Teen film

He sat down and allowed himself a short pull from the waterbag. He scanned the desert, looked up at the sun, which was now sliding down the far quadrant of the sky. He got up, removed his gloves from his belt, and began to pull devil-grass for his own fire, which he laid over the ashes the man in black had left. He found the irony, like the romance of his thirst, bitterly appealing. He did not use the flint and steel until the remains of the day were only the fugitive heat in the ground beneath

This case study analyses the songwriting and production processes used in making "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the epochal song quickly hailed as the anthem of the young generation after its release. The song was written by Kurt Cobain, frontman of the grunge band Nirvana in 1991 and produced by Buch Vig during the same year. According to a research conducted by Dr. Grierson (Gray, 2015), "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is the most iconic song ever created thanks to its simple composition and memorability

thing about the 80s didn’t happen until 1991, because as far as I’m concerned that’s when everything “80s” met the guillotine. In 1991 Nirvana released their breakthrough album Nevermind closely preceded by the album’s defining hit single “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” The mainstream music audience wouldn’t have heard anything like Nevermind up to the point in time when it was released on September 24, 1991. It created a schism in pop culture between decades. Frontman Kurt Cobain was the main creative engine

John Hersey's Hiroshima John Hersey's Hiroshima is a factual account about the day the United States government dropped the first atom bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. John interviewed six survivors and reported their stories in a factual but interesting fashion. He gives a brief description of each person and tells of his or her daily activities both before and after the explosion. Hersey's descriptions of people and events give the reader a feeling of actually being at the

GRUNGE: AN INTRODUCTION Music in America in the late 1980s saw a revolution in the form of a whole new genre, which would later be known as ‘grunge’. It is perhaps one of America’s most notable contributions to the music world. Grunge originated in Seattle and spread through the United States over the 1990s. It also influenced the international music scene, inspiring artists, and creating a huge world-wide fan base. The music was inspired by punk rock, but had more edgy riffs coupled with emotive

It was messy, careless, and loud. Thankfully, all of the rebellious teens learned to love it. With this, Nirvana made their most famous album, Nevermind. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” made it big, and is still considered a grunge anthem. By this time, grunge and underground rock was huge. People began wearing the ripped jeans and tattered flannels with Doctor Martins and chokers

All around the world there are different mysteries and enigmas. Ranging from solved to unsolved. All depending on where you are. Though there are some mysteries that span the world, enigmas that are known to everyone. But how could they be known to everyone? The internet! A constant web connecting everything and everyone together. With it being so huge and popular, you must assume there are some unexplainable things. To start, an enigma is someone or something that is difficult to understand or explain

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20th, 1967 and died on April 5th, 1994. In his lifetime, he gave a voice to many young people who didn’t think they had one, contributed most to the popularization of the Grunge genre, and had a lasting impact on the music industry. Known as the “spokesman for a broken generation”, he was looked up to by many young people around the world. It was him that sparked the wave of many underground, local or well-known grunge bands all across America and Europe that

INTRODUCTION “Everybody loves you when you’re six feet in the ground,” was once said by John Lennon. “The finest day I ever had was when tomorrow never came,” - Kurt. Though they died in the midst of their career, John Lennon and Kurt Cobain amazed people with their successes, obstacles, music. John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England (“John” 1). At the time, World War II was going on (Burlingame, John Lennon: Imagine 14). His parents, Alfred “Alf” Lennon and Julia

In Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, the story follows Ruth and Lucille as they pass through the care of their mother, grandmother, great-aunts, and finally their mother’s transient sister, Sylvie. While Ruth is generally passively accepting of the care or lack thereof that she receives from these women, no matter how unconventional, Lucille purposefully sets herself against Sylvie. After existing outside of the boundaries that society imposes for the majority of her adult life, Sylvie is unable