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Friday, 28 February 2020

Goerge Orwell time line


  • 1903: George Orwel He was born 
  • 1911: went to St Cyprian's School in Eastbourne.
  • 1917 :he won a scholarship to Eton
  • 1921 :he joined the British police in Burma.
  • 1927 :he resigned
  • 1928 :journeyed to Paris
  • 1932-1933: worked as a teacher
  • 1934 :worked in a second hand bookshop.
  • 1933 :his first book was published Down and Out in Paris and London
  • In 1934:  first novel Burmese Days was published
  • 1935 :A Clergyman's Daughter novel was published
  • 1936 :married Eileen
  • 1936 :George Orwell was commissioned to write a book about poverty in northern England.
  • 1937 :The Road to Wigan Pier was published
  • 1938 :wrote A Homage to Catalonia, published 
  • 1938-1939: He spent the winter in Morocco.
  • 1939 :novel, Coming Up For Air was published.
  • 1941 -1943: he worked for the BBC
  • 1943 :became literary editor for the Tribune a left wing magazine
  • 1945  :satire Animal Farm was published
  • 1949 :masterpiece 1984 was published. 
  • 1949 :married his second wife Sonia.
  • 1950 :he was died

Turning points of Fred Hollows

Turning Points: 
 -Holiday job in mental hospital:change to psychology, then medicine.
-Met first wife Mary, came to Australia. 
-Took ophthalmology job in Australia. 
-frank Hardy's talk influenced investigation into Aboriginals' eye disease. 
-A researcher at a party invited him to take medical team to treat eye problems of aboriginal people.

achievements of Fred hollows


*achievements :

  • The title of Australian of the Year was awarded to Fred Hollows in 1990 .
  • He set up a foundation that would continue his work, called the Fred Hollows Foundation.
  • Fred Hollows halved the amount of curable blindness in Australia.
  • He cured more than over a million people throughout the world.
  • He was admitted as Doctor of Medicine honoris causa at the University of NSW.
  • He was also named Eritrea's first honorary citizen.

Wednesday, 26 February 2020

timeline of Fred Follows

  1. 9th of April 1929 : was born in the south of New Zealand
  2. 1942: he joined Palmerston Boys High school
  3. 1958:married his first wife 
  4. 1961: went to Moorfields Eye Hospital in England to study opthalmology
  5. 1965: moved to Australia , he became an associate professor of apthalmology at the University of New  SOUTH Wales in Sydney
  6. 1965–1992: Hollows was chair of the ophthalmology division
  7. 1980:  married  his second wife Gabi Hollows
  8. 1989: he was diagnosed with cancer 
  9. 1992: travelled to Vietnam for the very first time 
  10. 1992: set up the Fred Hollows foundation 
  11. 1993: Fred Hollows died: