Blindness

interesting thing I’ve learned in this course was about change blindness. Change blindness is a situation where you do not notice a change between two scenarios. For example, you may not notice a change in hair length between two scenes during a movie. This makes me wonder exactly how many things from my past that I remember wrongfully. I believe I will remember this in five years, because of all the bad things that could happen due to change blindness. Not only was I fascinated that our…

Daniel Kish understands blindness in a literal sense by using echolocation, similar to what some marine animals use to gain a sense of their surroundings. From a sociological standpoint, Kish understands blindness as a form of psychology that is later changed into a tangible reality. The most common misconception of blind people is that their abilities and daily activities are limited because of their lack of eyesight. Kish quickly proves this misconception wrong by describing how personal…

In order to gain insight into the livelihoods of our potential users, we dedicated hours of time to Internet research on the "blind individual experience". According to the Perkins School of the Blind fewer than 2 percent of visually impaired people use a white cane to navigate, most use a service dog or nothing at all to navigate their daily lives 1. This statistic is not particularly surprising, but it is reassuring as it provides concrete evidence that our product will have a large audience…

smell, taste, sight, and hearing. What if you were born without one of those senses, or maybe multiple of them? How do people adapt to the world if they are born blind, and is it the same way people that have an accident or disease that caused their blindness later on in life adapt? We know that people have overcome their disabilities to do great things for instance Hellen Keller who was born a deaf/blind/mute went on to become famous and Ray Charles who went blind due to Glaucoma went on to…

Today, blindness can be scientifically defined in many different conditions from partial blindness to complete blindness (nlm.nih.gov). Despite the fact blindness is medically defined, society continues to enforce creative and limitless metaphors with the condition in forms of stereotypes that goes beyond the medical knowledge. In the novel illness as Metaphor, the American author Susan Sontag critiqued how speaking of a disease like blindness metaphorically has many negative consequences to…

“A writer,or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end”.-Jorge Luis Borges In the essay, Blindness, Jorge Luis Borges describes the many strengths and weakness that originate being a blind man to an audience who does not know what it feels like to actually be blind. He conveys this idea throughout his essay through the use of different rhetorical elements such as ethos and pathos. Borges uses ethos to show readers that he has…

Blindness was used both literally and figuratively in Oedipus the King to symbolize Oedipus's denial, guilt and the lack of perception to his faults which showed Oedipus's true identity versus whom he thought he was. Oedipus was in denial of the truth. He was so blind that when confronted by Tiresias with the truth of his crimes he was quick to deny that he could have had anything to do with the death of Laius. When the blame was pointed at him by Tiresias, Oedipus went as far to question…

Is the play Oedipus about blindness or light? The play Oedipus Rex concerns itself with both blindness and light, it compares their literal and allegorical interpretations to discuss the main theme of the pursuit of knowledge. It is driven by the titular character Oedipus’ thirst for knowledge that ultimately ends up blinding him. In this essay I will bring into attention different interpretations of blindness and light used in the play and how one must be given up for the other to prevail.…

Sight and Blindness in Oedipus Rex It is easy for a person that has great vision and can see clearly to be blinded by the truth. The Greek play, Oedipus the King by Sophocles is the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes, while unwittingly fulfilling the prophecy of killing his father and marrying his own mother. One of the main themes in this play is blindness: physical blindness, which is lacking the sense of sight; and intellectual blindness, which is the refusal to accept…

The theme of sight, and the lack thereof is ever prevalent throughout Shakespeare’s King Lear. This lack of sight, or blindness, is present when characters such as Regan or Goneril use words and disguise to cloud out the truth, when the King’s decision process is clouded by ignorance and finally with the physical representation of Gloucester’s eyes being gouged out. Shakespeare uses this theme of sight through his play to foreshadow future outcomes of events, along with revealing the evil in…