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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VISUAL IMPAIRMENT (Including Blindness) I. DEFINITION "Visual impairment including blindness" means an impairment in vision that‚ even with correction‚ adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness. This impairment refers to abnormality of the eyes‚ the optic nerve or the visual center for the brain resulting in decreased visual acuity. Students with visual impairments are identified as those with a corrected visual acuity of 20/70
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through and figured out the truth. “I can love only one man. And that very man is coming to kill me tonight (pg.93)”. This shows Kesa’s real feelings for Morito. Past all the immoral values‚ hatred‚ and blindness‚ they shared a deep love for one another. Thus‚ immoral motives could lead to blindness‚ hatred‚ and lies. We learned a dirty little secret to nothing but heart ach. The truth was hidden by lust. Immoral motives can lead a person to bad fates. In the end they hide the pure truth that lies
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point of view and about his “blindness” as a person. Secondly‚ there is the wife whom used to work for the blind man. Lastly‚ the blindman named Robert whom has helped the wife in times of need. Do to the husband being the narrator‚ one will recognize his emotional detachment to the other characters in the story. An example of this detachment is that he doesn’t call anyone by their names or address them with any names. Bethany Qualls writer of “A Narrator’s Blindness in Raymond Carver’s a “Cathedral”
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to do certain things to be successful‚ so basically society is holding people captive by holding them back from living the way they want to. As humans‚ we also have ways of holding ourselves captive. Ishmael compares our captivity with a form of blindness. Throughout the novel‚ Quinn helps the reader realize what they are blind to and what they are blinded by. Society‚ or “Mother Culture” as referred to by Ishmael‚ has countless ways of holding us back. “Mother Culture‚ whose voice has been in your
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the story the narrator points out numerous faults of the other characters. This would lead the reader to believe that the narrator has it all together. It is soon discovered that behind the narrator’s ignorant accusations there is a plethora of blindness‚ ignorance‚ and jealousy. Robert is really the most capable person in this story even though he is portrayed as a poor disabled wretch when the narrator says “I’d always thought dark glasses were a must for the blind" or "I didn’t want to be left
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Visual Impairment. 490‚420 children with vision difficulty‚ 42‚000 children with severe vision impairment and 59‚341 children who are legally blind (Visual Impairment‚ Including Blindness). Many of the people that have a Visual Impairment happen when they are baby. They are born this way. It is called congenital blindness. There are many different types of Visual Impairments in the world. Strabismus is where the eyes look in different directions and do not focus simultaneously on a single point. A
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How are the blind in the mental hospital compared animals? Why is this comparison made? In the quarantine the blind slowly transform into savages. “There are many ways of becoming an animal‚ he thought‚ this is just the first of them” (93)‚ this first sign being how dirty they all are; the hallways filled with feces‚ their beings covered in filth‚ the corpses lying in the yard. As much as the internees try to not recognize their savagery‚ it slowly becomes inevitable and “if we cannot live entirely
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community after he is expelled from school in the Deep South. The work contains consistent themes of blindness and invisibility in society. The narrator has a tough time trying to figure out his identity. He is caught between who he believes he is‚ who he wants to be‚ and who people want him to be. Ellison carefully interweaves parallels and imagery that reflect the narrator’s invisibility and society’s blindness through stereotypes and racism. In the story‚ there are many opposing ideas: the views of the
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Cited: Accessibility. http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html. Retrieved April 21‚ 2013. Blindness. http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/products/blindness/braillenotes.Retrieved April 21‚ 2013. JAWS for Windows Screen Reading Software. http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/ JAWS-product-page.asp. Retrieved April 21‚ 2013. What is the National Federation of the Blind
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