Inattentional blindness

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…

person. The connection with being stigmatized and scrutinized while being disabled comes from personal experience being diagnosed with Leer’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) at age nineteen, which is an inherited form of vision loss causing legal blindness. Becoming legally blind and disabled has opened my eyes to the stigma and lack of family and public support provided to those with disabilities. Several barriers for myself as well as other…

The Biography of a Blind Beagle “Winnie, where are you going?” This is a question that rings throughout my house at least twice a day as my dog wanders aimlessly around. What began as my little old beagle staring up at the bright lights in our kitchen ceiling as if there was something more fascinating up there than just small glowing light bulbs, led our sweet rescue to be diagnosed with Sudden Acquired Retinal Degeneration Syndrome, also known as S.A.R.D.S., less than a week after the…

Too often in the search for the truth those who seek it are blinded by the delusion that they have found it. It is with this thought that humans as a species struggle to learn because if one believes that they have discovered the truth what is the point of learning? If one already knows the answer what is the purpose of studying? If the truth has been uncovered what is the rationale of exploration? This thought yields an environment unwilling to accept change, and those who repudiate change are…

Can a person learn something from communicating with someone else? For some people connecting with new people is difficult and one might question the idea of connecting with new people. For example, in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” The narrator is unhappy about the blind man Robert coming to stay at his house. Then, the narrator starts to enjoy Robert’s company. While, they are watching T.V. Robert tells the narrator to fetch a piece of heavy paper. Lastly, the narrator and Robert draw a picture…

Nature of the native is written by Thomas Hardy who is a writer of nature and reality. He plots the story in an elaborately described landscape. His interest in nature scenes shows that he has spent his childhood close to nature. His closeness to nature makes him able to write on it. In the novel ''Return of The Native'' Hardy described a nature as Edgon Heath which is an antagonist to human beings. Heath is a character that influences other characters. It also has control on the lives of people…

that Oedipus himself has been the blind one, in all senses. This focus on eyesight leads us to wonder why Oedipus thought blinding himself was a fitting punishment for his past crimes. To Oedipus, he is unworthy to look upon anything because of the blindness of his actions. Oedipus blinds himself for he feels that he is unworthy of looking upon the people of Thebes. In the beginning…

Gassed is a painting by John Singer Sargent, an American artist. Sargent was among several artists who were commissioned by the British War Memorial Committee of the British Ministry of Information. These painters were commissioned to create a large painting for the Hall of Remembrance, Sargent himself was asked to create a piece depicting Anglo-America co-operation. Sargent therefore traveled to the Western Front to gain inspiration for an epic piece which depicted many people; however, he…

Blindness is a trait that can be applied to an assortment of scenarios. People can be blind to their feelings, blind to their addictions, or blind to the world around them. In “Cathedral”, written by Raymond Carver, blindness is shown in two people: Robert and the Narrator. Robert’s blindness is in the form of a physical blindness–the inability to use his eyes to see the world around him. This, however, does not inhibit him from experiencing the world around him, unlike the Narrator. The…

Introduction There are various groups of individuals who are stigmatized by culture. These groups can be stigmatized by disease, religion, or race to name a few. Understanding these groups better helps maximize the care they receive in the hospitals and how they are treated as human beings. One of the more popular stigmas present in the healthcare field is impaired vision. This is a problem that affects millions of people in the U.S each year. It might not seem as extreme as the some of the…