Hummingbird

broken at any minute. He easily connects to the reader and is able to pull at their heartstrings. The heart is the unifying factor between all of us. Doyle asks us to consider the hummingbird for a long moment. He asks us to take our time while reading about their fleeting lives. However, he does not focus on the hummingbird for long. He later, slowly shifts focus to the reader. This…

was cubism whereas Kahlo’s style was surrealism. One of the famous artworks that Picasso has done was The Weeping Woman and it was a cubism style. On the other hand, one of the famous artworks by Kahlo was Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird. Even though the two artists’ cultures were different, they both made a huge impact on the history of art. Picasso was a true artist and was very clever in every way. Throughout his life, he has done many famous artwork and many of his artwork…

views on certain subjects. Everyone is special in their own way, however many people conform and give in to what society wants them to think, act, or look, and this can leave a person feeling trapped or acting out of the ordinary. For example the hummingbird in “Joyas Voladoras” by Brian Doyle portrays a character in which has a few minor flaws in its appearance, yet does not change itself to be what society wants it to be. Instead, it brushes off its flaws and reveals its characteristics in…

generations. As Wangari Maathai once said, “I will be a hummingbird; I will do the best I can”. The folktale of the hummingbird goes: there was a fire devouring the forest and while all the other animals sat watching, the hummingbird took one drop of water and put it on the fire back and forth as fast as it could. When the other animals told the hummingbird that his wings and beak were too small and that he could not put out the huge fire, the hummingbird replied, ‘I'm doing the best I can’.…

His name comes from the cognate of the words huitzlin, meaning hummingbird, and opochtli, meaning left. Warriors were believed to be reincarnated as hummingbirds and the south was considered to be the left side of the world to the Aztecs; therefore, Huitzilopochtli translated to “resuscitated warrior of the south” (Huitzilopochtli: Aztec God). Apart from hummingbird motifs, Huitzilopochtli is also often associated with eagles. Huitzilopochtli was conceived by his…

caught my interest besides the rat in Oscar Pineno’s The Thinking Rat is the hummingbird. Hummingbirds are the smallest birds and brightest birds. They can flash their bright colors and hide them when needed as well. More importantly, Hummingbirds can see further than an average human and hear from further distance than humans. According to Pineno during Pilfer’s condition memory was a key factor for the hummingbirds. Hummingbirds remembered to catch worms rather then peanuts. If this case was…

Michel Foucault, in “Panopticism,” explains that panopticism it can be very beneficial; however, it would lead to tyranny at the end. Plato talks, in “Allegory of the cave,” about the experience in the point of view of a prisoner chained in dark caves and his experience after that. Brian Doyle, in “Joyas Voladoras,” describes a variety of creatures that have hearts, explains their adaptation and their properties; demonstrates that humankind have a unique type of heart - the locker of all the…

The Vulnerable Heart “Joyas Volodoras” is a poetic essay written by Brian Doyle. In this essay, he first mentions about different creatures and their hearts: hummingbirds, their amazing features including torpor, and them having very little emotions, blue whales, their “yearning cries,” them being very emotional, and always longing for something, even when they have a mate. Then he talks about how the heart is vulnerable. He says no matter how strongly we try to defend ourselves from emotions…

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the business and get it up and running, to then hand over to anpther group of students by the 31st of August Our aim is to train at least 1 person per week Timeline Contact Nick to install coffee machine Make first order to Hummingbird Go for barista training with Hummingbird Put up posters/ signs Send out email about Cafe and barista training facility opening Purchase all stock needed Open…