Group1

Welcome to group one's page with Amira Alloo, Amy Jones, Emily Horsewood and Sophie O'Driscoll.

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Arts: Derek Walcott - St Lucia (Amy) Leadership: Sir Seretse Khama - Botswana (Sophie) Science and Technology: George Astaphan - St Kitts (Amira) Sport: Frankie Frederricks - Namibia (Emily)


 * Name || Famous for || Achievement || Influences or motivation || Legacy ||
 * Frankie Frederricks || Sprinting || Namibia's first person to win medals. Four silver medals, won gold medals too. ||  ||   ||
 * Seretse Khama || First President of Botswana || He got knighted ||  ||   ||
 * George Astaphan || Physician- he became infamous for different reasons. || No achievements. He became famous for issuing steroids to an athlete. ||  ||   ||
 * Derek Walcott || Poem writing || Nobel prize for Literature, and founding theaters ||  ||   ||

Arts: Derek Walcoot Derek born on January 23, 1930. He won a Nobel prize for literature, and he is a poet. The most famous poem he wrote was an epic poem called Omeros, which he wrote it in 1990. It is a retelling of the story of the Odyssey. He also founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop (1959), and Boston Playwrights Theatre (1981). Posted by Amy Jones

Leadership: <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Sir Seretse Khama <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Seretse was born on the 1st of July 1921 and died 13th July 1980. He founded the Botswana Democratic Party in 1962, also he became Prime Minister in 1965. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">﻿Posted by sophie o'driscoll

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">Science and Technology: <span style="color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">George Astaphan <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Born in St Kitts on May 22nd 1946 Dr George Astaphan attended university in Canada where he studied where he received a BSc <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">degree from Sir George Williams University (1967) and then graduated from University of Torontos faculty of medicine (1967). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In 1988 George was accused of directing Stanozolol (a type of steroid in form of a tablet) to the sprinter Ben Johnson. This drug <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">is banned from use in sporting competitions due to the side effects, it is thought to be cheating. George returned home <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(from Canada) to St Kitts, where he soon died in 2006 of a heart attack. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Posted by Amira Alloo

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Sport: <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Frankie Frederricks <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Frankie was born on October 2nd 1967. He ran the 100m 200m and won four silver medals at the Olympic games, two <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">in 1992 and the other two in 1996. Also he won some gold medal at the world championships, Africa games and the commonwealth games. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Posted by Emily Horsewood

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