In the short story “Joyas Voladoras” by Brian Doyle, Doyle describes the importance of your heart and relates it to hummingbirds, whales, and many other animals. The heart is important emotionally and physically, it keeps you alive, and with it we can express how we feel towards something or someone. Doyle also describes the differences between the whales and the hummingbirds, and goes deeply in the topic of heart chambers. Different living objects have different amount of heart chambers, but we all move inside. At the end Doyle explains that, we, humans, are never completely open to others, and that there isn't always someone there to support you. Adding on to that, the human's heart will fall apart in an instant of a touching moment. Doyle’s …show more content…
message is: life is full of challenges and tragedies, but don't close yourself off from the positive side. When hummingbirds are starving or because they are going through hard times in their lives, they will go into torpor.
Topor is hibernation or very deep sleep, and hummingbirds need to go into torpor to save energy. Topor can cause great harm to the hummingbirds like death. “Their metabolic rate slowing to a fifteenth of their normal sleep rate…” (p. 30 l. 21-22) That is almost dead, but the hummingbirds can't choose to not go into torpor because if they choose not to, they would also die from starvation or whatever harsh situation they are going through. But, if you look at the bright side of it, torpor is the only possible way for the hummingbirds to live too. And, hibernation keeps the birds warm, when they deeply fall asleep, so they also won't freeze to death in the frigid, cold nights. This method also helps them save energy while their supplies are scarce. You are not the only ones out there with the biggest problems (if you took a look at the hummingbirds) so don't stay in the negative side for too long, but pop on out into the positive side for a …show more content…
while. Furthermore, beyond the hummingbirds, we, humans, also have roadblocks, but we can also look towards the good side.
Not everyone, precisely, no one, in the world is always trustworthy or honest. We all have something to hide inside of us because of embarrassment or shyness, etc. But, with too much to hide, it can affect yourself, other people, or other things. Having too much secrets inside of us can weigh down an awful a lot of pressure on ourselves, and secrets can also affect other people too. They might feel left out or not close to you anymore. But think positively, “... we could not bear to be so naked.” (p. 33 l. 103-104) Luckily, we have secrets to prevent us from looking so naked, meaning, if we have no secrets, at all, people would see us as the “naked” person. A person with no secrets would be like a person with no clothes on because you would not have any privacy. For example, you wouldn't want people to know your bank account password, or else they would steal your money! Luckily, we all have secrets, but if you look at the bright side like how we just did, it can change how you feel towards situations like this. So, there aren't just roadblocks out in this world, but take a glimpse at the positive
side. Consider this moment, of how it felt of not closing yourself off from the good parts in life. We humans aren't the only ones with challenges or conflicts in life, but other animals, even the tiniest ones, hummingbirds go through a lot. Yet, they still accept that this is life and move on. With not only just accepting the challenges, but also taking the positive sides into consideration, makes life more motivated to wanting to conquer challenges and keep on going in life. In conclusion, we learn to never give up!
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.
Klein, throughout various accounts of U.S. involvement overseas, explains that the U.S. commonly engages in a practice of ‘shock therapy.’ The U.S. brings bloodshed and warfare to foreign nations in order to restructure their economies and governments to serve U.S. interests. In the case of Chile, Klein argues that the U.S., in the midst of Cold War paranoia, wanted to maintain its political and economic hegemony in South America. Washington accordingly whipped the Chilean army into an anti-Allende, anti-communist frenzy, bringing about the bloodshed of ‘the Caravan of Death’ as well as the years of tyrannical military dictatorship. Also significant was the fact that the neoliberal economics implemented in Chile were taught to Chilean economists of the junta by Americans at the University of Chicago.
The movie La Jaula de Oro, is a life story of a journey of three kids from Guatemala to the United States. In the movie there are three kids Sara, Samuel, and Juan, they first embark on the journey through Mexico. When they first arrive to Chiapas, the kids put on a play to collect money for food, after the play Sara befriends this boy named Chauk. Who is an indigenous boy from Tzotzil, and also plans to get to America, and convinces them to come join the group. This group of kids is put through a lot during the film, it’s a very interesting journey for 4 kids to experience. This film shows the struggles and difficulties immigrants succumb and sheds some light into the harsh realities of what people don’t think about when they hear the word
Plato once said: “Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.” People are taught from a very young age never to lie or keep secrets. It would be easy for anyone to stand behind the argument: “Honesty is the best policy,” but in times of personal anguish, that decree is quickly disdained. What this argument fails to consider is that keeping a secret or lying is the justifiable in times of crisis.
In the reading "El Hoyo" the author Mario Suárez deeply describes the city that he lives in which is Tucson, Arizona. In Tucson, Arizona there is a city known as El Hoyo meaning "the hole" in English; El Hoyo is the exact city where Suárez lived. Suárez conveys to the readers that El Hoyo was not the most beautiful place but it had many advantages to those who resided there. He describes a few advantages of the city such as it being a place to get away from bill collectors, hide from the authorities, receive help and a place of celebration. It was a home for Chicanos from all walk of life. The city has its ups and downs but the passion within environment remained the same. Each family was different, came from all sorts of backgrounds and moved to El Hoyo for different reasons. Although different circumstances brought them together it was one thing every person had in common; they were all Chicanos. That realization alone held El Hoyo and its people together.
Much like Carson in these manners, Doyle uses metaphors to enhance the meaning of his writing in Joyas Voladoras. Joyas Voladoras tells about how all animals have a certain amount of heartbeats that they live for, and once those end, their life is over. Doyle uses the extended metaphor of the heart throughout the story and eventually brought the story back to his personal issues. Without the reader knowing that Doyle’s son was born with a three chambered heart, they wouldn’t understand the meaning as much. Once again in this case, the narrator of the story is crucial to understanding how much “So much is held in a heart in a lifetime” (Doyle 148) means to
Rio Bravo, staring John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson to name a few, was released in 1959 and is the perfect example of a classic American Western genre film. The film blends American political and gender role ideologies with the classic genre conventions of a Western help Rio Bravo to deliver its somewhat understated message.
The science and history of the heart can be traced back as far as the fourth century B.C. Greek philosopher, Aristotle, declared the heart to be the most vital organ in the body based on observations of chick embryos. In the second century A.D, similar ideas were later reestablished in a piece written by Galen called On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body. Galen’s thesis was that the heart was the source of the body’s essential heat and most closely related to the soul. Galen made careful observations of the physical properties of the heart as well. He said “The heart is a hard flesh, not easily injured. In hardness, tension, in general strength, and resistance to injury, the fibers of the heart far surpasses all others, for no other instrument performs such continues, hard work as the heart”(Galen, Volume 1).
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They fear they will be punished or made fun of for speaking the truth so they tend to keep it to themselves. I wish people were to speak the truth at all times so be straightforward with people. A society full of lies is not good because it can mislead people into thinking that something is ok when in reality it is not. John the Savage had said in chapter sixteen, “It all seems to me quite horrible” (pg. 244).This is when he is asked about the world state and he does not like how it's run because people are not who they want to be but rather who they are conditioned to be.
Hummingbirds have evolved certain behavioural and physical traits which allows for them to be more energetically efficient, such as specialized storage and digestion adaptations, feeding and flying adaptations and breathing adaptation. Hummingbirds are extremely small and their muscles for flight are highly oxygen-dependent and require large amounts of energy. Hummingbirds are one of the smallest endotherms and any energetic output can be metabolically stressful. The hummingbirds’ small body size means that they have very little room for energy storage and therefore often endure energetic and metabolic stresses. They are the one of the oldest aves, dating back to some 33 million years ago and have evolved certain energy efficient adaptations that have allowed for them to live so long. These adaptations allow Hummingbirds to efficiently meet their energetic needs which in turn, allows for them to not only survive but also continue to evolve and expand their specific niches.
...s own view of writing that the heart in conflict is an illustration of that part of our nature which is not of the highest.
The Chica de Silva is an interesting story about a women by the name of Francisca who was born into slavery. Chica’s mother was a women of color as for her father he was white. What captures many people’s attention and interest is that as a slave she was sold to a dimaniod miner by the name of Joao Franandes de Oivera . Joao F. de Olivera was a powerful man in Brazil. Joao and Chica were romanticly involed which caused Chica’s social status increase . Chica went from a slavey to an exremley wealthy person in Brazil. Chica’s story was turned into a myth after various versions were told.Her life isn’t just the story about a woman who was rich , story talks about the struggles a color woman experiences and even if she was rich she was still treated unequally because of her nationality.Overall throught the years she has shown respect and affection for Joao ,which they both gave back to the community by sponcering many people and becoming their child’s Godparent.The discrimation was not only again Chica but as
Shah Asad Rizvi said, “If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.” No where is this quote more applicable than in flamenco dancers. Flamenco is a musical tradition and art form from the Andalusia region of Southern Spain. Original records of the flamenco date back to Jose Cadalso’s 1774 book, Las Cartas Marruecas, although the actual Andalusian musical style is much older. There are four main parts of the Flamenco; singing, guitar playing, dancing, and “hell-raising” or handclapping and foot stomping.
The story takes place at a train stop. There’s a couple An American, and the girl, Jig, waiting at a train station in the shade outside the building until another train come in forty minutes to take them to Madrid. While they are waiting they decided to order drinks. The American seems the only one who understands and knows how to speak Spanish. The girl notices some words painted on the bead curtains (Anis dil Toro) in which The American tells her it’s a drink, She asked him could they try it.