It started out as any other normal day. Except for one thing. "Plop". A blob of white‚ slimy goo fell onto the side of my bed. I look up‚ half expecting to see some sort of monster‚ drooling all over me. Instead I see a ceiling covered in goo. "Plop". This time it falls onto my face. Gross. I quickly roll out of my bed‚ and grab my shoes. By the time I am done with that‚ the atrocious liquid is spewing down my walls. "Mom!" I yell. I wait for a response but no one answers. I call for my mom
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EOFCPTDE | EOFCPTDE | LEFDPTCOEF | LEFDPTCOEF | LEFDPTCOEF | PEZOLCFTDL | PEZ------- | ---------- | Blind Spot: | Left | Right | Brandon | Far Away | Far Away | Ashley | Very Close | Very Close | Color Blindness: Color | Ashley | Brandon | 1 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 96 | 96 | Accommodation: | Brandon | Ashley | Left Ear | 6cm | 7cm | Right Ear | 19cm | 17cm |
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character in Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex‚ could not see the truth‚ but the blind man‚ Teiresias‚ "saw" it plainly. Sophocles uses blindness as a motif in the play Oedipus Rex. Oedipus‚ known for his intelligence‚ is ignorant and therefore blind to the truth about himself and his past. Yet‚ when Teiresias exposes the truth he is shunned. It is left to Oedipus to overcome his "blindness‚" realize the truth‚ and accept fate. Oedipus‚ "who bear the famous name‚" fled his home of Corinth in fear of fulfilling
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key factor is attention. The researchers proposed that visual perception of a change in a scene occurs only when focused attention is given to the part being changed. Changes can be easily identified when objects are important in the scene. Change blindness has been encountered in two different experimental paradigms. The first was concerned with visual memory‚ which was used to detect changes in short presentation of figures or letters. The second
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Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post Race America. By Charles A. Gallagher “I do agree that there is a larger social machine in which subtle racism whether institutional‚ internalized‚ or personally mediated is still very prevalent and the colorblindness aspect adheres to that machine. Therefore regardless of whether I say I will not allow my race to define or hinder me‚ to some extent it does without me even acknowledging it”. Is it because
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In the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles‚ the themes of sight and blindness are developed in a way to communicate to the reader that it is not eyesight itself‚ but insight that holds the key to truth and‚ without it‚ no amount of knowledge can help uncover that truth. Some may define insight as the ability to intuitively know what is going to happen‚ or simply as the capacity to understand the true nature of a situation. Both definitions hold a significant role in the play‚ not only for more obvious
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through the portrayal of character’s vision and imagery used in the text. It enhances other ideas in the play‚ therefore resulting in the audience having a better visual and wider understanding of the plot and primary issues. Shakespeare’s motif of blindness is used throughout the entirety of the play. The audience first experiences this when the King fails to see the truth behind the words of Goneril and Regan‚ casting off Cordelia when she refuses partake in King Lear’s love test for his daughters
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In literature‚ it is common for the main protagonist to be infallible. When reading Blindness by Jose Saramago‚ the main protagonist who goes by the identity as the Doctor’s Wife‚ constantly makes rash decisions with little thought‚ though she always manages to have done the correct thing in the reader’s perspective. Saramago incorporated the Doctor’s Wife to have unique characteristics that make her very different from the rest of the individuals in the novel‚ the characteristic of simply not being
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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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with partial or total inability to distinguish one or more chromatic colors” (Merriam-Webster‚ Inc.‚ 2012). This genetic trait affects the lives of many living within the world today. “Color deficiency” (A.D.A.M.‚ 2011)‚ known for short as color blindness‚ is generally classified mainly as a sex-linked genetic disorder. Genetic diseases as a whole are usually considered incurable disorders that are linked to the DNA make-up of the individual. They are created due to a malfunction of the forming of
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