domingo, 22 de abril de 2012

The Tower of Babel

Me and my group chose as the topic of the English Presentation The Tower of Babel. 
Maybe you have heard about this tower before, but do you really know the story of this famous Tower? This is your lucky day because I'm going to tell it to you.


The Tower of Babel is a biblic story it is located in the Genesis 11:5-8. It tell us that when people were migrating to the north east from the west of Africa. They all spoke just one language, the reason of why they could migrate because they were the most advanced, the other tribes didn't have a good enough way of communication. So when they were close to the region Shinar, were they found a great plain, and the people decided to build a city and the biggest tower ever to reach heaven, to be famous and to not spread around the Earth. They were decided to build it, with bricks instead of stones, but God came down and saw the city and tower th people were bulding. He thought that all humans were one tribe and speak one language, they were able to do anything they propose. So he confused their language and by that humans spread. Leaving the construction of the city and the tower (as the picture shows). It was called babel because there God confused all humans language.


To represent this very interesting story in the presentation, we decided to do it by acting instead of a regular discourse. We were just 3 so at the beginning the three of us were humas and we were talking about building a tower. Then two of the three remain working and the other one leaves. As the two guys were working they start talking about language origins; one defended the posture that we were taught how to talk it and we developed it by thousands of year. And the other one thought that language was a human instinct. In the middle of this God suddenly shows up and stop the two persons of building the tower by changing their language; so when they try to communicate they can't, and then the presentation ends.

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