Joyas Voladoras Essay

In the book “Joyas Voladoras” by published editor Brain Doyle, Doyle begins talking about humming birds. The heart of a humming bird, and its physical aspects. Doyle then elaborates on the title that it translates to flying jewels, which the first explorers named them. Doyle is talking about life, the center of all living things life, the heart and the different aspects of the heart. The memory that can be stored there, the heartbeats, the size and even how a heart can be broken. Doyle presents his ideas differently but causes the reader to connect emotionally, factually, and fairly personally.

In the essay, “Joyas Voladoras,” the author, Brian Doyle, wrote about the emotional heart and the biology of a heart. He starts the book off talking about hummingbirds’ hearts and the amazing things they can do. After talking about hummingbirds, he changes the subject to whales and how big they are and how big their hearts are. After the subject of whales, he talks about how different types of living creatures have different amounts of heart chambers and hearts and how every living thing has liquid moving inside. After talking about the heart chambers and functions, he started talking about the heart as in emotions. Doyle’s son, Liam, was born with three chambers in his heart, so he probably wrote “Joyas Voladoras” to convey that all hearts no matter how many chambers are in it, all work the same.

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is best known as the first Spaniard to explore what we now consider to be southwestern United States. His nine-year odyssey is chronicled within the book The Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition. His account is considered especially interesting because it is one of the very first documents that illustrates interactions between American natives and explorers. However, when examining the exploration of the modern United States, there are many arguments that have to do with the entitlement to the land and the motivations behind settling in the first place. Most explorers were obviously in favor of their own conquests and Cabeza de Vaca is of course no exception. In Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition, Cabeza de

In Grant Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents,” he stresses the importance of both the rhetoric and the audience in various situations.

Brian Doyle is the author of many books and poems and “Joyas Voladoras” is an excerpt from one of the books he wrote called The Wet Engine. This excerpt is about the heart and how the heart is different for every organism, but every organism has one thing in common and that is emotions. In “Joyas Voladoras,”  Brian Doyle indicates that it is possible for the strongest of hearts to be touched some kind of way emotionally.

Born in Medellin, Spain, he was a Spanish Conquistador who conquered most of Central America. He also gave Spain three-hundred years of control over Mexico. Cortez started exploring in the early 1500’s. He explored to find riches and conquered by being observant of the natives. With a small army, he conquered the Aztec Empire. Cortez went to the university in Salamanca, Spain. He attended the university to study Latin and Law. Unfortunately, Cortez completed only two years of school. He returned to his family in Medellin, Spain. However, life became boring for him. Nevertheless, Christopher Columbus inspired Cortez to explore the New World. Finally, Cortez was able to

“Las Papas” is the story about a single man with a child. The story starts in the kitchen where the man was going to cook a dinner for his son and himself. He was about to try out a new Italian recipe for “Chicken cacciatore”, when he received a disapproving remark regarding the dish from his son. Having heard this he suddenly recalls similar event that had happened when he was fifteen and disapproved his father’s cooking by calling it “too spicy”. At the same moment peeling and chopping potatoes he realizes that even though he was born and grew up in Peru, the place where a potato-papas originated, he doesn’t know much about the history of this magnificent vegetable which grows underground without seeing a light

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Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz was a woman far beyond her years. Living in a time when society was dominated by men, she disregarded the fact that women during this time were forced to be uncurious objects, whose highest achievement in life was to give birth. Her relentless pursuit to attain knowledge and defy her culture's standards for women is illustrated throughout her writings. In the readings, ("Response to the Most Illustrious Poetess Sor Filotes de la Cruz, the three "Romances" and the "Redondillas"), she spills out her beliefs, feelings and pain in forms of symbolic devices and irony in attempt to erase the differences between men and women as intellectual beings, as well as to argue for a woman's right to pursue

La Danza de la Pluma is a dance that celebrates and commemorates the culture of the conquest of Central America by the Spanish. It is a variation from La Danza de la Conquista, which is practiced in Mexico and Guatemala. La Danza de la Pluma, however, is unique to the people of Oaxaca, Mexico. This dance is performed in the festivities of La Guelaguetza in Oaxaca and even here in Los Angeles. It is also unique, in certain aspects, to every region and every village in the state of Oaxaca. For instance, the small town of San Juan Tabaa performs this dance in the month of June, between the 22nd and 26th, during its patron saint’s celebration. This tradition has been going on for many years. This performance, like any tradition, has its customs and rules. For example, the dance attire must be a certain way, the performers must be of a certain age, and the role of men are more flexibility than the role of women. However, aside from these unique aspects, one thing every region shares its devotion to the dance, to the culture, and to what it represents. Because of that devotion, the people of San Juan Tabaa brought this dance to the streets of Los Angeles, performing it in front of many people at the Placita Olvera on a Sunday afternoon. After that performance, the people that organized La Guelaguetza here in Los Angeles, asked the performers if they were willing to participate in that year’s Guelaguetza celebration. Not only did they perform there, but every couple of years, this

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Throughout the play, there have been many conflicts substantial and miniature but one of the enormous is out of the play. In the play, Don John and Borachio are two of the major antagonists that make substantial effects on the storyline. Yet during the play, Borachio realized his wrongdoings while Don John stays defiant in the story. Therefore Don John is more of a criminal than Borachio for not resent his crimes. Also could be said that Don John is more determined to reach his goal by using any means necessary than Borachio which definitely describes Machiavellianism.

Don Quijote de La Mancha: Idealism in Real Life Alonso Quijana is an average man whose idealist delusions transform him into a knight, Don Quijote, combating fictional danger with fictional power in a much more realist world than he realizes. There are many idealists in this world and in history. One man with idealist views in history was Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States. During World War 1, his idealist views became prevalent in his attempts to regain world peace.

One of the great architects in time was Andrea Palladio, who was made famous for his magnificent Villas built in Italy in the fifteen hundreds. To do so he drew from the Greek and Roman’s architecture, studying many of their finest works, to create his masterful villas. This process would develop into a style of architecture, which became known as Palladianism. This style has inspired buildings which have dominated the landscape for the last four hundred years. These buildings include: English castles, American public buildings, Swiss railroad stations, Spanish libraries, Tuscan villas and Canadian hotels. Many of these buildings are considered to be the great buildings of the world.

This poem contains historical and christian references, and the track is built around a repeating string section, it is also a form of Lyrical poetry. And as in all Lyrical poems, this poem has rhythm, rhyme, metaphors, repetition,alliteration, etc. For example, in the line “It was the wicked and wild wind” there's alliteration, also in “I hear the Jerusalem bells ringing” it says that four times, and that's what you call repetition. Anyways, let's continue from that “Viva La Vida” meaning live long life has to do with the fact that he had a good long rich life while he was king and In the poem the narrator tells about his journey when he was king and how he lost that and now he was a