Lenses

The film The Matrix follows the character Neo as he is thrust into a new reality much different than what he thought was true. In this new reality otherwise known as the real world it is revealed that the world that Neo was living in was actually a computer program known as the matrix. This program was created by robotic machines who harvest bodies (of the people in the program) for an energy source. The film follows Neo and others who have been freed from the matrix, as they rebel against the…

Most people use a computer every day, but staring at your screen for too long may have an impact on your vision. Strain that develops after prolonged computer usage is sometimes known as “computer vision syndrome.” The eye doctors at Harper’s Point Eye Associates, in Cincinnati, OH, have some valuable insight on this common problem. According to a Nielsen study, the average American adult spends over 11 hours a day staring at some form of electronic media, be it a computer, a smartphone, or a…

Religion is a complex concept that is really hard for even religious theologians to define, and there hasn’t been a clear definition for this term simply because what we know as religion is more than what one word can describe. The academic study of Religion is a major key to understanding this concept. However, in the academic discipline of Religious Studies, there are many theoretical approaches, and other discipline theories that are used to define and understand religion, and that makes it…

In any piece of work, different lenses allow the reader to assume different perspectives of the work and therefore acquire unique meanings. Pamela Zoline chose to write the short story “The Heat Death of the Universe” in a manner that allows the reader to choose their own lens to read with. For instance, the short story can be read as a play about the progression of Sarah Boyle’s suicidal thoughts to reveal more about her character. The aspect of this work being a play is highlighted with…

A comparative study of Jane Austen’s, Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon’s, Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen, argues the values of social restrictions to dictate notions of success. The reading of Pride and Prejudice presents confusing perspectives on social restrictions and success in love, mannerisms and marriage. It is only upon reading Letters to Alice, an epistolary series does Weldon explicitly and implicitly comment on Jane Austen’s context, utilising her own context to allow…

♣ The Deal brings together two of the biggest forces in the eyewear industry: Essilor and Luxottica; ♣ Luxottica Group S.p.A. is the global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of fashion, luxury and sports eyewear; ♣ Essilor International S.A. is the world’s leading ophthalmic optics company; ♣ Together, they will lead the eyewear market with a 27.2% market share ex-ante synergies, according to 2015 data; ♣ Essilor Luxottica would have more than 140,000 employees and sales in more…

Nystagmus refers to involuntary eye movements which are usually in the horizontal axis but can also be vertical or torsional. 1 According to the speed of the fast and slow phases, nystagmus is classified as pendular or jerky and based on the time of onset, into congenital (or infantile) and acquired types. 1-4 Infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) may be further classified into sensory and motor types. In patients with sensory type, there is a recognizable structural abnormality leading to…

There is a prevailing notion that what an individual observes with their eyes is indeed an objective representation of the subject being viewed. This sentiment is furthered with aphorisms like “seeing is believing,” a notion that can be rendered untrue by manipulations of perception. In the introduction to his experiment,Image Creation through Manipulation of Transform Space Representations, David Brownrigg states, ”Classically time and space are considered to vary continuously,but we do not…

The Importance of History and Why it Matters The History of the Church by Eusebius and Do Classics Have a Future? by Mary Beard both discuss the importance of history and why it matters through different lenses. The common ground between the two pieces is that: history is not simply the study of the past, but the careful and purposeful preservation of culture and lifestyle, facts, and the other miscellaneous details of life. It is important, not only because it provides valuable lessons for…

In his ethnography on blues clubs in Chicago, David Grazian argues that authenticity is a social construct, based on an ideal reality of fixed subjectivities, formed by various factors. Further, the ways in which cultural consumers and producers assess authenticity is fluid in nature; it is never static and despite how much it shapeshifts over time, it remains as an absolute truth for those that create it. In Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity, Grazian details the primary variables that…