D:\Robert\Research\Expertise\hawkeye final submission.doc 14 November 2011 17:03 You cannot be serious! Public Understanding of Technology with special reference to `Hawk-Eye.’ Harry Collins and Robert Evans An edited version of this paper will be published by Public Understanding of Science 17‚ 3‚ July 2008. Public understanding of science‚ though it approaches the specialist knowledge of experts only in rare circumstances‚ can be enhanced more broadly in respect of the
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Toni Morrison’s novel "The Bluest Eye"‚ is a very important novel in literature‚ because of the many boundaries that were crosses and the painful‚ serious topics that were brought into light‚ including racism‚ gender issues‚ Black female Subjectivity‚ and child abuse of many forms. This set of annotated bibliographies are scholarly works of literature that centre around the hot topic of racism in the novel‚ "The Bluest Eye"‚ and the low self-esteem faced by young African American women‚ due to white
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The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tell the story of Pecola Breedlove an innocent little girl looking for someone who love her‚ the relationship with her parents is terrible‚ her father rapes her‚ her mother and the rest of the community reject her‚ and she finish talking to an imaginary friend who is in fact the facet of her split personality. The Bluest Eye shows how racism infiltrates and destroys the psychological health of African Americans. In this story‚ Through Pecola‚ Morrison
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through various outlets. We are born with senses that allow us to feel and express a wide arraignment of emotions. When one of these senses fail we are automatically disabled‚ but many find alternatives to express these emotions. Erin McGraw in “Bad Eyes” learns to express her emotions through the use of extensive metaphors that allow the reader to feel what she is writing. The metaphors create a bridge that helps us to understand what McGraw faces throughout her life. The reader gains insight to her
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loves the head of a dandelion" (Morrison 35). "They are ugly. They are weeds" (Morrison 38). Pecola‚ the main 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
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The Search for Blue Eyes Racialised Beauty in The Bluest Eye Though there have been many steps towards equality in today’s society‚ America‚ as a whole‚ will not reach it until races could be equal in everything. But America is still a race dominated culture‚ and mostly a white dominated culture. In this culture‚ society looks up to a racialised beauty‚ where beauty is defined in the terms of white beauty‚ or the physical features most white people have. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tells
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Journal of Computer Science and Management Research Vol 2 Issue 7 July 2013 ISSN 2278-733X Blue eyes Technology Himanshu Sharma and Gaurav Rathee Computer Science Department‚ Mahamaya Technical University‚ Noida‚ Uttar Pradesh-201309 hmix13@gmail.com & gaurav_rathee@hotmail.com Abstract - This study examines the making‚ building and the real life application of Blue eyes Technology. The BLUE EYES technology aims at creating computational machines that have perceptual and sensory ability like
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The Bluest Eye In her novel The Bluest Eye‚ Toni Morrison emphasizes three major events that are both personal and historical because they affected her at the time when she was writing the novel. She writes about a personal event about a childhood who wanted blue eyes to be beautiful‚ which puzzled her and changed her perception of what real beauty really was and who were the ones considered beautiful or ugly. There were also a couple of historical events that she mentions in the novel that affected
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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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Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: A look at Sexism and Racism Toni Morrison‚ the author of The Bluest Eye‚ centers her novel around two things: beauty and wealth in their relation to race and a brutal rape of a young girl by her father. Morrison explores and exposes these themes in relation to the underlying factors of black society: racism and sexism. Every character has a problem to deal with and it involves racism and/or sexism. Whether the character is the victim or the aggressor‚ they
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