Blindness

Imagine your life where different notes on a piano were different colours, or where certain names coincide with different tastes, like Victoria tastes like toothpaste, or Sasha smells like cornflakes. This is caused by the condition we are going to be focussing on in this essay. Synesthesia. Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon which combines the senses due to a cross-wiring in the brain (E.g. Colours linked with letters / Colour-Grapheme Synesthesia). It is a condition that could occur…

darkness to enlightenment. An (having no knowledge) person is called temniy (dark). Enlightenment comes with progress and power; contrasting to darkness that brings slavery. Example 2: Does being illiterate is like to be blind? Physically NOT, Blindness is a handicap, unlike illiterate; but both conditions cause the same sensation of handicap. Beside we add the need to learn a new language. These three different conditions, brought these people to same situation which is the feeling of…

In the poem In the middle of the night by Christopher Brookmyer the mood is crudish because it is funny but at the same time spooky. The author creates this by making funny jokes and contradictory statements about conditions like deafness and blindness. Also the fact that the whole poem is like this makes it even more hilarious. My first piece of evidence to prove that there is humor in this is the huge number of contradictory statements. For example in the beginning the text says, “One fine…

is the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness, identifying that this problem affects over 250 million children worldwide, mostly in South Asia and Africa (UNICEF data from The World Health Organization, 2014). Associated childhood deaths arise usually as a complication from a weakened immune system, such as infection or diarrhoea. The introduction of Genetically Modified foods containing beta-carotene could assist to prevent this blindness and related deaths. It is because of this…

encourages the audience to create their own narrator and define who he is. Also, it makes the audience question their own opinions and perspective. It makes the audience think about their own perception of physical disabilities and whether their idea of blindness is from ‘the movies’ as well. The narrator is anybody they decide as Carver’s lack of guidance creates a space for their own construction. The lack of adjectives further creates a void that needs to be filled by the audience’s…

What are you most proud of and why? My education… because mastering it has been a huge challenge for me! Due in large part to my own willful blindness, my education got off to a pretty bad start. The progenitor was the breakdown of my original family when I was very young and it made me very insecure and angry… and my education was the first target of my insecurities and hatred. Far from being a trouble maker at school, I was a recluse, I would ignore what I was being taught and dissapear into…

For my experiment, I choose to use both the red and green color lens filters. I initially was going to select blue, but when realizing it did little alteration apart from making white appear brighter I opted for a red and green filter. Like both my mother and father, I have Deuteranomalia which means I have a difficult time discerning from reds (appearing more brown) and greens (appearing more yellow). While my father has deuteranopia meaning his green cone is missing, I suffer from…

The price of money is often greater than its worth. As most people know, money is not easily obtained. Objects like time, effort, and sacrifice are at the base of becoming wealthy. It can take decades, incredible amounts of hard work, and deduction of humanity to obtain the title of being rich. In this case, think of the board game "Risk". In the game, a player must use their troops to gain new territories and great rewards, which is a bold move. However, that is where the risk comes in. A…

“Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures,” says the late civil rights activist Cesar Chavez. In other words, although it is easy to stay within your own culture, you can gain the most benefit by learning to appreciate and respect the ways that others live their lives. Culture was the topic of the book Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict. It offered an anthropological look into culture and how it affects our daily lives. The culture that we…

Is it true? Are you the one? Were you stuck on a island by yourself? In the book, The Cay by Theodore Taylor there is a young man whose name is Phillip. In the book Phillip’s character reveals that many conflicts he had help developed intelligence, independence, and his thankfulness. At first though he had trouble doing all theses things he would’ve never had done if he didn’t get stuck on a island. Phillip is a eleven year old boy who lived in Willemstad on the island of Curacao. Since…