What is Doyle’s message in Joyas Voladoras? Well, there could be many interpretations, but I specifically think that he’s trying to tell us about the heart. It does talk about many different subjects, like hummingbirds and blue whales, but it always comes back to ONE subject: the heart, the physical one and the emotional one.
First of all, he starts with the hummingbirds, maybe just to get us interested. He starts with how the hummingbirds are discovered, but then, he suddenly starts talking about “their hearts hammering faster than we could clearly hear if we pressed our [huge] ears to their [small] chests” (line 12-14, pg 29), and that proves that he always comes back to the heart. But why does he do that? Perhaps if we continue on we’ll see that he starts talking about “torpor” and death because of the heart that fails to provide oxygen. He mentions that “Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly... and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast... and live to be two years old” (line 55-60, pg. 31). Is he trying to tell us that we have a choice on how long we live? I mean, we usually spend our heartbeats moderately, but if we wanted to, we could live for years? If you think literally, you’ll find that this is physically impossible, considering the conditions of old age. But, we can live life to the fullest, which we can either live life on the couch, where the time drags by, or we can live life excitedly, like taking risks and conquering even the hardest of things.
The next “chunk” talks about the blue whale. And obviously, you can infer that he will talk about the blue whale’s heart (which is absolutely true). First, it says how ...
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...iquid that moves around us. But what is it? Obviously, the best description for this “liquid” is blood. But what is the “liquid” that churns inside of unicellular bacteria? If you think hard about it and try to imagine it, then you might come up with some kind of “jelly” substance. But maybe that’s wrong. If you start thinking metaphorically, you might discover something that perhaps I cannot even imagine. When I think that way, maybe it means that this “liquid” is not even liquid at all. It is your feelings, wanting to get out, especially when you’re sad or nervous. When I’m nervous, I feel a churning in my stomach and throat, and that wants to make me cry, that terrible feeling I just described. It isn’t liquid, it’s feelings that churn! Maybe if we look in the next section, perhaps we can find more clues to this “liquid” mystery.
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In a story of identity and empowerment, Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem “Borderbus” revolves around two Honduran women grappling with their fate regarding a detention center in the United States after crawling up the spine of Mexico from Honduras. While one grapples with their survival, fixated on the notion that their identities are the ultimate determinant for their future, the other remains fixated on maintaining their humanity by insisting instead of coming from nothingness they are everything. Herrera’s poem consists entirely of the dialogue between the two women, utilizing diction and imagery to emphasize one’s sense of isolation and empowerment in the face of adversity and what it takes to survive in America.
I don’t really like chiles, but because it bears a lot of health benefits, my mindset with the chiles have changed. “The Joy of Jalapeños” written by Jose Antonio Burciaga, an author and a Chicanismo expert, is an essay that talks about the author’s personal relation with the jalapeños, where he demonstrates the various kinds of health benefits of the chiles, the Chicano’s masochistic cuisine and culture, and his own analysis about it. And through his own experiences, and thoughtful and careful examination of scientific evidence about the health benefits of a jalapeños, Burciaga have persuaded me into consuming more jalapeños.
Guillermo González Camarena was a Mexican electrical engineer who was the inventor of a color-wheel type of color television, and who also introduced color television to Mexico,
Many countries have the pleasure of celebrating Independence Days. These historic holidays are filled with nationalistic celebrations and delicious traditional food. In Chile, the natives celebrate their break from Spain with Fiestas Patrias. In Mexico, the president begins the celebration by ringing a bell and reciting the “Grito de Dolores” and he ends his speech by saying “Viva Mexico” three times.
Through the study of the Peruvian society using articles like “The “Problem of the Indian...” and the Problem of the Land” by Jose Carlos Mariátegui and the Peruvian film La Boca del Lobo directed by Francisco Lombardi, it is learned that the identity of Peru is expressed through the Spanish descendants that live in cities or urban areas of Peru. In his essay, Mariátegui expresses that the creation of modern Peru was due to the tenure system in Peru and its Indigenous population. With the analyzation of La Boca del Lobo we will describe the native identity in Peru due to the Spanish treatment of Indians, power in the tenure system of Peru, the Indian Problem expressed by Mariátegui, and the implementation of Benedict Andersons “Imagined Communities”.
Throughout the passage many devices appear so the reader can have a deeper understanding of Thoreau’s attitude towards life. “Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation;
Vasco da Gama was born into a family with a very high social status around 1469 in Sines, Portugal; however, very little is known about his early life and family. All that is known about Vasco’s family is the fact that he had four brothers, one sister, and that their father Estevao da Gama was the commander of a major fort in Sines. When Vasco da Gama came of age he joined the navy, where he would be taught how to navigate the navy’s ships. In 1492, King John II of Portugal sent Vasco da Gama at only the age of about 23 to south of Lisbon to seize the French ships as revenge to the French government for interfering with Portuguese shipping. By doing so, this would earn Vasco the reputation of being a fearless navigator and a ruthless sailor.
“I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it`s in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they`re all on fire, and we`re all trapped.” (245)
Fear influences people to make irrational decisions and take extreme measures. Often times, these actions are done to protect one’s reputation. Fear causes people to lie and manipulate to those they care about in order to escape what they are scared of most. Fear of failure has caused higher levels of anxiety, and has made society put blame on each other, rather than owning up to their mistakes. Fear can also cause one to forget one’s true identity and lose one’s values. There are two options that one can take when being faced with a fear: run away from the fear, or go through it and learn a valuable lesson in the end that will make you a stronger person. Fear is a harmful emotion that everyone has to go through in order to succeed.
I believe that this passage is crucial to understand the long-life journey to search for the meaning of life and death that the author explores masterfully using the fictional style. Also, there is a clear allusion to the fact that research requires a keen eye and
In the first quote Sparrowhawk says that when endless life is achieved the balance of the world is destroyed. In the second, he says to the wizard Cobb that in denying death he has also denied life and all its splendors with it. Together they say that achieving endless life will lead to a life without death, but also a life without life. Without death the richness of life becomes a drought, because without death life means nothing. Another example of the them is shown near the climax of the book,” Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn for each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn.” (LeGuinn, pg.136) And once again earlier in the story,” Would you have the sea grow still, and the tides cease to save one waves, to save yourself?” In the world of Eathsea where this story takes place, life is believed to be infinite. Once someone dies their power is used to recreate life. To those in the land of the living death may seem the end, but life goes on after death, and death is just the creator of all life. If one life remains forever, if one death never happens, then all life will cease to exist. The cycle of life and death is
Leer la poesía de Julia de Burgos es abrirse paso a un mundo de emociones, luchas y temas múltiples. En sus tres poemarios, la poeta inaugura un estilo y unas temáticas que en ocasiones coinciden y en otras se apartan de los poetas entre los que convivió (López Jiménez, "Julia de Burgos” 141). Julia buscó abrirse paso hacia nuevas formas de escritura y trazar rutas alternas a los cánones establecidos, tanto por sus contemporáneos como por la tradición literaria. Poema en veinte surcos, su primer libro publicado en 1938, representa ese anhelo de trazar múltiples rutas mediante las cuales pueda realizar una búsqueda de nuevas voces, perspectivas y temáticas. Precisamente, en la poesía de Julia, sobre todo la de su primer poemario, se advierte un deseo de definirse y afirmar sus principios poéticos y políticos. Según Ivette López Jiménez, muchos poemas de su primer libro se destacan porque “se alejan de las fórmulas de la poesía criollista” y porque en ellos “la voz se afirma como una ‘rama desprendida’ o como ‘brote de todos los suelos de la tierra... de todos los hombres y de todas las épocas” (“Julia de Burgos” 143). Hay pues, un intento por alejarse de los discursos autorizados, lo que la lleva a identificarse con los espacios y los sujetos marginados. Desde esta perspectiva, Julia de Burgos pasa a ocupar el rol de “poeta cívico” y su discurso a ser uno de denuncia y protesta. Por ello, propone una reconsideración de los espacios marginales, del “otro” con el objetivo de traerlos a primer plano. Con esto, establece una “actitud a la avanzada del pensamiento y de las costumbres, sobre todo lo relacionado con los cambios necesarios en la sociedad”, en palabras de Manuel de la Puebla (16).
The movie Pursuit of Happyness shows how a person became a homeless then eventually how he survived from being a homeless. Then, to being a multi millionaire. Even though he experienced how hard life can be he still pursued to reach his goals in his life for his son. This movie shows how a homeless person stand up and pursue to be successful.
In Sines, Portugal around 1460, Vasco da Gama was born into a noble family of leaders. As soon as he was of age, da Gama joined the navy, which is where he learned the skills needed to navigate by sea. He got to demonstrate those skills in 1492, when he was sent on a successful trip as revenge against the French to seize their ships (biography.com). Even with his experience, it is unclear why Vasco was chosen to lead the first ever voyage from Portugal to India by sea. Eventually, Vasco da Gama was sent on multiple successful excursions to India and brought home valuable goods each time.
The question is very simple: what is perfect joy? The answer will obviously vary depending on who you ask - people like different things, it’s what makes us unique. What one person says gives them perfect joy may sound awful to another person, like the saying goes: “one man’s heaven is another man’s hell.” For example, when Francis says perfect joy is patience in suffering, I don’t think that sounds very appealing. But my idea of perfect joy might sound unappealing to Saint Francis if he heard it. However, when this question was first asked in class, it was phrased very differently - “what makes me perfectly happy?” These may seem like identical questions, but for me, there is a mountain of difference between joy and happiness; they are not interchangeable like they are being used with this question. So, in order to answer the question, we first have to define and determine the difference between happiness and joy.