English Magazine Level 3 Project
This Project was developed through the second semester 2015 by the students of level from UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA PROGRAMA SEGUNDA LENGUA
Flying Spaghetti Monster and rational Satanism : the hegemonic theology divergent proposals. By: Angel Acosta Throughout our lives, the religious dimension has played a shaping role of our realities. From our calendar to the way we choose our leaders, religion has resulted in us let us be believers or not a particular way of understanding the world in which we live. However, epistemology that is supposed to give religion to society in general, beyond our will when this is established within the majority, becoming hegemonic discipline and creating systems to ensure the retention and advancement in the way that religion us asks act in the world. But with the rise of modernity and postmodernity follows, nation states have overcome part of this vision -in the great majority- but many companies, which are managed under logic of majorities, have not been able to emancipate themselves from their religious behavior either by conviction or halfdomination, producing a hegemonic vision of reality and thus affecting the diversity that exists in this one. However, many segments of society to resist releasing or different alternatives to the prevailing belief that in any measure seeks liberation of the individual closed worldviews in their attempt to preach only to those who resist violate these visions and emerge the Flying Spaghetti Monster and rational Satanism, proposals to break paradigms fictitious. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a religious parody, which expresses the nonconformity of a segment of society to the initiative of some US states to equate the teaching of intelligent1 design with the Darwinian theory in public schools. Its creator is Bobby Henderson, an The spaghetti monster , taken from American physicist, that following the decision Wikipedia.com of the Kansas State Board of Education, decided to send a letter to the agency requesting the same level of importance that had creationism, about the theory of the church spaghetti monster . This satirical petition went viral when Henderson published his letter on the Internet, within days, the spaghetti monster took a special relevance in a number of blogs and news portals satirical. The aim of the movement is not to attack religions, but fundamentalist parody reality that many of those involved.
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Intelligent Design ( ID) is a pseudo-scientific stance , in which he is to give a scientific basis to the creationist theory
On the other hand it is the rationalist satansimo or LaVey Satanism, an iconoclastic philosophical current proclaiming the " indulgence of pleasure ". Their ideology is reflected in "The Satanic Bable " written by Anton LaVey in 1966.
The rational Satanism is solely the existence of God himself, to that extent, the only possible God 's self and Satan is merely a symbol from equilibrium in the universe, which implies being Satanist meet natural norms , seeking material, emotional and intellectual satisfaction. Religion, according to its founder -LaVey- is not supernatural inspiration, but is the synthesis of the work of many Image of Anto LaVey. philosophers who proclaim materialism and individualism. Taken from That said, the rational satanism is opposed to theistic, such www.churchofsatan.com as rituals and other acts in which they seek to proclaim the supremacy of a different individuality itself be signs. Currently, the church of satan, organization LaVey proclaimed ideology, are the focus of discussion after trying to establish in the governorate building in Detroit, a statue of Satan. Both the Flying Spaghetti Monster as the rational Satanism, seeking to break with the ideology of hegemonic and dominant view, from different fronts such as comedy and philosophy, respectively. Although not the only movements that seek the same end, are the most representative in the popular culture of the West, which helps us to think that we both really are under the influence of such religious views and which in turn, opened the debate on if successful for the future of society and the world in general, fall into dogmas as theocentrist as that currently dominate. Bibliography
Representation of delivering Flying Spaghetti Monster Captain Mosey tables with " really rather not " (Commandments) on Mount Salsa . Taken from Wikipedia.com
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The good films.
By Juliana León Acero. Many times in the middle of a weekend you are looking for something to do, we ask ourselves; should I Watch on TV? Or should I go to the movies? Should I buy a film? As we consider the movie a way of entertainment. The problem, also many times, is what should I watch? What is my goal watching a movie? And here is the key answer: Enjoy. Enjoying what we see is a personal and inner aspect, some people like the action films, some people like the drama, the comedy, the thrillers, the horror, the documentary films, many genders as many tastes. But it is far of enjoying every movie. In order to enjoy a film, we may have to be able to recognize what is a good film. Average films have a length from one hour and a half to two hours and a half. That´s a lot of time to spend on this century in which every minute is important; there is so much to learn, so much to do, so much to work on. So I recommend you to choose carefully what we see no matter the gender, the country, the director or the actors, but the quality of the entire film. For example, I have a rule: the twenty minutes rule. I am a fan of the good films, classic movies like pulp fiction of Quentin Tarantino, Taxi Driver of, Apocalypse now of Francis Ford Coppola, Leon the professional of Martin Scorsese, Animation films like Hayao Miyazaki´s and Gibli studio´s, The book of the jungle or Snowhite from the early Disney, Colombian films like, “La Estrategia Del Caracol”, “Perro Come Perro” , “Condores No Entierran Todos Los Dias”, “Rodrigo D No Future”, “La Vendedora De Rosas” or Latin-American movies like “Nueve Reinas” From Argentina, “Amores Perros” From Mexico, “Ciuda De Do Deus” from Brazil and the may be good films in my already view repertory, all of them movies that come through to the twenty minutes rule.
Easy as say it, watch the first twenty minutes of the movie value the quality of the takes, the performances, the script, the story and the direction, and above all you enjoying the film.
A few tips to value every aspect: Shootings: The best shootings show us a variety of perspectives, views of the actors, views of the context, the landscape; complex shootings require talent an expertise from the director which is a good indicator that you are watching a good movie. Also don’t forget de special effects in the fiction and science fiction movies. Performances: Great actors are those who you watch a thousand times and you always discover something new, something different and those who put your emotions at the edge, you recognize a good performance when you understand the position of the character immediately. For example I know that I`m watching a good movie when in the cast is Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman and Colombian actors like Enrique Carriazo, Vicky Hernandez, Robinson Diaz or Frank Ramirez the old school of the drama and the performance. Script: Cleaver sentences, wisdom in the content, complex situations, intrigue, innovating ways to tell a story, long interactions with the actor, passionate writing, some of the characteristics of a great script. Story: An intricate story, full of emotions and reflections, full of power and drama, full of comedy (good comedy) and attention to detail, to the beginning at the very end, a great story show us like humans and exalts the best of us or confronts ourselves with our worst daemons. At the end when you enjoy a movie based on the great effort in the creation, you will grow as a person, intellectually, emotionally, socially and politically, Cinema is the art of showing human passions on a screen with improved aesthetics, every movie that follow that statement are movies worthy of our time.
Music Music is human expression through a combination of sound to generate entertainment, music has been a long time art and science during all the history, people need music because was always part of the culture, I think that music form part of our lives.
The first civilization that studied the music was the Greeks who studied the musical notes, they understood the proportion of pleasant frequencies to people. The monks of the middle ages were the first who wrote music allowing to save the music.
The music industry is the most important and influential nowadays, there is variety of music across the world but the American music is the most influential. The American music is composed in its majority by Rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Electronic music and Jazz.
Traditional Colombian music is composed by Cumbia, Vallenato, Llanera, Andin and Carranga music. Nowadays in Colombian the people are listen Reggaetón, Champeta, Bachata and a bite of Salsa. Personally, I like electronic music, rock and a little hip hop and don’t like Vallenato, Reggaetón, Champeta and Bachata.
Today music is sold thought ITunes and CDs but there is a some people buying music, usually people downloading illegal music which generates losses for the artists.
Downloading pirate music is a crime but this crime is not severe, however the government fight this illegal activity.
People love music concerts and pay as much as thousands of dollars for a VIP ticket. A lot of people attends to concerts, there has been concerts with more than one million people. The biggest concert was in Rio de Janeiro with more than three million people in 1994.
Melomania is the name of the addiction to music, people with melomania can´t live without listening to music all the time, they feel anxiety without listening to music and they may have aggressive behavior, this illness bring difficulty dialogue and live with people.
Recently, scientist created hearing drugs to imitate the same generate effect of marihuana and cocaine when people listen music. However, these drugs are not effective without good headphones.
The music is part of life and it will continue for a long time.
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Alexandrus Magnus’ father Tomb?
In 1997 the archaeologists Manolis Andronikos2, believed he had found the tomb of Fillip II3, the father of Alexandrus Magnus4, but a recent discovered has shown that it is not so.
This tomb is a complex of three toms in total, one of this it was believed belonged to Cleopatra of Macedon or “Eurydice”. It was believed that Cleopatra was closed to Fillip in a casket of gold. She died a few days after his husband King Filip II. That woman was killed for Olympia of Macedon one of the many wives of Fillip II, and the mother of Alexandrus Magnus.
In a new research made for the archaeologist Antonis Bartsiokas5 and the palaeontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga6 it was discovered the royal tomb in the Egas’7 deposit located in the central Macedonia. The researchers discovered that the tomb that was believed to be Fillip´s was another one, and now we know that the real tomb is the called tomb 1, which it was looted before the archaeologists arrived in 1977. Among different reasons for thinking that this is not the real tomb is because the bones found in the tomb 2 did not have the injuries that Fillip was supposed to suffer in his lifetime and they should be reflected in their funerary remains. 2
Born Oct. 23, 1919, Bursa, Tur.— Died Mar. 30, 1992, Salonika, Greece, Archaeologist.
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Born Pela, Greece 382 a.C – Died Vergina, Greece 336 a.C. Macedonian King, Father of Alexandrus Magnus.
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Born, July, 356 a. C., Died, Pela, Grecia junio de 323 a. C., Babilonia, Irak. Macedonian King.
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Greece Physical Anthropology.
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Paleontologist 1954, Madrid, Spain. Name of the primitive macedonian capital.
The controversy surrounding the tomb of Philip II has been great, with the help of new technologies it has been able to rectify the above results and get closer to the possible reality of the tomb of the father of Alexander the Great.
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/articulo/historia/actualidad/10372/confirmado_s on_los_huesos_filipo.html
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Archipelago of San Andres: The touristic place of Colombia that you have to visit.
This archipelago (that contain the islands of: San Andrés, Providencia, Santa Catalina and his touristic islotes) is the most important touristic places of Colombia, that’s because his history, the climate, the sea and the different places that definitely you will love it. This place has 68.283 of people; the climate is between 26 °C and 29°C; the native language is the English and Spanish.
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One of the important things of this island is the biodiversity and some example of that is the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve (called by The UNESCO), this area has so many different animals (like 400 types of fish, 157 types of birds, 66 types of invertebrates, among other things), actually you can learn about the animals with the course of dive, that the island provide you. In the beach you can swim, but is more do different activities like kitesurf, windsurf and jetski or only see the beach and take a time of relax with a “coco loco” (typical drink of the islands).
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In the typical places of San Andres we found the north end this place is the centre of the island, in this zone there is the governmental part, the airport and also the hotels; By the other hand if want learn about the history and the culture of this place you can visit the house of museum isleña, in this place also you have to learn the typical dance of the island: “El raga raga”; If you visit the cave of Morgan you will be really happy to listen some really interesting stories of pirates. You will surprised to visit the “Cocoplumbay” this beach is too warm that you’d like to return; if you don’t want to splash yourself, you don’t have to go to the “El Hoyo Soplador” because this hole is always splash and get wet the people, but is really fun anyway; The Blue Hole is the place that you have to do by obligation because is so beautiful and so difficult to find a landscape like that; by last you can take a break in the most relaxing beach of the island the “Charquitos”.
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AMAZONAS The Amazonas is a Colombia´s department that is located in the south of the country, south of the equator. Its name comes from the Amazon River that drains much in the department and the rainforest that covers a large part of the department. This department have different tourist activities as: MONKEY´S ISLAND: This island is located north of Leticia. To get there, we must take a tour of an hour and half down the Amazon River. This is an ideal place to enjoy watching a hundreds primates. In this place, there are lot of monkey´s feet yellow; these monkeys appear among the trees when the tour guides whistles. This place is considered Fauna and Flora´ Sanctuary, thanks to their jungle landscape that brings in the midst of its diversity of wildlife, many monkeys .
TARAPOTO LAKE: The lake is located to 80 km of Leticia, to an hour and half tour of the Amazon River. This lake is the home pink dolphins and giant lotus Victoria Regia. In addition in the lake is possible see the Pirarucu, the biggest fish known Aguadulce, in their natural habitat. NATURAL RESERVE TANIMBOCA Tanimboca is a unique place where you can learn about the Amazon ecosystem and make ecotourism activities.
The natural reserve Tanimboca is a great place to have an experience unforgettable as climbing trees over 35 meters. The principal activity called “Dosel”; in this activity you can climb a giants trees and slide from tree to tree over a distance of over 80 meters in the top of the trees of the forest.
Other characteristic of this nature reserve is that you can sleep in the trees´ top if you program it advance. It´s possible make a nature walk or kayak tour of the Tacana River, in both case is a good opportunity to interfacing with nature. In addition, this reserve have a variety of birds, of which stand out the parrots, macaws, parakeets and turkeys. Also, we can found a wildlife as anacondas, boas, deer, red skin monkeys, jaguars and titi leoncito, the smallest in the world. This is a beautiful place to meet the wildlife. REFERENCES http://www.colombia.com/turismo/sitios-turisticos/amazonas/atractivosturisticos/sdi459/75362/isla-de-los-micos http://www.colombia.com/turismo/sitios-turisticos/amazonas/atractivosturisticos/sdi459/75551/lago-tarapoto
Villa de Leyva as one of the most important touristic places in Colombia
Villa de Leyva is an important touristic attraction not only for It's architecture, but also for the History that involves the town. Villa de Leyva attracts tourist from all around the country and from other different parts of the world because it has one of the most remarkable architectures. It was declared architectural heritage because of it's colonial design that is in all the houses of the town. The houses just have one or maximum two floors, their walls are all painted in white and the doors and windows are painted in green or brown. The streets are all in encrusted rocks and that is one of the biggest architectural attractions due to the main place downtown which is one of the biggest in Latin America because it has 14.200 square meters and about 1.026.000 encrusted stones, for this reason and its architecture in general it was declared also a National Monument. The other attraction that tourist find in Villa de Leyva is the History that involves this town, not only because of the colony but also because of the prehistory when Villa de Leyva was supposed to be sea.
In Villa de Leyva we find houses and elements that remind us the period of the colony, the big leaders that worked for our independence and rights, as they were Antonio Nari単o who lived and died there, Antonio Ricaurte who was born there and some other important figures of our history. On the other hand, we also find in Villa de Leyva elements that remind us of the pre history in which they talk about villa de Leyva as part of the sea, because of the huge skeletons of sea animals that have been found there and that are supposed to have millions of years. the ammonites and fossils in general that show part of the history of this spectacular village also attract the tourists who want to know culture and history in general.
Due to all this architectural and historical richness, Villa de Leyva is a really important touristic attraction from Colombians and people around the world.
By: Diana Carolina Castillo Rodriguez
An introduction to experimental cinema.
There are two types of cinema: Mainstream and Underground, the first one usually is made in a film studio and you can find it in popular stores, an example of this would be films produced by Hollywood. On the other hand, there are the underground cinema which is made by authors for themselves. So find experimental cinema is more difficult than mainstream. In this article, we will explore this wonderful world of art, dance, imagination and new mental conditions.
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The authors of Experimental films frequently made cinema for explore new art techniques and also they look for a pure cinema, without previous and professional actors, only using the move of the camera, physics phenomenos and their estrange imagination. The principal characteristic of this films is that it don’t have any context, or story, maybe, they don’t have meaning but a picture sequence, sometimes music and light games which made it an exciting piece of art. Also, this films are influenced by philosophical and literature movement like: existentialism, expressionism, idealism, cubism, and the most important: Surrealism. This is an art and literature movement founded in Paris and influenced by psychoanalysis, which wants to release the potential of the unconscious mind. You can find the surrealism in movies like: Entr’acte, A chain andalou, and Ballet Mecanique, the most important films. The first one, made by Rene Clair contains three absurd stories where the actors run for a casket, the objects can move and there are irrational images. A chain andalou begins with an eye that is cut and contains other irrational images like: elephants on a piano. The third one is music and dance expression that wants to show a perfect harmony without meaning.
Videoart and other kinds of experiment There are people who made experimental cinema from other art like music, for example John Cage creates music out common, showing that the silence does not exist, also he made experimental art with Nam June Paik, an important artist from Korea, who uses the synthesizer and others instruments to develop new styles of dance and rhythms.
The principal work of Paik is about Buda’s culture, in his works, he show this in a estrange form using many arts tool like the move of the camera, and painting in the film.
Written by: Cindy Dayana Padilla Esquinas
Bogotá, known an amazing city The principal city of Colombia is Bogotá, a big and noisy city, but is the most wonderful place for life and travel. Is located in the center of the country and is the most populated in Colombia. It is at 2600 meters above sea level and has a very variable weather. Bogotá is a beautiful city, but what can you see in Bogotá? 8If
you prefer learn about the history of Bogotá, you must to visit the place most emblematic of the city, “La plaza de Bolivar” is in the center of Bogotá and around there are “La Catedral primada de Colombia”, the courthouse, the museum of “La casa del florero” and the town hall of Bogotá. In this incredible place has happened many facts that had changed the history of the Colombia, both as well as for worse.
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if you want visit a religious place, you have to know “Monserrate”, is a mountain in the east of the city, there is an interesting church with the figure of “El Señor caido” and around has many trade. You can up to Monserrate walking, in cable car, in funicular or of knees. If you are a person th at like the sport and the exercise you can to go to the park “Simón Bolivar”, it is the biggest park in Bogotá and is the place where you can come in for a lot of events, how “Rock al parque”, the summer festival, concerts and many more. Also if you just want to relax, you can walk, run, do exercise, until ride in canoe; it is an excellent place for visit with your family. If yours is art, Bogotá is a diverse city and has many museums and theaters. The (Gold Museum)”museo del oro”, is a good choice for learn about the culture of
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Colombia. The “Museo Nacional” is the oldest museum in Colombia and has a very well collection of Colombian art and history. 10But
if you prefer the science, in Bogotá there is a big planetary, the “Planetario Distrital” offers a presentation in the dome and visit its wonderful museum. Bogotá is a city that will always welcome you with open arms.
Juan Sebastian Peña Cruz Level III group 18
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TOTA Tota is a municipality located in the department of Boyacá near to Sogamoso, in Colombia. In this place you can find the laguna de tota, this is a wonderful place; it shares other municipality like Cuitiva and Aquitania. Tota Lake has an area of 56.2 square kilometers; 13 km wide and 8 km long and a maximum depth of 67.40 meters. The lake counts with a freshwater reserve, clean and crystal water. You can do many activities. You can swim or dive in the lake, but it’s difficult because Tota count with a temperature not exceeding to 12°C, it’s very cold beach, you can fish “trucha arcoiris” because it feeds of coralline food. Playa Blanca is the site with more interest touristic count with white sand and incredible landscape. It has an extension about 3.5 hectares. You can camp in Playa Blanca, and share time with family or friends, you can make food in the fire and have a sweet and quiet night, or if you don’t like camp you can rent a cabin. If you want a relaxing ride you can rent a horse and feel the air in your face. You can walk in the mountains around the beach. In the way to Tota you will see different landscapes, many onion crops and potatoes crops or grasses, pine and eucalyptus in the mountains lives many frailejons and other vegetation, This zone have been subjected to process of transformation, therefore, the plant cover isn’t typical of the ecosystem. You will have the best see of the lake, reflect how beautiful is our country. The people are very kind and helpful.
The lake is famous for the fish “Trucha arcoiris” It’s delicious , in the lake lives other species of fish like capitan tourt, and turtles, the lake counts with a other Beaches : La Chiquita y El Bosque, but these don’t have the same interest. Exist two islands in the lake: San Pedro y Cerro Chico, they are connecting by a bridge and the Islote Cangrejos is located on the west of San Pedro Island. Tota is a better place to pass a different and relax vacations. NOTE: ALL PICTURES TAKEN FROM CHARY QUINCHE´S PHOTOS.