What would you think if you woke up one morning and noticed your eye lids were stuck together? Sounds pretty disgusting or strange right? Actually its very common 1 out of 50 people a year will have this‚ its conjunctivitis. Conjunctivitis‚ also known as “Pink Eye” is swelling (inflammation) or infection of the membrane lining the eyelids. Pink Eye is highly contagious and is most common in children‚ especially children who attend day care or the first few years of school. Not only children can
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Cow’s eye dissection AIM ~ To locate and distinguish specific parts to an eye of a cow‚ in particular‚ its lens. OBSERVATIONS ~ Before actually beginning the dissection of the cow’s eye‚ we were about to sketch a fairly relative picture of our observing’s of the exterior body of the eye. The eye‚ having almost completely being sheltered in fat and muscle‚ was quite firm and only the cornea and optic nerve was identified. By further cutting down the fat‚ we were able to spot a rather tough pinkie
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The eye is a rather small part of the body that makes up seventy percent of the humans total sensory ability. That is why we chose to describe the eye. Each part of the eye works together as a whole. Within and outside of the eye there are many working parts functioning around the clock.. The cornea is a very important part of the eye‚ but you can hardly see it because it’s made of clear tissue. Like glass‚ the cornea gives your eye a window in which to view the world. The a cornea is a
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The Eye is the organ of sight. Eyes enable people to perform daily tasks and to learn about the world that surrounds them. Sight‚ or vision‚ is a rapidly occurring process that involves continuous interaction between the eye‚ the nervous system‚ and the brain. <br><br>When someone looks at an object‚ what he/she is really seeing is the light that the object reflects‚ or gives off. This reflected light passes through the lens and falls on to the retina of the eye. Here‚ the light induces nerve impulses
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Social Norms The characters in “The Bluest Eye” are exposed to social standards and norms. The book opens with an excerpt from the book “Dick and Jane”. This excerpt represents the perfect‚ ideal‚ suburban‚ white family. Each chapter in the book also begins with a quote from this book. This makes the lives of the black families in the book seem worse. The comparison of Dick and Jane’s family and life to that of the black families in the book demonstrates how the black families would compare themselves
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character from the novel The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ compares herself to the dandelions: ugly and unwanted. Pecola is raised with no sense of self-esteem or self-value. She is a black girl with nappy hair and dark eyes. She yearns for blue eyes‚ the mark of beauty in the United States during the 1940s. She lives a life of tumult and ugliness. Pecola portrays happier versions of her life through the imaginary character‚ Jane. Pecola is a very static character who changes very little throughout the
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Who was Theodore Roosevelt? Theodore Roosevelt was a man of great action. He rode in to war as a Rough Rider. He had a love for nature. He helped build the navy one of the most powerful military branches. He is considered one of the most important president by many. Theodore Roosevelt saw the Spanish as a threat to Cubans because the Cubans had revolted against the Spanish. Word had reached the US that the Spanish were capturing and putting the rebel Cubans in concentration camps and were being
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keep your eye free of drainage. If you wear contacts‚ remove them and wear glasses until your symptoms have gone away completely. Thoroughly clean your contacts and storage case. Cold compresses or warm compresses (whichever feels best) can be used. If an allergy is the problem‚ a cool compress may feel better. If the pinkeye is caused by an infection‚ a warm‚ moist compress may soothe your eye and help reduce redness and swelling. Warm‚ moist compresses can spread infection from one eye to the other
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to cover and protect the surface of the eye. It also lubricates the eye as it moves in the socket. 2- Cornea- the corneas structure is a transparent front window through which light enters the eyeball. It is made up of 3 main structures which are the epithelium‚ stroma and endothelium. Its function is that it performs much of the initial focusing of the image by bending or refracting the light onto the lens. 3- Sclera- its structure is the white of the eye and it is the tough outer layer and it
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Eye Donation Do you know that we can light the life of a blind person by donating our eyes after our death? In India‚ we have an estimated 4.6 million people with corneal blindness that is curable through corneal transplantation made possible by eye donation. More than 90% of the corneal transplantation is carried out successfully and helps restore vision in people with corneal blindness. Corneal transplantation in infants born with cloudy cornea can make a big difference to their lives.
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