English Assignment

Biography on Ip Man's

Personal data :
- Name : Yip Man
- Nationality : Chinese
- Date / place of birth : China, 01 October 1893
- Contribution / achievements :
1. Ip Man 1
2. Ip Man 2
3. The Legend Is Born Ip Man

When Ip Man was thirteen years old he started learning Wing Chun from Chan Wah-shun.
Because of his sifu's old age, Ip Man had to learn much of his skills and techniques from his
master's second eldest disciple Ng Chung-sok. Three years into Ip Man's training Chan Wah-shun
died. One of his dying wishes was to have Ng continue training Ip.

At the age of 15 Ip man moved to Hong Kong with help from Leung Fut Ting, a relative. At
age sixteen, Ip Man attended school at St. Stephen's College in Hong Kong. It was a secondary
school for wealthy families and foreigners who lived in Hong Kong. According to Ip Man's two sons
(Ip Ching and Ip Chun), while at St. Stephen's Ip Man intervened after seeing a foreign police
officer beating a woman. The story goes that the police officer tried to strike Ip Man who used his
martial arts to strike the officer down, at which point Ip Man and his classmate ran to school. The
classmate is said to have told an older man who lived in the same apartment block. Ip Man was
invited to see this man and the man asked Ip Man what martial art he studied. Ip told him, but said
he would not understand. The man then asked Ip Man to show him his first 2 forms (Sil Lim Tao
and Chun Kiu). The man then told Ip Man that his forms were "not too great." Ip Man was then
invited to Chi Sau (a form of training that involves controlled attack and defence). Ip Man saw this
as an opportunity to prove his Kung Fu was good, but he was beaten after just a few strikes. It
turned out that the old man was his master's elder fellow-disciple (and so, by Chinese tradition Ip
Man's martial uncle or Sibak), Leung Bik , son of his master's master Leung Jan. After that
ncounter, Ip Man continued his training lessons from Leung Bik. Ip Man recounts the story himself
in an interview with Martial Hero Magazine, although in his own account he does not mention a
fight with a police officer and claims it was because he was always causing trouble at school that
his friends spoke to Leung Bik about him. By the age of 24, Ip Man had returned to Foshan, his
Wing Chun skills tremendously improved.

In 1967, Ip Man and some of his students established the Hong Kong Ving Tsun Athletic
Association. In 1972, Ip Man suffered cancer and subsequently died on the 2nd of December that
same year. About 6 weeks before he died he asked his 2 sons and his student Lau Hon Lam to film
him performing the Wing Chun system as practice by him. He only managed Sil Lim Tau, Chum
Kiu and the Dummy form. This is because he was in a lot of pain and was weak and unsteady on
his feet. He was going to do Biu Gee, the Knife form and long pole. However Grandmaster Ip Chun
and Ip Ching and Sifu Lau Hong Lam stopped Ip Man because Biu Gee, the knives and full pole
form require a lot of energy to perform. Ip Man had many students and worried some of them were
adapting the system due to their own incomplete knowledge and felt that filming it was the only
way to stop the frauds and cheats.

English Assignment

Biography on Paul Walker

Personal data :
- Name : Paul William Walker IV
- Nationality : Amerika Serikat
- Date / piare of birth : 12 September 1973 Glendale, California, A.S.
- Contribution / achievements :

Movies / TV
No Year Appreciation Category
Shows
Young Hollywood
1 2000 Most Exciting Newcomer - Male
Award
Breakthrough Male Performance
Hollywood
2 2001 Diterima pada Hollywood Film
Breakthrough Award
Festival
Young Hollywood
3 2001 New Stylemaker Male
Award
Best On-Screen Team The Fast and the
4 2002 MTV Movie Award
Berbagi dengan Vin Diesel Furious
Choice Movie Chemistry
5 2003 Teen Choice Awards 2 Fast 2 Furious
Untuk Paul Walker dan mobilnya

Paul William Walker IV was born in Glendale, California. He grew up together with his
brothers, Caleb and Cody, and sisters, Ashlie and Amie. Their parents, Paul William Walker III, a
sewer contractor, and Cheryl (Crabtree) Walker, a model, separated around September 2004. His
grandfather, William Walker, was a Pearl Harbor survivor and a Navy middleweight boxing
champion, while his maternal grandfather commanded a tank battalion in Italy under General
Patton during World War II. Paul grew up active in sports like soccer and surfing. He had English
and German ancestry.
Paul Walker was an American actor. Walker began his career guest-starring in several
television shows such as The Young and the Restless (1973) and Touched by an Angel (1994).
Walker gained prominence with breakout roles in coming of age and teen films such as She's All
That and Varsity Blues. In 2001, Walker gained international fame for his portrayal of Brian
O'Conner in the street racing action film The Fast and the Furious (2001), and would reprise the
role in five of the next six installments. He also starred in films such as Eight Below, Timeline, Into
the Blue, Joy Ride and Running Scared.
Besides acting, Walker was the face of The Coty Prestige fragrance brand Davidoff Cool
Water for Men, and starred in the National Geographic Channel series, Expedition Great White. He
also founded the charity "Reach Out Worldwide" (ROWW), an organization providing relief efforts
for areas affected by natural disasters. He was often praised for his off-screen charity work, and as
a performer.
Walker died in a single-vehicle collision on November 30, 2013, alongside friend Roger
Rodas. Three films that he was involved in at the time were released
posthumously: Hours (2013), Brick Mansions (2014) and Furious Seven (2015). The song, "See
You Again", by Wiz Khalifa, which appeared on the Furious 7 soundtrack, is a tribute to Walker.
The song was nominated for the Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song at the 73rd Golden
Globe Awards.
English Assignment

Biography on Charles Goodyear

Personal data :
- Name : Charles Goodyear
- Nationality : Amerika Serikat
- Date / piare of birth : New Haven, 29 Desember 1800
- Contribution / achievements :
1. The inventor Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber or rubber tires in 1839
2. In 1898 Frank Seiberling founded the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Although it
does not have a relationship, the company name is taken as a tribute to Charles Goodyear
who created the vulcanization of rubber in 1839.

At first Charles Goodyear is a former merchant who went bankrupt and was imprisoned as a
result of debt. Charles Goodyear interested in the world of rubber when the world is experiencing
fever kareat in 1830.
Rubber material is good but the material is foul-smelling stinky, hardens when cold and too
sticky when warm and does not seem able to be used for practical purposes. Charles Goodyear
founded the company and strive to make useful materials. Previous seven years, he tried to
cultivate rubber material with the magnesium oxide, bronze powder, nitric acid and lime adhesive,
but still no results.

The discovery of vulcanized rubber or rubber tires

The discovery of vulcanized rubber or rubber tires happen unintentionally by Charles
Goodyear in 1839. Goodyear When cleaning the hands of the spread of powder, consisting of a
mixture of rubber and sulfur. Powder had fallen and enter into a furnace on fire. When the rubber
melted, it reacts with the sulfur material and found that the material was changed to have a
character like elastic skin. This was the first vulcanized rubber or rubber tires created. furthermore,
with the findings Goodyear also managed to find a weather-resistant rubber. Then he obsessed to
make a variety of goods from homemade materials and patented his creation of it. Intention step
Goodyear patented his discovery was preceded by rubber pioneer British ironically named Thomas
Hancock retreading methods that digunakanya inspired by the example of weather-resistant rubber
Goodyear creation. He also tried to fight through legal channels, but eventually lost and then lost
his French patent, and not only that, the royalty was canceled.
In 1898 Frank Seiberling founded the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and a
manufacturer of tires and rubber in the world's third largest after Michelin and Bridgestone. The
company is headquartered in Ohio, the United States produces tires for cars, airplanes and heavy
machinery. Although it does not have a relationship, the company name is taken as a tribute to
Charles Goodyear who created the vulcanization of rubber in 1839.
In August 1824, Goodyear married Clarissa Beecher and they were blessed with seven
children, one of whom was William Henry Goodyear.
Charles Goodyear died in New York on July 1, 1860, leaving a debt of $ 200,000. But
eventually Goodyear sacrifice and hard work was not in vain, because the family can enjoy it all
through the accumulated royalties for their findings, and more meaningful again, his name had
been recognized as a pioneer of the modern world rubber industry.
 English Assignment

Biography on B.J. Habibie

Personal data :
- Name : Prof. DR (HC). Ing. Dr. Sc. Mult. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
- Nationality : Indonesia
- Date / piare of birth : Parepare, 25 Juni 1936 Sulawesi Selatan
- Contribution / achievements :
1. Third president of the Republic of Indonesia 19981999
2. Vice of President the Republic of Indonesia 10 March - May 20, 1998
3. State Minister for Research and Technology of Indonesia 1978-1998
4. Head of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology 1974-1998
5. Most of his work in calculating and designing several aircraft manufacturing project:
- VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) DO-31 Transport Aircraft.
- Military Transport Aircraft C-130 Transall.
- Hansa Jet 320 (Aircraft Executive).
- Airbus A-300 (to 300 passengers)
- CN 235
- N-250

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 RhineWestphalia in Aachen, West Germany. After
graduating in 1960, he remained in West Germany as an aeronautics researcher and production
supervisor.

Habibie believed his enterprises ultimately would spawn high-tech ventures in the private
sector and allow the country to climb the technology ladder. In 1993 he unveiled the first
Indonesian-developed plane, which he helped design, and in the following year he launched a plan
to refurbish more than three dozen vessels bought from the former East German navy at his
initiative. The Finance Ministry balked at the cost of the latter endeavour, while the armed forces
thought that its turf had been violated. Nevertheless, Habibie got more than $400 million for
refurbishing.
Meanwhile, in 1990 Habibie was appointed head of the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals
Association, and during the 1993 central-board elections of the countrys ruling party, Golkar,
Habibie helped the children and allies of President Suharto rise to top positions, easing out long-
standing military-backed power brokers. By the late 1990s Habibie was viewed as one of several
possible successors to the aging Suharto.
In March 1998 Suharto appointed Habibie to the vice presidency, and two months later, in the
wake of large-scale violence in Jakarta, Suharto announced his resignation. Thrust unexpectedly
into the countrys top position, Habibie immediately began to implement major reforms. He
appointed a new cabinet; fired Suhartos eldest daughter as social affairs minister as well as his
longtime friend as trade and industry minister; named a committee to draft less-restrictive political
laws; allowed a free press; arranged for free parliamentary and presidential elections the following
year; and agreed to presidential term limits (two five-year terms). He also granted amnesty to more
than 100 political prisoners.
 English Assignment

Biography on Eminem

Personal data :
- Name : Marshall Bruce Mathers III (Eminem)
- Nationality : Amerika Serikat
- Date / piare of birth : Saint Joseph, 17 Oktober 1972
- Contribution / achievements :
1. He shared the 2002 Academy Award for Best Original Song for his song Lose Yourself, co-
written with Jeff Bass and Luis Resto. His Academy Award win made him the first rapper to
receive this award.
2. The rapper has received fifteen Grammy Awards, has been praised for his "verbal energy"
and lyrical quality and was ranked ninth on MTV's Greatest MCs of All Time list. [296][297]In
2003, he was thirteenth on MTV's 22 Greatest Voices in Music list [298] and 82nd on Rolling
Stone's Immortals list.
3. In 2008 Vibe Magazine readers named Eminem the Best Rapper Alive
4. "The Real Slim Shady" (from his second Grammy-winning album, The Marshall Mathers
LP) criticizes the awards in its second verse, with Eminem believing at the time that
negative opinion of his material would prevent him from ever winning one.
5. The rapper received the Global Icon Award at the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards in
Amsterdam.

Eminem was born on October 17, 1972, in St. Joseph, Missouri, the only child of Marshall
Bruce Mathers, Jr. (born June 30, 1951; known as Bruce) and Deborah Rae "Debbie" Nelson (born
January 6, 1955). Debbie was 14 when she met 18-year-old Bruce; at age 17, she nearly died
during her 73-hour labor. Eminem's parents were in a band called Daddy Warbucks, playing
in Ramada Inns along the DakotasMontana border before their separation.

Eminem's home life was seldom stable; he frequently fought with his mother, whom a social
worker described as having a "very suspicious, almost paranoid personality". When her son
became famous, Debbie was unimpressed by suggestions that she was a less-than-ideal mother,
contending that she sheltered him and was responsible for his success. In 1987, Debbie allowed
runaway Kimberly Ann "Kim" Scott to stay at their home; several years later, Eminem began an on-
and-off relationship with Scott. After spending three years in ninth grade due to truancy and poor
grades, he dropped out of Lincoln High School at age 17. Although he was interested in English,
he never explored literature (preferring comic books) and disliked math and social studies. Eminem
worked at several jobs to help his mother pay the bills, later maintaining that she often threw him
out of the house anyway. When she left to play bingo, he would blast the stereo and write songs.

At age 14, Eminem began rapping with high-school friend Mike Ruby; they adopted the
names "Manix" and "M&M", the latter of which evolved into "Eminem". Eminem sneaked into
neighboring Osborn High School with friend and fellow rapper Proof for lunchroom freestyle rap
battles. On Saturdays, they attended open mic contests at the Hip-Hop Shop on West 7 Mile,
considered "ground zero" for the Detroit rap scene. Struggling to succeed in a predominantly black
industry, Eminem was appreciated by underground hip hop audiences. When he wrote verses, he
wanted most of the words to rhyme; he wrote long words or phrases on paper and, underneath,
worked on rhymes for each syllable. Although the words often made little sense, the drill helped
Eminem practice sounds and rhymes.
 English Assignment

Biography on Slash Guns N Roses

Personal data :
- Name : Saul Hudson
- Nationality : Amerika-Inggris
- Date / piare of birth : London, 23 Juli 1965
- Contribution / achievements :
1. In 2005, he was named "Best Guitarist" by Esquire
2. Slash was awarded the title of "Riff Lord" during Metal Hammer's fourth annual Golden
Gods awards in 2007.
3. In 2004, Slash's introductory riff in "Sweet Child o' Mine" was voted No. 1 on a list of "The
100 Greatest Riffs"
4. Slash received a Radio Contraband Rock Radio Award in 2012.

5. In January 2015 Slash received the Les Paul award.

Saul Hudson was born in Hampstead, London. He was named for Saul Steinberg, an artist.
His mother, Ola J. Hudson (ne Oliver; 19462009), was an African-American costume designer,
whose clients included David Bowie, and his father, Anthony Hudson, is an English artist who
created album covers for musicians such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell., Of his mixed
background, Slash later remarked, "As a musician, I've always been amused that I'm both
British and black; particularly because so many American musicians seem to aspire to be British
while so many British musicians, in the 'Sixties in particular, went to such great pains to be black."

During his early years, Slash was raised by his father and paternal grandparents in Stoke-on-
Trent, Staffordshire, while his mother moved to LA for work. When Slash was around five years old,
he and his father joined his mother in Los Angeles, California. His brother, Albion "Ash" Hudson,
was born in 1972. Following his parents' separation in 1974, Slash became a self-described
"problem child." He chose to live with his mother and was often sent to live with his beloved
maternal grandmother whenever his mother had to travel for her job. Slash sometimes
accompanied his mother to work, where he met several film and music stars. He was given the
nickname "Slash" by actor Seymour Cassel, because he was "always in a hurry, zipping around
from one thing to another."

In 1979, Slash decided to form a band with his friend Steven Adler. The band never
materialized, but it prompted Slash to take up an instrument. Since Adler had designated himself
the role of guitarist, Slash decided to learn how to play bass. Equipped with a one-string flamenco
guitar given to him by his grandmother, he began taking classes with Robert Wolin, a teacher at
Fairfax Music School. During his first lesson, Slash decided to switch from bass to guitar after
hearing Wolin play "Brown Sugar" by The Rolling Stones. His decision to play guitar was further
influenced by one of his school teachers, who would play songs by Cream and Led Zeppelin for his
students. As a result, Slash stated, "When I heard him do that, I said, 'That's what I want to do." A
champion BMX rider, Slash put the bike aside to devote himself to playing guitar, practicing up to
12 hours a day.
 English Assignment

Biography on Nelson Mandela

Personal data :
- Name : Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
- Nationality : Afrika
- Date / piare of birth : 18 Juli 1918, Mvezo, South Afrika
- Contribution / achievements :
1. In South Africa, Mandela is widely regarded as the "father of the nation", and "founding
father of democracy", regarded as the "liberator of the nation, the savior, Washington and
Lincoln rolled into one".
2. In addition to the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Order of Canada, he was the
first living person who acquired the status of honorary citizen of Canada.
3. Elizabeth II conferred Mandela Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St. John and the Order of
Merit.

Across the world, Mandela looks like the "moral authority" who have "concern for the truth"
were great. Considered friendly, Mandela looked "relaxed" when talking to other people, including
his rivals. Although often friends with billionaire and important guests, he enjoyed talk to their staffs
while on duty resmi.Di life ended, he was known to look for the best out of everyone, even
maintaining his political rivals as allies; some people find them too trusting of others. he was known
for stubbornness and loyalty, and have " hot temper "that could explode into anger in certain
situations, as well as" moody and upset "when away from the eyes of publik.Ia also have a sense
of humor and often ignorant. Dalai Lama 14 is a longtime friend of former president Nelson
Mandela.

Mandela was an African nationalist, ideological positions which he held continuously since
joining the ANC, as well as a "democrat and socialist". Although present yourself with style
autocratic in his speech, Mandela was an adherent of democracy and will abide by the majority
decision even if he strongly disagreed. He holds the belief that "engagement, accountability, and
freedom of speech" are the foundations of democracy, and is driven by a belief in natural rights
and human rights.

As a democratic socialist, Mandela "openly opposed to capitalism, private land ownership,

and the strength of deep pockets". Influenced by Marxism, during the revolution Mandela called
scientific socialism, although he declined branded communists in the Treason Trial. David James
Smith biographer suspect this is not true and stated that Mandela "of communism and
communists" in the late 1950s and early 1960s, although he tends to "fellow adventurers" rather
than party members. In the Freedom Charter in 1955, the formulation of which helped Mandela, it
demanded the nationalization of banks, gold mines, and land, believes it is necessary to ensure a
fair distribution of wealth. Although a trust like this, Mandela did not nationalize anything during his
reign, afraid he would frighten foreign investors. This decision was influenced half the fall of
Socialism in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc throughout the early 1990s.