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    Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness affects 2% of the world’s population, which means 150 million people suffer with this on a daily basis. This disorder inhibits people from recognizing the faces of those around them including family members. Prosopagnosia wasn’t really discovered or heavily studied until 1947, by Joachim Bodamer. There are two main types of prosopagnosia, acquired and developmental. Though often not heard of prosopagnosia has been the struggle of protagonists in…

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    “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…

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    When looking at a public figure or hero, we usually see that person as being strong physically and mentally. They can understand what is going on and can sense if something is wrong and if it can be fixed. On the other hand, when someone is figuratively blind, they are looked as being weak or confused. That they don’t see fully what is happening in front of them and due to this they don’t have power; This type of thinking is present is both stories like books, and in everyday society. Since the…

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    seven women standing against a white wall, all dressed in black robes with only the oval of their faces and their hands showing. In the second photo, after they have taken off their coverings, “each has become distinct through the color and style of her clothes, the colors and the length of her hair; not even the two who are still wearing their head scarves look the same” (Nafisi 280). This before and after photo of the women wearing the black robes represents identification because it shows…

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    disciple catches the attention of lost souls seeking for salvation even though his words may seem accurate it misleads his followers to a false religion. While in Blindness the Ophthalmologist wife displays characteristic as if she was ordained to be a prophet for the one’s who have gone astray. Throughout the stories Tartuffe and Blindness demonstrates…

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    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…

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    Since I didn’t give a damn about anything other than my pacifier, I had no idea about my hair color, my jaundiced skin, or the UV light over me to try to get rid of the extra bilirubin in my blood. How would I know that my mom would have met someone with the rarest blood type in the world, one that would cause me to destroy my own blood cells and release their contents into my veins? The yellow color would soon go away forever, only memorialized by all the photographs taken by my proud parents.…

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    vessels in the eye, causing leakage and overgrowth. According to AJN, this leads to scarred tissue in the eyes. The range of age for diabetic retinopathy is twenty to seventy-four years old. Retinopathy is one of the most frequent newer causes of blindness(AJN). Retinopathy is much similar to macular degeneration. In diabetic retinopathy there is also a sub retinal hemorrhage. However, there are abnormal vessels on the surface of the retina; as well as exudates. Exudates are yellow flecks caused…

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    Glaucoma Research Paper

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    glaucoma is a chemical group of eye disease that can wind to sightlessness by damaging the optic nerve. Here is some story behind glaucoma. Glaucoma has been known in medicine since antiquity. According to nbci Hippocrates described “glaykoseis” as blindness which occur in the elderly . the first person to discover glaucoma and the connection between increased tension of the eyeball was the english eye doctor ophthalmologist. Glaucoma can get worse overtime Most people get glaucoma because…

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    Unlike other students in my class, the place where I did my service learning was a little bit different. What made it so different was that there was a lot more, at least I felt, elderly people as opposed to people with disabilities. Sure they may have been a few that if you went there you could maybe tell that they were disabled but honestly, after putting in so many years of visiting nursing homes with multiple groups, I couldn’t even tell if the younger people there were there for the program…

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