Blindness

My thoughts about the experience and blindness and deafness are it sucks to be deaf, but it sucks more to be deaf and blind. This experience made me feel lost and frustrated. Getting around the house when you’re unable to see is hard. Although I had friends helping me by guiding me through my house, it was kind of difficult to follow their direction when being deaf. I often felt dragged and scared. I didn’t know what direction I was heading. The communication between my friends and I wasn’t…

Life Changing Moment: Analysis Essay of “Cathedral” “Cathedral” is an eye opening tale about a man and a blind man named Robert becoming aware that there is more than what meets the eye. Throughout the story we realize the man who is the narrator and has the ability to see is more blind than the man who is medically diagnosed as “blind” an irony to say that a man who has no vision can see more than a man who has perfect 20/20. We can perceive this by lack of insight he lacks towards his wife,…

Molly Burke Introduction Molly Burke is a teen activist who speaks against bullying. She became blind from a disease that is rare and only 1 in 4,000 people get, but no matter what, she still had the courage to keep going and accomplish all her dreams. She never gave up no matter how mean the bully, or how hard the challenge was. Molly has inspired many people to try their best to follow their dreams no matter how many bumps are in the road on the way. Her Childhood On February 8…

Glaucoma is an eye disorder where there is pressure in the eyeball that can cause loss of vision. The pressure that is created is known as “intraocular pressure”. It mainly affects the optic nerve. If caught early enough, treatment can be done to prevent major vision loss, or for your vision to worsen. Glaucoma cannot only develop just from your drainage system malfunctioning. Babies can have an underdevelopment of the drainage system in their eye, which can be inherited, but is very rare. This…

Question #5 Woo, the narrator, was able to connect with her dead mother and accept her Chinese heritage by fulfilling her mother’s dream of returning to China and finding the mother’s twin daughters, Woo’s half-sisters. As soon as the narrator’s train left the Hong Kong’s border to enter Shenzhen, as her mother, Suyuan, predicted, Woo could feel and see she was becoming Chinese, stating, “I feel different. I can feel the skin on my forehead tingling, my blood rushing through a new course,…

One's ability to see is often taken for granted as it is in "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver. The title suggests that the story deals with a cathedral, but it is really about two blind men; one physically, the other mentally. One of the men is Robert, the blind friend of the narrator's wife, and the other is the narrator himself. The narrator is the man who is mentally blind, and unknowingly describes his own prejudice. Carver writes the husband as a man with a very narrow mind. Two instances in…

this, forming a bias that caused him to actively seek out other issues with the blind man. By the end of the story, the narrator finally sees the traits that his wife admires in Robert, acknowledging him and his experiences, even appreciating his blindness and his unique…

All in all, unrequited love has caused many characters in the play to not think rationally. Antonio, Sir Andrew, and Malvolio’s actions were all caused by unrequited love and its ability to blind. In the end, it’s not unrequited love but the blindness that it brings that is the true…

privilege as “something that puts others at a disadvantage”(Sehgal 2) rather than giving themselves an advantage. Also, as previously stated, privilege involves a state of mind, so it can no truly disappear. Therefore, one can not erase privilege’s blindness or privilege itself. In addition, many also believe America helps third world countries, so this must mean the privileged help the unprivileged, so equality seems closer. In contrast to their opinions, these programs help third world…

The Biography of a Blind Beagle “Winnie, where are you going?” This is a question that rings throughout my house at least twice a day as my dog wanders aimlessly around. What began as my little old beagle staring up at the bright lights in our kitchen ceiling as if there was something more fascinating up there than just small glowing light bulbs, led our sweet rescue to be diagnosed with Sudden Acquired Retinal Degeneration Syndrome, also known as S.A.R.D.S., less than a week after the…