Myopia

How does your eye work You see using the your eye. Light is focused onto the layer of cells of the back of your eye known as the retina, light receptors on retina then receive and transmit that information to the brain. The brain, conveys and translate all that into an image. When you look at something... - The image must be reduced in size so that it can fit on the retina The scattered light must come together and must be focused onto retina to form a image Since the surface of the retina is…

PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay It is proved that creativity, though it may be innate to many of us, is a tool that works and builds, through some basic mechanisms (and more complex) that do more than increase our innovative exponential. In writing, this is no exception. Treat yourself to a professional writer or a simple lover of the written word, it is normal to hear say that the most difficult is to start a text, precisely because of that lack such creative…

behind the scenes look at the new technologies that, quite literally, were transforming society. This exposure seeded a thought. I needed to, in some way, help society. I would spend hours reading local news and affairs in an attempt to cure my mental myopia. What I saw was rampant unfairness and unconscionability to those without access to justice. I became motivated to remedy these…

competitors, I noticed that the entertainment industry was moving away from physical DVD and towards online streaming. As a result, I chose my recommendations (above) over this alternative recommendation because Netflix should not exhibit marketing myopia and ignore trends of customers’ interests. By moving towards a less physical option, the frequency of transactions with the packaging and shipping services will decrease. Ultimately, the value-added from the recommendation of adding in-house…

Structuralism Essay The Flowers by Alice Walker uses several structuralist concepts that can help the reader better understand the story. There are three different structuralist terms emphasized while reading the story: sign, code, and symbol. A sign, in a literary sense, is a thing that makes you think of something else without an obvious connection between the sign and object. Codes are a set of ideas, rules, letters, numbers, symbols, etc., that are used to represent another thing. A…

While the founders of Hailsham feel it to be important for the clones to be able to represent themselves artistically so that their humanity can be recognised by others, it is just as crucial for the clones to recognise their humanity themselves. Miss Lucy suggests to Tommy that he should start putting more effort into his artwork because, ‘You’ll get a lot from it, just for yourself’ (Ishiguro 2010, 106). In order to see themselves as human, and as having the kind of value we bestow upon the…

Junot Diaz’s book This Is How You Lose Her provides an insightful look into the experiences of love and loss, mostly through the eyes of its narrator, Yunior. Within this collection are stories of Yunior’s infidelity and the relationships of those around him; this includes tales of his family’s struggles with their respective partnerships. There is a subtle but evident shift in Yunior’s attitude as these stories progress, turning him into a more rounded character. Though greatly flawed, Yunior’s…

Glaucoma is a disease that causes blindness in the eye and it also damages the optic nerve, which is what helps the eye keep its good vision. The optic nerve comes from the sensory fibers and it is what conducts impulses from the retina to the brain. Elderly people are more likely to develop glaucoma when they’re around the age 60 but glaucoma can also develop on young adults, or an infant could just be born with it. 1 out of 10,000 babies are born with glaucoma, which may not seem like a many,…

heart at my inner self as a form of reflection. I discovered that without my phone, I could learn more about myself and “by renunciation I discovered a hidden God” (130). Without social media and my phone to distract me from connecting with God, the myopia that I had acquired from the social norms in modern society began to clear. I realized that life is a beautiful gift from God and that no matter what we do, God will show us an ultimate love that compares to no other. This camp and my…

for it is only therein that one can truly gleam insight into the more objectively preferable course that he or she (being at the helm) should have society embark upon. The mere lovers of sights and sounds are inadequate, because their perceptive myopia limits their understanding of Truth to what is transduced by the obtuse resolution of their senses alone. (476a9 - 476c1) Powerful, useful, and vital as these senses may be, one runs the risk of allowing them to monopolize his or her clarity and…