Biography text Part 1, 2, 3

Aliaputri Dharmayanti 

XII IPS 4

Biography is the story of a person's life that is more complex than just a curriculum vitae and work data. Generally, biographies tell more about the feelings a person faces in dealing with an event or a person's life. 

In the biography, it is explained about the life of a character from childhood until he grows up, even until he finally dies. All services, works, and things produced by a character are also clarified.

STRUCTURE OF BIOGRAPHY TEXT

1. Orientation

Orientation provides the reader with background information on why the biography was written. The opening paragraph should answer the questions: who, what, where, when, and how.

2. Events

Contains an explanation of a story in the form of problem solving, other processes, and various events that have been experienced by the character to lead him to a success.

3. Re-Orientation (Closing)

This section contains the author's views on the characters told. Reorientation also consists of a type of conclusion with comments about contributions which are then summarized in an interesting conclusion or storyline.

BIOGRAPHY TEXT PART 1

FAMOUS PERSON BIOGRAPHY

B.J. HABIBIE

Prof.  DR (HC).  Ing.  Dr.  Sc.  multi.  Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie or known as BJ Habibie is a Pare-Pare (South Sulawesi) man born June 25, 1936. Habibie became the 3rd President of Indonesia and had previously been the 7th Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia.

 In childhood, Habibie has shown intelligence and high enthusiasm for science and technology, especially Physics.  For six months, he studied Mechanical Engineering at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), and continued to Rhenisch Wesfalische Tehnische Hochscule-Germany in 1955. Young Habibie spent 10 years completing his undergraduate to postgraduate studies in Aachen-Germany.

 Mr. Habibie continued his doctoral program after marrying his high school friend, Mrs. Hasri Ainun Besari in 1962. Together with his wife living in Germany, Habibie had to work to pay for college fees as well as household expenses.  Habibie studied the field of Aircraft Design and Construction.  In 1965, Habibie completed his doctoral studies and received an Ingenieur Doctorate (Doctorate in Engineering) with an index of achievement summa cum laude.

BIOGRAPHY TEXT PART 2

INVENTOR BIOGRAPHY

THOMAS ALVA EDISON

Inventor Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. Thomas Edison was the youngest of seven children of Samuel and Nancy Edison. His father was an exiled political activist from Canada, while his mother was an accomplished school teacher and a major influence in Thomas’ early life.

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, his inventions included the telegraph, the universal stock ticker, the phonograph, the first commercially practical incandescent electric light bulb, alkaline storage batteries and the Kinetograph (a camera for motion pictures).

While Thomas Edison was not the inventor of the first light bulb, he came up with the technology that helped bring it to the masses. Edison was driven to perfect a commercially practical, efficient incandescent light bulb following English inventor Humphry Davy’s invention of the first early electric arc lamp in the early 1800s.

Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home, "Glenmont," in West Orange, New Jersey. He was 84 years old. By the time he died he was one of the most well-known and respected Americans in the world.Many communities and corporations throughout the world dimmed their lights or briefly turned off their electrical power to commemorate his passing.