Internet is probably one of the greatest inventions of the century. Before we
have to go to the library to do our research work but now, all we have to do is
go to Google and do our research. We can do many things with the internet; we
can shop from eBay, chat with your friends in Facebook or Skype, watch videos in
YouTube, earn money from blogging, and many more!
Internet is really useful
and has a lot of advantages, but there are also some disadvantages of using it.
Check out this list of advantages and disadvantages of the internet.
Advantages of Internet are Easy and cheap communication Communicating with your friends and loved ones has been easy through e-mail and social communication sites like Facebook and MySpace. You don’t have to pay even a single cent just to chat with them because these services are free of charge! Send small or big files with others easily. If you have to send a file, for example, a video to your friend who’s living in other country, it isn’t practical nowadays to send him a package with the video cd. Instead, you can send him the video from your e-mail, or upload it in YouTube or other video sharing sites.
Besides that , Loads of information. As I have mentioned earlier, internet has a lot of information that is very essential for the students so they don’t have to buy books or go to the library anymore. Search engines like Google and Yahoo! are always available when you need them. Entertainment. Entertainment is one of the most popular reasons why many people prefer to surf the internet. There are a lot of games to play, videos to watch, and etc. Services. Internet is making our life a lot easier by offering different services like online banking, online booking, hotel reservations, online shopping, and many more. Earn money. Aside from entertainment, internet also lets you earn money while at the same time , enjoying what you’re doing! Like me, I’m a blogger and I love what I’m doing, and at the same time , I earn money. Promote your product. Internet is one of the best and cheapest ways to promote your business or product. Starting from 10$, you can already have your own website and start reaching your potential customers. You can also use Multiply or Blogger if you don’t want to spend money for your website.
Disadvantages of Internet are virus threat. Most of the viruses came from the internet so be
very careful when visiting or downloading from a site. If you are using Firefox,
you can install Web Of Trust add-on so you can get warnings about online scams,
sites with adult content, and spam. With this, you can help keep your computer
safe from online threats like spyware, adware, and viruses. Theft of
Personal Information. If you use the internet, there is a great risk of
stealing your personal information such as name, address, credit card no , by
those culprits. Spamming. I guess I don’t have to explain this anymore,
you’re already familiar with this.Pornography. This is probably the
worst disadvantage of the internet especially for the parents who have kids.
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My favourite football player is Wayne Rooney. He full name is Wayne Mark Rooney born on 24 October 1985 is an English footballer who plays as a strike for Premier League Club Manchester United and the England national team. He wears number 10 for Manchester United and wears the same number for England national team. Rooney made his senior international debut in 2003 becoming the youngest player to represent England. He is England's youngest ever goalscorer. He played at UEFA Euro 2004 and scored 4 goals. I like him because his skills when he play and also he is the best player of football. Besides , Rooney is the third highest paid footballer in the world after Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo , with an annual income of 20.7 million dolar. I hope Mancherster United will win the Premier League for this year.
Today i felt so nervous because 4 ghazali have oral with teacher Mahani and i did not memorize the script. I just memorize a little bit but, i'm not ready for the oral. The BI subject after the rest so,i have time to memorize it. 10:15am time for 4 ghazali do the oral. Then , i get into the class and i see teacher already in class. Then , the assistant monitor have pass the oral paper to their students. In 5 second , teacher Mahani say "We start the oral now , so can i see Afiqah Izzati". At that time , i really really really shock , afraid and nervous. I say "oh my gosh, why me first". At the same time , I did not memorize the script so, i just go and do the oral. Before the oral teacher Mahani had say "If you say you are not ready,i will fail your oral". When i do the oral, i very afraid and nervous in front of her. My hand was vibrate at that time. My oral tittle is 'My favourite football player'. After 2 minutes , i have complete my oral and i get bad score :( . I feel so happy and relieved because i had already do oral. I'M THE FIRST PERSON FOR THE ORAL BI.
Facebook is the largest sosial phenomenon that has swept over the internet world. In some forms it turns into an addiction. Originally created by Mark Zuckerburg , this legal addiction is taking the lives of the most civillized people around the world. The Goverment tells us that our time wasted internet addictions are costing billions of dollars every year. Nowadays , people are brilliant in ICT.
Facebook , Youtube , Twitter , Wikipedia and Myspace the list is endless. Millions of us are addicted. There are currently more than 400 millions active users , fifty percent of these long on any given day. Statistics show that about thirty - five million people update their statuses everyday and sixty million status updates posted. You know those precious moments that you take pictures of and put them of Facebook ? Yeah , there are about three billions pictures like that uploaded to the site each month.
People who are addicted on Facebook will may losing sleep over Facebook when using Fcaebook becomes a compulsion and you spend entired night logged on the site , causing you to become tired the next day. If you are in school you will be sleep in the class. Besides that , it will be impairs our vocabulary. In my opinion , Facebook is impairs secrch word such as 'you , your , you're and thanks ' are commonly spelled like 'u , ur and thx '. People really too lazy to spell out the whole word.
Besides , people like wasting their time on Facebook. They spend more than two hours a day on Facebook. The average person needs to spend only an hour on the site. This is below the one hour daily usage of the youngsters we surveyed. People also like playing online game on Facebook. Other than that , Facebook can fight with each other. This is because when people update wrong status about their friend or family so , the status that you update cannot looked to obvious to that person. Even when you are angry or fight with them.
People who addicted with Facebook you should reduce it.Facebook is nothing.
Nowdays, many teenagers and people like to smoke. Is they happy what are they doing ? For them maybe yes , but it excatly not because it will damage our body and we can death. Student in age 15 years old start to smoke . Have you read newspaper ? At school , student like playing truancy because they want to smoke. Parents didn't know that their children smoke at school. We cannot 100% blame to them because they didn't know what happen at school. Student must be friend with good friends.
There are many reasons why teenagers like smoking. They want to try something new and new activities. They also want to look mature in front of their friends. Nowdays , many teenagers more afraid with their friends than their parents. Have students that have pressure from home about family , then they want to disappear the pressure with smoking. Maybe has parents do not care about their children.
We cannot always happy in our life like people that smoking. Maybe they happy with their life. In happiness has sadness like them. They happy that they are smoking but their body sad because sick. Smokers can get many diseases such as cancer. This is because cigarette smoke contains many toxic substances like carbon monoxide , nicotine , and carcinogens that not only cause irreparable damage to the smoker but , also to those around them who inhale the smoke. If they not quit from smoking , long - time smokers often develop cancers of the mouth , larynx and lungs.
If you want to know that peoples smoking or not , they have physical effects. They have bad breath. If you speak with them , you can smell their breath. Besides that , they reek of stale smoke. If you speak with them , you will faint. Furthermore , you can see they has yellowish stain on fingers and teeth like people do not brush their teeth. Facial wrinkles appear at an early age like grandfather.
Suggestion for those who want to stop smoking is reduce cigarette slowly for day to day. Smokers must set a date to quit. smokers must slowly stop smoking step by step. The conclusion is all of the smoker in the world must stop smoking from now. Smoking not only endangers the smoker himself but also those who inhale secondary smoke exhaled by smokers.
LUCY BECK
A young seventeen year old lady who got a job as a secretary at Ross and Banister’s
Characteristics :
She is a young, shy, a low achiever, not competent and highly qualified and insecure graduate of secretarial studies.
Textual evidence :
Lucy Beck was young and small and mouse-coloured, easily overlooked.
She had a lonely ‘O’ level and a typing speed that would make a tortoise laugh.
Characteristics :
She has a very low self esteem, inferior complex, no confidence and pessimistic
Textual evidence :
She is wondering who will employ her as she is aware of her inadequacies.
Lucy assumes that there are more qualified and brighter people than her who are qualified for the job vacancy.
Characteristics :
She became ambitious, determined and optimistic to change her life style.
Textual evidence :
Lucy is tired of being poor and she is fed up with macaroni cheese and baked beans. She is also sick of wearing second-hand clothes. She gathered her strength and determined to get a job to get out of poverty.
Characteristics :
Lucy becomes enthusiastic and a quick learner when she got a job. She also became courageous when she has to face the conflict with the spirit of Miss Broom.
Textual evidence :
Lucy got a job at Ross and Bannister’, a small firm with a factory just outside the town. She is so excited so came to her work place on Monday morning, at ten to nine and waited as the door to the office is closed. She faces problems when each time she types, the word ‘QWERTYUIOP” appears on the paper. When she finds that it was the ghost of Miss Broom, she became courageous and keep typing and liquid the unwanted words and reached the end of the letter by triumph.
Characteristics :
Lucy became sympathetic, caring, insightful and understanding after knowing Miss Broome’s history. She took the initiative to look for an amicable solution.
Textual evidence :
Lucy is shocked when she heard the news about Miss Broome from Harry Darke. She was forced to stop working after she had been working for forty three years. Lucy sympathizes Miss Broome
and tells her that Mr Bannister is only acting out of concern as he was worried of her health. Lucy managed to convince Miss Broome that the late Mr Bannister needs her help in the after life.
GHOST OF MS.BROOME :
The spirit of Ms Broome who haunts the office where she once worked as she is so attached to her job.
Characteristics:
Loyal, dedicated and took her job seriously at Ross and Bannister’s.
Textual evidence :
Ms Broome had worked for forty three years :girl, woman, old misery. She is unwilling to let go of her position and continues to defend her post, even after her demise.
Characteristics:
Lonely as she had no family and friends.
Textual evidence :
The office was her home; the job was all she lived for as she did not have any family of her own. She had no place worth to go and she insists to stay on.
Characteristics:
She is persistence, vengeful and also possessive over her secretarial job at Ross and Bannister’s.
Textual evidence :
Miss Broome dies but she does not want to leave her job and insist to stay on. She types nasty messages to new secretaries to instill fear. The typewriter rocked as if with laughter, its keys clicking like badly fitting false teeth. She creates havoc with intention to scare those who will replace her place at the office.
Characteristics:
Finally she is convinced that she should leave as her help is needed.
Textual evidence :
Miss Broom leaves the office permanently after Lucy managed to convince her that Mr Bannister needs her help in the afterlife. The typewriter became silent, sunlight glittered on its keys making them looked wet.
HARRY DARKE :
Ross and Bannister’s handyman. He is an old man who has been working with the company for years.
Characteristics:
Helpful and concern
Textual evidence :
He does all the odd jobs in the office and helps out new employees. He is helpful in giving useful information to Lucy regarding the spirit of Miss Broome and shows concern to her. He even told Lucy not to be like a frightened mouse, and not to worry.
Characteristics:
A loyal worker at Ross and Bannister’s.
Textual evidence :
He has been working for thirty years with Ross and Bannister’s, retired with a silver watch but still can’t keep away from his job.
Characteristics:
Encouraging and supportive to his colleague
Textual evidence :
He praises Lucy for her braveness and determination to keep on her job even after she has confronted the spirit of Miss Broome. He said that Lucy is no longer the timid mouse and she is a right little lion. Then he gives her chocolate biscuits with her tea as a credit and encouragement.
‘QWERTYUIOP’ is about a poor, young graduate named Lucy Beck who has just finished her ‘O’ levels at Belmont Secretarial College. She is a slow learner herself but she is determined to find a job in order to get out of poverty. Fortunately, she is offered a job by Mr. Ross, the Manager of Ross and Bannister’s. However, she begins to face problems from her first day of work. She encounters many peculiar incidents when she starts using the electric typewriter. Whenever Lucy types, the words “QWERYUIOP” which is on the top lines on the keyboards will keep on appearing. She is determined to keep on her job, so she tries to overcome her fear. Later, she finds out that there is a spirit lingering around the office. She finds out from that Miss Broome, a former secretary of the late Mr Bannister was forced to retire after working for forty-three years. That was why the spirit of Miss Broome is adamant in holding on to her position as the company’s secretary. Towards the end of the story, Lucy tries to get rid of the spirit that has been haunting that place for many years. She assured Miss Broome that the late Mr Bannister needs her in the afterlife. She managed to convince Miss Broome to leave and finally she could maintain her job.
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