Reading Log (Biography)

BIOGRAPHY

 

Name:  Nur Ihsani Jasmine

Id Number: 222122021

Class : A

 

Day 1 Friday Date: 24 February 2023 Time: 19.45-20.05
First Person	LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
His/Her Biography	Ludwig van Beethoven, (baptized Dec. 17, 1770, Bonn, archbishopric of Cologne—died March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria), German composer. Born to a musical family, he was a precociously gifted pianist and violist. After nine years as a court musician in Bonn, he moved to Vienna to study with Joseph Haydn and remained there for the rest of his life. He was soon well known as both a virtuoso and a composer, and he became the first important composer to earn a successful living while forsaking employment in the church or court. He uniquely straddled the Classical and Romantic eras. Rooted in the traditions of Haydn and Mozart, his art also encompassed the new spirit of humanism expressed in the works of German Romantic writers as well as in the ideals of the French Revolution, with its passionate concern for the freedom and dignity of the individual. His astonishing Third (Eroica) Symphony (1804) was the thunderclap that announced the Romantic century, and it embodies the titanic but rigorously controlled energy that was the hallmark of his style. He began to lose his hearing from c. 1795; by c. 1819 he was totally deaf. For his last 15 years he was unrivaled as the world’s most famous composer. In musical form he was a considerable innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto, and string quartet. His greatest achievement was to raise instrumental music, hitherto considered inferior to vocal, to the highest plane of art. His works include the celebrated 9 symphonies; 16 string quartets; 32 piano sonatas; the opera Fidelio (1805, rev. 1814); 2 masses, including the Missa Solemnis (1823); 5 piano concertos; a violin concerto (1806); 6 piano trios; 10 violin sonatas; 5 cello sonatas; and several concert overtures.
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ludwig-van-Beethoven
The Amount of Words on Text	978 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	I’m interested in his creation, especially in classical music. I really like one of his songs. The title is Fur Elise. Because the song is very awesome and very unique I’ve ever listened to. So that’s why I’m curious about his background and his life story.
Comment After Reading	I don’t have any comment.
New Vocabularies Found	Incipient, stringently, assertion, patronage, flemish, endowed, clergy.

 

Day 1 Friday Date: 24 February 2023 Time: 20.05-20.45
Second Person	LEONARDO DA VINCI
His/Her Biography	Leonardo da Vinci, (born April 15, 1452, Anchiano, Republic of Florence—died May 2, 1519, Cloux, France), Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, draftsman, architect, engineer, and scientist.   The son of a landowner and a peasant, Leonardo received training in painting, sculpture, and mechanical arts as an apprentice to Andrea del Verrocchio. In 1482 he entered the service of the duke of Milan as “painter and engineer.” During his 17 years in Milan, Leonardo completed six artworks, including The Virgin of the Rocks (1483–86) and one of his most famous works, the monumental wall painting Last Supper (1495–98) in the refectory of the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie. About 1490 Leonardo began a project of writing treatises on the “science of painting,” architecture, mechanics, and anatomy. His numerous surviving manuscripts are noted for being written in a backward script that requires a mirror to be read.   In 1502–03, as military architect and engineer for Cesare Borgia, Leonardo helped lay the groundwork for modern cartography. During the next five years in Florence (1503–08) he began another famous piece, the Mona Lisa (c. 1503–19). Leonardo then returned to Milan, where he created very little as a painter—but his scientific work flourished. In 1516, after an interlude under Medici patronage in Rome, he entered the service of Francis I of France; he never returned to Italy.   Though only some 17 completed paintings survive, they are universally seen as masterpieces. The power of The Last Supper comes in part from its masterly composition. In the Mona Lisa the features and symbolic overtones of the subject achieve a complete synthesis. The unique fame that Leonardo enjoyed in his lifetime and that, filtered by historical criticism, has remained largely intact to the present day rests on his unlimited desire for knowledge, a trait that guided all his thinking and behaviour.
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci
The Amount of Words on Text	880 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	Everyone knows about one of his creations, that is Monalisa. But everyone didn’t know who is the creator of that painting. I like Monalisa’s painting because the painting looks real. I can say it’s a perfect painting. So that’s why I want to know more about him.
Comment After Reading	I don’t have any comment.
New Vocabularies Found	Interlude, peasant, landowner, patronage.

 

Day 2 Saturday Date: 25 February 2023 Time: 08.36-08.50
Third Person	ALBERT EINSTEIN
His/Her Biography	Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Ger.—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, N.J., U.S.), German-born Swiss-U.S. scientist. Born to a Jewish family in Germany, he grew up in Munich, and in 1894 he moved to Aarau, Switz. He attended a technical school in Zürich (graduating in 1900) and during this period renounced his German citizenship; stateless for some years, he became a Swiss citizen in 1901. Einstein became a junior examiner (or clerk) at the Swiss patent office in 1902 and began producing original theoretical work that laid many of the foundations for 20th-century physics. He received his doctorate from the University of Zürich in 1905, the same year he won international fame with the publication of four articles: one on Brownian motion, which he explained in terms of molecular kinetic energy; one on the photoelectric effect, in which he demonstrated the particle nature of light; and two on his special theory of relativity, the second of which included his formulation of the equivalence of mass and energy (E = mc2). Einstein held several professorships before becoming director of Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in 1913. In 1915 he published his general theory of relativity, which was confirmed experimentally during a solar eclipse in 1919 with observations of the deflection of light passing near the Sun. He received a Nobel Prize in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect, his work on relativity still being controversial. For decades he sought to discover the mathematical relationship between electromagnetism and gravitation, which he believed would be a first step toward discovering the common laws governing the behaviour of everything in the universe, but such a unified field theory eluded him. His theories of relativity and gravitation represented a profound advance over Newtonian physics and revolutionized scientific and philosophical inquiry. He resigned his position at the Prussian Academy when Adolf Hitler came to power and moved to Princeton, N.J., where he joined the Institute for Advanced Study. Though a longtime pacifist, he was instrumental in persuading Pres. Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 to initiate the Manhattan Project for the production of an atomic bomb, a technology his own theories greatly furthered, though he did not work on the project himself. Einstein became a U.S. citizen in 1940 but retained his Swiss citizenship. The most eminent scientist in the world in the postwar years, he declined an offer to become the first prime minister of Israel and became a strong advocate for nuclear disarmament.
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Einstein
The Amount of Words on Text	1.345 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	There are many quotes from him. Every quote inspired me. According to his biography, he loved physics and math so much. As long as I know that everyone didn’t like both subjects, why he did love them? Even though he became a scientist. So, that’s why I want to know more about him.
Comment After Reading	I don’t have any comment.
New Vocabularies Found	Equivalence, eluded, profound, inquiry, disarmament.

 

Day 2 Saturday Date: 25 February 2023 Time: 08.50-09.30
Fourth Person	WESTLIFE
His/Her Biography	Westlife is Kian Egan, Markus Feehily (known as Mark), Nicky Byrne, and Shane Filan. Described as one of the most successful musical groups of all time, they originate from Sligo and Dublin in Ireland. The story of Westlife begins a long, long time ago (well, back in the 1990s!) in a town named Sligo in the west of Ireland. Three guys named Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Shane Filan performed in their school musical Grease together. After their success on stage, they decided to form a band. The band’s name? Initially they were known as ‘6 as 1’, then ‘I.O.YOU’. The band released their first single in April 1999 and after more than twenty years they’re still going strong. Their number-one-charting comeback album Spectrum was released in November 2019, and their twelfth album, Wild Dreams, was released in November 2021. I.O.YOU released a single “Together Girl Forever” in Ireland in 1997. After some success, Shane Filan’s mother, Mae Filan, contacted the manager of the established Irish pop band Boyzone, Louis Walsh, to persuade him to look at the group and sign them up. Although Louis felt he didn’t have the time to manage yet another band, luckily for us, Ronan Keating (of chart-topping boyband Boyzone) stepped in. Ronan agreed to co-manage the new band with Louis, and ‘Rolo Management’ (named after Ronan and Louis) was formed. The group was now known as Westside – their name was reportedly changed by Ronan who felt that I.O.YOU was too boyband-esque. Why the name ‘Westside’? Because three of the group (Kian, Mark, and Shane) were from the west side of Ireland. Westside supported US pop group Backstreet Boys at their show in Dublin and then toured the UK and Ireland with Irish boyband Boyzone in November 1998. The band stunned audiences on the Smash Hits Tour around the UK, winning “Best New Tour Act” at the Smash Hits Awards in November 1998. Early in 1999 the group discovered a number of existing bands shared the name ‘Westside’. As a result the name of the band was changed again, this time to the name we know today – ‘Westlife‘.  Westlife went on to release their first single Swear it Again in April 1999. The single went straight to the top of the British and Irish charts, becoming the biggest-selling debut single ever in Ireland.
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Sources	https://www.westlifeweb.com/about-westlife/
The Amount of Words on Text	560 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	I love music so much. Westlife has many songs. I’m curious about their life, especially about their career and their songs. All I know is just their songs without knowing who they are. So that’s why I want to know about them more.
Comment After Reading	There is a lot of new information after I read their biography, such as about the name of group which was changed several times, they had won awards, and so on.
New Vocabularies Found	Subsequent, established, gained, massive, amicable.

 

Day 3 Monday Date: 27 February 2023 Time: 07.45-08.50
Fifth Person	THOMAS STANLEY HOLLAND
His/Her Biography	Thomas Stanley Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor. His accolades include a British Academy Film Award, three Saturn Awards, a Guinness World Record and an appearance on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list. Some publications have called him one of the most popular actors of his generation.  Holland's career began at age nine when he enrolled in a dancing class, where a choreographer noticed him and arranged for him to audition for a role in Billy Elliot the Musical at London's Victoria Palace Theatre. After two years of training, he secured a supporting part in 2008 and was upgraded to the title role that year, which he played until 2010. Holland made his film debut in the disaster drama The Impossible (2012) as a teenage tourist trapped in a tsunami, for which he received a London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year. After this, Holland decided to pursue acting as a full-time career, appearing in How I Live Now (2013) and playing historical figures in the film In the Heart of the Sea (2015) and the miniseries Wolf Hall (2015).  Holland achieved international recognition playing Spider-Man/Peter Parker in six Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero films, beginning with Captain America: Civil War (2016). The following year, Holland received the BAFTA Rising Star Award and later became the youngest actor to play a title role in an MCU film in Spider-Man: Homecoming. The sequels Far From Home (2019) and No Way Home (2021) each grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, and the latter became the highest-grossing film of the year. During this period, Holland gained recognition for playing darker roles in the crime dramas The Devil All the Time (2020) and Cherry (2021). Holland has additionally directed the short film Tweet (2015) and voiced roles in computer-animated features, including Onward (2020).
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Sources	https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Holland
The Amount of Words on Text	678 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	He is an actor. When I started to watch marvel and I started to watch spiderman, I love him at first sight. He is really handsome. I also love his act as a spiderman, with natural gestures and so on. That’s why I want to know more about him.
Comment After Reading	I got some new information about his life, which surprised me.
New Vocabularies Found	Accolades, grossed, stunts, preparatory.

 

Day 3 Monday Date: 27 February 2023 Time: 19.56-21.00
Sixth Person	PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER
His/Her Biography	Pramoedya Ananta Toer was a Javanese novelist and short-story writer who wrote his first published novel, Perburuan (1950), during a two-year term in a Dutch prison camp. Pramoedya produced a stream of novels and short stories after Indonesian independence, including Keluarga gerilja, Mereka jang dilumpuhkan, Subuh, Pertjikan revolusi, and Tjerita dari Blora. His prose style incorporated Javanese everyday speech and images. By the late 1950s Pramoedya had become sympathetic toward the Indonesian Communist Party, and after 1958 he abandoned fiction for essays and cultural criticism that reflect a left-wing viewpoint. By 1962 he had become closely aligned with communist-sponsored cultural groups. As a result, he was jailed by the army in the course of its bloody suppression of a communist coup in 1965. During his imprisonment he wrote a series of four historical novels that further enhanced his reputation. Two of these, Bumi manusia (1980; This Earth of Mankind) and Anak semua bangsa (1980; Child of All Nations), met with great critical and popular acclaim in Indonesia after their publication, but the government subsequently banned them from circulation, and the last two volumes of the tetralogy, Jejak langkah (1985; Footsteps) and Rumah kaca (1988; House of Glass), had to be published abroad. These late works comprehensively depict Javanese society under Dutch colonial rule in the early 20th century. In contrast to Pramoedya’s earlier works, they were written in a plain, fast-paced narrative style.
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pramoedya-Ananta-Toer
The Amount of Words on Text	688 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	He is famous because of his books. One of his books is titled “Bumi Manusia” which was adapted into a movie. But I’ve never read his book, I only knew him a little bit. I often read his wise quotes. His quotes really inspired me. So, that’s why I want to know him more.
Comment After Reading	Now I know some new facts about him that make me admire him even more.
New Vocabularies Found	Preeminent, typist, arrested, chronicles, depicts, strains, imprisonment,

 

Day 4 Tuesday Date: 28 February 2023 Time: 16.10-16.58
Seventh Person	MAHER ZAIN
His/Her Biography	When Maher Zain was eight years old, his Lebanese family moved to Sweden. There, he finished his education and earned his bachelor's in aeronautical engineering. He started working in Sweden's music industry after graduating from college, and in 2005 he teamed up with RedOne, a Swedish producer of Moroccan descent. Zain followed RedOne to New York in 2006 to pursue his career in the music business there, producing for artists including Kat DeLuna. He opted to abandon a career as a music producer upon his return to Sweden because he had re-engaged with his Islamic faith, and instead pursue a career as a singer/songwriter of modern R&B music with a significant Muslim religious influence. Maher Zain released his debut album Thank You Allah in 2009 with 13 songs and two bonus tracks. He quickly gained a huge online following and was the most Googled celebrity in Malaysia for that year. The album has been certified multiple platinum by Warner Music Malaysia and Sony Music Indonesia and became the highest selling album of 2010 in Malaysia. Zain sings mainly in English but has released some of his most popular songs in other languages. He has performed concerts around the world and has fan clubs in several countries. He took part in the judging committee of the Awakening Talent Contest to choose Awakening Records' new star in 2013.
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Sources	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Zain
The Amount of Words on Text	973 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	Masyaa Allah, He is an Islamic singer. I love most of his songs because every song is very meaningful and makes me want to come closer to Allah.
Comment After Reading	I’m so proud of him because indirectly he was da'wah through song lyrics.
New Vocabularies Found	Aired, concurrent.

 

Day 4 Tuesday Date: 28 February 2023 Time: 21.15-21.50
Eighth Person	ERNEST PRAKARSA
His/Her Biography	Ernest Prakasa is a multitalented figure. If we read Ernest Prakasa's bio, we will find the fact that apart from being a comedian, he is also a writer, actor, and presenter. Even though he was disappointed because he was only ranked 3rd in the SUCI Kompas TV 2012 event, his debut stand-up comedy tour entitled Merem Melek (2012) was a huge success, and his name as an Indonesian comedian skyrocketed.  Ernest Prakasa is an Indonesian citizen of ethnic Chinese descent who was born and raised in Jakarta. However, being born of ethnic descent does not make the man born January 29, 1982 feel less nationalist. Being born in this country made him feel the same as his native friends. But his assumption is not in line with reality. His childhood was marked by unpleasant experiences. He admits that when he was little, it was very difficult for him to blend in with the natives. Not because he is anti-social. Or people who only want to mingle with fellow ethnic Chinese, but the indigenous people around them are difficult to approach. Even so, he wanted to mingle with them. Talking about Ernest Prakasa's profile regarding films, Meira's husband can be said to be successful. How could it not be, initially, he only played extra roles in the films Make Money (2013) and I Chase Love in China (2014). So. he was made the main character in the film Ngenest The Movie (2012), which was also taken from his book of the same name. Due to his success in directing a film, the offer to act also added to the long list of films in Ernest Prakasa's profile. Until finally, he was given responsibility as a director and writer in Cek Toko Secepat (2012) and Stip dan Pencil (2017).
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Sources	https://www.kepogaul.com/seleb/biodata-ernest-prakasa/
The Amount of Words on Text	969 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	Ernest is the best director for me because he made a lot of movies that were related to our real life. Most of his movies are talked about family life which has deep meaning. I as a viewer often feel sad when I watch the movie and also I like his jokes due to his work as a comedian.
Comment After Reading	I don’t have any comments.
New Vocabularies Found	Skyrocketed, descent, mingle.