SUMMARY

PRESENTADO A: ADRIAN GUARIN

PRESENTADO POR: ROSALIA TORRES

SENA

SISTEMA NACIONAL DE APRENDIZAJE

 Text 1: cowboys

The sun seals the working day with a long and hushed Kiss. Herons flying in
groups stamp a long shadow on the green emerald plains. In the immensity of the
aquatic world the wáter melts with the red of the sky, turning the the orange of the
piranhas into an underwater rainbow, crossed by world of tiny colorful fishes.

The day was dying, but the shadows of the night were gathering to cover the thirsty
plains with his mystery. When the moon appears, the maporas get enlihtened with
his glow while the heaven dresses in thousands of colors.

Dusk in the plains, the llaneros hurry home to avoid the appearance of ghosts, and
the goblin’s jokes. In the rivers they travel in bongos, a tight large boat for
transporting over the rivers. The beloved horse is the only friend for the plains man.

It’s full moon night, just for ghost’s tales. Among the cowboys there’s always
someone who want to talk about ghosts that had seen. The only meal during the
day coffee, and until sunset dinner. Work all day, trying cows and extremely big
strong horned Bulls in thousand of squared miles around, crussing rivers, swamps,
and deserts under the burning sun running after the livestock, and all what you
drink is a cup of coffee. Whenever the llanero Works, in his lips a song is running,
a verse, to calm down the cows when they are branded with burning iron.

After dinner, each one goes to his chinchorro and the tales begin to flow.

Text 2: The crane and the snake

in a forest close to the river bank mere lived a crane with his wife. There were very
unhappy. Every time the wife laid eggs in their nest, a cobra who lived in a hollow
in the tree, would eat them up. The crane had a friend the crab. It tell his misery.
The crab sat to think of a plan. Suddenly he jumped up and rushed to the crane.

“friend, I have a wonderful plan,” said the crab and whispered something into the
crane’s ear. The crane, told his wife all about the crab’s plan.

“Are yo usure this will work?” asked the wife. “I hope we are not marking a mistake.
Think twince before going ahead with the plan.” The crane flew down to the river
bank and began to fish. He caught several little fishes and went down to the hole in
which a mongoose lived. He dropped a fish at the mouth of the hole, he made a
trail of fishes leading to the tree where his nest was. The mongoose smelt the fish
and cameo out of the hole. He then followed the trailof fishes, the trail ended.
Finding no more fishes, he looked around.
Suddenly he came across the black cobra at the foot of the tree. Both fought for a
long time and in the end the mongoose killed the snake.

The next day the mongoose began to follow the same trail. When he came to the
tree where the trail ended, he decided to climb the tree in search of food.

The cranes, returnedto find the mongoose climbing down the tree. On looking in
their nest, the mongoose had eaten up all their eggs.

“Alas! We got rid of one enemy only to find another”, said the crane to his wife.

Text 3: The museum that was a prison

A building that was the most famous jail in the country, in times of civil wars, known
as “The Panopticon”, now houses the oldest museum in Colombia: The National
Museum. This place hold many voices from the past through the history of their
formation and the current collection of over 20,000 pieces that symbolize
Colombia’s national heritage.

This building, located on the famous seventh Street “avenida carrera séptima” with
28 in Bogota. The english architect Thomas Reeds,designed a type panopticon
prisión in which prisoners across the country were convicted. But the Ministery of
Education and the Organizing Committe of the IX Pan American, decided to
transfer the collection of the Historical Museum, the building.

The history of the National Museum of Colombia.

The Museum is the first institution of its kind formend by legal order additionally it is
one of the inaugural museums in Latin America. By 1821 Simon Bolivar assigns
Francisco Antonio Zea to undertake various diplomatic missions in Europe, in
search of sponsorship and partnerships for research in natural sciences and
economics, and thus start the civilizing project of an independent Republic.

Knowledge of the territory through science as mineralogy, botany and engineering,

were key in order to had a good economy and international recognition. In 1822, a
commission of french naturalists, travel to Colombia to start with the Project of the
Museum of Natural History and School of Mines.

Civil wars throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, hindered the
process.

In the second half of the twentieth century, gradually were incorporated elements
of art, industry, countryside work, and archaeological collections that call for the
importance of material culture and customs of a country.
Colombians consider that National Museum story tells also the history of the
formation of the nation, as it was the place that hosted the first results of research
in natural sciences, elements of the Independence wars, the material culture, art,
military, research, countryside work and industry.