Murray Halberg was almost killed in an accident while playing football.
(a) Who is Murray Halberg? How old was he when the accident happened?
(b) How bad was the accident?
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(a) Describe the situation that led the crocodile to attack Graham. (Word limit: 50-75)
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(6) Describe how Nicola and Jacopo sacrificed themselves to look after their sister.
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11. Wangari Maathai was an environmentalist who believed that it is everyone's responsibil-
ity to make our world greener. Explain how students can play major roles in promoting a
'greener world.
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a. No-one ever exemplified the Olympic spirit of triumphing over adversity better then Murray Halberg. He was so badly injured while playing rugby when he was 17 that at one point his life was despaired of.
Birth Place: Eketahuna
Born: 1933
b. Playing rugby as a 17-year-old, New Zealand runner Murray Halberg injured his left shoulder in a tackle; his left arm was paralysed. Contact sports were now out of the question, but he was still able to run, holding his limp left arm “tucked up, pumping myself along with my right.” (A Clean Pair of Heels, 24) His local running coach saw Halberg’s potential, so he asked Arthur Lydiard to take over the coaching. Lydiard, who had not yet achieved his worldwide reputation, saw “astonishing tenacity” in his new pupil. (Arthur Lydiard, Master Coach, 43)
10. a.Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both /krɒkəˈdɪliə/) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period (Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living relatives of birds, as the two groups are the only known survivors of the Archosauria. Members of the order's total group, the clade Pseudosuchia, appeared about 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic period, and diversified during the Mesozoic era. The order Crocodilia includes the true crocodiles (family Crocodylidae), the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), and the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae). Although the term 'crocodiles' is sometimes used to refer to all of these, crocodilians is a less ambiguous vernacular term for members of this group.
11. Wangari Maathai, Kenya's foremost environmentalist and women's rights advocate, founded the Green Belt Movement on Earth Day, 1977, encouraging the farmers (70 percent of whom are women) to plant “Green Belts” to stop soil erosion, provide shade, and create a source of lumber and firewood.