Willful blindness

Because of Louis Braille, the blind can read and write. People never thought that it would, or could, ever happen. Louis Braille made a HUGE difference in the lives of blind people, starting in 1824 when he developed the 6-dot cell system. Even today he is still making a difference, such as the "Braille Olympics," where blind students use their braille skills in competitions. (Perkins) Louis Braille, although was not born blind, created a system still being used today. Louis has become a major hero

Think about a blind person walking alone, consider the dangers, the person could walk into citizens, get hit by a vehicle and trip over. You can help blind people around Queensland by donating money to Guide Dogs Queensland (GDQ). In Australia 90,000 Australians are blind and 300,000 Australians have low vision, condition, which is when people have less than 1% of sight. GDQ gives freedom to citizens who are blind or low vision. Think about the blind or low vision citizen, they have no peace, freedom

Bob Justin, is the kind of guy you want to be your next-door neighbor. He’s not afraid to laugh at himself or his situation, he’s not afraid of much these days. “I don’t really have a comfort zone,” says the former Marine. His year in Vietnam and losing his vision later in life has taught him to keep a positive attitude and a sense of fearlessness. He relies on his upbeat attitude and his family and friends to help get him through hard times. “If you’re not tough when your blind then you won’t make

most often by blood flow loss to the occipital cortex, where we process our conscious visuals) due to lesions in their striate cortex, or V1, having the ability to respond to visual stimuli that is not consciously seen. Patients reportedly have blindness, but respond to visual stimuli. The studies are mainly conducted on patients who are "blind" on only one side of their visual field. The articles I have had assistance in choosing are; Seeing without Seeing? Degraded Conscious Vision in a Blindsight

There must be a way for a blind person to quickly feel the words on a page. There must be a way for a blind person to read as quickly and as easily as a sighted person. That day he set himself the goal of thinking up a system for blind people to read. He would try to think of some alphabet code to make his 'finger reading' as quick and easy as sighted reading. Now Louis was a tremendously creative person. He learned to play the cello and organ at a young age. He was so talented an organist that

Kristi Guasis Recent developments in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a common cause of irreversible blindness in the elderly. AMD is characterized by the progression from early to intermediate stages of the disease. The two major advanced forms are the geographic atrophy (GA) AMD and neovascular AMD. GA or “dry” AMD is characterized by loss of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells and outer layers of the neurosensory retina as well as

Blindness was used both literally and figuratively in Oedipus the King to symbolize Oedipus's denial, guilt and the lack of perception Oedipus's faults which lead to Oedipus's ultimate fall, which connects to. Oedipus was in denial of the truth. He was so blind that when confronted by Tiresias with the truth of his crimes he quickly denied that he could have had anything to do with the death of Laius. When the blame was pointed at him by Tiresias, Oedipus went as far to question Tiresias abilities

This short story interested me in a way no other story has. Have you ever met a visually impaired individual in your life? If not church gives you the storyteller's perspective from a man who has never met a visually impaired individual. Through the spouse's words and activities when he is managing Robert, the visually impaired man, we can see that the spouse does not "see" or comprehend what Robert's visual deficiency means or how it changes or does not transform him as a person. At first Robert

I was not able to be blind for four hours. However, I tried for over two hours in total darkness. Being familiar with my home I thought this voluntary temporary, blindness is the best place. The feeling of overwhelmed wanted to creep in because I needed to take medications and care for Diamond my dog. My walking skills were slower and carefully where to place my feet or hands. Personally, I began to think about blind people who go through this life process daily with and without assistance

Glaucoma is an eye disorder that cause severe blindness. There are multiple types of Glaucoma however, they all have something to do with damage to the optic nerve (usually form high eye pressure) that sends and receives information to the brain form the eye. Glaucoma can be a very dangerous disease although it is no fatal but it can contribute to the failure of one of the bodies most important senses which is blindness. In most cases, glaucoma is correlated with high pressure inside the eye (ocular