Anyway, I should say sorry – sorry for not having written before. The main reason was a bloody chest infection which had confined me to bed for one week. That week was long enough to dampen my mental well-being with the result that I was scared to go out again. The letter from the DWP, as you know, has nicely classified me as a complete idiot, which did the rest to my confidence.
The other week I went to Glasgow to buy a book, on the reading list of my book group. I have finished it two days ago and it is better than I thought it would be. It is a single mom on benefits whose daughter escape rape narrowly. The plot is interesting but the writing style needs some adjustments as it is written from the view of the four year old child. At the beginning
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One is called “Conviction; Violence, Culture and a shared public service agenda” by John Carnochan and “The Wasp Factory” by Iain Banks. The first one is a revelation. Someone from the Glasgow “Violence Reduction Unit” wrote honestly about the crime culture in the West of Scotland. I am attempted to send him my essay (people like you and me), but then I am not allowed to hand an essay in for my Higher English which has been already in circulation. So, I will wait after the first weekend in August when the official results are out. Personally, I cannot wait for his feedback, but I might be here on a pink dream cloud. Maybe I leave …show more content…
Though, apart from you I haven’t told anyone about my new mental health status. Elizabeth is too much from the old school – only those who are working (and are in a working age) are deemed good people. This could evolve into another problem (sugar) as she is hoping that I will find a job soon. The good thing about her lifestyle is that her way of living is so different from Gallowhill Court that there is virtually no connection to my ‘old life’ of twelve years. The rest of that life is only happening in my mind.
Mentioning my old life: my “old” friends, especially Craig, were too much of nutcases with a strong tendency to autism. As this entails a very wide range, they were highly functioning people who only knew how to prioritise their own lives. Last year only elain was helping me in her own way. Unfortunately, she is terminally ill.
That is why I am actively seeking new friends. Friends who are more like you or my village friend Angela, and a bit like Elaine. Friends I can talk to without running the risk of becoming a social media object or a gossip. Friends who do not condemn me because my lifestyle doesn’t fin in their drawer of their perfect
Vicki Sentas and Nicholas Cowdery, ‘Focus on police, not the laws’ (2013) Sydney Morning Herald Online
The Secret Life of Bees is a fictional novel by Sue Monk Kidd that is set in 1964, the year of the Civil Rights Act, in Sylvan, South Carolina. The book focuses on the fourteen-year-old Lilly who runs away from her abusive father, with her servant Rosaleen to Tiburon, S.C. In Tiburon, Lilly uses one of her deceased mother’s treasured possessions, a black Virgin Mary, to lead her and Rosaleen to Black Madonna Honey produced by the Boatwrights sisters May, June, and August. These three sisters take in both Lilly and Rosaleen; putting Lily to work in the honey house where she is finally happy for the first time since her mother was killed. Lily is running not just from her abusive father but from the memories she has from when she was four-years-old, specifically the time when she accidentally killed her mother. This book gives a poignant analysis of this fourteen-year-old girl as she demonstrates the concepts of attachment styles, dating, parenting style, self-esteem, and the cohort effects of the generation she lived in.
Intro: Working around the hives; dedicated and faster with each movement. Honey drizzling in golden crevices; a family unit working together, buzzing in harmony. Bees and beehives is a significant motif in the novel Secret Life of Bees: By Sue Monk Kidd because it represents the community of women in the novel. It also represents Lily Owen’s longing and need for a mother figure in her life. And finally, it was significant because the bees lived a secret life, just as Lily and Rosaleen did in the novel.
Home in The Secret Life of Bees Sonsyrea Tate’s statement about “home” aligns with Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees. In this novel, the main character, Lily Owens, embarks on a Bildungsroman journey after leaving her birth home to find her true identity and “home.” The idea of “home” guides Lily on a path of self-discovery and leads her to the pink house and the feminine society that lies within, in which she finds true empowerment and womanhood in her life. “Home” plays an important role in Lily’s journey throughout the novel. Lily feels lost and alone at the Peach House with T. Ray because of his continuous physical and mental abuse.
“The Secret Life of Bees” is an adventurous book that tells the story of a teenage girl name Lily who grew up abused by her father, T.Ray. The story takes places in Sylvan, South Carolina 1964 when this state was crawling with racists. Lily had a negro caregiver, Rosaleen, that she loved dearly. Given the racist tones in Sylvan, this caused Rosaleen to be discriminated. Already resenting living with T.Ray because of her abuse, and the desire to find out what happened to her dead mom, Lily runs off on an adventure with Rosaleen in a quest to find find these answers. Throughout their adventure Lily and Rosaleen face many challenges together which compromises their friendship.
The person’s care I have chosen to analyse is that of a 65 year old female, for the purpose of confidentiality she will immediately be known throughout as Mary (NMC 2008). Mary was admitted to the continuing care unit where I was placed. Although Mary had come into the unit as a new admission, she has been known by the trust the unit resides in for over 10 years. Mary has only one known relative, her next of kin whom was married to her deceased brother. Mary was admitted as an informal patient, meaning she had not been sectioned under the Mental Health Act (1983). She was also deemed as having full capacity in regard to the Mental Health Capacity Act (2005).
“‘I’m staying here,’ I said. ‘I’m not leaving.’ The words hung there, hard and gleaming. Like pearls I’d been fashioning down inside my belly for weeks” (Kidd 296). This is one of the examples in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, the Secret Life of Bees, where Lily has finally transitioned into adulthood. The author communicates the message that throughout the novel Lily endures an emotional struggle that helps build her into the woman she is at the end of the novel with indirect characterization, allusions, and symbolism. These literary devices display the characters’ emotions and feelings throughout the book. In doing this, Kidd establishes the relationships between Lily and the people around her as ones that giver her a hard time, but teach her to be more strong. Therefore, the author included literary devices as a method of emphasizing the maturing of Lily through hardships that she eventually resolves.
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From a young age most people have gone through many relationships with other people who were not their family. Thus, we often acknowledge these relationships as friendships. But the word friend is too broad, so people categorize their friends to several types. In her book “Necessary Losses: The Lovers, Illusions, Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow”, Judith Viorst divided friendships to six types. Those are convenience friends, special Interest friends, historical friends, crossroad friends, cross-generation friends and close friends. In my life, I have been friend with many people since I was little. Although I have met all six kinds of friend of Viorst, convenience friends and close friends are two important kinds of friends in my life.
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Previous experience of working in the care industry, with adults with a wide range of needs and disabilities, has given me the experience of working with a diverse range of people. I am currently an administrator for a charity whose service users are adults with learning disabilities. Being caring and compassionate has helped build up a strong relationship with the service users, which in turn has helped me gain their trust. This has helped me to be able to develop a better relationship
One of my first jobs when I was younger was working for NSSRA, which is an organization that works with individuals with special needs in a recreation setting. As the years passed, you could easily find me spending my free time working with individuals with disabilities and/or mental illnesses in hopes of me being able to assist them in activities and/or helping them come up with solutions that will allow them to be able to live as independently as possible. During the summer and throughout the school year, I have been known to volunteer, rather than seek employment, in places that allow me to work with individuals with disabilities or mental illnesses. Although I have started a new school year, the past few weeks I have been working with individuals with
My dad told me he saw some bears eating honey and heard them say. “Lets go steal some more honey from the humans or the bees,or we could break into the store, or we could break into the honey factory”. [2] I saw my mom come home and she said to do the dishes so I did. Then I decided to take a trip away from home because, I got tired of home
As I reach the seemingly boring age of 19, I am able to look back and reflect on how my choices in the past have gotten me to where I am today. One of the most significant decisions I have made in my life was to minimize my friend group. Now, losing friends is something you hear about before you even hit junior high. The common phrase is repeated over and over again, when referring to high school, “You find out who your real friends are.” As a scrawny little freshman, with no sense of reality, I refused to believe that that phrase would ever apply to my life. The end of my sophomore year is when my then, sixteen-year-old self, realized that that overused phrase was more relevant to my life than I wanted it to be. So I did something about it.