Coronary Artery Disease - Summary

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common type of heart disease. It is one of the leading cause of death in all over the world.

 

 CAD is occurs when the blood vessels (coronary arteries) that carry blood to heart harden and narrowed. This is due to the build up of cholesterol and other material, called plague, It blocks blood flow to heart. That blockage could cause angina (chest pain), a heart attack, or death.

Bill Ferguson

Bill Ferguson  

Achievements:

•  The government in 1943 had two Aboriginal representatives elected to the board. Against many candidates Ferguson won easily

•  Ferguson was vice-president of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Aborigines' League, a national body with Onus as president

•  On 27 June 1937 he launched the Aborigines' Progressive Association at Dubbo

•  on Australia Day, 1938. That year Patten and Ferguson wrote the pamphlet, Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!, and petitioned the prime minister Joseph Lyons, for a national Aboriginal policy.

Turning points:

•  On 18 February 1911 at Narrandera Presbyterian Church he married Margaret Mathieson Gowans,

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Edith Cowan Biography- time line

                           

1861-            Born at Glengaory, Western Australia

 

1868-            Mother died in childbirth

 

1876-            Adolescence  shattered

 

1879-            Married James Cowan

 

1880-1891    Have four daughters

 

1890-            Involved in voluntary organization

 

1891-            Work with the Ministering children's League

 

1894-            Work Alexandra Home of Woman

 

1906-            Foundation member of the Children's Protection Society

 

1907-            Passing of the State Children Act

 

1909-            She pioneered day nursery

 

1913-1921    President of the Western Australian National Council of Women

 

1915-            First women appointed to the bench

 

1916-            Secretary of the Woman Hospital advisory board

 

1923-            Introduce Woman's Legal Status Act

 

1924-            Candidate West Perth election, lost

 

1927-            Failed second time

 

1929-            Active in planning the State's Centenary Celebrations

 

1932-            Died

 

 

 

Nelson Mandela Biography-Turning points and Achievements

Nelson Mandela Biography-Turning points and Achievements


When his father died, Mandela was groomed for becoming chief of his local tribe.

Mandela became involved in politics.

After finished his degree, he qualified as a Lawyer.

In 1944, Mandela helped found the ANC Youth League.

In 1952, he and his friend Tormbo opened the first Black law firm in South Africa.

In 1962, Mandela had been arrested and sentences to life imprisonment.

In 1990, he was released.

On May 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa.

In 1993, Nelson Mandela was Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with F.W. De Klerk.

 

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