Colorblindness
Think back to all of the beautiful scenes you’ve witnessed throughout your lifetime, whether it be the sight of your favorite candy as a little kid, the eye color of a stranger that caught your attention, flowers blossoming in the spring or a sunset during a summer night. Now, imagine a world with very little color or even worse, no color at all. No vibrant colored flowers, no mesmerizing sunsets filling the sky with layers of fire orange, violent and golden yellow and no colorful plates of food, a world filled with nothing but shades of grey and blinding lights. What you’ve just imagined is a life through the eyes of a person who’s colorblind.
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Colorblindness is more likely within men than women effecting 1 in every 12 men as opposed to 1 in every 200 women. Before understanding colorblindness we first need to understand how a properly functioning eye works. To be able to see anything our eyes have what are called photoreceptors. Photoreceptors are broken into two categories, rods, which are sensitive to light and cones, which allow us to see color. Within the cone category there are three different types of cones which are each responsible for our ability to see different points within the color spectrum (S-cones responsible for blue, M-cones responsible for green and L-cones responsible for red). Colorblindness is a result of one or more malfunctioning or missing cones. The severity of damage within a cone and/or the amount of cones missing a person has determines their type of colorblindness. There are three different types of colorblindness, monochromacy, dichromacy and anomalous trichromacy. …show more content…
I. Mr. I lived a life full of color up until the age of 65 when a car accident left him colorblind. One day while driving he was hit on the passenger side of his vehicle by a small truck. When visiting the emergency room he was told he had a concussion. While taking an eye examination he noticed that normal letters appeared to be “Greek” and he could not distinguish colors. Days later Mr. I was still unable to see color but he regained his ability to distinguish between letters, in fact his eyesight was better than ever. He recited improvement in the sharpness and focus of his vision stating “I could see a worm wriggling from a block away” and comparing his vision to one of an eagle. Later it was learned that Mr. I’s accident was followed by a transient amnesia and that he somehow lost memory of his accident. While continuing with his life after the accident Mr. I became depressed. His paintings which he once loved were now just “distasteful” and “dirty” looking, normal everyday routines were filled with confusion, lights/whites became blinding, television was hard to bare and scenes which he once adored such as rainbows and sunsets were now just a sad reminder of this new colorless life he was forced to live. This depression caused him to stop doing what he loved most, art. After his period of mourning and depression Mr. I then decided give life another
Yet another accomplishment has been achieved at Chino Hills High School that only adds to the prosperity and Husky spirit of this illustrious and triumphant school. This year, Color Guard participated in and won a variety of championships including the WGI Circuit-Western Open Class Championships, West Coast Winter Circuit-Open Class Championships with a first place medal, the WGASC Circuit with a silver medal, and the WGI Open World Class Championships in Dayton, Ohio which they took 16th place in out of the world. When interviewing Kaitlyn Parsons (Captain), Mallory Williams, Ashley Kearns, Hunter Adams, and Nina Penzo (Captain) about this prodigious attainment, they each stated that it has been an unforgettable journey that has been both an individual and a team effort. Members of Color guard are split into two teams,
Color guard has morphed over time; from a royal and regimented important civic duty honoring the kings, rulers and dynasties, to a strategic place on a battlefield and, finally, to an honorable activity commemorating the pride that one has in their school, college or branch of armed service. The guarding of colors dates back to ancient times and is mainly documented from the Roman era. The use of the flag becomes specific and the use portrays a clear message by the ninth century in Islam. Later, in the fifteenth century in England, color guard corps emerges as a strategic functioning group on the battlefield and this structure reaches its height in the seventeenth century in Europe and the Americas. Color guard is now firmly planted into modern military, religion and band as more of a display of pride rather than the earlier tactical function.
Introduction: The gene that codes for red-green color blindness, the most common form of color blindness in humans, is found on the X chromosome. One in 12 males is color blind. In females, however, color blindness affects only about 1 in 200. Why is
“Stay in your toaster!” With every move, the flag must stay right in front of our body and right behind our backs. This one simple rule is embedded in every guard girl’s mind. Color guard requires to do various actions at once. For instance, we must remember the sequence of the choreography, march in step, find the right drill spot, and smile. One simple mistake with a flag allows all eyes on you. As the guard girls performs with flags, there’s three different types of girls on the field. There is the hard worker, the slacker, and the hardworker and the slacker combined.
Many people have a concept of what color guard is about. People who dance at football games spinning flags, sabers, and rifles alongside with the marching band. But for me, color guard is much more than just
Who knew that I would fall in love with Color guard and Winter guard. “Color guard uses various equipment, such as flags, rifles, and sabres, along with dance, to express dynamic passages in the music accompanying the marching band show or winterguard show. Usually marching bands and color guards perform during football games at halftime, out of tradition.” The sport of the arts has impacted my life in many ways such as: letting me use a God given talent to spread his word, help to express my feelings, and to meet new people and make a life long relationships.
Auditioning for color guard my freshman year is without a doubt the best decision I’ve made throughout my high school career. My initial expectations were to simply have fun participating in a newly discovered hobby, but what came was so much more. Color guard has affected me in numerous ways, from what I’ve learned to how I conduct myself.
As of now I am colorblind; I see the world in black and white. I am waiting for the day that I finally experience the explosion of color that the world is. From La Tomatina, an annual tomato fight in Valencian, Spain to more disturbing traditions like the “Mourning of Muharram” where Shia Muslims attach knives to whips and beat
I used to play checkers as a kid and I was good at the game. Most of the time I won at the game so I would throw half of a game to create more of a challenge for me. I would wonder, where did the game come from, and who played it first. I never had the notion to look it up until now.
The worst year of my life was in the seventh grade. It was a time of unforgettable and painful moments which took place throughout the school year. This taught me a significant lesson. The summer before seventh grade, my parents informed me that it would be beneficial to join a sport. When I did not find one that interested me, the color guard was counseled to me; which to be honest, I resented. My mother had a strict policy that once an activity is started it must be continued throughout the entire season; for this reason, I did. My color guard instructor was one of the most bounteous woman I knew. Moreover, she was an admirable and gracious woman who cared deeply about her students. When school started, I was a self-effacing, lonesome girl,
That type affects one out of every sixty-thousand males around the world, though it is much less common in females. Nearly one out of every seventy people are a carrier for the albinism gene. That means that even though they carry the albinism gene that does not mean they show any outward sign of having it. To get albinism both parents must have the gene, and the child has a twenty five percent chance of having albinism, a fifty percent chance of being a carrier, and a twenty five percent chance of having two normal genes.
Red-green colorblindness is usually inherited in an X-linked recessive way and it affects an approximated 6 percent of men in the world. This means that, the disorder is usually passed to the affected persons through the X chromosomes thus making the condition to be experienced more by men than
Than, Ker. “Rare but Real: People Who Feel, Taste, and Hear Color”. Livescience. Purch. 22 Feb. 2005. 11 Dec.
Color blindness affects approximately 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women in the world. About 4.5% of the entire world Most whom are males.
Color fills our world with beauty. We delight in the colors of a magnificent sunset and in the bright red and golden-yellow leaves of autumn. We are charmed by gorgeous flowering plants and the brilliantly colored arch of a rainbow. We also use color in various ways to add pleasure and interest to our lives. For example, many people choose the colors of their clothes carefully and decorate their homes with colors that create beautiful, restful, or exciting effects. By their selection and arrangement of colors, artists try to make their paintings more realistic or expressive.