Reading Log : Biography

Day 1 Thursday Date  : February 27th, 2020 Time : 12.56 – 13.02
First Person	Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
His/Her biography	B. J. Habibie, Indonesian aircraft engineer and politician who was president of Indonesia (1998–99) and a leader in the country’s technological and economic development in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Brilliant in science and mathematics from childhood, Habibie received his postsecondary education at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia, and furthered his studies at the Institute of Technology of North Rhine–Westphalia in Aachen, West Germany. After graduating in 1960, he remained in West Germany as an aeronautics researcher and production supervisor.
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/B-J-Habibie
The amount of words on text	600 words
What makes you interested in this person	Because, he inpire me so much especially his struggle in education and effort to dedicate to Indonesia
Comment after reading	He is really passionate in his fields of study.
New Vocabularies Found	Aeronautics, spawn, enterprises, withdrew.

Time	13.05 – 13.29
Second Person His/Her biography	Ibnu Sina/Avicenna Ibn Sina also known as "Avicenna" in the Western world is a Persian-born philosopher, scientist, and doctor. He is also a prolific writer whose works are mostly about philosophy and medicine. For many people, he is the "Father of Modern Medicine" Ibn Sina was indeed a true polymath with his contributions ranging from medicine, psychology and pharmacology to geology, physics, astronomy, chemistry and philosophy. He was also a poet, an Islamic scholar and theologian
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Avicenna/Legacy
The amount of words on text	2544 words
What makes you interested in this person	Because, he have wrote many kitab and also mastering any kind of field knowledge.
Comment after reading	He is one of the real scientist that Islam have.
New Vocabularies found	Numerous, halcyon, hampered, salubrious, surfeit.

Day 2 Friday Date  : February 28th, 2020 Time : 20.13 – 20.34
First Person	J. K. Rowling
His/Her biography	Joanne Rowling, who goes by the pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author best known for her seven-book Harry Potter book series, which has sold more than 500 million copies and was adapted into a blockbuster film franchise. Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. J.K. Rowling first had the idea for Harry Potter while delayed on a train travelling from Manchester to London King's Cross in 1990. Over the next five years, she began to plan out the seven books of the series. She wrote mostly in longhand and amassed a mountain of notes, many of which were on scraps of paper.
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Sources	http://www.biography.com/writer/jk-rowling/
The amount of words on text	1251 words
What makes you interested in this person	I’m interested to read biography because of her book series, Harry Potter, the stories on her book was really fantastic, so I feel like entering a whole new world full magic.
Comment after reading	The part of her biography that I like the most is her efforts when she struggling in publicating the first book, the first series of Harry Potter, she was rejected 60 times by 13 publisher. I wonder if she stop trying at the 61st, Mega Best Seller Harry Potter would not read by us. So, stop trying until you reach it.
New Vocabularies Found	Reportedly, culminated, installment, Pagford, silkworm, cuckoo, fringe

Time	20.34 – 20.40
Second Person His/Her biography	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born 1949) won election as president of the Republic of Indonesia in October of 2004, thus becoming his country's first directly elected president.
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susilo-Bambang-Yudhoyono
The amount of words on text	617 words
What makes you interested in this person	Firstly, I’m interested when I read the news about Doctor Honoris Cause that he got. So, I decided to read what does mean, and I amazed of that. He have many experience in any other field, beside he became a President of Republic Indonesia.
Comment after reading	Amazing, I want to be like him in experience.
New Vocabularies found	Accustomed, fractious, suicide bombings, lagging.

Time	20.42 – 21.16
Third Person His/Her biography	Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei was born on 15 February 1564 near Pisa, the son of a musician. He began to study medicine at the University of Pisa but changed to philosophy and mathematics. ... In 1592, he moved to become mathematics professor at the University of Padua, a position he held until 1610. Galileo first discovered that the Moon had mountains just like Earth. He also discovered 4 of Jupiter's moons. Using his telescope, Galileo made many observations of our Solar System. He came to believe that the idea that the Sun and other planets orbited around the Earth was not correct.
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei/Telescopic-discoveries
The amount of words on text	3254 words
What makes you interested in this person	When I was child, I got a Compact Disc from one of favorite milk. It contain the video biography of the old scientist and founder of the thing that we us nowadays. And I’m amazed about astronomy and he is one of my favorite scientists.
Comment after reading	That’s really amazing, that the people in the past can found the thing that they haven’t seen before.
New Vocabularies found	Condemned, imprisoned, deemed, secluded.

Day 3 Saturday Date  : February 29th, 2020 Time : 13.13 – 13.42
First Person	Barack Obama
His/Her biography	Barack Obama was the 44th and first African American president of the United States. Because of his biracial background, many Americans of different races identified with him and hoped he could unify America. Barack Obama represents many peoples' hopes and fears about race in America. Some Americans thought that Obama's ascent to the presidency meant that race was becoming less important in America. While many other Americans realized America still had problems with racism, Obama's success still brought incredible joy—many Americans were thrilled that a black man could live in the White House. Still, other Americans found a black president's success threatening.
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Sources	https://www.biography.com/us-president/barack-obama
The amount of words on text	2927 words
What makes you interested in this person	Because, He is the first Afro-American President and also he had live in Indonesia when he was childhood.
Comment after reading	His stories in career was inspired me.
New Vocabularies Found	Considerably, ascent, threatening.

Time	13.43 – 13.52
Second Person His/Her biography	Sapardi Djoko Damono Sapardi Djoko Damono was born in Solo, Central Java, on 20 March 1940, and spent his childhood and adolescent years in his hometown. He studied English literature at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, and has translated many works of fiction and poetry from English into Indonesian.
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Sources	https://peoplepill.com/people/sapardi-djoko-damono/
The amount of words on text	1027 words
What makes you interested in this person	Because, sometime I read books of poem when I need to relaxing mind or finding inspiration. So, his poem is one of my favorite.
Comment after reading	That’s cool, speechless.
New Vocabularies found	Ranging, prominent, popular appeal.

Time	13.52 – 14.07
Third Person His/Her biography	Najib Mahfudz Najib Mahfuz (born 1912) was Egypt's foremost novelist and the first Arab to win the Nobel Prize in literature. He had wide influence in the Arab world and was the author from that area best known to the West in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Naguib-Mahfouz
The amount of words on text	1570 words
What makes you interested in this person	When my elder friend suggest me to know more about him, so I do. And his books was really amazing.
Comment after reading	Amazing, I hope I can be like him.
New Vocabularies found	Throbbing, avowed disciple, tyrannical patriarch.

Day 4 Sunday Date  : February 29th, 2020 Time : 10.03 – 10.07
First Person	Gustav Kirchhoff
His/Her biography	Gustav Robert Kirchhoff is a German physicist who contributed to understanding the basic concepts of the theory of electric circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black body radiation produced by heated objects. He coined the term "black body" radiation in 1862. Kirchhoff's Laws are: A hot solid, liquid or gas, under high pressure, gives off a continuous spectrum. A hot gas under low pressure produces a bright-line or emission line spectrum. A dark line or absorption line spectrum is seen when a source of a continuous spectrum is viewed behind a cool gas under pressure.
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustav-Robert-Kirchhoff
The amount of words on text	372 words
What makes you interested in this person	Because, I usually found his name on the formula in Physics subject when I was High School. So, I curious about who he is.
Comment after reading	I amazed with the way of He learnt about.
New Vocabularies Found	A node, relative excess, loops.

Time	10.08 – 10.18
Second Person His/Her biography	Muawiyah bin Abu Sufyan Muawiya ibn Abu Sufyan was the founder of the Umayyad dynasty of caliphs. His clan, which had resisted Mohammed and his message longest and most vehemently, eventually won political control over the Islamic community. As son of Abu Sufyan, one of the leaders of the Meccan opposition to Mohammed, Muawiya did not adopt Islam until the conquest of Mecca in 630. Muawiya at this time was made secretary to the Prophet, but it was as a warrior in the army sent by the caliph Abu Bakr to conquer Syria that Muawiya first distinguished himself in the Moslem community.
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Sources	https://biography.yourdictionary.com/muawiya-ibn-abu-sufyan
The amount of words on text	990 words
What makes you interested in this person	Because, he is one of famous name on Islamic Cultural History subject in school. So, I curious to read more about his biography.
Comment after reading	The way of He lead the kingdom was so amazing.
New Vocabularies found	Caliphate, regicides, kinsmen, tribesmen.