Kurt Cobain

“What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a King’s cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? I call it Earth.” ("Jordan Sonnenblick." Goodreads.), said the very famous author named Jordan Sonnenblick in his bestselling novel, Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie. ("Jordan Sonnenblick.") Sonnenblick learned in his life that that is indeed true. He is best known for the way he mixes humor in with what…

I’ve been here for hours. I can feel their eyes on me, their big gray eyes gazing over every inch of my body. I’ve been pretending to be asleep, waiting for morning, for help, something anything. Wait I think I may be getting ahead of my self here. It all started about two days ago. I collect gummy bears. I have ones in every shape, size, flavor and brand from all over the world. Unfortunately, there are still a couple of brands I have not gotten and one flavor. Normally I go on eBay to look for…

Al-J45 Tv, Internet, Radio, everything is controlled by the government. Everyone dream about one day having a good life and being success. However, how could you know what are that thing if someone if controlling what you know for its convenience? Since Jus-Hamming reach the government all we know up to that day, change in a complete different way, at the point that you couldn’t get more information that the one that’s authorized by the government or that you couldn’t have an opinion in…

“So does it mean that you approve of me dating your mum and being there for you?” Harry asked, Alec. Alec’s eyes lightened up and his smile widened. “Yes.” Alec said. I could see his early adoration toward Harry as he offered himself first to be there for him unlike Jesse that Alec had to ask him. I just pray that Harry will not end up hurting my baby that’s all I care about. I glanced at the clock and noticed it was past eleven at night as well as Alec’s somnolent expression. We decided to…

Leadership is the action of leading a group of people or organization. This doesn’t mean you have to work unaccompanied. Being a leader is a big responsibility and from time to time you can’t do it alone. Many leaders have a partner or a crew to help them along their journey. This is another quality called joint effort, which Odysseus and his crew had great familiarity with. Odysseus and I are both leaders because we took control in problematic situations and always got the job done. My 8th…

How much should the government step in to ensure equality? The story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut makes you think about how in order to please one group, in this case “equalize” everyone, life becomes unfair for everyone else. The story takes place in the year 2081 and everyone is equal in every single way imaginable. George and Hazel Bergeron are watching ballerinas on the television. television, watching ballerinas. Their son, Harrison, comes on, and frees himself of all his handicaps.…

Vonnegut's fiction exposes the reality of the Vietnam War as dehumanizing and horrific towards one's ability to acheive individuality and liberation to form an identity. In Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 anti-war novel "Slaughterhouse Five" (SF) he shares many truths of fiction from his own experiences such as confinement is a barrier for personal growth, collectivism is not the key to acheiving liberation and identity is ultimately determined one's ability to detach themselves from others. This is…

Kurt Vonnegut expresses to his audience the dangers of an equal society and how the government is in complete control of its people through his characters, plot, and symbolism in the short story Harrison Bergeron. In this short story the free will of thinking, academic intelligence and people’s body from attractiveness to muscle power are being controlled by the government. The government has reached this harsh equality among its people by handicapping their citizens. If а person is too…

What defines a leader? Is it someone who stands out within a crowd? Is it a person with the ability to lead? Is it someone who goes above and beyond to provide leadership? William Golding’s character, Jack Merridew, from the novel Lord of the Flies, would use none of these definitions to define a leader. In his eyes, a leader is someone with control and power over a group of people. Based on events thus far in the novel, it is obvious that Jack will emerge as the leader due to his constant…

In Harrison Bergeron, Vonnegut seems to warn individuals about the dangers of becoming like those characters who seem so far from reality; however, the control of government to preserve equality and politically correct self-esteem often stifles an individual’s creativity which further creates identity struggles as people attempt to balance their need to be a part of a community with their need to be self-aware. In both HB and Today’s society, people would find out that the government is…