Paradox Of The Heart In Joyas Voladoras, By Brian Doyle

He dedicates an entire paragraph to specifically how many chambers each heart of the animal kingdoms possesses, finishing it with a nod to the idea that all life is alike, that, “No living being is without interior liquid motion. We all churn inside” (Doyle, 127). Likewise, “Heart to Heart” by Rita Dove, begins by entertaining the physical idea of the heart. Regardless of the seemingly drastic difference in length of the works, Dove accomplishes the same feat as Doyle by aptly using descriptive instances of the heart to portray her interpretation of

From hummingbirds nimbly flying over flowers to humming women quietly walking through the park, Brian Doyle’s essay, “Joyas Voladoras,” brings light to the power of choice in relation to human experience and emotion. Doyle displays this power of choice through vivid descriptions of two animals: a hummingbird and a blue whale, two seemingly different organisms. However, instead of focusing on the obvious disparities of the animals, Doyle concentrates on what makes them similar, the heart. Both the hummingbird and blue whale have hearts, but they use their hearts in drastically different ways, one heart being the smallest and another being the largest in the world. Contrary to the beliefs of science and evolution, Doyle believes that humans are not so different from these two creatures, because, “no living being is without interior liquid motion. We all churn inside” (3). Suddenly, the essay transforms from a National Geographic journal to a heartfelt message that connects all of the human race. Doyle dives into how the heart experiences so many emotions and ideas throughout a human life. Knowing that the heart is a delicate jewel, Doyle demonstrates that, “all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore” (3). Doyle understands that many individuals try to defend their hearts and protect them from any harm, but those hearts will eventually be hurt and injured in a

Love is a drug that feels good in the moment but has negative consequences later on. This is shown in Romeo and Juliet when Mercutio and Romeo are about to enter the Capulet's feast. Romeo states,"Under love's heavy burden, do I sink." (Act 1 Scene 4) Personification is utilised to verify that love may feel light, but when it is passionate it tends to be heavy that it sinks you deep into your conscience where you can't escape from it. In that same scenario, another excerpt is being incorporated to reinforce that love is a drug that feels good but has negative consequences. "Is love a tender thing? Is it too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn." (Act 1 Scene 4) A rhetorical question and a simile are applied to this particular excerpt to identify and imply that love is unpredictable and it may not always account for what you want it to or

The specimen was located using light’s microscope lowest magnification. Higher magnification was used to locate the heart at the anterior dorsal end of the body behind the eyespot. After counting the microscope light was immediately turned off as light heat can interfere with the heart

In life, one of the most baffling motifs that presents itself is the feeling of love. Whether you take it when you have it or be scared and back away is up to you. However, when you decide to take it and embrace it freely, this is when is when people finally decide to open up and be their true self. In the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, the author portrays a contrasting theme between how life and death relates with how dramatic their love can be.

Doyle is trying to say that all hearts contain the same emotions and functions. In the text he says that different living creatures have different amounts of heart chambers, but everything inside has liquid in motion, which makes every heart the same. “Mammals and birds have hearts with four chambers….No living being is without interior liquid

Joy-Hulga’s vulnerability may be seen through the weakness of her heart, Not only is her physical heart weak, but her metaphorical one as well. Joy’s

Brian Doyle's Joyas Voladoras first appeared in The American Scholar in 2004 and was later selected for Best American Essays in 2005. Doyle’s intended audience is the general population, though his writing style attracts both the logical reader and the hopeless romantics who seek metaphors pointing to love in any way. The beginning of the essay provides insight to general information about the hummingbird, which holds the smallest, capable, and fragile heart in the world. He then explains the significance of the blue whale’s heart with comparisons, indicating that the blue whale holds a heart the size of a room. He ends his essay by expressing that a human’s heart is always closed due to the fear of it breaking, remaining constantly

The heart serves an important purpose within the body, pumping blood throughout the circulatory system to supply all parts of the body with vital nutrients and molecules. It pumps oxygen and nutrient rich blood to be exchanged for carbon dioxide, which is then pumped to the lungs and eliminated from the body. The movement of blood throughout the body is due to the heart’s ability to push blood along the circulatory system at a steady, unfaltering rate. This rate, known as heart rate, is regulated and can be altered at a moment’s notice by signaling within the body and heart itself. In vertebrates, the autonomic nervous system controls and regulates heart rate. The autonomic nervous system is divided into two subunits, the sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nerve that innervates the heart is the vagus nerve. In this laboratory experiment, the regulation of heart rate was observed by studying a certain breed of turtle, the Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans). Both chemical and electric signaling can influence the components of the nervous

Ever wondered how love can bring you happiness and pain and make you sane and crazy at the same time. How this emotion can change you and make you accept things you are not used to. How this emotion can overpower you in many ways in which you did not know existed. In Lancelot by Chretien de Troyes, the power of love is a commanding driving force that can dominate a person’s mind, body, and soul and one who is courageous enough to love sometimes undergoes serious consequences. Consequences that are driven from the power of love that harm and cause hardship to the one who is determined to seek love.

The cardiovascular system for both the sheep and the pig has common similarities. The hearts of the sheep and the pig has four chambers divided into the left atria, left ventricle, right ventricle and the right atria. Their hearts have almost the same muscular muscles in the right and left ventricles though they do not have a thick layer of fat like the other mammals. However their hearts have both the pulmonary and aorta trunk. Apart from the similarities mentioned above there are minor differences between the sheep and the pig’s heart. The pig has a bigger heart than the sheep in terms of the sizes, the ventricles, and the diameter of the atria, aorta, ventricles and the heart’s wall. However the pulmonary trunk of

The heart is one of the most important organs in an organism’s body, no matter if they are aquatic, amphibian, or a mammal. This super organ works automatically, able to pump massive amounts of oxygen rich blood through the body by means of electrical impulses and the opening and closing of valves within its many layers. It is what keeps us and every other creature on this earth alive; so it is only natural for one to fear when there might be a problem with one’s heart. A cardiac arrhythmia can happen to anyone, no matter the age, race, or gender, and as such, doctors and scientist have spent years trying to better understand the heart and the way it functions so that they can try to prevent these problems and save millions of lives.

The hearts role is to pump oxygenated blood to every cell in the body by having a continuous beat. Throughout time the heart has created mystery, however current technology has solved most of the mystery, there still remains an enchantment and eagerness to learn more.

Life is full of decision making, and many obstacles that will come in your way to try and stop your path and prevent you from achieving what you must achieve. In the poems “A Laughing Heart,” by Charles Bukowski, and “The Journey,” by Mary Oliver, the authors both meet at describing what life is like and how to live life like the fullest, even though there will be things to stop you, and you may stop yourself. Both of these poems point out that you have to be the main character in your life, you have to beat everybody or every obstacle that will trouble you, you must overcome it to achieve the highest points of your life. In “The Laughing Heart,” the author says “and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be.” (14, 15). Charles Bukowski is saying that if you learn to successfully overcome your obstacles, your life will continually get better because there are less problems to face. A similar line in “The Journey,” is “...as you left their voices behind,/ the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds,/ and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own,” (24-29). The author is saying that as you started to seize opportunity, solve problems and face challenges in your life, you became stronger, and you became the main character in your life. The theme of these two poems is that your life is your life, and even though you will have to overcome obstacles and face challenges, you must be the main character in your life to live your

In our world organisms occupy a sliding scale of complexity. On one hand we have the single cell organisms, where all necessary functions for their life are carried out within that one cell. At the other extreme we have extremely complex multicellular organisms, of which humans are perhaps the cardinal member. Obviously, with increased capacity comes increased abilities. Complex organisms are able to manipulate their environment to a greater extent then their simpler cousins. While this has a lot of advantages, it also presents interesting biological problems. With the increased complexity multicellular organisms must have systems to deliver nutrients, signaling molecules, and biochemical building blocks to every cell. In