Blindness

Sensation is a physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to and or comes in contact with the body that begins beneath the skin. Sensory receptors are specialized neurons that respond to specific types of stimuli. Sensation occurs when sensory information is found by a sensory receptor. The conversion from sensory stimulus energy to action potential is transduction Every human being has five senses which consist of vision, smell (olfaction), taste (gustation), hearing…

Symbolism is presented to the audience in numerous ways such as: the symbols of blindness and sight, the crossroads, and swollen ankles. Sight and Blindness are very important symbols in Oedipus The King due to their physical and metaphorical uses. Very early in the play, Tiresias reveals to Oedipus that he too will be blind “…flinging at me the very insults each man…

lodged with me useless” purpose is let the reader know that John is not only blind and feels darkness physically but also metaphorically. John feels like he has lost his value in society and can no longer serve god or access his talent due to his blindness. John has also lost his independence and feels helpless relying on others. Religion during the 1600s was a huge part of life. Many activities and schedules revolved around the church and its community. Now that John is almost isolated from…

Rex and Antigone by Sophocles, characters often act on their emotions instead of reason, leading to their own failures. Furthermore, in Oedipus Rex, Oedipus does not think through his decisions leading to the death of his loved ones and his own blindness. Additionally, in Antigone, Creon impulsively makes his decisions, which later makes it harder for him to attempt to rectify…

Both Shakespeare and Inarritu’s main protagonists push their daughters away, disown them, and refuse to acknowledge their pain and suffering because they’re too ambitious in pursuing their own goals. Shakespeare and Inarritu are both using the blindness motif in their works of art to show that their characters, King Lear and Birdman, are blind to their faults, and to the pain and suffering they are putting family and friends through. Despite the similarities, Shakespeare’s King Lear differs from…

Everything about leadership is hard, it is a tough word to define and an even tougher trait to posses. If you asked one hundred people to tell you what leadership is to them, you will get one hundred different responses. But many of these responses they give you will have the same qualities such as: Inspirational, Guider, and Influencer. One does not become leader by dumb luck especially when talking about big organizations or even countries. So why do countless CEO’s and CFO’s make huge…

can only see some colors and read text with big font. She had to move into her daughter's home and rely on others for help which made her very sad. Then, she attended a support group. It helped her become independent and find ways to overcome her blindness. She adapts her apartment to suite her needs and now she lives a content life. In this unit, we learned about neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity allows the brain to compensate whenever it loses a sense, making the other senses take over the…

to other disease control efforts. This is so because individuals with a large amount of Loa loa larvae in the blood are at a higher risk of having life long complications if they receive ivermectin. Ivermectin is a drug for onchocerciasis (river blindness) and lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis). The disease Loiasis is passed on to humans through the multiple bites…

The statistics concerning worldwide hunger are staggering. The World Food Programme reports that approximately 795 million people worldwide suffer from hunger and malnutrition [1]. To help put this number into perspective, one in nine people are hungry. More than 3 million children under the age of five die because of poor nutrition annually. What is the Difference Between Hunger and Malnutrition? Hunger is a signal created by the body to let you know that it is time to eat. Once you eat, the…

He asserted that every change of place, state, social structure, social position is a ‘rite of passage’. He further went on saying that the energy found in any social system needs to be renewed at crucial intervals and this renewal is accomplished in different social settings through rites of passage. These rites protect and free the social system from undue disturbance in order to foster change at both individual as well as collective level. In the first phase i.e. separation, the individual…