Term Papers on Kurt Donald Cobain

Term Paper Title	Kurt Donald Cobain
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Kurt Donald Cobain


A look Into the Life and Career of a Legend;
                        A Proposal


     Kurt Donald Cobain was the lead singer/songwriter of the
band Nirvana,  until April 5 1994 when he committed suicide.
Troubled by depression,  chronic stomach problems,  and an
addiction to heroin,  his ailments in his personal life showed
through in his music.  His music evolved from the hard “punk”
sound of their first album,  to the intelligent “tell all” tales
of his fourth and final album In Utero.  Through his music he
changed an era of “lost souls”,  to a generation with a vision of
who they were.  The songs he wrote and played captured the
attention of the world,  but also brought him the fame and
fortune that led to his downfall.  The pain and the hate of his
life filled the lines,  tough hidden under his sarcasm.  He
couldn’t take the voices in his head that had plagued him all his
life,  that compiled with his dislike of the fame caused him to
end his own life.  The life that gave him no joy.

     The first time I heard Nirvana they changed my life.
I was sitting in class and one of my friends tapped into the P.A.
system.  He hooked it up to his Walkman and started playing
Smells Like Teen Spirit,  Nirvana’s first single.  I was sitting
in class day dreaming and suddenly I was pulled out of it by this
“amazing” sound.  A few seconds later the principal shut off the
song,  but by that time I was hooked.  Later that day I went to
the record store and bought their second first and second album.
I took them him and threw them into the CD player and fell in
love.  Finally I could identify with music,  the words that
poured from the speakers spoke my life.  Until that moment I had
no direction and felt alienated from the rest of the kids my age.
But Cobain’s music touched on what I was not able realize at my
age,  that being yourself is all right no matter what the
“trendy” junior high school kids thought.  Though I would not
understand the impact of his music or what his words meant to
him,  and that those songs would pull me through the hardest
times in my life.

Research Question

     How did his depression influence his music,  and how did it
show up in his work?

     Outline and Source Summary

     Since the first time I heard Nirvana and their music,  it
had an impact on my life.  Though I never stopped to think about
the meaning behind the actual words that were spoken.  From the
time that Nirvana started back in 1986,  they have changed faces
both on the inside and the outside.  Kurt Cobain was born in a
small town in Aberdeen,  Washington in 1967(Wilson 2).  He grew
up in a broken home and had many problems along the way,  because
of his hyper-active nature nobody in his family wanted him(Wilson
2).  He was passed around from aunts and uncles,  to his grand...

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