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    Blind people research Blindness is a disability that comes from birth‚ but other times it comes with the years. It’s a very complicated disability that thirty nine million people around the world need to face. Many scientific researchers have found out that when people are born blind‚ their brain is capable of refining their abilities to touch or hear. We never thought about how a blind person perceives the world‚ we never imagine how a person that cant see anything‚ thinks about the world

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    You may often get told to wear sunglasses to protect your eyes‚ but you may not know what can happen if you don’t wear them. Many people don’t realize how much damage the sun’s harsh rays really can do to their eyes‚ and sun damage to your eyes can show up immediately and later in life. Next time you plan to leave the house on a sunny day without your sunglasses‚ remember these ways you will be harming your eyes if you skip them. 1. You Can Get Sunburn on Your Corneas Now If someone told you that

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    Person cultural values have always been the driving force on how I make my decisions in life. It also serves as a vital role in my nursing career by helping decide and overcome the challenges I often face as a nurse. Since I was a child‚ my parents has imbedded their cultural values in me. They have always taught me to care and respect other human beings. My personal values that my religion since I was a child has always taught me to treat others with honesty and dignity‚ which I have always

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    In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ figurative blindness possesses beauty‚ in that it allows the “blind” individual to construct their own unique world‚ all of which is created through the distinct perception of various experiences‚ not necessarily the actual sequence and nature of events. Blindness is essentially a‚ “social construction” (Batman‚ ThisAmericanLife)‚ in that society has created this disability‚ whether it be physical or mental‚ demonstrating the notion that beliefs and opinions towards

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    The Use of Blindness in Oedipus Rex Authors often use blindness both metaphorically and literally to describe their characters. In Oedipus Rex‚ Sophocles begins the play with literally blind Thebans suffering from a plague that their metaphorically blind king has brought upon them. Oedipus‚ being the king‚ is trying to help his blind Thebans. In doing this‚ he blindly curses the murderer of the late King Laius for bringing this plague‚ not knowing that the murderer is himself. When

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    and the absence of it‚ is a major theme in Lear. This theme is portrayed through the characters of King Lear‚ Gloucester and Edgar. The lack of insight‚ or “blindness”‚ is very symbolic. Blindness is defined as “unable to see; lacking the sense of sight;”(Dictionary). For Lear‚ blindness was not physical; it was his flaw. Lear’s blindness to see who a person really was‚ based on their character and personality‚ was obvious at the beginning of the play regarding Cordelia and Kent. Gloucester‚ on

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    What are your hobbies and interests? • Advocacy; Political; Creative Bead Work; Educational both Curriculum and Special needs • Advocating for the blind and the disabled. • American Football • animals • antiques‚ reading • Art Shows‚ Music (listen to classical and hard rock)‚go to movies and plays • art‚ crafts‚ writing‚ drawing‚ reading - listening to books • Art‚ Music‚ Radio‚ sightseeing und more other • Arts and Craft. • Astronomy Literature (Audio Books) • Audiobooks‚ wine

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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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    Effects of Physical Blindness People can in fact be blinded to the truth‚ the solution to their problems may have been completely oblivious‚ yet somehow still oblivious. We often make assumptions between being blind and enlightened. With Blindness one may not have sight but another type of vision. In king Oedipus‚ Tiresias‚ the blind prophet‚ presents the truth to Oedipus and Jocasta. Oedipus has been blind his whole life‚ and when faced with the truth‚ lost his the truth is uncovered she still cannot

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    In literature‚ blindness serves a general significant meaning of the absence of knowledge and insight. It serves this same purpose in Sophocles’ classic tragedy‚ Oedipus Rex. In this piece‚ blindness manifests itself in three ways: intellectual blindness‚ which is the refusal or inability to accept knowledge; physical blindness‚ which is being without the physical sense of sight; and metaphorical blindness‚ which is what blindness symbolizes or means for each character affected by it. In all aspects

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