A World of Darkness The world can be a place full of darkness which can impact one’s everyday life. In Oliver Sacks’ essay‚ “The Mind’s Eye: What the Blind See”‚ the people discussed live in a world of darkness due to their lack of sight‚ while in Azar Nafisi’s essay‚ “Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”‚ the author and her group of students live in a dark would under an oppressive government. No matter what kind of darkness one lives in‚ he or she must make the best
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a young woman named Azar Nafisi started teaching at the University of Tehran. However‚ in 1981‚ Nafisi was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear an Islamic veil. Seven years later‚ however‚ she did indeed resume teaching but soon resigned in protest over the increasingly cruel punishments of the Iranian government toward women. She dreamed of working with students that carried a great passion for learning. In Reading Lolita in Tehran‚ Azar Nafisi and her seven students join
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*PROPOSAL TITLE: PALARONG PINOY/ PALARONG BSHM 1-2 GAMES: * SACK RACE * PASS THE KALAMANSI * PASS THE PINGPONG BALL * TOMATO RELAY MECHANICS OF THE GAME/ RULES AND REGULATION: * SACK RACE- PLAYERS NEEDS TO WEAR THE SACK AND RACE TO THE FINISHED LINE‚ THE FIRST TEAM WHO REACHED IN THE FINISHED LINE WINS. * PASS THE KALAMANSI- EACH MEMBER OF THE TEAM SHOULD TAKE THE KALAMANSI TO THE POLE AND TURN BACK TO THEIR TEAM MATES BY USING
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An Anthropologist on Mars (Oliver Sacks) Oliver Sacks is a physician‚ best-selling author‚ and professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the author of ten books‚ including The Mind’s Eye‚ Musicophilia‚ Awakenings and An Anthropologist on Mars and was the first to receive honors as a Columbia University Artist in recognition of his contribution to the arts. This book contains seven stories he telling the readers about the case in which he studied about
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An Anthropologist On Mars by Oliver Sacks The Four Sides “People aren’t always as they seem” Miranda Jordan Mr. I “The Color Blind Painter”: The Side That No One Sees • Since Mr. I became totally colorblind‚ all he wants is to be able to see in color once again. • He contemplates about suicide due to the fact he knows he will never feel the joy of seeing color besides black and white again. • He searches for help to find answers why he became color blind‚ and if it can be reversed. Greg “The
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human nature to place high emphasis on sight. Sight is taken for granted by most of us‚ and when we encounter non-sighted individuals‚ we have an emotional and physical reaction that we’re relieved the non-sighted cannot see. Reading Oliver Sacks’ case “To See and Not See”‚ about a man named Virgil‚ gives me a new and interesting perspective on blindness. I have a friend who is partially deaf. She and I communicate with visual cues and our communication is helped by the fact that she can hear
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understand things but the brain is in charge of sending the signals to the mind. Oliver Sacks in “The Mind’s Eye” uses the case studies of John Hull‚ Zoltan Torey‚ and Lusseyran to show that the mind and brain both run each other even without the ability of vision by learning to compensate and adapt after neurological disorders took their ability to see away from them. In the case study of John Hull‚ Sacks talks about how this author goes completely blind by age forty eight yet is still able
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Cited: Gladwell‚ Malcolm. “The Power of Context.” The New Humanities Reader. Ed. Richard E. Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt‚ 2009. 234-249. Print. Nafisi‚ Azar. “Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran.” The New Humanities Reader. 4th ed. Ed. Richard E. Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt‚ 2009. 248-265. Print.
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Lolita in Tehran Questions 1.) Azar Nafisi includes the description of her two contrasting pictures to symbolize what she wishes Tehran would be more like‚ and what it is now‚ a dull hidden and very conservative. Tehran women must wear head scarves and black robes‚ they pretty much hide themselves completely; while on the other picture the same group of women stand except they have taken off their coverings and wearing ever day clothes. I think Nafisi includes this description to show that the
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“see” the world in a different way. It is an author’s job to convey how he “sees” the world to his readers. Oliver Sacks does this quite well. Through his use of analogies and other rhetorical strategies‚ Oliver Sacks greatly enhances the reader’s view of a newly sighted man’s life and in turn‚ the reader’s view of the world. In the beginning of “To See and Not See‚” by Oliver Sacks‚ the reader is introduced to the subject of the essay‚ a fifty-year-old man named Virgil‚ who has been blind from
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