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    January 30‚ 2001 In the story of Oedipus the king‚ Sophocles beautifully demonstrates the imagery of sight versus blindness through the use of tragedy and ignorance. Oedipus is ignorant to his own incest‚ therefore causing the first instance of his blindness. The second instance of Oedipus’ blindness is the ignorance of his true parent’s identity. The third instance of Oedipus’ blindness is a literal one‚ in which he physically blinds himself after finding the body of his mother‚ or wife. Sophocles

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    Problem Statement Star River Electronics‚ a Singapore based company‚ is a large manufacturer and supplier of CD-ROMS. It was founded as a joint venture between New Era Partners and Star Light Electronics Ltd. In the past decade‚ Star River has been very successful due its excellent reputation for producing high quality discs. In 1999‚ CD ROM disc drives comprised ninety three percent off all optical disc shipments. This created a high demand and allowed for manufacturing companies of all sizes to

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    This article is a compilation of historical events and speculation that provide the blurred lines between perception and truth. Neiberg refers to inattentional blindness in correlation to the way our mind perceives our own nation’s accomplishments and ideals. Inattentional blindness is the lack of attention to supposedly irrelevant information generally related to our visual perception; in the article’s context‚ this was our mind’s perception of the information we receive. The article states that

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    In the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex‚ blindness is a reoccurring theme which is used in many different ways in the play. Blindness is used quite often and is emphasized with the prophet Tiresias who is literally blind can see the truth unlike Oedipus who is blind to see the truth about his past and the crimes he has committed. It is ironic that the prophets Tiresias who is blind can see better then Oedipus in a metaphorical sense. The prophet Tiresias is physically blind but is able to see much more

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    Essay On Change Blindness

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    the introduction‚ is to assess change blindness in real life with direct participants rather than through television‚ photographs and computer screens. The experiment tests the hypothesis that people are more likely to detect changes in a scene when directly participating in the experiment. Due to the results of the initial experiment‚ the aim of the study evolved to assess the effect of social groups on change blindness. They hypothesised that change blindness would increase if the participant viewed

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    Color Blindness in Men

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    3/23/12 Sci 150 Peer reviewed source Color vision deficiency is one of the most common genetic disorders in the United States. Color vision deficiency is the inability to distinguish certain shades of color or in more severe cases‚ see colors at all. The term "color blindness" is also used to describe this visual condition‚ but very few people are completely color blind. (http://www.aoa.org) CVD is a genetic disorder in families that is passed down from parents to their children. (Evans‚ 2003 color

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    Change Blindness Analysis

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    Simons & Ambinder (2005)‚ is ‘change blindness’‚ i.e.‚ the inability to detect change in a visual stimulus. Jensen et al. (2011) differentiate this from another phenomenon‚ ‘inattentional blindness’‚ in which an unexpected object is not detected within the field of view. Though both phenomena are fundamentally failings of visual awareness‚ each has its own set of cognitive influences and potential implications (Jensen et al.‚ 2011). Moreover‚

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    Blindness plays a two-fold part in Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King.” First‚ Sophocles presents blindness as a physical disability affecting the auger Teiresias‚ and later Oedipus; but later‚ blindness comes to mean an inability to see the evil in one’s actions and the consequences that ensue. The irony in this lies in the fact that Oedipus‚ while gifted with sight‚ is blind to himself‚ in contrast to Teiresias‚ blind physically‚ but able to see the evil to which Oedipus

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    Choice Blindness Research

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    Tamar Kirkland Pd. 2 Title: 11/9/15 Choice Blindness Question: Does Choice Blindness occur more in females or males? Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to see how much we pay attention to things we feel are confidently right‚ when they are actually wrong. I can conclude from this project if female pay more attention than males‚ and vice versa. Hypothesis: My Hypothesis is that if I show the female test subjects photos‚ a smell or jam that they did not choose‚ then more females

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    manage to live without eyes‚ but then it will cease to be humanity‚ the result is obvious‚ which of us think of ourselves as being as human as we believed ourselves to be before.” said the doctor’s wife. The spreading of violence throughout the book Blindness‚ sexual or not‚ all contributes to the statement Jose Saramago is making about humanity. In this novel he stripped the world of culture‚ race‚ and class. Instead‚ those with little moral range and much greed for power. No matter how "good" or “bad”

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