The Blind

and gave them courage and hope that they didn’t have before. Helen Keller also fought for many social issues of the time, including workers’ rights. She wrote President Franklin many letters and pushed the government to offer more assistance to the blind. Helen’s hard work paid off in 1935, when President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. This act offered unemployment insurance, assistance for children of the disabled and retirement funds.…

how the word “blind” and the people who have the ability to see are oblivious. His main audience is those who do not see the reality and beauty of the world having the ability to do so but are stuck in the stereotypes that are said. Borges purpose is for his readers to awaken and take a step forward and appreciate the privilege of sight , and to actually see a blind person point of view before judging. The author demonstrates this by telling us his personal experience of being a blind person…

More important than a person’s identity, is what a person identifies as. The difference between these two is that identities are constantly being assigned and replaced throughout our life by society and biology, while identifying is a process independent to each individual. Individuals have little control over the process of being labeled and defined by others in ways that sometimes do not reflect their inner self. However, through identification, individuals are able to decide which and to what…

Bonilla-Silva describes color-blind racism, or new racism as “the language used by whites to defend the racial status quo,” (Bonilla-Silva, 2001, p. 114). He explains that color-blind racism serves to maintain the privileges afforded whites, and outlines four central pillars of color-blind racism, including 1) minimization of racism, 2) naturalization, 3) abstract liberalism, and 4) the biologization of culture. Bonilla-Silva contends that in contrast with the blatant racism seen in laws and…

The “Bionic Eye” can be dated back to 1755. Before the many vaccines and treatments we have today, when highly spreading epidemics would occur, patients would become blind due to high fever. “French scientist Charles Leroy discharged the static electricity from a Leyden jar, into a blind patient’s body using two wires. One tightened just above the eyes and the other wrapped around the legs. The effect of this caused the experience on a flame like sensation passing downward in front of the eye.”1…

twelve deaf students and six blind students. Kendall called this grammar school, the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind. This school was the first school in the world dedicated to advancing the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. Edward Miner Gallaudet was appointed as superintendent of the school. After much persuasion from Kendall, Congress agreed to charter the school; agreeing to fund the tuition cost for deaf, dumb and blind to attend the school.…

understand. The narrator of this story a man whom the name is never mentioned feels threaten by his wife’s relationship with her old blind boss named Robert. Throughout the story, Robert will prove to the narrator time and time again that he is nothing to be worried about. From the beginning, you get the feeling resentment towards Robert before he even comes "A blind man in the house was not something I looked forward to” (carver 86). This due to how much his wife interacts with Robert, for…

archetypal, blind literary character is given the ability to see the more important aspects of life, but the opposite is true for those characters with full sight. Having this anomaly undermines what is considered a vital physical feature. This blindness could be to love, to evil, to reality, to potential, to truth, or to a plethora of other things. Significantly, this tragic fault’s potential often leads to the blind character’s demise. In Euripides’…

narrator feels very uncomfortable about a blind man who he has never met before coming to his house. At the beginning of the short story the narrator is waiting for the blind man to arrive at his house. The narrator has informed me that Robert, the blind man, has had a long relationship with his wife. The narrator states, “My idea of blindness came form the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slow…

Seeing through the eyes of the blind Sight is often one of the five senses taken for granted. Seeing is one of the most powerful senses to have. To be able to see the world and all of its glory is an amazing opportunity. However, many do not understand what changes when someone cannot see. While one cannot see he has to imagine what others explain, thus letting the blind person create whatever it is in their head. A prime example of this would be the story of “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver. This…