Literature November 6th‚ 2012 Sisterhood in The Bluest Eye I’m writing about love or it’s absence. —Toni Morrison The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without close woman-friend. —Toni Morrison From the quotations above‚ I’d like to choose two words‚ “love” and “woman-friend”‚ to reveal the focus of Toni Morrison’s novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ that is‚ the representation of sisterhood. In The Bluest Eye‚ personally‚ sisterly love is represented as a “voice” to speak
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Most of us would not readily think that eye contact had anything to do with language‚ or a person’s culture. While researching a topic for this paper I came across an article on cultural differences that contained a section about eye contact. I found it to be very telling‚ as to the reasons for either the lack of‚ or the reasons for eye contact. The article of reference is “Cultural Differences? Or‚ Are we really that different?” ( Gregorio Billikoph). This article discusses the differences in
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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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An eye assessment should be carried out as part of the client initial physical examination. Unlike most organs of the body‚ the eye is available for external examination‚ and its anatomy is more easily assessed than many other body parts. The nurse‚ through careful questioning‚ elicits the necessary information that can assist in diagnosis of an ophthalmic condition. Following the health history‚ the patient’s visual acuity is assessed. This is an essential part of the eye examination and is measure
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the functions of the face‚ eye behavior is unquestionably the most important tool in communication. Eye behavior serves a variety of purposes. It regulates conversations‚ shows interest or involvement‚ and establishes a connection with others. Specifically‚ the eye gaze is one aspect of eye behavior that plays a significant role in the communication process. It can make or break a conversation. In order to further understand the effects of the eye gaze versus the lack of eye contact‚ I participated
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"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 culture. My research
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Vanessa Mateo AP English The Beauty and Race Subjectivity in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes In The Bluest Eye‚ author Toni Morrison uses a combination of race and beauty as factors that contribute to a culture’s creation of artificial scale of beauty. An establishment of an artificial scale of beauty showing how a race and culture values are easily being disallowed by the ideology of being the perfect beauty of a human being. Morrison uses characters such as Claudia Macteer
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1-25-12 Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the eye/eyes. It is caused when the conjunctiva (a thin layer that covers the sclera) is exposed to bacteria or allergens. The most common type of conjunctivitis is known as pink eye and is cause by virus. Viral conjunctivitis can occur in one or two of a person’s eyes. It tends to cause a watery discharge while conjunctivitis caused by bacteria causes a thicker discharge. Both are transmitted to another eye in the discharge. Children are primarily affected
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The Bluest Eye Finding good qualities in any of the men of The Bluest Eye are hard to come by. There are many factors that come into play that have shaped the personalities of all of these males. The female characters in the novel endured a lot in coping with the males. Toni Morrison does an exceptional job of painting a vivid picture of the social climate of America in the 1960’s and society’s affects on the people of The Bluest Eye. In a variety of ways‚ the males of The Bluest Eye have many
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Eye on the prize It was an enthusiastic decision I made‚ going back to school. Fall term‚ 2013‚ I ventured back to Mount Hood Community College to finish my business transfer degree. It was a familiar place‚ in its structure and appearance‚ but the energy I had to be there made it seem so much more exciting than my past experience. I had taken a couple terms at this school before‚ but I found myself completely uninterested. I needed a break from school. The last 13 years of my life I spent in a
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