Reading challenge 8

Animals thinking

Squeak:
to utter or make a short shrill cry or noise.

Odorless:
a quality of something that stimulates the olfactory organ

Grasp:
to take or seize eagerly.

Measures:
a basis or standard of comparison .

Dogged:
marked by stubborn determination

Reading challenge 7

Environment: affected?

Brow:
the projecting upper part or margin of a steep place.
Prey:
an animal taken by a predator as food.

Elk:
soft tanned rugged leather.

Warble:
any of numerous small chiefly Old World oscine birds

Stream:
a body of running water

Problem-solution essay

The addiction to be very skinny

The image is an important aspect in men’s life. It’s the window that is displayed as a person, or at least like the person who wants to see. But now, people are worrying too much for her image and forget other things. The addiction for being extremely thin is one of the most recurrent and dangerous today.

One of the most serious problems around this issue is the modern concept of beauty. The stereotypes of beauty, transmitted by the media are recently, very thin people, cadaverous-looking. For this reason, it is urgent to change these icons through the media. When public see that people are beautiful without the need to be extremely skinny, they do not try to lose weight to be like the idols of the beauty.

Fashion has also coerced people to be thin. The trendy clothing comes in sizes small, so the people of normal or larger size can not use it. Then, the clothing stores should create and sell fashionable clothes in large sizes. That way, people may find your favorite clothes in any fashion store.

A final problem is social pressure and acceptance. Society does not tend to accept people fat. Around this problem, there are many taboos and prejudices. In that order of ideas, it is imperative to promote, through conferences, tolerance of diversity. As a result, rejected people would be readmitted into society. In this way, they will feel important to society, regardless of their image.

In conclusion, although the image is an important factor in humanity, but is not the most essential in our life. Besides, people who follow diets without medical care and endanger their health. Moreover, in the market found medicines of free dispensing to lose weight that can be very damaging.

Reading challenge 6

Volcanology

Obsidian:
a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava.

Shrouded:
to cover for protection.

Scatter:
to reflect irregularly and diffusely.

Indeed:
without any question.

Prior:
the superior ranking next to the abbot of a monastery

Reading challenge 5

Middle East

Pedigre:
a register recording a line of ancestors
Onrushing:
a rushing forward or onward

Roughly:
without completeness or exactness

Fencing:
the art or practice of attack and defense with the foil, épee, or saber

Ditch:
a long narrow excavation dug in the earth

Reading challenge 4

Medicine

Relief:
a payment made by a male feudal tenant to his lord on succeeding to an inherited estate.

Darn:
to mend with interlacing stitches.

Upset:
to thicken and shorten (as a heated bar of iron) by hammering on the end

Distress:
pain or suffering affecting the body, a bodily part, or the mind

Sharp:
Keen

Reading challenge 3

The history of Science

Entushe:

To make enthusiastic enthused about the project> 2 : to express with enthusiasm intransitive verb : to show enthusiasm enthusing over it — Julian Huxley>

Peer:

One that is of equal standing with another

Chutzpah:
supreme self-confidence.

Dare:
To be sufficiently courageous to dared say a word

Bold:
Fearless before danger

Reading challenge 2

A Vote for Democracy

Lack:

1 : to be deficient or missing lacking for a full explanation> 2 : to be short or have need of something lack for advisers> transitive verb : to stand in need of : suffer from the absence or deficiency of <lack the necessities of life>

Threshold:

1: the plank, stone, or piece of timber that lies under a door : sill2 a: gate , door b (1): end , boundary ; specifically : the end of a runway (2): the place or point of entering or beginning : outset threshold of a new age>3 a: the point at which a physiological or psychological effect begins to be produced threshold for pain> b: a level, point, or value above which something is true or will take place and below which it is not or will not.

Furthest:
Farthest

Spread:
1 a: to open or expand over a larger area <spread out the map> b: to stretch out : extend <spread its wings for flight>2 a: to distribute over an area <spread fertilizer> b: to distribute over a period or among a group <spread the work over a few weeks> c: to apply on a surface <spread butter on bread> d (1): to cover or overlay something with <spread the cloth on the table> (2)archaic : to cover completely e (1): to prepare or furnish for dining : set <spread the table> (2): serve <spread the afternoon tea>3 a: to make widely known <spread the news> b: to extend the range or incidence of <spread a disease> c: diffuse , emit spreading their fragrance>4: to push apart by weight or forceintransitive verb1 a: to become dispersed, distributed, or scattered b: to become known or disseminated spread rapidly>2: to grow in length or breadth : expand3: to move apart (as from pressure or weight) : separate.

Lag:

1: one that lags or is last2 a: the act or the condition of lagging b: comparative slowness or retardation c (1): an amount of lagging or the time during which lagging continues (2): a space of time especially between related events or phenomena : interval3: the action of lagging for opening shot (as in marbles or billiards)4: a usually long putt struck with the aim of having the ball stop near the hole

World Problem Awareness Video Task 3

solutions (by myself)

1. promote reading in schools
2. promote learning and memorization exercises
3. people aware of the danger of abuse of technology

Reading challenge 1

Green Sahara

Aquifers: a water-bearing stratum of permeable rock, sand, or gravel.
Tilt: a canopy for a wagon, boat, or stall

World Problem Awareness Video Task 2

1. People looking for more comfort and facilities for daily life.
2. With new technological inputs, people begin to consume more technology.
3. Increasingly, technological tools have more features useless

When mankind began to create tools, these were created with the purpose of improving the quality of life and facilitating the daily life of people. But, scientists began to create more and more tools that people began to consume maniac. So it was with the machines and technological tools. And thanks to human ingenuity, technology has more functions unserviceable to stop the effort of men to perform simple tasks.

World Problem Awareness Video Task 1

The human memory against technology tools

The human memory is the result of brain function synaptic connections between neurons through which human beings can retain their previous experiences. The memories are created when neurons in an integrated circuit reinforcing the strength of synapses.

These experiences, according to the temporal scope to that tally, are classified, conventionally, in short-term memory and long-term memory.

The human memory, unlike the memory of the animals that acts primarily on the basis of their needs, you can contemplate the past and plan for the future. With respect to their ability, we calculated the human brain can store information that "would fill some twenty million volumes, as in the largest libraries of the world." Some neuroscientists have calculated that in a lifetime is used only one ten thousandth part (0.0001) of the potential of the brain.

But now, this human capacity has been declining. The technological tools provide the ability to be used as an aid. But on estimates of their abuse, have been converted into morphine in human memory. In this age of technology, everything is left to the machines and virtual memory. We have become more lazy, dependent more and more lazy. We remember less and less because of the death of memory. Only if our memory entremnamos properly, we independietes and intelligent.


Cites:

• Solociencia.com
  
• Revista MuyInteresante
• Online Memory Training Tools
• Wikipedia.org

Independent Work N° 19

THE NETWORK DESTRUCTION

There are many jobs around the world; there is a job for everyone. It is an axiomatic thoug the earching for a perfect job, infact, this job has to the easiest possible. Therefore, a job appearred called "telecommuting" it is meaning, working from home with technology tols. However, this job brings it many negativeconsequences; the most important is the destruction of family network. Acording to this there are two causes: Social rejection an sedentary life.

As firts reason, social rejection concerns on a separation of social and his dialogue life when the person realizes she or he can do everything without a face to face realation ship with other people, they lust the ability to communicate with their enviroment. For example, when telecommuters family invite them to an activity, like a birthday celebration or a meeting, they can not because they are working at home and step by step they turn a abssesive workers.

On the other hand, telecommuters are sedentary people technology is able to put everything in people´s hands. Then they are not able to effort to do something. Therefore telecommuters become lazy people. For example, when telecommuters have hungry and hre or his kitchen is emty, the worker call o send mailfor by food.

Finally, we can lok how pepople, working at home, start to separate the family life, becoming a lonely person. It is possible because the people begin to reject them selv to society or they are very slot to do some exercise or movement and technology helps to this. Therefore, currently, people are becomig an island, alone in the sea it is a bad future, the worst futurama.

Independent work No. 9

A tragic end full of emotions, you can feel sadness and powerlessness. The cast is great, over all Angelina Jolie. In critics commentarys, Angelina's best perfomance and it was taken away the Oscar nomination because the american actress wasn't nominates to the Academy Awards 2008.

This movie is avaliable on DVD, rent it. It will change what you thing about tolerance and foreing cultures. You'll cry and feel contradictory feelings. It's close to be a masterpiece, so don't miss it!

Independent work No. 8

This film is set in Krachi, Pakistan and it was produced by Brad Pitt, Andrew Eaton and Dede Gardener.
Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi.
The film is based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
Nominated for Golden Globe and an award for Angelina Jolie in the category of Outstanding Performance Award in Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Independent work No. 7

A mighty hearth

Plot:
the story begings when Daniel Pearl, a war journalist, tries to interview a dangerous islamic extremist for the Wall Street Journal. Daniel's jew American and he's married to Jane, a french journalist, and both try to cover middle-east threat. janes is pregnant. Everything goes wrong when daniel is kidnapped by Islamic fanatic bacause they think he's a North american spy. Then, jane tries to give back the freedoom to her husband

Information:

Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi.
The film is based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
Nominated for Golden Globe and an award for Angelina Jolie in the category of Outstanding Performance Award in Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Independent work No. 6

When I was around seventeen, and I was in my first semester, I was taking part in communication week, including a quiz show called: “who wants to be a qualified?” This competition was about communication and general culture themes. In this case there were three finalists, including me. In this moment, I wasn’t thinking in anything, my mind was in white. The firsts two failed and I was the next one. I remember, the question was: a universal truth is called… and I said: “Axiom” and it was right. The presenter told me “you’re the winner and you won a diploma course, congratulations”. It was awesome

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Independent work No. 5

• I always have a walk, everyday, 'cause I love it.
• I never have a holiday, I'm always bussy.
• Really, I don´t have a expecific hour fot to have breakfast or an ice cream; if fact, I cannot eat ice cream.
• Obviously, everybody have got a flu and a bad back, whenevera and wherever. So, I've had flus and bad backs.
• I don't have got blue eyes or blond hair

Independent work No. 4

	Do they know each other?	Which topics they talk about?
Conversation 1	They’re meeting	Family and home, interests and tastes and work/Studies
Conversation 2	They’re acquaintance	Family and home and work/Studies

Independent work No. 3

Vocabulary

• The Turners live in a small town, so they're many acquaintances.
• I've heard in this enterprise there's a younger boss.
• My cousin and me were at the coolest place around the world, Canada.
• For unkown reasons, the headteacher was fired
• My neighbour is so noisy, this bother me so much. I think I need to call to Police
• This party smells, there are many unkown relatives for me.
• My friend's aunt will get married with my relative's acquaintance.
• This group is very small, I've few classmates
• His ex-girlfriend was rejected by the boss
• Her husband went out for to buy food but he was kidnapped on the road
• My nice is so cute, and she's growing up more and more everyday. She's three years old
• The Cinderella's stepmother is a witch and her daughters are the ugliest women in the kingdom
• My best friend is communist because he believes in equality and loves Russia too.
• I don't think that the entertainment presenters are my colleagues, they are just very beautiful gossip gross
• Many people prefers don't have flatmates and live alone
• In many cases, the mother-in-law is a monster-in-law. In fact, there's a movie with the same title, it's starring by JLo
• In La Sabana, 28% of students don't live with either both parents, 45% live with only one of the two and the other porcent live with both.
• The first rule for kids is: "You don't should to talk to strangers"

Independent work No. 2

Speakin' practice

Right Intonation


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Independent work No. 1

Correction:

Prepositions:

I´d like to get a dog but it depends on the size of our new flat

Examples:

We chose to move into the Paramour so we could focus on music and not have to deal with and be affected by the outside world

Ultimately, we all needed to face whatever our fears were on this record

We grant solo concerts and clips of the actor for free broadcasting on TV channels of your countries.

Lena Katina was born in Moscow on October 04th, 1984 in the family of the famous musician - Sergey Katin -

Articles

Listen to music helps me relax

Examples:

Julia Volkova was born in the family of a successful businessman in Moscow on February 20th, 1985

In fact, I’m not sure that’s even a worthy concern… We rock today, and that’s what’s cool.

“Century Dream - Welcome to Olympics - 2008” is event of a national level and huge evening show which takes place in Beijing on July, 29.

Vitas is intensively preparing a new album for the release.


Vocabulary

I´m taking the children swimming this afternoon as reward for being good

Can I borrow your car for the afternoon? I´ll bring it back around 6 p.m.

Examples:

Detectives investigating the murders of a Chinese couple in Newcastle offer a £5000 reward to bring their killers to justice.

A £20000 reward is offered for the return of the lost child benefit discs as several data "incidents" are revealed.

You can borrow as a Guest or become a Member and save 20% off borrowing rates.

The government has decided to control its expenditure by not unnecessarily borrowing from the central bank which had earlier announced a tight monetary policy.

Some people on the left are also starting to argue that character might matter as much as resources in improving life chances.

Doctors argue however that some items on the list need to be reworked as they fil to take into account

Must I file taxes in New York even though I won't be living here? Do I have to file state tax returns in other states I've worked in?

Such a change would raise taxes on light vehicles and will probably meet resistance from carmakers, according to the report.

Movie Review

Closer
If you believe in love at first sight, You never stop looking

driven by desire

BACKGROUND
It is set in contemporany london places and was released on december 2004
This film was adapted by Patrick Marber from his award-winning stage play and directed by Mike Nichols. Closer It's a love & sex story about four person and their love chances, obstacles and problems between themselves. The Film starts when a car knock down a girl because of she was looking at a young man. with only four characters and performances of Julia Roberts, Jude law, Natalie Portman and Clive owen.

PLOT
The film tells the amazing story of Dan Weaver (Jude Law) he is a journalist about to publish his first boook; Anna Baker (Julia Roberts) she's a great photgrapher who is the person in chage of make a Dan's cover book. in a night, Dan, pretending to be Anna, chats with Larry Fisher (Clive Owen) and they have a hot conversation about sex and Dan tricks to Dr Larry with a false date with Anna in the Aquarium. In this place, Anna and Larry meet together.

In the other hand, Dan's going out with the beautiful dancer Alice Howlett (Natali portman) who suspect there is a relationship between Dan and Anna.
It's a Square love, Dan's going out with anna, she's married with Larry who met Alicce in a art gallery and they have a relationship too.
One day this infidelities'll be discovered and problems'll be around the corner.

COMMENTS
The cast is excellent, they had two nominations to Academy Award for Best suporting actress (Natalie Portman) and best suporting actor (clive owen) and won two golden awards.
It's a perfect written and exposed a naturaland exciting dialogues into relationships and ends with a incredible end.
Acordingg to Peter Travers, culture journalist of Rolling Stone, Closer "vibrates with eroticism, brusing laughs, and dynamic perfomances. Closer is a triumph"

RECOMMEDATION
Please... i beg you don't miss it, it's a masterpiece and it'll produce you thing about the fragility of love. It's available on dvd, so... go now to your closer blockbuster and rent it... don't miss the opportunity to watch four great perfomance and four great actors in this beautiful and exotic film. In adittion, the film have the great soundtrack "Blower's daugther" by damien rice

Santiago Méndez

A Film's Scene

The Soundtrack

My currículum vitae

Name: Santiago Esteban Méndez Castañeda
Age: 18
Marital status: Single
Born Date: 29th june of 1989
Nationality: Colombian
E-mail: Santiago.mendez1@unisabana.edu.co

Profile:

A understaning, hard-working, friendly, inquisitive, positive and organized Social Communication & Journalism student, who usually try to investigate diferents themes. Able to propose many solutions and solvents to hard problems, in special communication problems, interpersonal difficults and relationships obstacles. Good analyst of international discussions and communication theories. Efficent help to teachers and good redactor and speaker.

Major Acievments

Fourth place in fifth grade of school
16th placen in icetex exam
winner to diplomado at Sabana called:Writting and creativity to film and tv media
Honorific Member to a political dicussions group in republic presidency because of propose solutions to transporter problems
winner of two actuation awards

Qulifications/Education

Colegio Nacional San Juan Bautista de la Salle: High School
Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria: One Bussiness semester
Universidad de La Sabana: Social Communication and journalism, and preparing a double career with psycology

Courses

Writting and creativity to film and tv media
Universidad de La Sabana 2007

Tach of art conference
Museo Nacional 2007

Faith Studies
Many Catolic Churchs (since 1996)

Office course
Colegio Dioscesano (1998)