The Bluest Eye

the car. I knew something was wrong as soon as I saw her sink into her seat, heaving a sigh. My lips slowly pressed into a line. I was shaking nervously with anticipation, preparing myself for the absolute worst. She dropped her head and closed her eyes, taking a deep breath. My heart sank. About three-and-a-half years ago, we adopted a German Shepherd puppy, who was one of many in a fairly large litter of puppies. We first found out about these puppies by a woman who showed up at our front…

The Breakfast Club is a movie about five teenagers from different social groups that are spending a Saturday together in detention. Each of the five teenagers represents a different stereotype of high school students, you have the athlete, the nerd, the basket case, the criminal, and the princess. At the very beginning of the movie it is clear that they do not get along and want nothing to do with each other. They are given an assignment to write about why they received detention and who they…

Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness for people over 60 years old. It is a group of diseases that occur when aqueous humour is unable to flow out of the eye properly, causing an increase in fluid pressure in the eyes, which cause ocular hypertension and damage the optic nerve over time. The flow of aqueous humour can be disrupted either by a partial or full block of its drainage canal or an excess production of the fluid, and the chronic increase in intraocular pressure (IOP) leads to a…

White. That is all I saw when the worried voice of a boy wakes me up. I opened my eyes and I saw a young boy, about 13 or 14, with scruffy brown hair and deep brown eyes. Around him was a girl, about the same age, with dirty blonde hair and the same brown eyes. They looked at me with a relieved look, as if knowing me.Their faces had a familiar glow on on them, but I couldn't put a name to them, or know who or where they were from. I could tell they were very confused when they saw about my…

Teaching point: For patients with chronic ocular conditions, patient re-education is key. ____’s condition is consistent with wet macular degeneration. Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the primary cause of legal blindness in North Americans 65 years of age or older. AMD is divided into two types: dry (also known as “nonexudative” or “non-neovascular”) and wet (also called “exudative” or “neovascular”). Approximately 10-15 percent of AMD cases involve dry AMD progressing to the more…

She thought it might lighten Mingo’s spir-it, but she wasn’t sure she could handle a drunken Mingo, not even a hurt one. So, instead she asked, “How did you get hurt?” Mingo stopped rocking and without turning to make eye contact answered, “Mattie. Mattie shot me.” “Mattie!” Ruby shrank back in disbelief. “Mattie would never hurt you,” she insisted. “She shot me, right here, in the back of my head,” Mingo said, raising his right hand and point-ing to the bare spot…

Darlene Dollie Daxen sat squirming on the step asphyxiated on the window. She banged her legs together as she waited for the UPS man to drop off her gift. Aunt Allison promised her that the full antique dollhouse would arrive promptly before her birthday. Darlene had been waiting for this delivery all week, but she had an inkling that today was the day the package would arrive. Surely it would because her birthday was tomorrow, if not the box must have been intercepted in some fantastical way.…

The retina is a layer of tissue in the back of the eyeball that contains photoreceptors. These photoreceptors are called rods and cones. They are both sensitive to light and convert the light into signals that the brain can read. Rods interpret low intensity light, while high intensity light is interpreted by cones. Rods cannot convey color, but cones can. Rods are located around the outside of the retina. Rods come into affect with periphery vision. Therefore, when light is dim, rods are the…

As discussed in the previous paragraphs, the smart contact lens will have many good effects on the community. For one, this new technology will help with health problems and deaths at a younger age. Not only is this new piece of technology going to help with serious health problems it will help with eyesight. Just think about it, helping with those two main things could more than likely help with car wrecks or any other accidents that happen. Being able to focus on what you are actually looking…

The retinal photoreceptors and retinal ganglion are only a couple of synapse distant apart but the responses from the ganglion cells are more diverse than the ones observed from the photoreceptor (1). The bipolar cells serve as a direct pathway linking the ganglion cells and the photoreceptors. Bipolar cells are retinal interneurons that have two protrusions, one that goes up and one that goes down. This structure layout is an indicator of the cells function, they link the inner and outer retina…