The Wright Brothers' biogrqphy

Word Bank:

Museum airplane display Wright Flyer wind tunnel

Wright seconds building Wright Company wooden

North Carolina bicycle 1903 track winds

The first working __airplane__ was invented, designed, made, and flown by the ______Wright____ brothers, Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright. Their "__Wright Flyer______" was a fabric-covered biplane with a ______wooden______ frame.
On December 17, ___1903_________, their plane flew for 12 _______seconds_______________ and for a distance of 120 feet (37 m). The flight took place at Kitty Hawk, ____North Carolina_______, USA.
Orville and Wilbur Wright were raised in Dayton, Ohio. Before _____building__________ their airplane, they operated a ____bicycle________ repair and sales shop. They made their own bicycles.
The brothers chose Kitty Hawk to fly their planes because it was an isolated town on North Carolina's Outer Banks that had steady _________________________ and sand dunes on which they could glide and land gently. The brothers' first two gliders failed. Later that year, the brothers built a _________________________ in which they tested over 200 wing and airframe designs.
Returning to Kitty Hawk, they began test flights in 1903. The planes accelerated on a monorail _____________________ and flew into the air.
During the next few years, the brothers developed more sophisticated planes. They later formed the _________________________, which built and sold their airplanes.

The Wright brothers' famous airplane is on permanent _________________________ at the National Air and Space _________________________ in Washington, D.C., USA. 

Henry Lawson
Author, Poet (1867–1922)


Turning Points:

1. In 1876, Lawson experienced an illness left him partly deaf.
2. When he was 14 the condition deteriorated radically and he was left with a major and incurable hearing.
3. Early in 1891, Lawson accepted an offer from Gresley Lukin of the Brisbane Boomerang.
4. By September 1891, the Boomerang was in trouble and Lawson's services were dispensed with.
5. In September 1892, Lawson set out his trip to Bourke.
6. He set off on 20 April 1900 for England. With him went his wife, his son Joseph and his daughter of just over two months, Bertha.
7. In April 1903, his wife Bertha officially separated from him.

Achievements:

1.  While the Billy Boils (1896) was Lawson's first major short-story collection. It remains one of the great classics of Australian literature.
2. He became known as a great poet.
3. After his death, Lawson was heralded as one of the country's leading literary figures.

Nelson Mandela

Turning Points:

1.Whilst at university Nelson Mandela became increasingly aware of the unjust nature of South African Society.
2.Mandela resigned from the ANC and worked underground.
3. In the late 50s,  Mandela and several others were charged with treason.
4. In 1960 the Sharpeville massacre of 63 black South African’s changed the whole political climate. 
5. By 1962 Mandela had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison.
6. Mandela’s release in 1990.
7. Nelson Mandela lost his eldest son to the HIV epidemic disease and Mandela has worked hard to campaign on this issue.

Achievements:
1.  Mandela finished his degree and qualified as a Lawyer.
2.. In 1952 Mandela and his friend Tambo opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa. 
3. Mandela was instrumental in pushing the ANC into more direct action such as the 1952 Defiance Campaign and later acts of sabotage.
4. He helped to keep other Men’s spirits high in prison.
5. 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. 
6. He received many prestigious awards.
7. In 1993 Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with F.W. De Klerk.

Time line of Fred Hollows

Fred Hollows (1929 - 1993)

1929 - Born in New Zealand

1960 - Got a job in Australia

1965 - Became head of the Eye Department at a Sydney hospital

1970's - Launched a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians and treated 30,000 people in three years

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

1989 - Had cancer

1993- Died at home

Time line of Reg Saunders

Reg Saunders
1920-1990

1920 -  Born in Western Victoria
1934 - Attended school
1937 - Ran a sawmill with his father and brother
1940 - Enlisted to fight in the Second World War
1941 - Evacuated from the defence of Crete
1942 - Escaped on a British submarine and returned to            Australia
1944 - Promoted to lieutenant and married his first wife,   Dorothy Banfield
1945 - Discharged from the army
1950 - Rejoined the army as a lieutenant to fight in the Korean War
1954 - Discharged from the army
1955-1966 - Employed by a bronze manufacturer in Gippsland
1969-1980 - Worked as the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in Canberra
1990 - Passed away

Australia's carbon emissions jump in 2015

Note:
1.Australia's greenhouse gas emissions increased by nearly 1 per cent in 2015.
2.Emissions increases were recorded in the electricity, transport, fugitive emissions and industrial and power generation sectors.
3.The rise in overall emissions showed the government had to wean the economy off coal and fast.

Task 5: Two Newspaper Articles

1. DEAD END STREET
Source from Dailytelegraph, Thursday February 25, 2016

Notes: -Two cars raced side by side at hight speed in Western Sydney.
           -Two 20-year-old students got killed instantly.
           -Police have indicated that speed was definitely a factor in the accident.

Summary:
Two cars appeared to be in a street race which caused one car smashed into a power pole, killing two of its three occupants. Police ans emergency services rused to the scene, where 10 men worked to free the three me trapped inside the vehicle. The car was badly damaged, not even 40 percent of it left. Police have indicated that speed was definitely a factor in the accident.

Personal reflections on the article:
I personally think that, nowadays, young adults don't consider much about what's going to happen to them when doing something crazy such as car racing. It's a pity that they put their lives at risk and led their parents or friends a miserable life. I hope articles like this would have an impact on the young adults and call them to be responsible for everything they do.

 2. Suicide by girl, 10, triggers plea for action
Source from The Australian, Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Note: -A 10-year-old Aboriginal girl in Western Australia's far north Kimberley region has killed herself.
          -her death comes 17 months after the suicide of 11-year-old Aboriginal boy whose mother committed suicide less than a year later.
          -Aboriginal children  were more likely to die from suicide than non-Aboriginal children the same age.

Summary:
The suicide of a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl shocked the nation with high rates of indigenous youth suicide. Researcher and suicide prevention worker Gerry Georgatos said Aboriginal children younger than 14 were eight times more likely to die from suicide than non-Aboriginal children the same age. Western Australia's Child Protection Minister Helen Morton launched a suicide prevention strategy that encourages indigenous families to be vigilant about the mental health of their young people and to recognise risk factors.

Personal reflections on the article:
It's very sad to read articles like this. Children around this age should be happy and loved by their parents. It is devastating that a child of 10 would even consider taking their own life. I think our government should put more effort into helping indigenous youth and preventing them from suicide.