Hummingbird

be surrounded by others, Doyle’s descriptions of the hearts of hummingbirds, blue whales, and other organisms gave enough details to answer the questions his audience had, yet he implied how living things live their lives differently but in a similar manner. First of all, Doyle wrote the majority of the essay on the hummingbirds. Most of the paragraphs were spent…

maximum theoretical limits in hummingbirds and higher than mammals-> achieved due to higher oxygen delivery capacities and substrate catabolism (Suarez et al. 1991) 5. Metabolic Substrate Turnover a. Questions i. Do hummingbirds metabolize sugars that they are readily taking in or that have been previously stored? ii. What is the turn over time of carbon? b. Conclusion i. Hummingbirds that have recently eaten fuel their metabolism by recently digested sugars ii. Hummingbirds that have…

First of all, the hummingbirds have the smallest heart…

A first impression of Martin Johnson Heade’s tropical hummingbird landscapes might typically relate them to a “lush tangle of exotic nature” (p. 48). When the viewer more closely observes such landscapes, however, several unusual features become distinct, particularly, the startling disconnectedness of large scale subjects of flowers and hummingbirds against a distant landscape, and the contrast of sharp foreground figures surrounded by a gradual vignette of receding middle ground. Art historian…

contrast the hearts of hummingbirds, whales, and humans, physically and emotionally. The initial reading gives the reader a surface view of comparing the hearts of these animals, it is not until I really analyzed the last paragraph that I saw the deeper meaning Doyle was trying to exemplify. Through size comparisons he shows that no matter the pursuit of life, immaculate or miniscule, that life is precious and should not be taken for granted. Starting with the hummingbird, small and fragile,…

In the short essay “Joyas Volardores” the author, Brian Doyle structures his essay in three sections in which he first addresses the tiny hummingbird and its fast and lively beating heart, then he addresses the massive blue whale and its slow and ponderous beating heart, and finally in the third section he addresses the average sized human and its unpredictable and erratic beating heart that often fluctuates between having qualities of both the hummingbird’s heart and the blue whale’s heart.…

In "Joyas Voladoras," Brian Doyle suggests that hummingbirds, which represents pupils, need to be cared and watched over because they are fragile . Brian Doyle has a child with a heart problem, and to him, his child is the most precious jewel. Sense he knows his son’s heart can stop beating any second, Brain is constantly worrying about him. Because of this, Brian Doyle represents his son as a hummingbird. In "Joyas Voladoras, "it is stated," Joyas Voladoras, flying jewels, the first white…

The choice of animals in the tale of Hummingbird and Fly is interesting. Buzzards are known to be like hawks, vultures, and falcons. They are scavengers and they consume the things they scavenge, which separates them from animals that decompose dead organisms. It is not like they are breaking down dead bodies so that the nutrients can go back into the earth, they are eating these dead organisms for their own needs. The buzzards are meant to represent the Europeans who came to the Americas and…

intentions to create a tune or a rythem. Examples or substitutes for the unaware tune-making species would be a beaver, a swarm or crowd of bees, and a hummingbird. The noise these species can create almost sound similar to the manmade instruments such as a set of drums from the beaver, babpipes from the swarm of bees, and a flute from the hummingbird.…

on work with individuals, families, and small groups, Mezzolevel interventions focus on organizations and formal groups, and lastly the macrolevel interventions addresses social problems in the communities, institutional, and social systems. The Hummingbird family would be on the microlevel. Social workers use skills such as crisis intervention, referrals, and group processes. (Miley, O 'Melia, Dubois, pg.8). The…