We Cultivate Science, Wisdom and Love.

We Cultivate Science, Wisdom and Love.
RESOLUTION
Luis Enrique Pérez Ojeda, Pbro.
Principal
Oswaldo Martínez Mendoza, Pbro.
Academic vice-rector
María del Carmen Rodríguez Mesa
Administrative vice-rector
EDITORIAL COMMITEE
Coordinator:
Milton Gerardo Hernández García
Project Manager
Yomaira Ángelica Herreño Contreras
Executive coordinators
Magda Paola Jiménez Vega
Lucimaver González Robayo
Collaborators:
Carlos Arturo Valdiri Rojas
Derli Liliana Cachope Tejedor
Gina Carolina Brijaldo Olarte.
Luis Fernando Vega García
Nelson Naranjo Mayorga
Designer:
Mario Jiménez Molina
CONTENTS:
•Language Department’s Mission and Vision
•Leading article
•What is AGORA about
•Language teachers’ perspectives
•Language learners’ perspectives
•Beyond words
•Across Boyacá
•Knowledge showcase
•Pandora’s Box
•Did you know …
LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT’S
MISSION AND VISION
MISIÓN
MISSION
El Departamento de Lenguas de
la Fundación Universitaria Juan de
Castellanos ha sido creado con el propósito de contribuir a la consolidación
de competencias comunicativas en lenguas extranjeras (inglés, francés, italiano, portugués) y, además, acompañar
procesos de enseñanza en áreas específicas del español como redacción, ortografía y creación literaria.
The
Language
Department
of
FundaciónUniversitaria
Juan
de
Castellanos aims at strengthening
the communicative skills in foreign
languages –English, French, Italian and
Portuguese-. Besides, it gives support in
specific Spanish areas such as writing,
orthography and literary creation.
De este modo, se pretende intervenir
activamente en la proposición y desarrollo de programas académicos enfocados hacia el conocimiento y uso
competente de las lenguas extranjeras
y del español, como elementos indispensables para afrontar las necesidades
y demandas inherentes a la actividad
académica, laboral e investigativa de los
profesionales del siglo XXI.
Nowadays, languages are determining
to cope with academic labor and
research
demands
and
needs.
Accordingly, the Language Department
intends propounding and developing
academic programs and strategies to
enhance learning, achieve the right
competence level in foreign and
mother tongues and contribute to
educate better professionals.
VISIÓN
VISION
El Departamento de Lenguas de
la Fundación Universitaria Juan de
Castellanos será una comunidad académica, investigativa y administrativa,
altamente calificada en los procesos
de enseñanza-aprendizaje de lenguas.
Asimismo, desde su saber específico
cooperará en la formación de competencias comunicativas en lenguas, y desarrollará experiencias investigativas en
torno a su enseñanza-aprendizaje, con
el propósito de fortalecer la construcción de saberes en esta área del conocimiento y vincularse activamente con
las entidades nacionales e internacionales, garantes en esta materia.
The
Language
Department
of
Fundación Universitaria Juan de
Castellanos will be an academic,
research and administrative community highly qualified to deal with
language learning and teaching concerns. Likewise, it will contribute to
the development of communicative
competences, and carry out research
processes on language teaching and
learning in order to provide knowledge on this issue and join leading
national and international academic
groups in this area.
LEADING ARTICLE
Betting on Peace
There is no path to peace, peace is the path.
Mahatma Gandhi
America is considered a continent of hope, and Colombia as one of the countries
of Latin America, must tune in with this epithet. It implies that this is a region
blessed by harmony, progress and justice.
However, we cannot ignore that our country urgently needs to bet on peace. This
implies to move toward reconciliation. Even when they are valid all the expressions and intentions to reach a yearning peace, that is the case of the rallies that
took place on April 9th on the main streets of Tunja and other cities. There is no
doubt that forgiveness, social justice and better conditions of life for all become
pillars upon which we can turn our dreams into a reality.
Seeking peace means to follow a social process of harmonization, upon which
converge values, principles and social norms. Peace is possible by the alliances
among the different groups of society, because it is a good deed living within
diverse human and social entities. In addition, peace is not a state of being, but
rather a perfectible process that builds permanently with the contribution of all
the actors involved in it.
But peace requires four vital conditions: truth, justice, love and freedom.
According to Pope Juan Pablo II, if the American continent would like to reach
a peace process, they must seek out for justice. And if we want to preserve and
honor life, this continent must embrace the truth revealed by God.
Our country needs room for dialogue, one that would make it possible to continue this journey. In dilated and deteriorated armed conflicts, such as in Colombia,
we can intend to put out this conflict not only with armed groups mobilization
or either guerrilla or self-defense groups. If these processes are not accompanied
by the State’s resolute and real commitment to human rights and social policy, as
well as a process of reconciliation and resignification of humanitarian awareness
of Colombians, any negotiation will be doomed to failure.
In order to make this not to happen, it is politically and socially correct to assert
that to continue and broaden our successful options of our initiatives for peace, it
is imperative to create scenarios of citizen participation and deliberation, so that
our voices are heard.
P. OSWALDO MARTÍNEZ MENDOZA, Ph. D.
Academic Vice-rector
WHAT IS AGORA ABOUT
The Language Department of Fundación
Universitaria Juan de Castellanos is working on
enhancing the language skills of our students. As
a result of the teaching labor and the students’
enthusiasm, it is really gratifying to launch the first
JDC issue in foreign languages.
Here, you can come across with a great variety of
texts written by our students. They comment on
daily facts related to their academic programs,
share experiences and knowledge. Also, play while
learning a foreign language.
AGORA, as the meeting place of the Ancient Greek
is now the meeting place of languages, but not
dead words structuring a language. It’s the meeting
place where people- the language carriers- come
together to get to know one another, to build up
communities, to keep on and enrich our growing
process not only as language learners, but as
human beings, as well. That’s what really matters.
Languages are able to show who we are, even
our hidden corners. They go beyond any frontier
and take us everywhere we want. So, dear reader:
don’t miss the chance of walking across the bridges
of languages and have the world on hand.
LANGUAGE TEACHERS’
PERSPECTIVES
Teaching and learning a foreign language is becoming a worldwide issue that is
raising awareness in different fields of knowledge, why? The globalization brings
new challenges every day and that is one enough reason to become competent
and proficient in a new language. As an English teacher, I strongly believe in
social interaction as the key factor in any learning process, and as the key to
help the learner to be prepared for the new challenges in his/her professional
context through the development of problem-solving and critical-thinking skills;
skills that must encourage learners to be independent, life-long learners and be
proactive in society.
Lucimaver González Robayo
English professor
“Teaching languages is the best way for approaching to the human being, because
you teach not only a cold code but the joy of a different culture”
Carlos Arturo Valdiri Rojas
English professor
“Ensinar o obriga a enfrentar os problemas de frente. Quando você tem um
problema com um aluno, você não tem a opção de fechar a porta. Você precisa
gerenciar esse aluno como você gerencia a sua classe. Você também aprende
a sorrir aos seus alunos após discussões com a administração e outros assuntos
fora da classe”.
Luis Fernando Vega García
English and Portuguese professor
The language teaching – learning process is an act which enriches both
participants: teacher and students. Teacher because he / she is a tool to facilitate
the knowledge of another language, culture, customs and other aspects. The
student because he / she can express and interact in a new way (language) that
will let him / her have a better vision of this world. So Languages teachers don´t
stop sharing the world and students don’t miss this opportunity to know it from
a different perspective.
Milton Gerardo Hernández García
English professor
Through time it has said that theory and practicing are methodologically linked
and if those things are carried out in a very good way, these can give answers to
the technique problems and fortify that rational approach of our practical social
problems, which are considered basic conditions for solving problems.
So for learning a second language is important to use suitable activities, one of
them group activities, take into account the theory in order to develop an efficient application in all English levels, where is necessary to take into account the
environment and the objective in interaction, to foreknow if the group activities
contribute to the improvement in the second language.
Derli Liliana Cachope Tejedor
English professor
Comme professeur des langues je dois dire que l’apprentissage d’une autre
langue nous apprend à nous ouvrir sur le monde et interagir avec les cultures,
rencontrer l’homme à partir d’une perspective plus large et connaître la notion
que chacun a sur le monde. Pour cette raison, je vous invite ouvrir votre esprit
et votre cœur pour être en mesure de nous communiquer dans un monde plus
petit et qu’on peut comprendre.
Magda Paola Jiménez Vega
English and French professor
Teaching a new language is a passion and learning it must be a desire that comes
from the heart. When you teach or learn a second language, your mind flies, and
you feel that you can know other worlds, cultures, people just with the movement of your foreign tongue and your multilingual thoughts.
Gina Carolina Brijaldo Olarte
English professor
Learning a language is a wonderful adventure full of great challenges and rewardings. So, if you want to join the adventure, you should be like a treasure searcher: determined, persistent, dreamer and daring because what you’re looking
for lies deep inside yourself. Teachers, tools and resources are clues on the way
to the treasure. Taking advantage of them and even find out their role in your
own search, depend just on how far you want to go and how much you want to
achieve!!!
DARE YOU DO IT???
Yomaira AngélicaHerreño Contreras
English professor
LANGUAGE LEARNERS’
PERSPECTIVES
IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE
According to what we learned during the student´s life, we think it is important to
learn English in our career, because we as social workers must know vocabulary
related to it in order to communicate knowledge in our target topic, but the true
is we need to improve English, we are beginners now and the only good thing is
we have long way to do it for being better in a closer future.
We have to be sincere, it is hard to learn English for us, because at the beginning,
we never worried to learn it. Now it is a necessity, so at the moment we need to
take part on it to improve English day per day. We are sure we are going to grasp
it. The learning process is tough, but at the same time is great to learn new things
in English to share in our workplace where English is considered as a necessity.
So we can say about learning English process since we began to study Social
Work is good. I have had the possibility of understanding it, and it is because
we have had the tools and the teacher´s patience; it has been amazing and we
really enjoyed English, we could understand at least a percent and it has created
the necessity to ask partners to compare progress.
We hope to improve our English and to do everything all right in our job as
future social workers, because we have to take place from English, we need to
be excellent speakers in the place we are going to work
Alejandra Soriano
Social Work
English II
DOES LEARNING ANOTHER LANGUAGE DEVELOP YOUR INTELLIGENCE?
The wonderful and unexplored world of the brain allows us to understand the greatness
of the human, animal intelligence and of the nature. It is surprising that just we use 10%
of the brain in metabolic and intellectual functions, but when we realize the exercise of
learning a language physiologically is observed that there is needed the work of many
parts of the brain, for example the left cerebral cortex (center of the speech), low frontal
bark and frontal subcortical regions. The above mentioned cerebral activity increases the
gray matter (directing of the reasoning), which is directly proportional to the intelligence
of an individual. It improves the cognitive function, the capacity of the language, the
intelligence, the attention, the memory and the perception. According to scientific studies,
it is said that learning a second language balance the aging and the decrease the nervous
system re-planning Alzheimer disease. A study developed in the University of Chicago
demonstrated that “The bilingual persons tend to take decisions far more reasoned if they
think about language different from the mother language.”1 It is important to highlight the
world of possibilities that provide us the learning of a foreign language, but especially the
value to cultivate the intelligence which includes different articles in the knowledge, for
example it wakes the perception up.
If learning a language helps us to wake the intelligence up by means of suitable methods
of learning, why don´t we discipline our brain in order that “it thinks in big” and of this
form take advantage of our infinite intellectual capacities? To learn a foreign language has
to turn as an obligation or as imposition in education, and not as an option. It is necessary
to posse the suitable disposition and especially intellectual discipline. Not uselessly
learning a foreign language has been implemented in the classrooms of higher education
in order to prepare us adequately as a competent professional in the different careers
and favor of establishing the development of the pedagogy “multiple intelligences”.
This allows us as Veterinary doctors to re-discover the importance of disciplining our
thought toward the brave task of cultivating the different intelligences and to apply them
to the care of the animals, the nature and the human being.
Lawyer, Paola Andrea Aponte Sandoval
Veterinary Medicine
English IV
HOW IS ENGLISH INVOLVED IN MY CAREER?
I think English is implicated in many aspects for my career because most of the thematic
is available in this language. For example: applications from the pure physics to the
implementation of networks, databases, software and others.
1 Phychological SCIENCE. The forening-language Effect. In:
pss.sagepud.com/content/early/2012/04/08/0956797611432178.abstact
Besides, many important investigations are in their original English format. A specific
example of this is the work of Framework for the Application of Systems Engineering in
the Commercial Aircraft Domain. These Guidelines define the scope, requirements, and
interfaces needed to implement systems engineering at the aircraft level for a Commercial
Aircraft. The Guidelines define what the aircraft does at the aircraft level, and provide a
high level view of the essential end products that perform these tasks. These same views
are provided for the primary subsystems at the aircraft level.
Finally, Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering focusing on how
complex engineering projects should be designed and managed over their life cycles.
Issues such as logistics, the coordination of different teams, and automatic control of
machinery become more difficult when dealing with large, complex projects. Systems
engineer uses his/her genius to create ideas that generate useful solutions.
Alonso Dueñas
Systems Engineering
English IV
THE WORLD OF GLOBALIZATION
Today we live in a world far more advanced; the Globalization is a process that began to
experience the world of the XXI century where different events take place, for instance:
economic liberalization, technological, social and cultural processes leading to increase
communication among countries around the world through the unification of markets,
companies and especially culture; through a series of social and economic policies that
give a global nature to these aspects.
That’s why today speaking a second language is very necessary; we live in a world where
we are in permanent communication all the time, whether for business or through the
use of technologies that help us know the other side of the world. If we want to be
prepared to face those challenges, then the learning of a second language must be ideal
and a necessity for today’s human beings.
Learning and speaking a second language, in the middle of a business and globalized
world should be seen as an opportunity and useful tool to get a better job and alliances,
to interact with others and improve our knowledge and cultural background. English
language has become essential for everybody, since the little one till the adult people.
Those who want to encourage themselves to take risks and at the same time, take
advantage of all the resources in English to open doors and be successful in life.
Diana Carolina Camargo
International Law
English IV
BEYOND WORDS
MY PROFESSION…
It is never thought about other one
and it is normal in the human,
but they are not left of side
these dreams that we long.
He is not a good selfish being
with the things that are learned,
it is necessary to be able to share
the knowledge everywhere.
It is normal that since children
we go back to play with our dreams,
though now of major
we will have to know
since counting and expiring
each of them.
I dreamed of being an artist
I played at being a writer
in this stage of my life
I debate myself for being
an excellent doctor, a doctor who cares.
Already it is not enough
with the pencil
that paper is not the same,
a serious and firm criterion
it was causing his great
pleasure as well.
Every second in my life,
my profession makes me happier
because it is important to help
no matter to who and where.
Before giving a concept
I will have in all my prayer
requesting the master of the skies
not to damage my profession.
Jasmine E. Sepúlveda Cordón
Veterinary Medicine
English IV
ENTITLED POEM
Tonight drink
a wine reserved
once more begins
the rite of the festivity
but there is deep silence
after every laugh
and we know that in the middle
the absence
are to bud answers,
answers that we have never asked
and we get questions,
questions have not answers,
and the old caress
open new wounds
and the seal in each drop
a piece of life.
Play, play is the remembrance
And the prize, the prize is the forgetfulness.
And the after the hours
We look from the forehead
And we watch with amazement
That even survives.
Angélica Pérez Calderón
Veterinary Medicine
English III
SURREALISM TASTES LIKE
SUBVERSIVE WAVES
TRANSLATION POEM
By: Gina Brijaldo
English professor
Michael Deragon is the damnedest, precious and vigorous surrealist
American poet I have ever read, the
artificer of my water poetry. Michael´s
ferocious language is the hint to break
away from our rationality, to peel the
husk of knowledge and to plunge us
into the ocean of automatic writing,
desire and dreams. The following texts
are a glance at Michael´s Deragon
world. The first one is a short theoretical reflection about the risk of translating and discovering the corners
of the author´s space. In the second
one, I take surfboard and I slide on the
tongue-sea of the poet with the purpose of constructing a Spanish version
of a fragment of his poem: “YOU ARE
WHAT I WAS WANTING”
HE WANTS TO BE INFINITE
To the trapeze artist of the language.
We do not have a net…
You have broken my language, and
I like your magic hands that demolish everything. You are digging in the
quick sands of my consciousness. You
could fall there and find gold and slag,
and cloudy wells as well. Your writing
is the path, and I feel your surrealist
cry expanding reality, you drill it, you
pound the phantoms inside the bedroom. Two people so far and so different between themselves. Hi, I am
Gina, your spy, the girl that follows
your waterpasses. I am translating you,
but you do not stop moving, surfing
on the paper, did you know? We live
in the zone of contradictions and your
images are crashing against my seashore. Would you like to take my body as
a surfboard and cross the ocean? This
is the risk of translating you.
“YOU ARE WHAT I WAS WANTING”
DESIRE
You came into the kitchen wearing only
your dream skin,
Your sleep shine,
Your dirty eyes,
You are what I was wanting.
My face in burnt pieces of toast. Jelly is a
quiet soft skin.
“You are so wonderful right now.”
Her shoulder frost enters the kitchen. All
the flowers became icicles. Her cold fingered eyelashes stopped moving a body
without light.
I touched something warm last night.
Your soft green eye?
A cat pretending to be a person. Spooning
my arm
She keeps knocking like a school of
sharks.
A child is making a spaceship out of
strange bones and I can´t figure out what
animals they came from.
My hands
are hands.
I should not confess so much to you.
I should not taste your lightning eyes,
your hanging words, your sleeping spine,
but I have to.
*Through language barriers I heard all
your dreams at once. I think they altered
your grasshopper eyes and praying mantis sex.
“You´re so stupid”
“She is just chocolate”
Your nape, your eyes, your breath, full of
hidden faces.
I hear kissing in the other room. I´m swollen like a favorite day in memory.
Your ripe breast. Your vespine tooth. I´m
wondering about your big bad love.
You say the damnedest things when I´m
kissing you.
*The liquid in your eyes is green tea with
honey.
“ERES LO QUE HE ESTADO
BUSCANDO”
DESEO
Llegaste a la cocina vistiendo sólo tu piel
de sueños,
Tu brillo dormido,
Tus ojos sucios,
Eres lo que he estado buscando.
Mi rostro en rebanadas de pan quemado.
La mermelada, una silenciosa piel suave.
“Eres tan maravillosa, ahora mismo.”
Su hombro helado entra a la cocina.
Todas las flores se convierten en carámbanos. Sus dedos fríos, sus pestañas tocadas por dedos fríos. Un cuerpo sin luz.
Anoche toqué algo caliente, ¿tu blando
ojo verde?
Un gato fingiendo ser una persona.
Cuchareando mi brazo.
Ella no deja de golpear como un cardumen de tiburones.
Un niño está construyendo una nave espacial a punta de huesos raros, y no puedo entender de qué animales provienen.
Mis manos
son manos.
No debería confesarte tanto.
No debería saborear tus ojos relámpago,
tus palabras colgantes, tu adormecida
columna vertebral, pero debo hacerlo.
*A través de las paredes del lenguaje
escuché todos tus sueños a la vez; creo
que trastornaron tus ojos saltamontes y
tu sexo de mantis religiosa.
“Eres tan estúpido”
“Ella es sólo chocolate”
Tu nuca, tus ojos, tu aliento lleno de rostros ocultos.
Escucho besuqueos en la otra habitación.
Estoy hinchado como un día memorable.
Tu pecho maduro, tu aguijón. Me pregunto por tu gran amor desastroso.
Dices las cosas más hijuemadres cuando
te estoy besando.
*El líquido en tus ojos es té verde con
miel.
POEM
If I get lost in the morning,
If I get lost each afternoon,
If I arrive the next day, and if the sun refuses me seeing you.
Today I beg the stars to hide me at night,
To tell me what you feel,
To tell me where you are
To give away past memories.
To tell me when you come
Because I die today for seeing you
That the rain in the morning is stronger than at night,
That your eyes’ shine is stronger than the sun that bends my sight,
That control all the phrases that I’ve said because of you.
That life today
gives me the wish to meet you,
and today my world is so small that I don’t accept it.
And though many people judge me today, and
that few people believe me today …
In middle of the shipwreck for hurricanes and storms the truth ever it knew,
and this day I won`t need to search for you.
Magaly Rodríguez Rodríguez
Agricultural Engeneering
English V
DELIRIO AL SON DEL AMOR
Deseo, placer, sentimientos, sensaciones que hacen despertar en mí, eleva mi
dopamina hasta hacerla explotar para sentir cuerpos, mente y pensamientos
enlazados entre sí; mirando los labios iban al compás de la danza, pensaba en
morderlos con gran ansia hasta desgarrarlos y tenerlo solo para mí.
Miraba los ojos miel que hacían derramar mi corazón dejando rastros de amor
sobre el alma marcando mi nombre en ti. Desearía tanto sembrar semillas de
amor y regarlas con gotas de esperanza para que floreciera la rosa de amor.
El tiempo ha pasado y la rosa se está marchitando, la boca pierde el sentido que
marcaba el deseo, y los ojos se oscurecen perdiendo el brillante color, queda
la ilusión del tango apasionado que algún día bailaremos fijando luceros para
sellarlos, y así concluir el delirio de este gran amor acompasado. SÁLVAME DE MIS INSTINTOS
Sálvame de este arrebato de amor que mi cabeza tiene por ti, sálvame porque
si no voy a desvanecer entre tus sabanas de deseo que acobijan mi anhelo de
tenerte cerca de mí y saborear cada parte de tu cuerpo con aroma a miel canela
que embrujan mis instintos y no me dejan despertar de esta adicción por ti.
Jeimy Andrea Cuy Guevara
Social Work
English II
ACROSS BOYACÁ :
TOURISTIC GUIDES:
SORACÁ:
soracá, a small town with very happy and friendly people, welcomes you!
REACHING SORACÁ
Soracá is located at seven kilometers from Tunja with altitude of 2949 m.s.n.m
and a temperature of 12º to 18º. It has 5764 km2 of extension. Soracá is bounded by Boyacá Boyacá to the south; Puente de Boyacá to the north; by Chivatá
and Oicatá on the East with Siachoque and Viracachá and Tunja on the West.
Before the indigenous soracaes of muiscas family they were the first settlers of
this town who fought for the conservation of their traditions and bond ancients.
They wore long clothes and sandals.
Nowadays the town has modern buildings in relation to our ancestors. It is a
little town, but people are hard-working and with character. There are beautiful
landscapes and plants as Acanthus mollis and Bursera simaruba.
In some years Soracá will be a nicer town with more touristic places, hotels,
schools, universities and we hope to have more people who want to come to
enjoy Soracá.
TOURISTIC PLACES
THE YEWS OF THE DEVIL
These are two bigger rocks in form of yew located in Quebrada Grande.
CAVE OF THE SINGLES
In this cave, indigenous celebrated their marriages.
The most important festivities are:
•HOLIDAY OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI
It is a religious holiday celebrated each year where people showed thanks to the
Lord for receiving many blessings.
•AGRICULTURAL FESTIVAL OF SORACÁ
It is held on October. There are carrages in the town, parades and many activities
from the farmers.
•CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEAR´S GIFT SORAQUENSE
It is held from December 12th to 24th.
People show folk dances and floats with God child and they dressed dolls for
burning as symbol of light; people attend parades of girls from the same town.
Eliana Paola Fuquen Urian
Agricultural Engineering
English VI
VENTAQUEMADA
GOLDEN GATE OF BOYACÁ
JEIMY CAROLINA ALDANA RUIZ
AGRICULTURAL ENGENEERING
English V
PHOTOS:
JEIMY CAROLINA ALDANA RUIZ
HISTORY
Ventaquemada was founded in December 17 of 1777 by the viceroy MANUEL
ANTONIO FLOREZ. Ventaquemada`s name comes of a business unit call THE SALE
that was burned by rivalries among the people.
In the past, houses were made of adobe. There were dirty roads and few schools. People
wore sandals and rode horses.
Today, the houses are made of cement and block; we have interveredal transportation,
paved roads, It has five public schools and four private schools and it is very commercial.
In the future, it might have universities, the most advanced commercial sector and
modern transportation.
LIMITS OF THE MUNICIPALITY
NORTH: Tunja and Samacá.
SOUTH: Turmequé and Villapinzón.
EAST: Boyacá, Jenesano and Nuevo Colón.
WEST: Guachetá, Lenguazaque and Villapinzón.
TEMPERATURE: 8ºC and 14ºC.
TOTAL LENGTH: 159.329 Km2.
FESTIVITIES
VENTAQUEMENSE CHRISTMAS BOX
This ten day-event has as purpose to show one of the popular manifestations of
boyacense people. There are colorful parades of floats, comparsas, costumes,
orchestras, presentation, municipal reign of potato and exaltation of floklore of
this part of the Department.
DAY OF PEASANT
Within the activities developed as part of the celebration are the contest and
parade of the queen sheep, spinners contest, tutadora women contest, competition muleteers, enjoying the music of popular groups, and finally the rural
community integrates at a luncheon. It also delivered, tools for agricultural field
and surprise gifts to those attending the event.
LANGUAGE DAY
Within the activities carried out during this day of the language are: endless reading of one of the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, linking to the community,
couplets contest on the work to read, exhibition of books for admiring the expression of the writer and induce the reader to an useful and practical reading.
CHILD DAY
The celebration plan of activities includes projects through as “developing myself”, where Ventaquemense children promote healthy lifestyles, “educating myself”, and “deporteando” where children of these spaces for recreation, enjoy
and learn, “listening to me”, the space where we apply different forms of peaceful coexistence and “protecting me” where children have options that favor
playful protection.
VENTAQUEMADA GIRL ELECTION
During this election are involved between 15 and 20 children. They represent
to the different sectors of the municipality. They want to get the title of
Ventaquemada queen.
The girl who is chosen as t queen becomes the image of Ventaquemense childhood in the different regional events. This event has as objetive to promote cultural and artistic values of children.
QUEEN OF QUEENS MEETING
During the event the Queens have a performance and among them, a queen is
chosen based on her qualities. She carries out a touristic and cultural Project of
the Boyacá region.
With this event, the ventquemense people want to promote tourism, identity
as boyacense, being an example of fellowship and appreciation for our roots,
history and in general the tradition and popular wisdom.
FAIRS AND FESTIVALS
Ventaquemada celebrates the festivities, these festivals are characterized
by their invaluable religious sense,
tourism and folklore. The main celebrations are made to the Divine Child,
the Virgin of Perpetuo Socorro,, Saint
Anthony of Padua, bovine exhibition
fair, traditional parade of stick peter,
ride, firewoks, cultural popular events,
sports.
FESTIVAL OF DANCE, SONG
AND MUSIC GROUPS.
This festival is held to meet the characteristics of the rhythm of torbellino.
It promotes children, young and adults
the value for the traditions and customs of the Boyacense region.
FLOWER FESTIVAL
Girls from different villages involved
whose costumes pay tribute to flowers
and finally choose the flower girl
among the participants. There is also
a participation of silleteros giving a demonstration with different flowers.
FESTIVAL AND REIGN
OF THE ELDERLY
Created with the aim of strengthening
plans and programs of elderly people.
It has significant importance and it is
where human values are promoted for
living.
MUNICIPAL BEAUTY CONTEST OF POTATO
Event that integrates the different villages of town and where the women show
their beauty and knowledge of this important product . It is carried out during
10 nights of Christmas box. Among the participants a candidate is elected city
queen of the potato.
EASTER WEEK
The Easter week begins on palm
Sunday with a ceremony and procession; Holy Thursday in the afternoon
is held the lord´s supper. Good Friday
is interpreted the passion and death of
our Lord.
TUNJA
Cradle of Liberty
Alejandra Vanessa Zuluaga Reyes
International Law
One of the oldest cities in Colombia, Tunja was formerly the seat of the Chibcha
Indian Kings. It was founded in 1539 by Captain Gonzalo Suarez Rendon. In
1818, Simon Bolivar defeated Spanish Royalists near Tunja. Some of the industries
here include mining and agriculture. Tunja was also the center for many events
and characters in the Colombian history. It has a population of around 120,000
inhabitants.
Colombia
Country:
Boyacá
Department:
Temperature: 14°C
Foundation: August 6, 1539
Population: 178.082
Demonym: Tunjano
Tunja is one of the oldest cities in America. It has a Spanish style and historical
places like colonial churches, some convents, libraries and beautiful houses full
of history.
Tunja does not stay in the past, for that reason, now it is considerated as an
Universitarian City. Most of of each five people in Tunja are students, so you can
expect to enjoy museums and galleries, as well as a great cafe scene and, of course,
a great night life.
Landmark
The main square also called “Plaza de Bolivar” is the main focal point with the
cathedral and the “Casa del Fundador” a colonial mansion built by the city’s
founder, a large, impressive colonial mansion dating back to the 16th Century.
The “Donato Well” o “Pozo de Hunzahua” is one of the most beautiful sights of
the city. It encloses fantastic stories of our ancestors.
In Tunja, we celebrate some festivities as “Cultural Week” when artist from all
over the world come and share their talent with people.
In Holy week people remind passion and dead of Jesus making parades and
religious acts.
MY PROFILE
I’m a Social Work student. I’m from Colombia. I speak Spanish and a bit of
English. I’m interested in music, football, dancing, movies and meeting people. I’d like to go to Mexico and Panama. I want to get a good friend and learn
French.
My home town is Tunja. It’s beautiful and it has lots of things to see and to do. It
has beautiful museums and the food is delicious. Tunja is a great place and it has
lots of nice churches and restaurants. It’s very cold but the people are friendly, of
course, there are nearby places where the weather is spectacular and I´d like to
share my culture.I live in a big house with my family. They are very friendly. We
have a spare room with a spare bed, so friends often stay with me. We live near
downtown. My sister lives in the same street. My mother has a cafeteria and likes
dancing carranga and salsa music, too. My father works in Bogotá. My brother
cooks dinner for us at the weekend and my husband often travels for working.
By: Diana Hernández
Social Work
English III
MY PROFILE
I am a social work student
I am from Colombia
I speak Spanish and a bit of English
I am interested in movies, music and table tennis.
I’d like to go to Cartagena and Miami
I am married and have a child, his name is Juan Angel. My husband is so cute
and friendly.
My home town is Bogotá, but I’m living in Tunja city, the capital of Boyacá. It´s a
beautiful department and has lots of things to see and do. Tunja is a gastronomic
land in which you can find delicious typical dishes of the region. It also has great
landscapes.
I´ll wait for you soon……
By: Katherin Vargas
Social Work
English III
KNOWLEGDE SHOWCASE
FIVE SECRETS TO SUCCEED
IN BUSINESS
THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
COMPANIES
For being a good investor and have
success in business it is important following the next tips:
Nowadays, the companies are in continue updating; one example of this,
it is the complement of the social responsibility in your company. Then we
said “welcome to the path of business
based on ethical principles and law
principles”.
You can find the social responsibility in
many ways:
Step one: be a person who understands very well himself/herself, with
personality, values and creativity in the
marketing.
Step two: create good ideas and sell
them to investors, sell the vision of
your company or business to customers, the selling must be precise and
exact for you to succeed.
Step three: be a leader, have confidence
and be able of leading business or
companies.
Step four: create goals before beginning
a firm; chase objectives looking an
economic stable future for having
happiness and don’t worry about
anything.
Step five: every entrepreneur has
strengths and weaknesses; a good entrepreneur builds a business utilizing
the strengths to set against the weaknesses and diminish them.
People who think on investing must
take risks and set against the future business.
Jonh Sebastián Amaya Vargas
Public Accounting
English V
•The human resources
•The commitment with the environment
•The commitment with your
customers.
•The commitment with suppliers.
One form to develop the social responsibility is through the commitment
with the environment like recycling all
our garbage, for example in Colombia
in the department of Boyacá, more
exactly in the Villa de Leyva town you
find the Duruelo Hotel, one of the
companies with more number of workers there.
This company has a wonderful project
of recycling; they pick up all the garbage
and select it in three parts:
1. Cardboard and plastic; more
exactly bottles of water and soda,
and screw tops are separated from
the bottles. With this good action
with the planet, the Duruelo Hotel
also helps children with cancer,
because they are associated with a
foundation that sponsors the therapy for these children.
2. The organic waste is sold for the
pigs.
3. And then this money is used to
do activities for the employees.
This is a little example of the social
responsibility, with this, you can also
start...
Enjoy the social responsibility.
Ana Carolina Saenz
Public Accounting
Fifth semester
GENERATING PUBLICITY
What can we do to generate publicity?
If you want to generate or create good
publicity in a company, it’s important
to have expert professionals in advertising we also must keep in mind the
type of company you want to show.
For your company or business in only
five steps:
Step one: Set your target
Step two: Have a base of data.
Step three: Make a brainstorming for
assuring that the idea is good and not
only promotion.
Step four: Write a press release.
Step five: Send the release to your
contact list.
Magda Carolina Roseero
Public Accounting
English V
HOW TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL
ACCOUNTING ADVISOR
I am going to give you seven tips and I
hope they help you to become a successful accounting advisor.
If you pratice these tips I am sure that
you will help to increase the economy
of the people you offer your service.
The tips are:
The first that you have to do is to know
a lot about the law accounting.
1. The accounting law change in
every time, so you must update
constantly.
2. Try to keep in your mind the
knowledge that you get.
3. Have human values and also
good behavior.
4. Don’t lie, give the best advice to
the client.
5. Know the changes of the economical signs.
6. Know the taxes your client has
to pay for the taxing.
When you end to read it, please
try to practice it, and you will
be a successful advisor.
That’s all ....... Dear friend..
Alexis FinitoAsprilla
Public Accounting
English V
A WORLD TO DISCOVER AND CARE
Soil is the earth material that contains most of the micro fauna existing on the
planet, besides it is made by physical, chemical and biological natural processes.
Among the most important features, the soil is the support and stability to the
plants, being the habitat of microorganisms and a source of raw materials. There
are two classifications of soil types; one related to their functionality and the
other to their physical characteristics and those include sandy, limestone, muck,
clay, rocky and mixed.
The complex formation process requires deep soil under natural conditions, long
periods of time and minimizing disruption. Nowadays, alarming figures make us
be aware that the ground is being lost due to the mismanagement during edafon
farming where the powder is completely preventing from returning to rebuild
their structure. Besides, the excessive use of chemicals products, cutting trees
and erosion worsen the situation. It is assumed that in the future this issue now
a fertile land could turn into deserts.
The soil conservation will be achieved by providing ongoing awareness to farmers: stopping the destruction of this resource, starting the tree planting and
protection of native forests. Farmers in our region have to crop rotation and
plant windbreaks to prevent erosion caused by wind, as the use of agrochemicals
should be made consciously and in rational way to retrieve the micro fauna of
our soils. In my opinion, we can take care of our planet together.
Going back tothe whole issue, I can conclude that all of us must change the way
we exploit the natural resources that are either made directly or indirectly, and
so. The correction of those short comings in the future enables new generations
to enjoy a clean and decent planet where they can breathe a pure air and live
in good conditions.
Elizabeth Sanchez
Agricultural Engineering
English VI
CONSTITUTIONALISM OF BOYACA IN EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
In Colombia, constitutionalism is not just an idea that we bring from 1991.
Boyacá is the Cradle of Independence, but it is also the department where the
legal and constitutional processes take place. To clarify, Tunja issued a constitution full of great ideas and especially the clear and pure legislative capacity. That
ability was influenced by two important historical processes.
The Tunja’s Constitution was issued on December 9th, 1811. Last year was the
bicentennial of this magnificent establishment, for that reason, people of this
beautiful city should be proud because this constitution served as a reference
to many of the Latin American constitutions and even the Colombian of 1991.
The ideas and political systems, through the years, have been modified by a
series of events - not only ideological, but cultural, economic, in its embodiment, among others - but its soul always has followed a very signed structural
and conceptual ideology (ATHENS - ROME); it is also clear that the period that
marked the revolution and the creation of democratic political systems in Europe
and America was the Enlightenment; the question is: What was the cause of the
revolutionary processes? Through the illustration - or better yet –what is exactly
Enlightenment?
Tunja gave the world (in making the thoughts and ideologies of that period)- and
more specifically the people of Colombia and Latin America - the greatest sign
of legislative, political, social and organizational capacity (talking about the latent
revolutionary period in Colombia in 1811), no doubt.
It’s a Constitution based on ancient Rome and the Enlightenment -in which the
main exponents: Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and others; who took into
account the human being as the cornerstone of social and economic interaction.
The respect and enforcement of rules achieve the perfect Tunja’s community
development which is the beginning, or better yet: legacy that this historic land
gives to the state organization seen today2.
Camilo Andrés Ibarra Sánchez3
International Law
English IV
2
IBARRA, Camilo. Constitucionalismo Boyacense de Principios de Siglo XIX. Búhos Editores. Tunja
– Colombia. Page 12.
3
LawStudent.School of Law and International Policy.Fundación Universitaria Juan de Castellanos,
Tunja – Boyacá (Colombia).
ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
In recent times organic agriculture has been getting relevant. But many people
wonder about its meaning. Well, organic farming can be defined as a system in
which they utilize the resources that are into a property such as soil biological
activity and the most important is that it reduces the use of agrochemical. Thus,
protecting the environment and human health.
Nowadays, it has become an interesting production as it is highly profitable,
which benefits both the producer and the consumer. By eating an organic product is benefiting your health long- range what it means a saving as for medical
expenses and it will be healthier.
The main organic products in Colombia tend to be mostly agricultural, such
as coffee, sugar, and so on. But, it also has applications in the livestock field as
the case of organic cattle in which your product is meat, for instance, the cross
of cattle and buffalo. A clear example in Boyacá is the production of organic
livestock by Corpochivor in the municipality of Chivor. In this way, Colombia is
increasing day by day its organic production with a very promising future in the
global market.
Juan Carlos Manchego
Agricultural Engineering
English III
WORKERS CHILDREN IN TUNJA
Boyacá presents one of the highest rate of children’s workers around the country due to different factors. Such as: culture, poverty, educational level, family
traditions and so on. Tunja is the capital of the department and it is the city
where people can find many children at the street working to get money for solving their family’s needs and they are working everywhere: “plaza de Mercado,
parking car, restaurants and other places. So they don’t have the opportunity to
study and to share their free time with others as normal persons do because they
have to obtain money to their families.
So what can we do for them in order to help this kind of people?
Let´s think what the Boyacá’s department has done for helping them.
María Clara Poveda Franco
Luis Fagua
Social Work
English second.
IT IS TIME TO CHANGE THE MISCONCEPTION ABOUT P.E CLASSES
In the society we have seen that people look at the physical education as a
physical development process, but people unknown that the physical education
recreation and sports can provide an opportunity to develop a better mental
ability, and thus get “healthy mind, body mind”.
One of the issues that are affecting the image of physical education is in relation
to the misconception people have about this career. Its aim is considered to
be providing a space for fun and games for students at colleges and schools. In
addition, P.E teachers are not working at the institutional level because for many
people we just teach students to drive a ball without taking into account the
benefits that exercises give to the body.
Another problem is that some schools don´t register the P.E class in their regular
academic schedule, so it has to be as an extracurricular class and when there are
other activities, those are cancelled and the time is used to do rehearsals about
other subjects.
Finally, as a P.E student and future professor I want to invite my colleagues to work
in strategies from rural to urban areas with recreational activities and good use
of free time for young, children and adults. Activities that promote the practice
of any sport in a competitive field, and in this way to achieve our career´s goal:
to be agents of social, dynamic and interactive chances through the implementation of research, pedagogy, science and knowledge, in an axiological context.
Let´s act now and make the difference so we can be a pride for our institution.
Leonel Armando Salamanca Barrera
Physical Education and Sports
THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION’S
ROLE AND THE POVERTY IN AFRICA
Taking into account that poverty is one of the largest events of concern for the
States at present, and they still do not succeed in establishing optimal policies
that allow finishing this event, which affects millions of people worldwide. And
especially children who lack of covering the basic needs to live because they
don’t have the guarantees for a decent life and can’t enjoy the freedom and have
respect for themselves.
Currently a person is considered poor if he or she lives with less than one dollar a day. But poverty is not only no money. It is also no access to non-material
conditions and environmental factors that allow the physical and mental growth
and development in optimal environment conditions for human beings. It is not
to have a place to live, not to have a meal, recreational areas for children and
so forth. And these aspects are a situation which should concern to the international society.
Given the gravity of the facts and considering that there is a supranational body:
The United Nations organization, which is responsible for ensuring the protection of the rights of people and especially for children. And it’s mindful of the
living situation that the African continent has suffered for decades. It is important
to establish what are the policies the UN implements to help and cooperate to
reduce the number of people now suffering and determine what are the main
causes leading to this situation that has not allowed the development of the states especially in southern Africa.
Ángela Esperanza Reyes Reyes
International Law
English VII
ZOONOSIS: RABIES KILLS
Zoonosis is a disease transmitted from animals to humans and from humans to
animals.
It is commonly transmitted by a bite of dog or cat.
This disease must be notified immediately, because people suffering from it, can
have serious consequences.
This is characterized by irritation of the central nervous system, followed by paralysis and death.
More common signs and symptoms of rabies
•Fever
•Discomfort
•Headache
•Anxiety
•Confusion
•Agitation
•Dysfunction
•Delirium
Prevention and treatment of the rabies
The campaign of dogs and cats vaccination is a basic element in the prevention
of this disease.
Ana Milena Rodríguez Ramírez
Veterinary Medicine
English V
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QUESTIONS
1. Technique used to cultivate the land.
2. Micro filler agent that can be only multiplied in the cells of other organisms.
3. Mineral that does not involve carbon as fundamental.
4. Science that studies living things, environment, distribution, abundance
and now these properties are affected by the interaction between organisms
and their environment.
5. Biological science which deals with the form and reproductions of organic
beings.
6. Surface of the earth or land in which they live or may live plants.
7. Liquid substance, tasteless and colorless in small amount and green or
bluish masses, which is formed by combining one volume of oxygen and
two hydrogen.
8. Set of atmospheric conditions peculiar to a geographical area.
9. Being organic cells that form tissues, which lives and grows, unable to
move, and is able to produce food through photosynthesis.
10. Multicellular living being, usually equipped with range of motion and
tendemess, that feeds on other living.
11. Waterfall of clouds in drops.
12. Field or set of fields that are cultivated.
13. Other edible plants grown in the orchards.
14. Cattle breeding.
15. Substance takes or receives a living for their nutrition.
16. Who lives and works in the field.
17. Bryophyte plant without flowers, with stems, leaves, and small roots false
that grows on rocks or tree trunks, forming a green, thick and smooth.
Zulma Alejandra Silva
Agricultural Engineering
FIND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE DRAWINGS (TEN)
“On Earth, the best friend of man is the tree. When we use the tree with respect
and prudence, we have one of the greatest resources of the Earth.”
Frank Lloyd Wright.
Danna Marcela Castillo
Agricultural Engineering
English III
MOTS CROISÉS
VERTICAL
1. Ils sont des ruminants de la famille des bovins, avec des cornes du mâle
généralement plus grandes que les femelles et tordu.
2. Organismes vivant dans les milieux aquatiques ou marins et sont caractérisés par les vertébrés qui ne soit vrai que les appendices locomoteurs
tétrapodes appartiennent à l’embranchement des chordés, et dans ce cadre,
le grand groupe de vertébrés.
3. Les espèces de mammifères carnivores qui appartiennent à des animaux
comme les hyènes
4. Une famille de mammifères placentaires de l’ordre des Carnivores. Ils ont
un corps mince, une ouïe fine et une excellente vision. Ils sont furtifs mammifères chasseurs. La plupart des viandes consommées exclusivement et ne
tient pas compte tout autre aliment autre qu’une proie vivantes
HORIZONTAL
1. Espèces d’animaux qui ont les sabots au lieu de doigts écartés. De nombreux mammifères appartiennent à cet ordre, mais maintenant la plupart
d’entre eux se sont éteints, après avoir disparu des milliers d’années.
2. Ruminants espèces de mammifères, avec le cas des cornes lisses, museau
queue large et longue nu et avec une touffe à la fin. Ce sont des animaux de
grande taille et un grand nombre sont réduits à la domesticité
3. Type de quadrupède avec des jambes courtes et les sabots, un corps
lourd, une queue courte, le museau flexible. Dans la nature, ces animaux
peuvent vivre jusqu’à quinze ans. C’est un omnivore
4. Mammifère rongeur domestique. Il mesure 30 à 40 cm, les oreilles, tant
que la tête, lèvre fendue, fourrure noir ou gris et les pattes arrière plus longues que la précédente. Il est élevé pour la viande et les cheveux.
5. Les espèces de mammifères ruminants domestiques sabots quadrupède,
utilisé comme du bétail. Avec sa laine a été produit différents produits, notamment des vêtements.
6. Animaux vertébrés dont les principales caractéristiques sont: la respiration
du poumon à sang chaud, le corps couvert de plumes, édentée bec corné et
de deux ailes disposées sur le côté de son corps
Anggi Ximena Acuña Garzon
Médicine Vétérinaire
Anglais II
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1. A small, pear-shaped muscular sac, located under the right lobe of the
liver, in which bile secreted by the liver is stored until needed by the body
for digestion.
2. Any of the impulse-conducting cells that constitute the brain, spinal
column, and nerves, consisting of a nucleated cell body with one or more
dendrites and a single axon.
3. A bitter, alkaline, brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow fluid that is secreted
by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and discharged into the duodenum
and aids in the emulsification, digestion, and absorption of fats.
4. Any of various hollow-horned, bearded ruminant mammals of the genus Capra, originally of mountainous areas of the old world.
5. A chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it
to the arteries.
ACROSS
1. Primary disease of thevilous epithelium of human beings; contrapart have
been recognized in dogs.
2. The organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings, and
physical activity.
3. A small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each
atrium of the heart.
4. A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental
stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms.
5. Either of two bean-shaped organs at the back of the abdominal cavity,
one on each side of the spinal column. They maintain water and electrolyte balance and filter waste products from the blood, which are excreted as
urine.
6. A large, reddish-brown, glandular vertebrate organ located in the upper
right portion of the abdominal cavity.
7. A baglike organ containing the mammary glands, characteristic of certain
female mammals, such as cows, sheep, and goats.
SEBASTIÁN CAMILO CARO
Veterinary Medicine
English VI
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