The heart is a complex organ because it plays an important role in our survival, but
Cited: Doyle, Brian. “Joyas Volardoras.” The Best American Essays. Ed. Robert Atwan. 6th ed. Boston: Wadsworth, 2011. 166-70. Print.
The heart is what some determine to be the most important organ in our bodies and one of the biggest contributors. It is one of the major organs that if we did not have, it would not be possible for us to live. The heart is about the size of a fist and is broken down into four chambers, the aorta, superior vena cava, pulmonary artery, and the coronary artery. The four chambers include the right and left atrium and the right and left ventricle. The heart is responsible for supplying oxygen and blood to the entire body. Blood passes through these four chambers and then exits and pumps into the rest of the body. The heart also has three layers of walls…
Throughout the essay “Joyas Volardoras”, Brian Doyle describes the heart of different animals and gives details of how those animals live their life according to their necessities. As we can see in the first 3 paragraphs, the author introduces the hummingbirds to us with many facts and descriptions. Doyle begins this essay by saying: “Consider the hummingbird for a long time”, and then he starts to narrate how fast a hummingbird's heart beats and how strong but fragile they can be. As you keep reading, you will find out that, Doyle is not talking about hummingbirds anymore. Now he is comparing a hummingbird to a tortoise. He says:…
The prose taken from The American Scholar is a descriptive prose, literally explaining both the physical appearance of the biggest heart in the world and the function of a heart, while upon further analysis, the readers can find more connotations to those lines that all living creatures have one thing in common: a heart that is able to experience emotions of a kind- love. The author achieves those effects through a wide range of techniques from the use of metaphor, sentence structure, and language.…
Cited: Baym, Nina and Levine, Robert. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 8th ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc. 2012…
Whales are the largest animal to ever live, and possibly that ever will live. They are bigger than any dinosaurs. They survive from the coldest waters in the arctic and sometimes frozen waters, to the warm and lively coastal waters across the Earth.…
To conclude, the author uses diction and metaphors to describe the bird’s song. Through the use of these literary devices, the author shows how the birds’ songs are powerful, and how quickly their songs’ end once the sun has fully…
We are going to take a look at Three Native Americans Pontiac, Red Jacket, and Tecumseh to see what the relation are with the white men. We are going to see how they gave to the white men and how the white men took from the Indians.…
In the essay “Achievement of Desire”, Richard Rodriguez takes author Richard Hoggart’s, “Scholarship Boy”, and uses it as a reference point to capture his own life experiences as a scholarship boy. Growing up in a working class house hold, Richard was not the average product of his environment. Much like Hoggarts’ scholarship boy, Rodriguez was a very dedicated student that excelled in most of his studies. Although Rodriguez had the full support of his parents he was still somewhat physically segregated at home. On most nights, he spent time engulfed in books and notes, rather than watching television with family, or lolly gagging with friends. Yet these habits adversely affect his social and family life it is favored in both the definition and action of the scholarship boy.…
Human beings wake up every single day and carry out their daily activities. One of the things we all forget to appreciate is our own body. The complexity found within the human body that works on a daily basis like clockwork is one of the miracles of life that we enjoy. When we go to the workplace there is a system and a chain of command with which the offices are functioning, just like that our bodies are also a complex group of network that is constantly in communication with one another to keep our bodies functioning. There are multiple systems and each one is extremely important in its role but one of the most important systems found within the human bodies is the cardiovascular system. It pumps blood to each portion of our body, which…
As we age, certain changes in the heart are inevitable. Even in the absence of disease, the wall of the heart thickens, heart rate slows, maximum heart rate declines, and the heart doesn’t pump as efficiently as it once did. Health problems, such as hypertension, coronary disease, congestive heart failure, and myocardial infraction are more common in the elderly and aggravate age- related degenerative change in the circulatory system and that’s why I’m here to talk to you today (Unknown 2012). Age-related change doesn’t only affect your body parts but your internal organs and body systems as well. As we age, we never think about our heart giving out on us are will stop pumping, but the reality for example, just as your eyes weaken and produce less tears your heart weakens too as you get older. We put more and more strain on our hearts, making the heart having to work ten times harder.…
Throughout his work, Joyas Voladoras, Brian Doyle describes the life and the heart of different mammals, focusing on the hummingbird and the blue whale. By contrasting these two, Doyle introduces an interesting idea of life, not only between hummingbirds and whales, but with all living things. “Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heart beats to spend in a lifetime” (274).…
The heart is considered one of the most vital organs for human survival and is responsible for giving human life and pumping blood through the arteries, capillaries, and veins. Heart diseases make the heart function improperly which causes the blood to not circulate throughout the body, making human life impossible. Heart diseases is considered to be number one on the top ten lists of death in the world. Because of this reason, I believe that understanding heart diseases such as myocardial infarction is crucial for not only human survival but also preventing this disease from occurring.…
In “Joyas Voldares” by Brian Doyle, Doyle starts off the essay by saying “Consider the humming bird for a long moment” (Doyle 64), because he starts off the essay this way it feels like Doyle is forcing you to take your time while reading the paper and not to rush through it making sure that you do not miss the message that he is trying to get across, which is that you never know what is truly inside a persons’ heart. After that first line he begins to talk about humming birds and how the humming bird has a heart the size of a pencil eraser but is in fact one of the strongest heart on earth, strong than a human heart, “Their hearts are built of thinner, leaner fibers than ours. Their arteries are stiffer and more taut. They have more mitochondria in their heart muscles-anything to gulp more oxygen. Their hearts are stripped to the skin for the war against gravity and inertia, the mad search for food, the insane idea of flight” (Doyle 65). The job of a heart in any animal is to provide them with life and give them the ability to experience of living and what it means to exist in this world. Because the heart gives life to every animal on Earth it can also take it away, in the…
Bibliography: Hernan Cortés, and Anthony Pagden, In _Letters from Mexico_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 11.…
Physical Traits- The Blue Whale is the largest animal to ever live. It can reach a length of 100 ft and weigh 120 tons. The whales head makes up for 25% of its long streamlined body. From the navel to the jaw, there are about 55-68 ventral grooves in the whale. It has a bluish grey color and has a curved dorsal fin. It is toothless and has baleen plates in its mouth that act as a food strainer.…