Preview

ants

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
549 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
ants
Ant, Power Animal, Symbol of Team Work, Oneness and Patience

By Ina Woolcott

When observing ants it is easy to see some of the special characteristics, or 'powers' they have. Ants are very industrious. There are ants that are solitary but most are part of a large community. Within the community there is a wide variety of activities and behaviours, with each ant knowing its place and fulfilling its duties with total loyalty to the whole. Each ant does his bit to ensure the survival of the whole community, no matter what role it has in society. Activities include gathering and hunting. They work hard, are patient and co-operative. An ant is able to carry a leaf, a crumb or a dead ant for miles - just to get back home to the anthill, requiring a load of stamina and patience. If an ant has to fight, it will, if an ant has to dig tunnels, it will, and if an ant has to carry leaves for miles, it will, all for the good of the community. As well as being extremely hard working they possess an extraordinary ability to work as a team - the power of their medicine - to build their homes, to feed and protect all members of their colony. There may be a social order in ant colonies, but all ants honour and respect each other and work toward their common goal - the good of the community. Worker ants are great architects and can show us how to construct our dreams into reality. They are also very persistent and can teach this skill as well. Queen ants have wings and are able to fly until they fall pregnant. Once pregnant they tear of their own wings sacrificing the ability to fly for the birth of a newborn.

If the ant has crossed your path then this may be an indication that you are hardworking, good at team work, working to help the community, or that you are patient and take the time needed to achieve your goals. Being tireless workers and hunters, ant teaches us the trait of perseverance and patience in ALL they/we do. These gifts can also be utilised by us. Those

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Movie Analysis: Ant Island

    • 1782 Words
    • 8 Pages

    At the start of the movie they had scare resources. The ants did not have enough food for majority of the first part of the movie. They have to give most of the resources to the grasshoppers so they can be “protected”. One resource they lack the most was water they didn’t have any rain for majority of the movie.…

    • 1782 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In order to show this, Kidd builds on the hive and bees as a metaphor of life. Bees represent people working together in a society, which is represented by the hive. "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness" (3). The beehive has been known in history to represent the soul, death, and rebirth. The hive is presided over by the queen, or mother-figure. In explaining that bees have secret lives that are not immediately perceptible, August speaks metaphorically of people. As the plot progresses, we learn that almost every character has an explanation for his or her actions that cannot be seen immediately. We know that Lily is pretending to be someone that she is not in order to find out about her mother. We learn that May is so emotional because of her twin's suicide (142). August tells Lily that T. Ray was not always the cruel man he is now. He was once tender and sweet and become embittered when Deborah died (201). Lily also finds out that her mother was not the perfect women she imagined. Throughout this story, Lily learns people, like the bees, are often motivated by forces that cannot be understood…

    • 964 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    2. The red ant is symbolic of homework, which many high schooler's can agree that it is annoying, but will not ruin their life.…

    • 129 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Midterm 1 Study Guide

    • 1454 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Importance to Anth: allows people to understand what it means to be human from an interdisciplinary standpoint…

    • 1454 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    As humans, we tend to believe we are far superior to all other creatures, that we have nothing in common with anything thought of as ‘below us’. We are very wrong in thinking that. In the novel the Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, it is proven that though we do have differences, we are not so different from such a ‘simple’ creature as the bee. In the novel, Kidd compares a bee community, meaning their hives, to a human community, which could mean something as big as a town or city, or something as small as a family. She makes the reader realize that we are similar to bees in the way we treat life and crave love from others. She also, however, shows us how we differentiate in little ways like being able to replace a leader and the ability to hate. By comparing the two different communities, Kidd helps us understand the workings of life itself.…

    • 633 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is about a man named Eckel who goes to Time Safari Inc. in hopes to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Time Safari Inc. is guided dinosaur hunts that use a time machine to go back to when dinosaurs lived. This short story shows the effects of altering history. Changing one tiny little detail in the past can create or destroy something in the present. Every action that is taken in the past can affect things in the future. This story shows how Eckel’s mind changes when he is face with a T-Rex in front of him. Bradbury conveys this theme through imagery, diction, and metaphors.…

    • 749 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Totem Poles History

    • 1024 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Organization is essential for all species, especially the ones that live in communities, additionally, it is also a trait that bees and I share. It is a bee’s responsibility to play it’s role in the community,…

    • 1024 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Bugs

    • 1266 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Scott’s blood test shows that he has excess red blood cells. Identify and describe two causes of this disorder.…

    • 1266 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Honey bees are one of the matriarchies in the insect kingdom. Colonies consist of one queen, a lot of male worker bees, and a few male drones. Ninety-five percent of the worker bees are female. A healthy hive is occupied by a collection of many generations. Tasks are divided up by age and colony through an intricate system of communication. Younger worker bees tend to the queen and the baby bees. Older worker bees forage for food and water for the colony, convert nectar into honey, construct wax cells and clean the cells, and guard the hive from invader. These worker bees are the bees that develop stingers to defend the eggs laid by the queen. Drones have only one purpose, to mate with the queen. The queen will only leave the hive once in her lifetime, and that is to mate…

    • 642 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A lone ant assisting a colony of ants in building. Martin Luther King Jr. leading thousands of people during the march from Selma to Montgomery. A man practicing soccer so he can join his college soccer team. What do these subjects have in common? They each have a sense of purpose. Whether it’s evolutionary purpose, such as an ant building an ant hill, or a sense of moral purpose, such as protesting for the rights of African-Americans. Everything on this earth has potential given by God, and can be maximize if recognized and understood.…

    • 568 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Crickets

    • 997 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Coming to America can be difficult in itself. Adjusting to the cultural and social part of a new country is a big task when you’re a Vietnamese soldier who doesn’t speak a word of English. But when your only child is letting go of the central values that are a big part of your own world – you can’t stop to wonder what you can do to change this situation. This is the condition that Thieu, the main character of “Crickets”, finds himself in.…

    • 997 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the movie “Waking Life”, society has been referred to as an ant colony, the inhabitants acting only out of efficiency and politeness. Though at times it may seem that inter-personal relationships lack genuine human engagement and are rarely meaningful, both philosophers and scholars alike ponder whether a spiritual connection between all human beings would better society.…

    • 478 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Mosquitoes

    • 562 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The principles and elements of design that have been utilised to create this garment include Line, direction, texture, colour balance. The vertical lines created by the pleats of the peplum enhance the symmetrical, structured shape of the jacket, and emphasises the illusion of the small waist. The aesthetic pleasing aspect of this garment is the clever little frill called the peplum which softens the silhouette of the dress as opposed to it being a rectangle silhouette and emphasise feminism. The garment gives the wearer a balanced body proportion. It nips in the waist up high where the waist is the smallest and hangs low enough to cover the belly which is suitable for any body shape and size. The form fitting waistband provides the waist with a little more emphasise. The clean cut lines of the vest displays a tailored, professional look with good proportion of the female form. The shoulder pads inside the jacket allow the height and structure to the shape of the jacket. The French floral lace is an aesthetic aspect of the garment and one of Collette’s trademarks it is also what gives the jacket an interesting textural affect. The pleats of the jacket create a slimming affect to the top half of the body. . The hook and eye on the jacket helps secure the jackets to make the garment more secure against wearer’s body in an aesthetically pleasing way.…

    • 562 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Martians

    • 528 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The most important event in the part was the landing of Martians and later the way Martians treated earth people. They didn’t pay any attention to their friendly gestures, interest and tolerance, but they only acted as cruel killers. Starting the novel Herbert Wells mentions that even though people think they are quite advanced there will be always someone who is more powerfully and mighty and what is more dangerous who has more ambitions and tyranic.…

    • 528 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Best Essays

    Pollinators

    • 2282 Words
    • 10 Pages

    It had already been established that when fragrance molecules wafting downwind meet up with air pollutants, chemical reactions alter the floral scents the fate of three common volatile hydrocarbons emitted by flowers as they encountered increasing levels of ozone, hydroxyl radicals, and nitrate radicals. The researchers plugged these data into a model to test different air pollution scenarios ranging from conditions that prevailed during the 1840s to current summertime conditions in large eastern U.S. cities, where ozone levels can exceed 120 ppb by volume. Under 1840s conditions, only 20% of scents were altered by chemical reactions within a 1,000-meter radius downwind of the floral source. In the most polluted scenario, only 25% of the scents survived 300 meters downwind.Today, more than 842 million people - nearly three times the population of the United States - are chronically hungry. 43 "Chronic hunger is a profound, debilitating human experience that affects the ability of individuals to work productively, think clearly, and resist disease. it drains economies, destabilizes governments, and reaches across international boundaries." millions are undernourished The food security issues are a global concern. hunger is one of the greatest problems the international community is facingFood security deserves its place in any long-term calculation regarding global security. Widespread chronic hunger causes widespread instability and debilitating poverty and decreases all of our safety, Food insecurity, therefore, causes global insecurity because widespread instability threatens all of our safety.…

    • 2282 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Best Essays

Related Topics