Claudia MacTeer Claudia suffers from the same mentality of most of the characters in the novel; she is insecure about materialistic things and knows that beauty belongs to white people. Claudia does not believe white is beautiful because she sees it‚ but because she is told and exposed to how others view beauty. Claudia believes white is beautiful because everyone who is older says it is. Claudia subconsciously defines beauty as having a good personality. When Claudia is given a doll for Christmas
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Executive Summary: Aravind Eye Hospital was founded by Dr. Venkataswamy in 1976 who wanted to establish an alternate health care model that would supplement the efforts of the Government in fighting the blindness in India. The motivation behind Dr V to start this organisation was to eradicate needless blindness which he knew could not be achieved within the paradigm of a charitable organisation. Thus he set about his mission to mass market eye care like McDonalds or Pizza Hut. To do this Dr
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occur. Communication requires that all parties have an area of communicative commonality. There are verbal means using language and there are nonverbal means‚ such as body language‚ sign language‚ paralanguage‚ haptic communication‚ chromatics‚ and eye contact‚ through media‚ i.e.‚ pictures‚ graphics and sound‚ and writing. It is essential that the basic elements of communication be identified. These elements are: • Sender/encoder/speaker • Receiver/decoder/listener • Message • Medium • Feedback/reply
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THE BLUE EYES TECHNOLOGY The BLUEEYES technology aims at creating computational machines that have perceptual and sensory ability like those of human beings. It uses non-obtrusige sensing method‚ employing most modern video cameras and microphones to identify the user’s actions through the use of imparted sensory abilities. The machine can understand what a user wants‚ where he is looking at‚ and even realize his physical or emotional states. BlueEyes uses sensing technology
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of African Americans living in America. The concept of racism is extremely prevalent in the novel The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ and provides the characters in the story justification for many of their thoughts‚ actions‚ and problems. The main character‚ Pecola‚ is an eleven year old girl growing up with low self-esteem due to her abusive parents‚ discrimination of her skin‚ hair‚ and eyes. Morrison develops the idea that the character’s judgement and perception is clouded by race: the characters
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder This phrase " beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder" was written by Shakespeare‚ the famous author of many good classical English novels and literature. Anybody who read English literature should know who Shakespeare is‚ otherwise ‚ he will look very foolish. What is the meaning of this phrase ? It simply means that the perception of beauty is different for different people. There is a similar Chinese saying " Each type of flower attracts different admirers
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Through African Eyes Précis The book Through African Eyes by Leon E. Clark‚ allows Africans to speak through many autobiographies‚ poetry‚ newspaper and magazine articles‚ letters‚ diaries‚ and many more sources in four different parts. Clark writes this book in order to let the readers think for themselves and to give Africans the opportunity to speak for themselves. Africans have always been viewed as less important than others and almost not human. While reading this book however‚ the reader
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Maker’s Eye” is an essay written by Donald Murray and was first published in October 1973 in a magazine called The Writer. Murray breaks down the differences in the thoughts and processes between professional and amateur writers. In this essay Murray informs readers about the importance and process of revising and rewriting because he believes that a piece of writing is never perfect in the eye of the writer. Murray talks about the “Maker’s eye” quite a bit in this essay. To him‚ this “eye” represents
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In The Eye of the Storm filmed by ABC News in 1970‚ Jane Elliot‚ a teacher at Riceville Community Elementary School‚ puts her third grade students through an experiment to show them how horrible colored people were treated. Since 1968‚ Jane Elliot always has something planned for National Brotherhood Week. On Tuesday‚ Elliot segregates her class by the color of the students’ eyes. The brown-eyed kids were to wear special collars around their neck so they could be seen from afar. In this situation
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The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison Compare and contrast Claudia and Pecola in terms of their ability to fight injustice. How does this ability affect them later in the novel? It is not hard to notice the contrast between Claudia’s method to fight injustice and Pecola’s method. Claudia is a fighter and incredibly brave. She will not let the community that she lives in destroy her life. Therefore‚ she speaks up when she considers that something is unfair and wrong. Unlike Claudia‚ Pecola is
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