Reading log- meeting four (Biography)

Day 1 Friday Date : February 15,2019 Time: 20.00-20.38
First Person	William Hendry Gates
His/Her biography	William Henry Gates was born on 28 October 1955, in Seattle, Washington. His father William Gates Sr was a senior lawyer, and his mother, Mary, served as an executive for a major bank. The family was wealthy but, remembering the challenges of the Great Depression, they encouraged their children to work hard and take nothing for granted.  As the principal founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most influential and richest people on the world. Recent estimates of his wealth put it at US$84.2 billion (Jan. 2017); this is the equivalent of the combined GDP of several African economies. In recent years he has retired from working full time at Microsoft, and has instead concentrated on working with his charitable foundation “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.” He has a wife, her name is Melinda French (married in 1992). They have three children Jennifer (1996), Rory (1999) and Phoebe (2002). Even though this couple is very rich but they educate their children to live modestly and care for others.
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Sources	https://www.biographyonline.net/business/bill-gates.html
The amount of words on text	1.008 words
What makes you interested in this person	Bill gates is the great man. I am very interested in knowing the biography of Bill gates, he looks so simple with so much wealth. It is also interesting that bill gates did not complete his study at one of the universities in America, but because of his intelligence, he was able to make Microsoft software and become very successful people.
Comment after reading	Before I read , I don’t know that Bill Gates is the simple and care man. In fact he dropped out of Harvard without finishing his course. But he can built the great software and designate this software Bill Gates foundation of Microsoft 330px-Altair_8800. In addition to In 1990 Microsoft released its first version of Windows. It soon became a best seller and was able to capture the majority of the operating system market share. And more amazingly he has a charitable foundation “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”
New Vocabularies found	Influential, encouraged, granted, estimates, breakthrough, diversify

Day 2 Saturday Date : February 16,2019. Time:14.00-14.46
First Person	Marilyn Monroe
His/Her biography	Marilyn Monroe is a Model, actress, singer and arguably one of the most famous women of the twentieth century. Monroe has become an iconic representative of fame and female beauty. She was born, Norma Jeane Mortenson, in June 1926. Her mother was Gladys Pearl Baker but her father was unknown. Her real name is Norma Jeane Baker luckily her mother Gladys had a turbulent mental state and struggled to cope with bringing up her children. Right after his 16th birthday, in 1942, Monroe married Jimmy Dougherty. Marilyn became a housewife, but the couple was not close, and Monroe reported being bored. In 1943, her husband left to join the Merchant Marines to participate in the American War effort. They parted soon after. for his survival he worked in an ammunition factory, accidentally there was a reporter who was covering the activities at the factory and saw Marilyn Moroe which he felt was suitable to be a model, from there Marlyn's career began and skyrocketed but unfortunately the end of his life was not so lucky she barbiturate overdose.
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Sources	https://www.biographyonline.net/actors/marilyn-monroe.html
The amount of words on text	1.084 words
What makes you interested in this person	She looks very beautifull and becomes the symbol of stong women.
Comment after reading	Apparently what I saw was wrong. My assumption is that the artist is a very lucky person, wallowing in wealth, very famous and adored by many people. It turns out that being an artist is not easy and there are many things that make the artists live uneasily. as is the case with Marilyn Monroe.
New Vocabularies found	Arguably, fame, featured, trappings, strained

Day 3 Monday Date : February 18,2019 Time: 15.05-15.14
First Person	Jack Ma
His/Her biography	Jack Ma, originally Ma Yun, (born September 10, 1964, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China), Chinese entrepeneur who was head of the Alibaba Group, which comprised several of China’s most popular Web sites, including the business-to-business marketplace Alibaba.com and the shopping site Taobao.com. Ma failed the entrance exam for the Hangzhou Teachers College twice. (His weak point was mathematics.) He was admitted on the third try, in 1984, and he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English in 1988. From 1988 to 1993 he taught English at the Hangzhou Institute of Electronics and Engineering (now Hangzhou Dianzi University). In 1994, he founded his first company, the Haibo Translation Agency, which provided English translation and interpretation. Because this bussines cooperate with development so Ma founded Alibaba  company. In 2005 Alibaba attracted the attention of the American Internet portal Yahoo!, which bought a 40 percent stake, and in 2007 Alibaba.com raised $1.7 billion dollars in its initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong. In 2003 Ma created a new company, the consumer-to-consumer online marketplace Taobao (Chinese: “searching for treasure”). At the time, the American company eBay, in collaboration with the Chinese company EachNet, had a market share of 80 percent, but Ma felt that eBay-EachNet’s policy of charging users a transaction fee was a weakness.
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-Ma
The amount of words on text	607 words
What makes you interested in this person	Jack ma is one of the  entrepreneurs who are from Asia and famous in the face of the world. He also made me realize that a successful person is not a person who has no shortcomings, but he who is able to maximize his potential.
Comment after reading	There are some points that I get from Jack Ma’s biography , the first don't give up before you really get what you think is worthy of you. The second one is to keep learning and look for opportunities to continue to develop the potential that is in you
New Vocabularies found	Comprised, founded, convinced.

Day 4 Tuesday Date : February 19,2019 Time:17.06-17.49
First Person	Muhammad Quraish Shihab
His/Her biography	Muhammad Quraish Shihab was born on February 16, 1944 in is an Arab Indonesian Muslim scholar in the sciences of the Qur'an, an author, a cleric, and former Minister of Religion Affairs in the Cabinet of Development VII (1998). He is the older brother of the former Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare, Alwi Shihab. His father was Abdurrahman Shihab, an Islamic scholar and professor at State Institute of Islamic Sciences and his mother was Asma Aburisyi. Quraish is the fourth son of twelve siblings. His three older siblings, Nur, Ali and Umar, and two younger siblings, Wardah and Alwi Shihab, were also born in Rappang. Seven other siblings namely Nina, Sida, Nizar, Abdul Muthalib, Salwa and twin sister Ulfa and Latifah, were born in the village of Buton. Quraish married to Fatmawati Assegaf on February 2, 1975 in Surakarta. From the marriage, they have four daughters (Najelaa, Najwa, Nasywa, Nahla) and one son (Ahmad).
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Sources	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quraish_Shihab
The amount of words on text	1.135 words
What makes you interested in this person	Muhammad Quraish Shihab is a cleric who is not arrogant and very tolerant, with all the knowledge he has he looks more wise and makes me amazed at him.
Comment after reading	After I read the Quraisy Shihab’s biography I just found out that he was still a descendant of Muhammad's prophetic family, but he chose to give up the Habbib title that he supported for several reasons. he is also one of the Indonesian scholars who is very tolerant and has many writings.
New Vocabularies found	The field, Eastern, earned, dissertation, entrusted, conjecture, guarantee