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    Merck & Co., Inc. Case

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    Merck & Co.‚ Inc. Case If one hold a key to resolve a very serious problem‚ one has a responsibility to put an effort to make it happen‚ at least try one’s best. In this case‚ river blindness disease was a very serious problem‚ and Dr. Vagelos was the one who could make a decision as to whether the research and development of a human version of ivermectin should be carried on‚ then it was his responsibility to pursue it. Caused by a parasitic worm carried by a tiny black fly‚ the disease

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    Colour Blindness

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    Colour blindness is a very well known deficiency that affects approximately 8% of the population worldwide (Fluck 2006). People who are colour blind are not technically blind‚ they have a decreased ability to identify colours and in the most extreme cases‚ not able to see colours at all. The technical term for being colour blind is achromatopsia which means the inability to see any colours at all. However‚ most people are only colour deficient and not fully color blind therefore they can be classified

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    Sight or Blindness?

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    10th Grade‚ English Sight or Blindness? Throughout the play‚ Oedipus Rex‚ Sophocles makes several references about sight and blindness. Even though Tiresias is a blind man‚ he is the one that knows the truth and is insinuating that Oedipus doesn’t want to face it. Oedipus develops into a character blinded by all the greatness that Thebes has given him. The oracle prophesized by the gods is the main reason that led him to become the tragic hero of this play. First and foremost‚ Sophocles’

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    Deaf Blindness

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    Deaf Blindness Most people assume that a deaf blind child is someone who is not able to hear or see. “Our country’s special educational law defines deaf-blindness as the combination of the visual and hearing impairment” (“Deaf Blindness”). These two impairments make the person lose his or her communication skills‚ developmental and educational needs. The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness observes that the key feature of deaf-blindness is that the "combination of losses limits access to

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    Poverty and Blindness

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    Salman A Khan Professor L. Harkness ENG 111-29 21 April 2015 Poverty and Blindness Blindness is a major threat in the developing countries. It impedes a person’s cognitive function and affects an economy. There are multiple patients around the world who cannot afford cure to their blindness. While affordability is one issue‚ accessibility is another. Rural population suffers because they have no access to hospitals in those remote areas. This workshop presented a similar issue. The first part was

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    Ethical Blindness

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    Ethical Blindness Guido Palazzo • Franciska Krings • Ulrich Hoffrage Received: 1 June 2010 / Accepted: 22 November 2011 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Abstract Many models of (un)ethical decision making assume that people decide rationally and are in principle able to evaluate their decisions from a moral point of view. However‚ people might behave unethically without being aware of it. They are ethically blind. Adopting a sensemaking approach‚ we argue that ethical blindness results

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    Blindness in Macbeth

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    Blindness Has Consequences MACBETH – FINAL ESSAY ENG 3U When a character in a tragedy fails to see what they really are‚ or who other people around them really are‚ tragedy‚ normally consisting of death results. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare many characters fail to see the truth that is themselves‚ or another person. The play reads‚ “I think not of them: Yet when we can entreat an hour to serve‚ We would spend it in some words upon that business If you would grant me the time.” (Act

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    Inattentional Blindness

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    trial‚ they added a small square placed close to both lines. After the trial‚ subjects were asked if they had noticed anything unusual within the trial‚ with only ten percent of the subjects reporting that they noticed the square. Inattentional blindness occurs most often when the subjects are focused on something else‚ such as the lines on the cross mentioned

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    Blindness and Education

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    are recorded as representing a substantial portion of the poets and musicians in society.[3] In the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040-1640 BCE) blind harpists are depicted on tomb walls.[1] They were not exclusively interested in the causes and cures for blindness but also the social care of the individual.[2] [edit] 1800s The 1880s saw the introduction of compulsory elementary education for the Blind throughout the United States. (However‚ most states of the United States did not pass laws specifically

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    On His Blindness

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    "On his Blindness" by John Milton John Milton was a great writer and one of the few who was recognized in his own time. His name stands out in the history of English literature mainly for his two works‚ Paradise Lost and Paradise regained. In 1651 Milton became blind‚ yet he continued to write and his daughters would take dictation. The poem On his Blindness‚ by John Milton is an Italian sonnet which addresses the Christian perspective of how to accept ones disabilities. The

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