Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States of America. He was first elected President on November4, 2008. He ran as a Democrat against the Republican John McCain. His Vice-President is Joseph Biden. Barack Obama is the first African-American president of the USA. Obama was elected for a second term in 2012.

Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, also named Barack Obama, was from Kogelo, a small village in Kenya, Africa; his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was from Kansas. Obama was raised by his single mother and his maternal grandparents.

Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a degree in political science. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois, and worked as a community organizer. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, where he was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review (a prestigious magazine about law, edited by Harvard law students). He moved back to Chicago and married Michelle Robinson in 1992; they have two daughters, Malia and Sasha. Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996, 1998, and 2002 (he lost a primary bid for the House of Representatives in 2000). He was elected to the US Senate in 2004 (Dem-IL). Obama has written two books, Dreams from My Father (1995) and The Audacity of Hope (2006).

Mother Teresa Achievements

Mother Teresa

Turning Points

•  An  early life she felt a calling to serve through helping the poor
•  Had a permission to join a group of nuns in Ireland
•  Worked as a teacher in the slums of Calcutta
•  Did not believe in converting people 
•  Suffered various health problems.

Achievements 

• The Missionaries of Charity
• To look after people, who nobody else was prepared to
• 1965 She was first brought to wide public attention through a book by Malcom Muggeridge with a documentary called ‘Something Beautiful for God’.
• The first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. (1971)
• Kennedy Prize (1971)
• The Nehru Prize – ‘for promotion of international peace and understanding (1972)
• Albert Schweitzer International Prize (1975)
• The Nobel Peace Prize (1979)
• States Presidential Medal of Freedom (1985)
• Congressional Gold Medal (1994)
• Honorary citizenship of the United States (November 16, 1996)
• Beatified in October 2003 by Pope John Paul II and is now known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.

NELSON MANDELA TURNING POINTS AND ACHIEVEMENT

NELSON MANDELA 

Turning points

-   Nelson Mandela became increasingly aware of the unjust nature of South African Society

- By the late 50s the S.A.state had become difficult for the ANC to operate. Mandela had to resign from the ANC and work underground.

- However in 1960 the Sharpeville massacre of 63 black South African’s Mandela led to advocate armed struggle through the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK).

- Arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison.

- Lost his eldest son to this disease and Mandela has worked hard to campaign on this issue

Achievement

- Finish his degree and qualified as a Lawyer.

-  In 1952 Mandela and Tambo opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa. 

- In 1944 Mandela helped found the ANC Youth League, whose Programme of Action was adopted by the ANC in 1949

-  Conducting their own defence they eventually proved to be victorious.

-  Keeping Men’s spirits high and never compromised his political principles when offered earlt release.

- His treatment improved as the South African establishment increasingly looked to negotiation, in the face of international isolation.

- On 10 May 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on and was President until June 1999.

- He gone beyond a political role; he is widely admired and has received many prestigious awards.

- Nelson Mandelais also associated with many educational programmes and initiatives such as Make Poverty History Campaign.

- In 1993 Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prizejointly with F.W. De Klerk

FRED HOLLOWS

FRED HOLLOWS

1929-1993

1929-               Born in New Zealand

   -1960            Worked at a mental hospital

Graduated as a doctor and eventually specialise in eye surgery

1960-               Got a job in Australia

1965-               Managed Eye Department at a Sydney hospital

Set up the first Aboriginal Medical Service

Discovered that almost all Aboriginal people in outback communities had eye diseases

1970-               Helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians

1970-1973       Treated 30,000 people, performed a thousand operations and prescribed more than 10,000 pairs of glasses

1980-               Travelled all over the world to help set up eye health programs in developing countries

Helped in fund raising to support Eritreans build their own eye lens factory

1989-               Stared sick for cancer

1993-               Died

KEN BRINDLE

KEN BRINDLE

1931-1987

1931 -    Born      

   -1967   Honorary secretary of Redfern All Blacks Football Club

               Wanted to bring young men to Sydney through football

               Member of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship

               Member of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs

               Exposed the fact of police discrimination against Aboriginal residents of Redfern in the court

               Encouraged Aboriginal communities to attend annual Federal     Council  for the                    Advancement of Aborigines and  Torres Strait Islanders  (FCAATSI) in Canberra

1967 to 1971 - Secretary of FCAATSI

                        Represented NSW Aboriginal people

                        Lead Aborigines Protection Act 1935

                        Encouraged Aboriginal leadership

                        Organised the first New South Wales all-Aboriginal conference

1987 -             Died

Maureen Watson

Maureen Watson

Heroe of the Political Struggle for Aboriginal Rigths 

1931-2009

1931 -    Born in Rockhampton in central Queensland on the 9th November

1936 -    Dux at school, sports person and brilliant horse-rider

1943 -    Worked beside to her father in shooting animals

1952 -    Married Harold Bayles

1970 -1982 -    Moved to Brisbane with their family of five children  

             Joined the fledgling Aboriginal rights movement

            Commenced an arts degree at the University of Queensland

            Founded member of Radio Redfern and the Aboriginal people’s Gallery

             Attended the first National Aboriginal Theatre Workshop in Sydney and a Black                      Film-makers course

1982 -    Published her first collection of stories and poems, Black Reflections 

             Produced six more poetry anthologies, one children’s book and one picture book

             Performed and taught in many venues

             Forefront of Aboriginal protests against the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane

1996  -   Awarded the Australia Council Red Ochre 

             Received the inaugural United Nations Association Global Leadership PrizE

1996 -  2009  -  Worked with Sisters Inside
            
           Recognized as a creative and strong Black woman  for her intense spiritual                            connection to the Land 

2009   Died
                        

                        

Global Warming Statistics

The graphic show us some statistics about people awareness over the global warming according to report made by National Geographic in 2012 who describe. In general, 70 % people of Americans believe global warming is very real and only 12% of them think is not happening. In contrast 58% of Americans are somewhat or very worried for the global warming and 76% just trust in climate scientists as a source of information about these.

On another hand  while 90% of climate scientists believe that the global warming is being cause by humans,  only 54 % of Americans believe is caused mostly by human activity And 1% of all carbon dioxide that is emitted by man made sources.