Reading Log (BIOGRAPHY)
Day 1 Saturday Date : February 24, 2024 | |
First Person | Lionel Messi |
His/Her biography | Lionel Messi is a football player from Argentina who plays for Inter Miami. He was born in 1987 in Rosario, Argentina. He has won the Ballon D’Or, the annual award given to the best player in the world, 8 times, 2022 FIFA World Cup winner and an Olympic gold medal winner in 2008. He showed an enormous aptitude for football and was in the youth teams for Newell’s Old Boys, his local team. Faced with mounting medical expenses to treat a growth hormone condition, Messi’s family accepted an over to move the 13-year-old prodigy to FC Barcelona, who would pay for his treatment. Messi has gone on to become one of the most decorated players in football history and has broken countless records for his club and his country. |
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| Source | https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2177779/bio/ |
The amount of words on text | 641 words |
What makes you interested in this person | of course because he’s my idol, the one and only. |
Comment after reading | I got to know more about his degree. |
New Vocabularies found | - |
Time | 20.06-20.14 |
Second Person | Neymar da Silva Santos Junior Neymar da Silva Santos Junior also known as Neymar JR was born on February 5, 1992, in Mogi das cruzes, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The son of a former professional soccer player, Neymar followed in his father’s footsteps by playing street games and futsal, an indoor version of the game. He joined the Purtuguesa Santista youth club in 1999, and within a few years was one of the most highly regarded young talents in the country. Neymar joined the youth system of Santos FC at age 11. News of his abilities spread to Europe, and he was offered the chance to continue his development with Real Madrid at age 14, but the santos team’s management reportedly convinced Neymar to stay put with a large bonus. After years of a career in Europe, he now plays for a club from Saudi Arabia, Al Hilal. |
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Sources | https://www.biography.com/athletes/neymar |
The amount of words on text | 362 words |
What makes you interested in this person | cause he’s one of my favorite football players, and i just want to find out more about him. |
Comment after reading | it’s interesting enough to read what his biography is like |
New Vocabularies found | - |
Day 2 Monday Date : February 26, 2024 | ||
First Person | Elon Musk | |
His/Her biography | Elon Musk was born in june 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. South Africa-born American entrepreneur who cofounded the electronic payment firm PayPal and formed SpaceX, maker of launch vehicles and spacecraft. He was also one of the first significant investors in, as well as chief executive officer of, the electric car manufacturer Tesla. In addition, Musk acquired Twitter (later X) in 2022. Musk was born to a south African father and a Canadian mother. He displayed an early talent for computers and entrepreneurship . At age 12 he created a video game and sold it to a computer magazine. Jn 1988, after obtaining a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa because he was unwilling to support apart his through compulsory military service and because he sought the greater economic opportunities available in the United States. | |
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Sources | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elon-Musk | |
The amount of words on text | 526 words | |
What makes you interested in this person | because i use his app, which is X. not only because of that, but also because i like his work. | |
Comment after reading | wow, one word i can say after reading elon musk’s biography, never thought at the age of 12 he could already make video game. I have been using PayPal, and I just found out that elon musk is the founder of PayPal. | |
New Vocabularies found | enrolled (terdaftar) | |
Time | 16.04-16.11 | |
Second Person | Rolihlahla Mandela was born into the Madiba clan in the village of Mvezo, in the Eastern Cape, on July 18, 1918. His mother was Nonqaphi Nosekeni and his father Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela, principal counsellor to the Acting King of the Thembu people, Jongintaba Dalindyebo. In 1930, when he was 12 years old, his father died and the young Rolihlahla became a ward of Jongintaba at the Great Place in Mqhekezweni. He attended primary school in Qunu where his teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave him the name ‘Nelson’, in accordance with the custom of giving all schoolchildren “Christian” names. Mandela began his studies for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University College of Fort Hare but did not complete the degree there as he was expelled for joining in a student protest. He did his articles through a firm of attorneys - Witkin, Eidelman and Sidelsky. He completed his BA through yhe University of South Africa and went back to Fort Hare for his graduation in 1943. | |
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Sources | https://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biography | |
The amount of words on text | 393 words | |
What makes you interested in this person | To be honest, i don’t know why. On the second day, he was one of the people could i think of to read his biography. | |
Comment after reading | Nelson Mandela’s life journey was very long, he really went through a lot of things. | |
New Vocabularies found | firm (perusahaan) attorneys (pengacara) | |
Day 3 Tuesday Date : February 27, 2024 | |
First Person | Tom Cruise |
His/Her biography | Tom Cruise was born in July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, United States. Tom is the only son (among four children) of nomadic parents, Mary Lee a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. His parents were both from Louisville, Kentucky, and he has German, Irish, and English ancestry. Young Tom spent his time he was 14 he had attended 15 different schools in the U.S. and Canada. He made his film debut with a small part in Endless Love (1981) and from the outset exhibited an undeniable box office appeal to both male and female audiences. With handsome movie star looks and a charismatic smile, within 5 years Tom Cruise was starring in some of the top-grossing films of the 1980s including Top Gun (1986); The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), By the 1990s he was one of the highest-paid actors in the world earning an average 15 million dollars. |
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Sources | https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129/bio/ |
The amount of words on text | 479 words |
What makes you interested in this person | because he’s my only favorite actor. |
Comment after reading | with his amazing acting and i liked him since i was watched the movie “mission impossible”, obviously he deserves to be the highest paid actor in the world at his time. |
New Vocabularies found | undeniable (tak terbantahkan) |
Time | 21.36-21.43 |
Second Person | Christopher “Chris” Hemsworth was born on August 11, 1983 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Leonie Hemsworth, an English Teacher and Craig Hemsworth, a social services counselor. His brothers are actors, Liam Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth; he is of Dutch (from his immigrant maternal grandfather) Irish, English, Scottish, and German ancestry. His uncle, by marriage, was Rod Ansell, the bushman who inspired the comedy film Crocodile Dundee (1986). In 2004, he unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Robbie Hunter in the Australian soap opera home and away (1988) but was recalled for the role of Kim Hyde which he played until 2007. In 2006, he entered the Australian version of dancing with the stars (2004) and his popularity in the soap enable him to hang on until show 7 (Episode #5.7 (2006)) when he became the fifth contestant to be eliminated. His first hollywood appearance was in the science fiction blockbuster Star Trek (2009) but it was his titular role in the superhero blockbuster Thor (2011) which propelled him to prominence worldwide. He reprised the character in the superhero blockbuster Avengers Assemble (2012), Thor : The Dark World (2013), Avengers : Age of Ultron (2015), Thor : Ragnarok (2017), Avengers : Infinity War (2018), Avengers : Endgame (2019). |
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Sources | https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1165110/bio/ |
The amount of words on text | 292 words |
What makes you interested in this person | Because in the Avengers movie i liked his role as Thor. |
Comment after reading | I really just found out that he was born in Australia, I thought he was American. That’s the importance of reading. |
New Vocabularies found | propelled |
Day 4 Wednesday Date : February 28, 2024 | |
First Person | Dwayne Johnson ‘The Rock’ |
His/Her biography | Dwayne Douglas Johnson was also known as The Rock, was born on May 2, 1972 in Hayward, California. He is the son of Ata Johnson and professional wrestler Rocky Johnson. His father, from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, is black and his mother is of Samoan background. While growing up, Dwayne traveled around a lot with his parents and watched his father perform in the ring. During his high school years, Dwayne began playing football and he soon received a full scholarship from the University of Miami, where he had tremendous success as a football player. In 1996, Dwayne joined the WWE and became Rocky Maivia where he joined a group known as “The Nation of Domination” and turned heel, Rocky eventually took over leadership of the “Nation” and began taking the persona of The Rock. In 2000, The Rock took time of from WWE to film his appearance in The Mummy Returns (2001). Dwayne has a daughter, Simone Alexandra Johnson, born in 2001, with his ex-wife Dany Garcia, and daughters, Jasmine born in 2015, and Tiana Gia, born in 2018, with his wife singer and songwriter Lauren Hashian. |
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Sources | https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425005/bio/ |
The amount of words on text | 340 words |
What makes you interested in this person | because I once played the game “WWE”, and he was my favorite character. |
Comment after reading | I truly just found out that he was once a footballer. |
New Vocabularies found | |
Time | 19.36-20.01 |
Second Person | Robert Downey Jr. was born on April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York. The son of writer, director and filmographer Robert Downey Sr. and actress Elsie Downey. Robert’s father is of half Lithuanian Jewish, one quarter Hungarian Jewish, and one quarter Irish, descent, while Robert’s mother was of English, Scottish, German, and Swiss-German ancestry. Robert and his sister, Allyson Downey, were immersed in film and the performing arts from a very young age, leading Downey Jr. to study at the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York, before moving to California with his father following his parents’ 1978 divorce. In 1982, he dropped out pf Santa Monica high school to pursue acting full time. Downey Jr. made his debut as an actor at the age of five in the film Pound (1970) written and directed by his father. He built his film repertoire throughout the 1980s and 1990s with roles in Tuff Turf (1985), Weird Science (1985), among many others. In 1992, Downey received an Academy Award nomination and won the BAFTA (British Academy Award) for the best actor for his performance in the tittle role of Chaplin (1992). In 2001, Downey made his prime-time television debut when he joined the cast of the Fox-Tv series Ally Mcbeal (1997) as attorney “Larry Paul”. For this role, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Comedy Series. In 2005, Downey Jr. married Susan Downey, with whom he has two childrens. Downey also has another son, Indio Falconer Downey, born 1993, from his first marriage to Deborah Falconer, from whom he was officially divorced in 2004. Robert has jump-started the team Downey Production Company with wife Susan Downey. Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the bussiness. |
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Sources | https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000375/bio/ |
The amount of words on text | 1245 words |
What makes you interested in this person | because i really liked it when he played “Iron Man” |
Comment after reading | just wow, there are so many movies he has played in. |
New Vocabularies found | attorney (pengacara) suspenseful (menegangkan) versatility (keserbagunaan) |
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