...The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart It is not and has never been easy being a teenager. With teenage life, comes confusion, overwhelming feelings, a new self-awareness and search for one’s identity and path of life. This is exactly what we see in Lucy Cross’s short story “The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart”, where we meet a teenage girl, who is very unsure of what she wants and therefor only strives to please her surroundings in her search for acceptance. She is at a breaking point, where she has to choose her way, identity, and which type of friends she wants to be related to. Which way will she go? Through a first-person narrator we are able to know what Lucy is thinking. This gives us greater insight into what goes on in her mind. Lucy is an A-grade student, but it is not all fun and games. She is a teenage girl struggling to find herself and way in life. She is at that stage where you have to decide, who you want to be and which is something your surroundings has a great impact on. The first thing we learn from the story is that she is in detention and therefore the reader immediately gets the impression that the main character is a “bad girl”. But we are soon proven wrong. The reaction of her old teacher to her detention, clearly shoes how unusual it is for Lucy to behave this way. “What on earth are you doing in here, Lucy?”She was given detention because she hit Penny Jones. “Penny Jones is very thin. When I hit her, I thought she just might fall over.” “… I didn’t know where...
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...The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart Life is like a jungle, it’s full of crossroads and decisions to be made. During your teenage years life gets even more entangled. In this essay I want to find out why teenagers often stand in the situation where they have to choose between their heart or making a riot. “The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart” is a short story by Lucy Cross in 2000. It is first-person narrator and the story are seen from the main character’s point of view. The story takes place in a school greenhouse used as a detention room, supposedly located in Cardiff. The story is chronological but has a short flashbacks, about the episode with Penny Jones; « Poor Penny Jones. You should have seen her face when I asked her to meet me down the subway after school. I could feel Bethan behind me, checking I didn’t jib... » P. 8 line 3-5. The text is spread over about an hour or more, depending on how long school detention is. The main character is Lucy, a teenage girl and former grade A student, and now, her first time in detention given the question from her teacher; « What on earth are you doing in here Lucy? » P. 8 line 16. She has been influenced badly by her new friend Bethan, a though girl who cuts classes, smokes and swear. Lucy was a rule follower before she got to know of Bethan. She did her homework with perfection, had good manners and behaved as it was expected of her from her mother and school. What Lucy deals with is extremely common at any ordinary young teenager trying to...
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...The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart A characterisation of Lucy The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart begins with the girl Lucy Cooke, who is sitting in detention, or the so-called ‘sin bin’. She’s young; this is made very clear from the fact that she’s at still in school, maybe 7th or 8th grade, and the boy in front of her, who, presumably, is Lucy’s peer, has a lot of spots; a thing associated with teenagers. She’s in detention for having hit Penny Jones; a girl who apparently has enough problems without Lucy hitting her. Recalling a time when they were close friends, Lucy tells about Penny whose fa-ther hits her mother and how Penny cried then, too (Page 35, line 20-22). But why does Lucy hit her then? Why would she do that to a girl she knows is in a bad enough situation already? The immediate and easy answer would be that Lucy does this for popularity. Be-than, a girl whom wiggled herself into Lucy’s life and is now her best friend, is the toughest girl in their year. Without having anything to say about it, and I sincerely doubt that Lucy had anything to say in this situation, as Bethan one day ‘decided’ that they should be best friends, Lucy finds her-self sandwiched between the girl she defines herself as; the brainiest girl in the year, and the girl the rest of the school defines her as when she hangs out with Bethan. Her reputation changes; she goes from being smart, and maybe not that popular, to being a stereotypical ‘tough girl’ and feared. Many people has a hard time distinguishing...
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...Written assignment – The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart. 1. Lucy is a confused and afraid girl. She is a grade A student who used to be a good girl, but she changes into being a bad girl. She meets Bethan, who is the hardest girl at school. Lucy begins to break her mother’s principles. She begins to smoke cigarettes and wearing make up, because Bethan says so. She alludes herself as the brainiest girl at the school and she is also the only girl who took nine O-levels. Her relation to the other students is not like it was before, she becomes best friend with Bethan. Before she met Bethan, her best friend was Penny Jones. Penny and Lucy were both good students and they were quite close to each other. But after Lucy had met Bethan, she stopped talking to Penny and hit her, because Bethan said so. Bethan wanted her to hit Penny, to prove that there was not anyone in the way of their friendship. That is the reason why Lucy came in detention; for hitting a student. Lucy felt really bad inside after she hit Penny, because she deep down did not want to be a bad girl, but she is afraid of Bethan to say how she feels inside. While the detention she thinks about what will happen to her in the future. 2. She called me and said that I should meet her down the subway after school. I did not know why she wanted me to came down the subway, but I did what she said. I was at the subway alone. She was not here yet, so I waited a few more minutes. “Is she going to tell me something about...
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...The sin bin or Lucy’s heart I can see Lucy walking straight in my direction. She looks a little nervous, but focused on the same time. It has been a while since I have talked to her. It was before she became Bethan’s best friend. I miss her sometimes, but when I see her with Bethan, she is not the same Lucy I knew. She has changed a lot. I do not hope that she is pretending to be someone she is not. “Penny!” Lucy catches me in my way out of the door. “Oh. Hi Lucy” I am a bit confused. What does she want from me? “Please meet me down the subway after school” Lucy sounds nervous too. I cannot look her in the eyes, because she keeps looking in different directions. I can feel my face turning into a grimace you only see in a scary movie or something like that. I am not scared, but I think I look quite stupid or maybe just really choked. Now she hurries back to Bethan who is waiting for her at the other side of the schoolyard. It is all really confusing at that point. The time before my meeting with Lucy goes too slowly. I cannot wait to see what she wants from me. After school I walk down the subway to look for Lucy, but I cannot find her. Is this just a stupid joke? I cannot stop thinking that, until she appears out of nowhere. She comes straight to me with no sense of hesitation. Suddenly her hand hits my face, and a pain spreads through my whole body. I do not think it is just physic pain, because it really hurts that she could do that. The hitting part just reminds me of...
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...The sin bin or Lucy´s heart The short story “The sin bin or Lucy’s heart” 1st person narrative Themes: Admiration, judgment, longing and opposing. Message: The story’s message is about how influence from other people can change you Characterization of Lucy Lucy is the main character in the story. She is a confused teenage girl, probably around the fourteen years old. In school, is she a grade A student and win prizes at the prize day at school, but she is seems to be changing. Lucy recently became friend’s whit a girl named Bethan. The reason Lucy’s became friends whit Bethan, was to become the bully instead of the bullied. Bethan is the cool girl in school. Bethan is almost focusing Lucy to do things she never would have thought to do herself, it is such as smoking, wearing make-up, hitting other kids and cutting classes and Lucy Is doing it to prove loyalty to Berhan. But in return, are the other kids in school afraid of teasing Lucy, because of here friendship whit Bethan. Lucy loves the attention she gets when she is whit bethan. It seams that Lucy used to have a good relationship with her mother but after, she has started hanging out with Bethan their relationship is damaged. On the reason that, she is doing all of does thing whit Bethan in secrecy from here mother. Lucy does not trust herself and her own opinion, she keeps saying Bethan says, mom says – which I take as a sign of her not believing in herself enough to rely on herself...
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...Essay – The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart Sometimes life can be hard. Especially when you are a teenager, that is for sure. And that is was Lucy Cross is telling us about in her short story ”The Sin Bin or Lucy’s heart”. The whole story takes place in a greenhouse at their school, which is also used as a detention room. And that is where Lucy is sitting. She is just sitting there and draws a heart with her 2B pencil. Lucy is, taking a guess, about 16-17 years old and lives in Cardiff, where she also goes to school. The main problem in this short story is that Lucy has changed from being a good friend and a fantastic student, to being a person hanging with the wrong people and she starts doing things she, deep inside does not want to do, like hitting an old friend Penny Jones. Which is why she is sitting in this room. If you look through the whole short story, Lucy is a first person narrator. And that is because the whole story is from her own point of view. The smart thing about using first person-narrator for this story is, that the reader learns everything about Lucy’s feelings & thoughts. And that is a very important part for this story to make sense. If the reader did not know what she was feeling, it would be really hard to understand the development she goes through. Lucy is also a round character, which means that she develops throughout the short story. You can see from the text (34) “Lucy Cooke. What happened to the Straight A student I used to teach? Hm? And picking...
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...“The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart” by Lucy Cross, 2000 The story begins with Lucy being in detention and describing the room and situation. She seems very fascinated by her best friend, Bethan. Bethan is the toughest girl in their year of their school. Lucy’s a bit afraid of Bethan, too. Sometimes she’s relieved when her mother says that she can’t see her. Because then she can be herself and not who Bethan wants her to be. Lucy has some dreams and opinions that are being pushed down by Bethan. She can no longer get the good grades that she used to. She has to be cool and rebellious like Bethan. Lucy feels split between her mother and Bethan because Bethan want Lucy to break the rules her mother made. They put on makeup when they come to school (for Lucy’s mother does not approve it) but Lucy takes it off after saying goodbye to Bethan, before Lucy herself go home. She does not want to revolt her mother but she doesn’t want Bethan to think she’s a square either. Lucy sits at the detention, thinking of what she did to be in there. She hit her former best friend, Penny Jones. Bethan made her do it, because she felt threatened by her. Penny Jones was her best friend, until Bethan asked Lucy to be HER best friend. Lucy feels really bad about hitting Penny. She looks back to the time Penny cried to Lucy that her father used to hit her mother. She also cried when Lucy hit her and that makes Lucy feel even worse about doing it. But Bethan was standing behind her, to make sure she didn’t...
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...Group 1: The War in Afghanistan * Find facts about al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. Osama Bin Laden Born Sheikh Osama bin Muhammad bin ’Awad bin Laden, was born in March 10th 1957 in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. He was the founder of the Islamist militant organization Al-Qaeda, an organization that was responsible for many attacks in different parts of the world killing thousands of civilians as well as the high-profile targets. He did most of his work under the name of the Islamic religion and specially the sharia law. Osama was born in a very wealthy family, to a Saudi Arabian father and a Syrian mother; he had a total of 52 siblings. In his early ages Osama studied engineering, economics, business administration and religion where he specified in interpreting the Quran and Jihad at King Abdul-Aziz University in Saudi Arabia. Osama got married when only 17 years old, to his second cousin from his mother side of the family. Throughout his life Osama got married five times, and ended up having about 24 children. His strong religious conviction got him to join the local Islamic groups, in 1973. And in 1979 he took to Afghanistan, after the then Soviet Union had invaded the country, and in the 1980’s he officially joined the war in Afghanistan as a volunteer, against the soviet occupying power. One of his main struggles in live was the growing influence of the United States in the Middle East. He felt that the policies of the US government were the prime reason of the unhappiness...
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...angrebet:……………………………………………………………………s.8 Konklusion:………………………………………………………………………………………..s.9 Litteraturliste:……………………………………………………………………………………...s.11 Indledning Det var en helt almindelig morgen, men i formiddagen skete det som ændrede verdensbilledet, at to amerikanske fly fløj ind i World Trade Centers nord- og sydtårn af 19 arabiske terrorister som havde tilknytning til Al-Qaeda. Der dødede da 2400 uskyldige mennesker. Det var den blodigste og største terrorangreb i verdenshistorie. Det var den begivenhed som ændrede verdensbilledet og verdensbefolknings syn. I denne opgave jeg vil først fokusere på at redegøre forholdet mellem Vesten og Mellemøsten, derefter vil jeg gerne bruge den retoriske analysemodel til at analysere taler både Osama bin Laden og Georg W. Bush. Efter 11.september har verdensbillede ændret sig og mediernes iscenesættelse af angrebet har også ændret verdensbefolknings syn, jeg vil også gerne komme ind på om USA har ændret deres holdning til Mellemøsten efter 11.september men det kommer jeg ind på, når jeg redegøre for hvordan verdensbilledet er ændret. Jeg har valgt emnet 11.september 2001, da det er et meget interessant emne fordi der er mange holdninger om situationen og selv i dag er vi i tvivl om hvilke af delene er rigtigt. Da har været mange konflikter mellem USA og Mellemøsten og det har påvirket hele verden. Derfor er det et godt emne at analysere så man kan se forskellen...
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...No. | NAME | TAGLINES | 1 | MOHAMMAD ELDO BAIDOWI | Give positive energy to everything, and everything will be alright. | 2 | MUHAMMAD HASNAN BIN MAT ISA | I never dreamed about success but I worked for it. | 3 | LIM SIN PEI | Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. | 4 | ESTHER ONG PIK KAH | Stay positive. Tomorrow will be amazing. | 5 | KRISHNAVENI A/P ERUTHAYAM II | Confidence is a boost to success. | 6 | KRISHNESHWARI A/P GUNASAGARAN | Destroy what destroys you. | 7 | CHUNG WAND CHIH | Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”. | 8 | LEE ANN NIE | Believe in yourself for you can make the difference. | 9 | GAN SOCK GUAN | Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet. | 10 | NURUL SYAKIRAH BINTI MOHAMAD ARIS | Success is not final, failure is not fatal. | 11 | TAN SIN HONG | All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. | 12 | MOHAMAD ISMAIL BIN AMBIAH | One finds limits by pushing them. | 13 | NG JIA YING | Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain!!!!!! | 14 | CHOO LIH YIN | Victory belongs to the most preserving. | 15 | NUR RAZALIFAH BINTI GHAZALI | Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land among the stars. | 16 | WONG YI SHEN | It’s just a bad day, not a bad life. | 17 | LIM PANG IM | You are the one to shape your own destiny!! | 18 | CHEE SOO YEN | Be willing to do, be happy to bear! | 19 | NUR REHAN BINTI ARZAHARI...
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...well in their part properly the company will able to achieve their objective. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chiang Sang Sem (Group Executive Chairman cum Chief Executive Officer) Chiang Fong Yee (Alternate Director to Chiang Sang Sem) Datuk Chiang Heng Kieng (Group Managing Director) Chiang Sang Bon (Group Executive Director) Chiang Fong Tat (Group Executive Director) Dato’ Sri Chiang Fong Seng (Group Executive Director) Chong Chin Look (Group Finance Director) Datuk Ng Peng Hong @ Ng Peng Hay (Senior Independent Non-Executive Director) Dato’ Shahbudin Bin Imam Mohamad (Independent Non-Executive Director) Chong Sai Sin (Independent Non-Executive Director) AUDIT & RISK MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Datuk Ng Peng Hong @ Ng Peng Hay (Chairman) Dato’ Shahbudin Bin Imam Mohamad (Member) Chong Sai Sin (Member) NOMINATION & REMUNERATION COMMITTEE Dato’ Shahbudin Bin Imam Mohamad (Chairman) Datuk Ng Peng Hong @ Ng Peng Hay (Member) Chong Sai Sin (Member) ...
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...some poor policies, unfit politicians, and uniformed voters making decisions that negatively impact the country. Despite these factors on the current state of the union, one of the most influential people to hurt the soul of this country wasn’t even American. Osama bin Laden, viewed as the poster child of anti-American Islamic extremists, has inspired people. Through his successful acts of destruction against the U.S. and other westernized countries, he encourages others like him to do the same even from the dead. To many Americans, September 11th will go down as one of the most horrible days in our country’s history. Due to the deep scar he has left across our country and the hope he gives those like him who want to destroy western ideals, Osama bin Laden is one of the most...
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...Word Count 582 My Own Little Hell If given the opportunity to create my own vision of hell, my version would be based on the seven deadly sins. Each sin would have its own structure of punishment. If a person were to commit several sins, the last sin committed by that person would be the punishment for that individual. At each gate of the sins, there sits a judge that is in the form of whoever that individual loved most in their life and that judge will decide on that person’s life events leading up to where they committed their last sin. The portal will send the individual to their punishment, that will last 2500 years until their soul can have the opportunity to decide what next life they wish to live. Each sin has a cruel and unusual punishment for that individual which is determined by the last person they saw when the sin was committed. This list of sins that I am about to mention are in no particular order, because in my vision of hell, all sin is created equal. Since the topic is on the great villains of our day, Kim Jong un, if the last sin committed by this villain were to have been wrath that ended with murder. His punishment would be that the person he murdered would be able to murder him over and over again for 2500 years. Another example could be Osama Bin laden, committing Envy. By wanting to be like America so badly, his sin punishment could so happen to be that he peels the skin off his body, layer by layer until it gets to the bone where it starts over and repeated...
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..." Someone from the gathering asked, "How can anyone of us earn a thousand Hasanah?" Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: "Glorify Allah a hundred times by just saying ‘Subhanallah’ and a thousand good deeds will be written for you, or a thousand sins will be wiped away.” (Muslim 4:2073) 2. One Of The Rare Treasures Of Paradise Hazrat Abu Dharr (R. A.) narrated that Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: “Should I not tell you of one treasure of the unlimited treasures of Paradise?” I replied spontaneously, “Oh RasulAllah (Peace be upon him) that would be an honour indeed.” Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: “That rare treasure is ‘La Hawla Wa La Quwwata Illa Billah’.” (Ibn Majah) 3. A Date Palm Planted In Paradise For The One Who Recites This Hazrat Jaa'bir (R. A.) narrated that Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: “For the person who recites ‘Sub-Han'allah Hil Azeem Wa Bi-Ham'dihi’ a date palm will be planted for him in Paradise.” (Tirmidhi) 4. Forgiveness For Sins Even If They Are Like The Foam Of The Sea Narrated by Abu Huraira, Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: “Whoever says ‘Subhan Allaahi Wa Bihamdihi’ one hundred times a day, will be forgiven all his sins even if they were as much as the foam of the sea.” (Bukhari, Book #75, Hadith #414) 5. Earn Over A Billion Rewards In Just A Few Seconds! Narrated by Ubaadah that Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: “Whoever seeks forgiveness for the believing...
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