READING LOG: BIOGRAPHY

Day 1 Friday
Date	February 15th, 2019
Time	22.40-22.57
Name	Emma Watson
Her biography	Emma Watson was born on April 15th, 1990, in Paris, France, but raised in England. Her parents, both British lawyers, are Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson. She has brother, Alex, that 3 years younger than her. She is an actress. She got her breakthrough role as a child in the hugely successful Harry Potter film franchise starts in 2001 when she was 11 years old till 2011. She is also an activist. She became an activist after graduated from Brown in 2014. She was appointed as a UN Goodwill Ambassador and since then, she continuous to speak out for women’s rights and equality till the present time.
Her photo
Sources	https://www.biography.com/people/emma-watson-20660247
The amount of words on text	1132 words
What makes you interested in this person	Because she’s not just a brilliant actress, but also a brilliant activist. She fighting for gender equality by being a UN Goodwill Ambassador and that makes me curious about her.
Comment after reading	Actually, I already like Emma Watson before I read her biography. But after I read it, it makes me more adore her for what her doing and achieve in her life.
New Vocabularies found	Franchise, reprised, perks, reciting, sufficiently, chamber, garnered, decent, stellar, maintained, shed, establish, emerge, catapulted, chopped off, locks, graced, and deferring.

 

Day 1 Saturday
Date	February 16th, 2019
Time	20.10-20.23
Name	Malcolm X
His biography	Malcolm X was born on May 19th, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. He was the fourth of eight children born to Louis, a homemaker, and Earl Little, a preacher who was also an active member of the local chapter of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and avid supporter of black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Malcolm X was a minister, human right activist and prominent black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI) during 1950s and 1960s. On February 21st, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated by men with guns at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where he had been preparing to deliver a speech.
His photo
Sources	https://www.biography.com/people/malcolm-x-9396195
The amount of words on text	1675 words
What makes you interested in this person	Because Malcolm X is one of the people in the world that can change and give a big impact to the world and also because he is a moslem who’s very influence in America.
Comment after reading	After I read his biography, I knew more about him, like hi family background, his school background, and so on. Those things made me more adore him, even I little bit disappointed because he use to follow Elijah Muhammad preaching.
New Vocabularies found	Articulated, mere, passionate, exhorted, shackles, fiery, splinter, encounter, hooded, galloped, brandishing, rifles, municipal, thereby, grief, carpentry, pursuing, plainly, acquainted, pinstriped, lavish, larceny, incarceration, devouring, embraced, pierce, rupture, wed lock, pilgrimage and epiphany.

Day 1 Monday
Date	February 18th, 2019
Time	21.40-21.49
Name	Elijah Muhammad
His biography	Elijah Muhammad was born Robert Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, on October 7th, 1897. He was one of 13 children of William and Mariah (Hall) Poole. His father was a sharecropper, and his mother was a domestic worker. After moving to Detroit in 1923, he met W. D. Fard, founder of the black separatist movement Nation of Islam (NOI). He converted and adopted the teaching of NOI and the Fard gave him a new name Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad became Fard’s successor from 1934 until his death in 1975 (on February 25th, because of congestive heart failure), and was known for his controversial preaching. His followers included Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan
His photo
Sources	https://www.biography.com/people/elijah-muhammad-9417458
The amount of words on text	766 words
What makes you interested in this person	Actually, I have read about him before, but just a little. Because he related to history of Islam in America. That time, I was read about history of Islam in America and found his name, so I was curious about him since that time.
Comment after reading	At first, I think he was amazing for being one of the NOI leader that have made a big impact to Islam in America. But after I read it further, I was disappointed by his preaching that W. D. Fard (NOI leader before him) had been an incarnation of Allah and that he himself was Allah’s messenger. So, I did not like him anymore.
New Vocabularies found	Poverty, sharecropper, successor, reliance, headquarters, evading, fringe, apostle, unyielding, hatred, congestive, thriving, and attempt.

Day 1 Tuesday
Date	February 19th, 2019
Time	05.10-05.26
Name	Scott Kelly
His biography	Scott Kelly was born Scott Joseph Kelly on February 21st, 1964 in Orange, New Jersey to Irish parents Richard and Patricia Kelly. He has an identical twin brother, Mark Kelly. Scott Kelly is a retired American astronaut who's served on four space flights in his career. His identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, is also a retired American astronaut, and together, they are the only siblings in history who've traveled to space. Kelly retired from NASA exactly a month later after returned to Earth on March 1st, 2016 after finished his year-long spaceflight mission (actually 11 months).
His photo
Sources	https://www.biography.com/people/scott-kelly
The amount of words on text	1323 words
What makes you interested in this person	Actually, I did not know him before, but after I saw his photo and his job which is an astronaut at www.biography.com/people, I started curious about him and tried to figure him out.
Comment after reading	I really like him, because he was an astronaut, he also has a sibling which an astronaut too and both have done a space mission together. The last one, because he and his sibling have made a history by becoming the only siblings who have traveled to space.
New Vocabularies found	Former, feat, self-admitted, matriculated, aviation, amplifying, immense, stiffness, swelling, rashes, nausea, regain, fatigued, deployed, docked, enhanced, subsequent, looming, memoir, and chronicles.

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