Eleanor Harding
1934 - 1996

   In 1934, 
  Eleanor was born on Erub Island in the Torres Strait, she was the youngest of four siblings.

Eleanor's father was killed while working on a pearl lugger when she was eight years old, and she lost her mother she moved from the islands to live with her grandmother. They lived in several Aboriginal communities around Cape York, before settling at the Bloomfield River Mission.



1956,
 Eleanor moved to Melbourne in the hope that she might give her children a better life.
She settled in Fitzroy, where Aboriginal families occupied many of the suburb's boarding houses and flats. Eleanor quickly ingratiated herself with the poor but close-knit community.
She participated locals socialised at fortnightly dances held at Collingwood Town Hall,  with a group known as the Fitzroy Dancing Girls.


Eleanor poured her energy into achieving a better deal for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. She was especially passionate about women's issues and education.She opened her heart to the most neglected, regularly visiting Aboriginal men and women incarcerated in Melbourne's prisons. She would bring them supplies of coffee and biscuits, paid for out of her own pocket, as well as a sympathetic ear.


In1960s, Eleanor was involved in a national campaign to secure equal rights for Indigenous Australians, as a member of the Aborigines Advancement League and the Victorian branch of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI). She was part of the latter's push for constitutional change, which resulted in the 1967 Referendum.

She was a supporter of Abschol, a program set up in the 1960s to raise money for scholarships for Aboriginal students, which later evolved into the federal Abstudy scheme. All Eleanor's children went on to complete higher education with her encouragement and support many of them are high profile figures in the arts and Aboriginal affairs today.Despite having left school at a young age, Eleanor recognised the value of education.


In the 1967 Referendum. Eleanor sold badges and distributed pamphlets to educate the public on what the vote's success would mean. It proved a symbolic win in the long-fought battle for Indigenous rights.


In 1970, Eleanor was an executive member of the National Aboriginal and Islander, Women's Council. She participated with the busloads of women to travel to Sydney and in a peaceful protest to highlight what the historic moment meant for Indigenous Australians.

 In 1972, Eleanor travelled with a group to Canberra in support the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.


In 1978, Eleanor joined the Victorian Department of Community Services where she worked principally with victims of domestic violence. As she was concerned about homelessness among young Aboriginal women.

In 1983, Eleanor joined with others to set up the Margaret Tucker Hostel, she worked there voluntarily until ongoing government funding was secured.



In 1992, she helped establish the Victorian Wongai Torres Strait Islander. She was a valued founding member of the Victorian Aboriginal Catholic Council. She did an effective and significant role in the Indigenous rights movement in Victoria.


In 1996, Eleanor passed away and she was buried on Erub Island.


Her message was a simple but potent one: "respect each other and be proud of who you are".

Martin Luther King, Time line

Martin Luther King Time Line:

In 1929,
was born in Atlanta, Georgia, In the deep of the USA, where the segregation of
 black people and white people was a way of life.

In 1955,
 when a woman called Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to move to
the white woman on a bus and was arrested. Hence, that led to a far greater role for him in fighting racial injustice an became a leader of his people across the nation; his first step toward the racism issues in responding to that incident, he led a bus boycott in Montgomery which successfully led to a change in the law about the segregated setting.

In1963,
 Martin Luther King organised the largest rally when 200 000 people marched together through Washington, DC, calling for freedom rides where the particular racial problem located. And he named 'Time Magazine's Man' of the year.

In 1964,
 Martin Luther King received the Nobel Peace Prize.



In the 1950s -1960s,
 Martin Luther King was the leader of Civil Rights Movement against racism

In 1968,
 In the USA, was shot dead at the age of 39 by Janes Earl Ray, a white ex-convicted.

Turning Points:

• Whilst at university Nelson Mandela became increasingly aware of the unjust nature of South African Society. The majority of Black South Africans had little opportunities either Economic or Political.
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• In 1960 the Sharpeville massacre of 63 black South African’s as South Africa was increasingly isolated on the international scene and the government banned the ANC. This led Mandela to advocate armed struggle through the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK).
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• His advocacy of reconciliation led to international acclaim and importantly the trust of the White African population.
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Achievement:

•    Mandela  finished his degree and he was qualified as a Lawyer.
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•    In 1952 Mandela and Tambo opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa.
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• In 1944 Mandela helped found the ANC Youth League, whose Programme of Action was adopted by the ANC in 1949. Mandela was instrumental in pushing the ANC into more direct action
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Noble prize





Time Line:

• How often have kids experienced some sort of bullying on Internet?

        Cyberbullying can invade the personal space of the kids, also can be hurtful, by giving                a hard time. It's easy to pick any kids by someone, and type some nasty words, name               calling, teasing or mocking

• What bullying is higher - the cyber bullying or school bullying?
• Cyber bullying is worse and higher than school bullying.
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• What does cyberbullying include?
•  instant messaging, e-mail, chat rooms or social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to harass, threaten or intimidate someone.Also, someone might be watching and recording everything. And kids can do bock to bullying person.
• How do the bullied kids feel?
• The bullied kids feel alone and overwhelmed, afraid, feeling unsafe, verbal abuse, put down and belittle, threaten and powerless to stop the bullying.
• How many kids have reported cyber bullying to adults?
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• What help has been provided for cyber bullying?
• Specific websites listen to the complaint and take action, as they ready to protect their users
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• How do kids deal with the negative emotions as a result of cyber bullying?

Open the English Grammar in the class blog 

• Practise one grammar aspect 
• Record the aspect and comment how useful it was
• . The blog helps students at English as the second language, to improve their English language skills and the grammar as well.

I have enjoyed to practice the simple present, and the simple past.

2. Search on Internet for another English grammar website

• save it on your smart phone

• what exercises you did
• I did " Breaking News English', was about 'Spain to replace the USA as second Most Popular Tourism.  
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• what you liked about the website
• I liked the website and its rich knowledge that I learned about the tourism. Also, I learned which are the most popular tourist country in the world. As well as, how well-ordered through facts and figures shows an effective research and confident statistics have been done.
• what you did not like the website
• No comments.
• what part of the website you would you like to use another time
• English grammar website, as it's very important to me, to improve my writing skills.
• how you would rate the program out of 10 (10 being the best)
• I will rate this website  (8 out of 10).

• Do many people agree to terms and conditions without reading them?
• Yes, I think the majority do agree to terms and conditions without reading them.
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• What happens when you click Facebook button?
• It means agreeing to terms and conditions and other many things as well, without actually reading the contents, And giving permission to others to collect and use the private personal information.
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• Why are kids under 13 banned from most social media sites? 
•  The kids under 13 banned from most social media sites, because they are unable to make an effective decision, and don't understand what personal information they should keep private due personal protection. 
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• What is the reason for that restriction?
• The restriction is sort of protection to keep the kids in safe.
• How some kids under 13 still use the sites?
•  The kids under 13 years given a false age, to use the social media sites.
• What is the best way to protect children?
• Teach them from an early age how to stay safe and private online.
• Give examples for this?
• - Asking before tagging someone in pictures or videos.
• - Not revealing personal information.
• - The kids must recognise other,s opinion may be different to their opinions
• - The kids should understand that, they might be watching and recording every things by someone they don't know.