house in a very long time; she hadn’t moved from the couch much rather than to eat, use the restroom, or something had to do something she absolutely needed to do.…

Can someone make you so happy you feel like dancing in the clouds? The song I picked is Clouds by Zach Sobiech. I chose this song, because it says he fell down in a hole, but someone was there to pick him up. This was my year. I had some ups and downs through my 8th grade year, but there were three ways that helped me go through the downs and all the way through the ups. Swimming, friends and family all helped me up through hard times in my 8th grade life. My friends helped make my life…