Blind musicians

The Gig Is Up by Nathan Heller is a lengthy article that appeared in The New Yorker, an American magazine. In his article, Heller explains that more and more people are relying on a gig-economy as their source of income. He focuses on the millennials more than any other generation because they seem to rely on this economy more. Although “gigging” can make life a lot more simple, Heller leaves his audience with a lingering question. Can they survive it? He sets the stage for his audience by telling

open box has grown larger because we are now exchanging personal information and more details about each other. The hidden box is still there because I’m not fully comfortable with her yet and haven’t spent much time with her outside of school. The blind box exists because it contains Breana’s first impression about me and other feelings about me that I’m unaware of. INTENSIFYING As my junior year was coming to an end I realized that I made a new friend, Breana. It was to my surprise because I had

Sometimes led by seeing eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to.” (Carver 200). We realize that the narrator did not think much of Robert even before he has ever met him. After meeting him and trying to draw the cathedral, he was told by Robert to close his eyes and continue. At the end, we can see the growth of the narrator and his feeling towards Robert and blind men in general. When he’s told to open his eyes: “‘Well?’ he said.

knowledgeable soul, due to an encounter with his wife’s blind friend Robert, to an individual that is enlightened. The cathedral, in this story, is a mere subject brought up at the end of this story which becomes the object of his enlightenment. “Cathedral,” tells a tale of Bub who through a blind man receives an eye-opening experience. The narrator starts off as intolerable, but towards the end of the story, with the assistance of a blind man makes him open-minded. He is clobbered

Pastor Bonhoeffer once said, “Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging other’s, we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” The way we treat people reflects on ourselves. The way the world judges and condemns each other is very true and an everyday reality for most. The same could be said about people who are limited by one or more of their six senses and are judged by the majority of the population who are not

Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” is a short story that unfolds through the perspective of Bub. The story begins by depicting Bub’s narrow mindedness and as the story progresses it becomes clear that his perspective shifts after an encounter with his wife’s blind friend Robert. It is through this encounter that Bub has an epiphany. It is his jealousy towards Robert and intoxication that debunk his preconceived notations and highlight the connection between him and Robert. It is only after his epiphany that

Robert is physically blind, it is the narrator who cannot clearly see the world around him. In the eyes of the narrator, Robert’s blindness is his defining characteristic. The opening line of "Cathedral" reads, "This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to spend the night" (1052). Clearly, the narrator cannot see past Robert’s disability;

friend, who happens to be blind. His wife has just died, so he is going to stay with the narrator and his wife for a bit. The narrator is very passive aggressive towards him and even pulls childish pranks on him. Eventually the two are left alone and the narrator realizes how narrow-minded he has been his entire life. In Carver’s Cathedral, the narrator’s lack of social depth and tolerance for others mimics that of the societal norm, which reverses when his wife’s blind friend, Robert, strains the

Helens blind mother, Mrs. Stephens, in the movie Peeping Tom, plays a crucial role in enticing Michael Powell’s major themes of voyeurism and fear, and is the only character who is able to bring a deeper understanding of Mark as a person and the humanity he hides deep within his childhood. Film scholar Linda Williams has observed that silent films in the early 1900’s often portrayed the heroin to be naïve and figuratively or even physically blind. This rests on the concept of voyeurism and objectification

Nowadays it is almost impossible for many people to do their works and spend their days without using any kind of technology. According to Savanah Guthrie, an American journalist “ a recent survey found that people check their phones up to hundred fifty times a day. We talk, text, listen to music, surf the web, take pictures, oh, and then we share it all on social media.” Many people think of technology in a negative way. They think technology makes people create their own world and it make them