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    the ideal type to call someone not blind, they did let the patient see clear enough to allow them to recognize faces who they would otherwise not be able to see. This breakthrough in the bionic eyes is going to benefit lots of patients with common blindness, macular degeneration, all which affect around 500,000 people in the USA. “The Argus II—a kind of retinal

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    Heschel thought that a prophet was someone who brought a message of justice and peace to the world. The people that represented a prophet would have also been treated unjustly. The job of the prophet was to turn others away from evil and speak the words of God to his people. Heschel described the prophet as a lonely man who often was tormented over his duties to God and felt passionate for others. “The words of the prophet are stern, sour, stinging. But behind their austerity is love and compassion

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    If Cathedral were to have been told by the wife in the story instead of the husband, I would expect the story to be less skeptical of Robert but not have a point made at the end. The wife has known Roger much longer than her husband. She is also very close with him. The husband seems nervous to have a blind man in his home. He seems skeptical to open his home to the man probably because he does not know what to expect seeing as he has never met a blind person before. The wife would not be nervous

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    Severe Vision Loss

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    Severe vision loss debilitates more than 20 million Americans. You can’t prevent all eye diseases, but there are a few easy steps you can take to help your eyes maintain their health and reduce the chances you’ll suffer from vision loss in the future. Although we love to see you here at Atlantis Vision Center, we’d love it even more if you saw well for life. One tip: wear sunglasses! UV blocking sunglasses work. They delay the development of cataracts, by blocking the direct sunlight that works

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    that of a regular person or it could symbolize the character’s blindness to a problem or their ignorance. Their blindness could also be a representation of themselves as a whole. For a writer to give a character this disability, they are trying to get a deeper point across to the readers. The author in this chapter used different examples in which a blind character was more than just a blind character. Blindness is not just blindness in works of literature. Just like

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    Diabetes Research Paper

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    Diabetes is among the leading causes of irreparable blindness all over the world. In the U.S., it is the most typical cause of blindness to individuals below the age of 65 years. Moreover, diabetic eye disease circumscribes extensive issues that can infect the eye. The diabetic disease known as retinopathy is the utmost cause of low vision and new blindness cases in adults between the ages 20 and 65 years. The effects of diabetes to your vision can either be temporary or reversible blurring of the

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    People are always put in situations that they do not necessarily know how to handle. The narrator, in “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver has personally never been around anyone who was blind until his wife introduces him her lifelong blind friend. Being inexperienced can make someone uncomfortable, which can be taken as being judgemental. As the story progresses, the narrator transitions from being uncomfortable to having a better understanding of the blind man and his life. The narrator is not judgemental

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    Blindness is a reoccurring theme in King Lear. Lear’s blindness prevented him from seeing his Goneril and Regan true intentions at the beginning of the play. Although Lear is not physically blind, he lacks insight and wisdom. Lear’s lack of insight is a mental flaw rather than physical quality. Lear’s lack of insight causes him to be unable to see beyond the facade and cannot discern between the truth and lies in his daughter’s statements. Prospero also lacked insight, and was blinded to his brother’s

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    Blindness And Socialism

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    Blindness Blindness by Jose Saramago is a piece that shows many examples of political ideologies. The two most prominent being conservatism and socialism. Now, Jose Saramago being a prominent believer in the ideas of socialism as a whole, it is no surprise that his book Blindness includes many scenes that portray, in favor, the fundamental concepts of socialist beliefs. This includes the variety of the people who were blinded and the cooperation and organization of the main party involved. But,

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    references to blindness and sight and to light and darkness. Real sight does not require eyes but the ability to see beyond of what is in front of us. What these means is that one must not only be able to see something, but also be able to understand it. In Oedipus the king, Teiresias is the only physically blind character, and is the only person that throughout the play can actually see what happen ,and what will happen in the in the future of king Oedipus. there are different forms of blindness throughout

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