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    loved one that was affected by cataracts? Most likely you have‚ because “cataracts affect more than 24.4 million Americans age 40 and older.” What is cataracts? Cataracts is the clouding of the lens‚ which causes blurry vision and sometimes even blindness‚ but can be cured by the Laserphaco Probe. The discovery of the Laserphaco Probe had an individual and a social impact on American life. Background information: A scientist striving to achieve vision for all people. That was one of Patricia

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    Blind people on china

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    population in such countries as Denmark‚ Finland or Norway. In the whole world main problem ob blindness is cataract. Because of only the cataract blindness accounts 2.5 million people in the world. Each year about 400‚000 people become blind in one moment because of it. Cataract predominantly a disease associated with ageing. According to the famous Chinese websites‚ we can know that the reason of blindness in China not only cataract but also it include cornea diseases‚ trachoma‚ glaucoma. I took

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    role been in all this? Ans: He developed major marketing and surgical procedures resembling to the assembly line in order to cure 12million blind people in India. He also came up with many eye camps in various parts of country to help eradicate blindness and cataract. From the total revenue generated he dedicated one third of its part to two third of its patients treatment. Dr. V also helped the eye hospital to expand in southern part of country like Coimbatore‚ Salem‚ and Pondicherry right from

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    Blind Intentions Tennessee Williams said blindness to what is going on in each other’s heart…nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see…each other in life. Vanity‚ fear‚ desire‚ competition --- all such distortion within our own egos--- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we

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    adolescence. According to WebMD‚ “Glaucoma refers to a group of diseases in which there is permanent and characteristic damage to the optic nerve‚ which is usually associated with abnormally high intraocular pressure” (Kozarsky‚ 2014). While the notion of blindness may allow trepidation to stream up one’s veins through their spine‚ it is not as murky and eerie as deficiently thought-out. (Question 1). To introduce‚ I will debunk the worldview notion‚ that those who are

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    Visual Impaired

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    Visual Impaired Definition Blindness is the inability to see from light to dark or just the inability to see at all. In some cases it leads to total loss of vision. Visual impaired is a severe reduction of vision that can’t be fully treated by medical treatment or lenses. Blindness and visual impairment are often used as synonyms‚ in the sports world. The International Blind Sports Association (IBSA) and the U.S. Association for Blind Athletes (USABA) serve persons whose vision varies from

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    as if they were babies learning to see all over again.” (Gregory and Wallace‚ 109). The transition was so challenging that both men slipped into a state of depression. Jeremy and John experienced depression as well when trying to deal with their blindness. The differences in transition came when Virgil and John were able to accept their new self and Jeremy and S.B. stayed in their depression state. In the beginning Virgil used touch to identify things‚ like the gorilla statue at the zoo‚ but after

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    Thomas C. Foster indicates in “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” that usually when a blind person shows up in a piece of literature‚ he can see into the spirit and divine world‚ and can see things that the hero of the story is unable to see. While I don’t believe love is spiritual‚ I do believe that it takes a special eye to see it. In “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green‚ Augustus’ best friend Isaac is losing his eyesight to cancer‚ and essentially going blind. Even though Isaac is losing

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    Blindness is the downfall of the hero Oedipus in the play "King Oedipus" by Sophocles. Not only does the blindness appear physically‚ but also egotistically as he refuses to acknowledge the possibility of him actually being the murderer of Laius‚ the former King of Thebes. Coincidentally‚ he is also Oedipus’s biological father. The use of light and dark in the play is strategically applied in order to better understand the emotion that lies within the characters. As blame is placed upon Oedipus

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    Biology Assessment Task - Communication Describe cataracts and some of the technologies that can be used to prevent blindness from cataracts. Cataracts: A cataract is a clouding of the normally clear and transparent lens of the eye which results in decrease of vision. It is not a tumour‚ a new growth of skin or tissue over the eye‚ but a fogging of the lens itself. There are three types of cataract. They are:- a nuclear cataract- a cortical cataract- a subscapular cataract A nuclear cataract

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