Change blindness is a strange phenomenon which occurs when a visual change in the environment goes unnoticed by the observer‚ even if the change is large or obvious. This can be particularly dangerous in times when vision and ability to react to changes around us is imperative to our safety‚ such as when driving. An occurrence of change blindness while driving could cause an accident if it is not detected fast enough. There are many contributors to detection of change which have been studied by previous
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their masters so they can get what they really want. In the play King Lear by Shakespeare‚ the topic of blindness occurs often. The theme of blindness is demonstrated by the biggest mistake that King Lear makes‚ by the disguise of Kent‚ and by Gloucester’s trust in Edmund. The biggest mistake of King Lear when he divides his kingdom among his three daughters‚ but he does not know that his blindness will lead him to be controlled by Goneril and Regan. Lear gets angry on Cordelia. King Lear divides her
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Borges’ Blindness & Dillard’s Seeing In Jorge Luis Borges’ piece from Ficciones‚ “Blindness” and Annie Dillard’s piece from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek‚ “Seeing”‚ we read writers’ perspectices on their own blindness. The writers contradict the common fallacies our culture has about blindness with their own personal experiences. Although both writers portray blindness in a positive light‚ each writer uses his disability to enhance his lives differently. Borges depicts his loss of sight as an opportunity
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#6 Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness‚ affecting 66 million individuals worldwide‚ with the majority manifesting blindness are from Asian countries (Stein‚ MD‚ MS‚ et al.‚ 2011). The Unites States continues to experience a significant number of Asian immigrants consequently glaucoma is a degenerative disease that requires additional research and monitoring. Japanese Americans are generally lumped into the Asian population health research and subsequently reported as a sub-population within
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In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ figurative blindness possesses beauty‚ in that it allows the “blind” individual to construct their own unique world‚ all of which is created through the distinct perception of various experiences‚ not necessarily the actual sequence and nature of events. Blindness is essentially a‚ “social construction” (Batman‚ ThisAmericanLife)‚ in that society has created this disability‚ whether it be physical or mental‚ demonstrating the notion that beliefs and opinions towards
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The Use of Blindness in Oedipus Rex Authors often use blindness both metaphorically and literally to describe their characters. In Oedipus Rex‚ Sophocles begins the play with literally blind Thebans suffering from a plague that their metaphorically blind king has brought upon them. Oedipus‚ being the king‚ is trying to help his blind Thebans. In doing this‚ he blindly curses the murderer of the late King Laius for bringing this plague‚ not knowing that the murderer is himself. When
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Effects of Physical Blindness People can in fact be blinded to the truth‚ the solution to their problems may have been completely oblivious‚ yet somehow still oblivious. We often make assumptions between being blind and enlightened. With Blindness one may not have sight but another type of vision. In king Oedipus‚ Tiresias‚ the blind prophet‚ presents the truth to Oedipus and Jocasta. Oedipus has been blind his whole life‚ and when faced with the truth‚ lost his the truth is uncovered she still cannot
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In literature‚ blindness serves a general significant meaning of the absence of knowledge and insight. It serves this same purpose in Sophocles’ classic tragedy‚ Oedipus Rex. In this piece‚ blindness manifests itself in three ways: intellectual blindness‚ which is the refusal or inability to accept knowledge; physical blindness‚ which is being without the physical sense of sight; and metaphorical blindness‚ which is what blindness symbolizes or means for each character affected by it. In all aspects
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the downfall of Oedipus as a result from his blindness to the truth. Even though many of the characters in this play are physically able to see‚ their fates are certain by their lack of physiological sight. The blind prophet Teiresias shows‚ one does not need vision to see the truth. The many examples of blindness that Sophocles gives his characters are some of the greatest aspects in determining the outcome of this play. The first time Oedipus’ blindness is seen is when he denounces the murder of
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and the absence of it‚ is a major theme in Lear. This theme is portrayed through the characters of King Lear‚ Gloucester and Edgar. The lack of insight‚ or “blindness”‚ is very symbolic. Blindness is defined as “unable to see; lacking the sense of sight;”(Dictionary). For Lear‚ blindness was not physical; it was his flaw. Lear’s blindness to see who a person really was‚ based on their character and personality‚ was obvious at the beginning of the play regarding Cordelia and Kent. Gloucester‚ on
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