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    inattentional blindness and ADHD‚ they all represented different results within each. Studies two and three both covered the importance of attentional control within an inattentional blindness test. Although both of them had different outcomes‚ study two assumed attentional control remains something you just have or don’t‚ while study three explained that your brain can be trained through art and repetition. Study one and three both showed how people with ADHD can benefit from inattentional blindness tasks

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    Vincent Mendez Arden Thomas Humanities 1 23 December 2016 Blindness is the Unknown In this play‚ sight and blindness are a motif because some people in the play are blind and a lot of people are able to see. Eyes are everywhere in this play. For example‚ Teiresias is blind but he can still see the clearest of everyone. Tiresias is also able to predict the future. Some of the things he predicted were that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother. He also predicted that Oedipus would

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    novel Invisible Man‚ Ralph Ellison works with many different images of blindness and impaired vision and how it relates to perception. These images prove to be fascinating pieces of symbolism that enhance the themes of impression and vision within the novel. From the beginning of the novel when the narrator is blindfolded during the battle royal to the end where Brother Jack’s false eye pops out‚ images of sight and blindness add to the meaning of many scenes and characters. In many of these situations

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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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    In the analytical paper “‘I Stumble When I Saw’: Interpreting Gloucester’s Blindness in King Lear” written By Robert B. Pierce‚ he analyzes how disability often plays a symbolic role in literature and the stereotype surrounding blindness. Then‚ the author analyzed Gloucester from the literature King Lear. In the beginning of the essay‚ blindness is characterized as the ultimate disaster in one’s life‚ and it is either worse than or near to death. Blind individual is often depicting as helpless and

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    Color Blindness: The Deception of Color Color blindness is the inability or the decreasing ability to see color or the differences in colors. John Dalton wrote the first paper pertaining to Colorblindness called “Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours” in 1798. He himself was colorblind and originally named the disability daltonism. Color blindness is usually inherited but you can get it other ways. Color blindness can also happen if physical or chemical damage is done to the eye

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    The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas tells the tale of the friendship between a boy in a concentration camp‚ Shmuel‚ and the son of a Nazi‚ Bruno. Neither is quite aware of who each other are; this childhood ignorance is a large part of what makes this movie so tragic and upsetting for many people: the boys understand hardly any of what is happening in their world. In the end‚ both are killed at the hands of Nazi cruelty‚ with the story’s moral being that all people are fundamentally similar

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    Merck and Co.‚ River Blindness Ethical Case Analysis Lennard de Jong Excelsior College Author Note This paper was prepared for Business Ethics‚ Ethical Case Analysis‚ taught by Dr. Moser. Introduction and Situational Analysis The ethical dilemma in Merck and River Blindness is whether to pursue research that may or may result in profit‚ or to choose the safe option and go for profit rather than researching the drug. The drug could possibly lead to curing the deadly and detrimental disease

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    “WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” pg. 6 Those three lines are part of the Party’s slogan and they are repeated various times throughout the story. At first glance they are hard to understand as each word seems to be the opposite of the other. If you look into it more they seem very alike. For war is peace‚ think why we fight wars‚ for peace. And for freedom is slavery‚ in my mind I related it to the words yes and no. Yes entitles you to opportunities it

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    Rachel materialistic life and vanity was a cry for attention. Rachel was an exact copy of her father almost. She could take herself out of any situation that she did not want for herself. But she has the ability to use intelligence to survive. Ignorance is her physical salvation‚ while arrogance keeps her emotions stable. This is what drives her away from the people who she should care about the most‚ her family. One of Rachel’s biggest problems is the culture clash. She cares more about her

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