Hummingbird

People often believe that where we grew up always shapes our personality and being, but is that really the case? Where we grow up can influence who we become. We hold big parts of ourselves to the places we grew up. However, the places we grew up in do not shape who we are, it’s the people we’re around, and what we’re taught that shape us. I will use evidence from different texts to prove my point. Where we are influences who we are, but the people we're around influence us so much more. The “My…

boil. The words “gay” and “forgive” began to replay in my mind. Had he said it right? Was being gay so bad that it was grouped into a sentence with Deadly Sins? Did I NEED forgiveness because I was gay? Questions flew around my head like angry hummingbirds. I didn’t want to be FORGIVEN, I wanted to be accepted. Change wasn’t something in my nature so why was the “Lord” asking me to? My heart that once was about to burst into happiness was now being drained out, the tie I felt that bonded me with…

Since the inception of drone usage, they have been used by the military for many tactical, surveillance, and strategic purposes. The use of drones in wars has helped America ever since the first usage in 1995. Drones are an incredible way to locate and track terrorist groups and fight wars off the ground. They have helped the United States locate some of the worst public enemies in the world and annihilate them. The use of predator drones has helped the United States in…

Jamaica is an island that is well known, but how well do we know it? This island has been through so much during its time of independence, and even before that. Jamaica was once an island inhabited by a group of people called Arawaks also known as Tainos. They lived a simple life of farming and community. The men hunted while the women planted and took care of the household. That was all soon to be changed. Christopher Columbus, and the Spaniards, were the first group to explore…

The United States of America is famously known as the giant melting pot of the world. There are so many diverse cultures and ethnicities populating the nation. This rang true for North America even before the United States was established. Before waves of European colonist invaded the land, a vast amount of Native Indians inhabited the America 's and were scattered all throughout the continent. Although an immense sea separated the Indian societies and the Europeans, they shared quite a bit…

sides. On one side he saw a man being gored by two bulls in hilarious fashion. On the other, he saw his rival for the first time. Mr. Quiggly had raced the bulls many times, but he had never seen this particular greyhound before. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never seen each other before. “She runs well, this skinny bitch,” he thought. It was then he realized he was not capable of speaking. He was discouraged, but with his little red sketchers, he led race. He couldn’t speak, but…

Although Leslie Marmon Silko's great novel Ceremony is a work of fiction, there are details and phenomenon that occur within the story that are not only present in real world events but in numerous forms of popular culture entertainment. Even Silko's own personal experiences can be compared to themes and phenomenon in her novel. In fact, Silko makes this observation herself during one of her many interviews "and so when I started Ceremony, I was as sick as Tayo was. I was having nausea and all…

A Beautiful View, a Dangerous Edge “There are some places along the rim without railings…” “A bunch of tourists die here every year while taking selfies, be careful!” “Don’t walk and look at the same time: watch where you place your feet…” The warnings from our train conductor, bus driver, and tour guide hovered at the forefront of my mind as we approached our first view of the Grand Canyon. I could not tell if the lack of oxygen was my slight fear or my asthma acting up from the altitude,…

Ceremony with a Postmodern Twist Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony provides a glimpse into the life of one half Laguna/half white man’s life and his search for identity before, during, and after World War II. Tayo, the protagonist, remembers something of life with his Laguna mother and knows nothing about his white father. He was raised by his mother’s family, attended a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, fought in World War II as a member of the US Army, was treated for battle fatigue in a…

“One can often determine which animal pollinates a certain flower species by studying the morphology, color, and odor of the flower. For example, some flowers are pure red, or nearly pure red, and have very little odor. Birds, such as hummingbirds, serve as pollinators of most of these flowers, since birds have excellent vision in the red region of the spectrum, and a rather undeveloped sense of smell.” (Gale, 2007). So in order for an artificial bee to be effective for pollination scientist…