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ENG 380T – Literature and Medicine Nicole Radova The Bionic Eye: A Collaborative Vision “Seeing is believing” – an idiom commonly uttered and heard in today’s Western world. Sight has been deemed the superior sense in our society since its association with knowledge acquisition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Classen 1997, 402), which the Scientific Revolution directly preceded. Yet available to us are four other senses, which itself is not an ultimate truth as the very concept…

1. What did you think of the experience and point of the video? On the Main Point: The main purpose of the exercise Jane Elliot conducted in the Blue Eye/Brown Eye video was to demonstrate the impacts and nature of racial discrimination. I believe that this is a very important concept to learn for individuals that have never experienced or do not believe such blatant acts of prejudice exist. At the same time, I do not believe that this point alone has any form of long lasting value,…

Set in the 1940’s, Toni Morrison’s novel “The Bluest Eye” is a tale of Pecola, a young Negro girl shunned by society for being ugly due to her skin colour and appearance. Morrison explores life in America during the late 60s and early 70s in which American culture was influenced predominantly by the white race. Using a creative approach, Toni Morrison explores the white ideal that the Negro population strives to attain to shed light on an arguably different kind of racism. Through the use of…

The Brain’s Optical Eyes Did you know that about forty percent or more of the human brain is thought to involve vision? The brain controls the vision system and without it, seeing is impossible. Even though the eyes are the only tool the body has for seeing the world, vision is not always accurate considering how the brain interprets perception. .Eye optics are more complicated than most people assume. It is important to understand eye optics because detecting and fixing eye problems in an…

Are purple eyes just legends? Research show that eye color is determined by the amount of melanin in the iris and the scattering light in someone's eyes. Research also shows that there are different counts of people developing purple eyes after birth. A study on Alexandria's Genesis shows that it is a very rare color in the eye's of almost all women only. So is it true? Many people do not believe that it is real because of all the outrageous effects that it has on some people who have…

In the theme of The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison illustrates the destructive nature of whiteness being a scale for acceptance through certain black characters of this novel. The characters that display this destruction are Pecola Breedlove, Geraldine, and Pauline Breedlove. Pecola Breedlove desperately searches for ways of obtaining blue eyes because she believes it is the only way of receiving love and acceptance from her mother and community. Geraldine uses whiteness as a scale of accepting…

The Bluest Eye is a novel by Toni Morrison about a girl named Pecola. Pecola is a daughter of Cholly and Polly Breedlove. “Love is never better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe”. Cholly is a free man, a husband, and a father of three children. He symbolizes a lover who wants nothing but for his children to feel at ease. Polly is a wife and a mother to Pecola…

look which the eyes manifest, no matter what kind of eyes they are, is a pure reference to myself.” – Sartre Naturally, people find eye contact with strangers quite confronting and therefore do anything they can to try and avoid it. In order to avoid eye contact with people in public situations such as being on a bus, people will often look straight ahead at the back of the bus, towards the ground or even out the window. It is interesting to explore the reasons behind why people find eye…

eighty-four-year-old neighbor, Colette, has come to me to talk about how she is having eye complications after a recent fall to the head. After reviewing the symptoms, I think Colette has damaged her oculomotor nerve, cranial nerve IV. Furthermore, the inferior rectus is in charge of depressing, adducting, and laterally rotating the eye (Schuenke, Schulte, & Schumacher 2016). Similarly, the inferior rectus muscle positions the eye infraversion, dextrodepression, levodepression,…

The Bluest Eye, exhibits the effects that America’s idealization of beauty has on a young black child during the early 1940’s. Throughout the novel, it is explicit that Eurocentric features are perceived as the epitome of beauty and elegance. Being white means that you are automatically superior to any other race. Consequently, this results in the crucial insanity of Pecola Breedlove; the ultimate victim of the novel. She is utterly obsessed with the need to somehow acquire blue eyes, just like…