Blindness For a long time we have seen people with many different deformities and felt the need to judge them because it makes them look different. The sad truth is that these people cannot help what happened to them most of the time and we should not be so judgemental. One deformity have people saying the person looks scary, which is blindness and causes the eye to denote the ability to see anything at all. Vision disabilities happen long before a baby is born. Blindness has issues within the brain sometimes rather than the eye itself. Optic nerves send picture images to the brain and if the brain cannot process it right, then we won’t be able to see. But a lot of the issues come from the direct source, the eye. Light will enter through the eye, pass …show more content…
through the cornea and lens, and then is taken in by tiny nerve endings in the retina. The retina then send the images to the brain. Blindness can happen even after birth from reasons like the retina deteriorating, the lens clouding, or the optic nerve getting damaged. Blindness can either be genetic or caused by an accident. There is no sign of a certain gender or ethnic group getting more of a chance to get diagnosed with blindness but studies do show that men tend to adopt color blindness more frequently than women.
A blind person can either be easy to point out or hard due to the fact that some people that are born without irises or pupils and their eyes are completely white. Some people on the other hand have completely normal eyes but they cannot move their eyes around and it looks like they are always squinting. Sometimes being blind doesn’t even fully mean you cannot see anything at all, being accounted for as a blind citizen can simply mean you do not have great eyesight and need help at times detecting an image. For the people with just extremely poor eyesight, they will have fogged vision or poor acuity, they gain tunnel vision, and reduced contrast. For the people that are completely blind, they have lost limitations to seeing everything in full color, they can only sense light and dark. They cannot drive, they have lost many job opportunities, and gain judgement from others. To prevent any person in the future to fight for blindness to to occur, we must regularly go to the doctor, get glasses, contacts, or surgeries to prevent it. Kids must wear glasses or helmets during sports. We must be careful as to what we are
putting near our eyes and doing little things like putting in eye drops. Even something like wearing sunglasses could help. At the current moment though, once you are blind there is no cure. But researchers are trying their hardest to find one and the time could be soon. You’ll find that a person with a blind disability has fallen into a slight depression because it’s the simple things that the person has issues with. They have a hard time pouring water into a cup and they can’t watch a movie. They wish they knew what they looked like or to be able to look at themselves in the mirror again. As a family or friend or even stranger we must encourage the person to do their best and help gain self confidence. Try your best to not be overprotective, no matter how much you want to be. We must ask how we can help and let the person what we are going to do. Such as “I am going to walk away, I am going to touch you, or I am entering the room.” We must not judge them for they cannot help the accident or genetic problems they went through and they are already self conscious. Image if you, yourself one day woke up and you could not see the sun set anymore. You would want your space and you would not want to be treated as though a child, you would want to learn to how exactly to deal with it and overcome the obstacles life has thrown at you.
The author Edward Bloor utilizes blindness to symbolize how Paul may be visually impaired but can see social injustice, while Erik and his parents’ can see but are blind to the emotional harm they inflict on Paul and others, and the townspeople are blind to their environment and social prejudice. He has been bullied most of his life for being visually impaired. Paul is used to being judged by others. The injury to his eyes supposedly occurred while looking at a solar eclipse, but there is more to this story.
During my childhood I was diagnosed as having poor eyesight and was prescribed glasses to assist with my vision correction. I realize how blessed I am to have had that as an option. I was always in awe of the environment and creatures who inhabited the various areas of nature. The sense of vision is very important and without the ability to see an individual would be missing out on many colorful life experiences. Blindness, which is the lack of the ability to see is a very dark and challenging disability. Without one’s eyes, everyday activities such a walking, reading, eating and identifying people can be a struggle. It has been proven that the brain will adapt to the loss by giving itself a makeover. If one sense is lost,
Throughout the novel there are several instances where characters, including the narrator, are physically blind or experience the loss of their sight. Such cases of physical blindness represent the unwillingness or incapability to see past the prejudices and falsities of an American society based on the superiority of Whites. An important example of this in the text is the boxing scene in which the narrator is fooled into fighting other fellow African Americans for the enjoyment of notable white folks in the community. The narrator is searching for truth behind the horror of this arranged fight, but his eyes are blindfolded by oppressive Caucasian hands:
Blindness is defined as the lack of visual perception. Blindness can also be defined as not being able to see things for what they really are. One may be able to see but may not be able to see the true meaning of something. Black communities often refuse to see the way that white people treat them. In Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man many events contribute to the overall theme of sight vs. blindness.
When most people think of blind people, they tend to picture a person with dark sunglasses, a seeing eye dog, and a walking stick. These are stereotypes and obviously do not remain true in the case of all blind people. In Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral," the main character is jealous and judgmental of his wife’s friend who happens to be a blind man. It is the combination of these attitudes that leads to his own unique “blindness." It is through this initial blindness, that the character gains his greatest vision.
In literature, blindness serves a general significant meaning of the absence of knowledge and insight. In life, physical blindness usually represents an inability or handicap, and those people afflicted with it are pitied. The act of being blind can set limitations on the human mind, thus causing their perception of reality to dramatically change in ways that can cause fear, personal insecurities, and eternal isolation. However, “Cathedral” utilizes blindness as an opportunity to expand outside those limits and exceed boundaries that can produce a compelling, internal change within an individual’s life. Those who have the ability of sight are able to examine and interpret their surroundings differently than those who are physically unable to see. Carver suggests an idea that sight and blindness offer two different perceptions of reality that can challenge and ultimately teach an individual to appreciate the powerful significance of truly seeing without seeing. Therefore, Raymond Carver passionately emphasizes a message that introduces blindness as not a setback, but a valuable gift that can offer a lesson of appreciation and acceptance toward viewing the world in a more open-minded perspective.
Not ever having “met or personally known anyone who was blind” (102) left the narrator at a loss as to how this man was going to behave or what they could do or talk about. He had read and heard things about the blind, but Robert turned out to be none of these. The narrator thought “dark glasses were a must for the blind” (102) but Robert wore none. He had also heard blind men could not smoke because they could not see the smoke they exhaled “but this blind man smoked his cigarette down to the numbing and then lit another one” (103). Slowly, the narrator becomes interested in how the blind man carries himself and his abilities despite his handicap.
Man by nature, judges people and things by their appearance. If a person is pleasant looking then they will be given more of a chance to express their internal self. If they are ugly, or cosmetically deformed, they usually aren't given much of a chance to show who they really are. Grotesquely ugly people are sometimes thought of as monsters, and are ostracized. Many cosmetically inferior people are afraid to go out into society. Mankind seems to be fearful of the unfamiliar and unknown. People are afraid of what they do not understand. Deformaty is something that most people can not comprehend.
The husband in Raymond Carvers “Cathedral” wasn’t enthusiastic about his wife’s old friend, whom was a blind man coming over to spend the night with them. His wife had kept in touch with the blind man since she worked for him in Seattle years ago. He didn’t know the blind man; he only heard tapes and stories about him. The man being blind bothered him, “My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to. (Carver 137)” The husband doesn’t suspect his ideas of blind people to be anything else. The husband is already judging what the blind man will be like without even getting to actually know him. It seems he has judged too soon as his ideas of the blind man change and he gets a better understanding of not only the blind man, but his self as well.
Some people become handicapped as a result of an accident. Others are born with their disabilities.
Mobility is a very challenging task for visually impaired people. It is defined as “the ability to travel safely, comfortably, gracefully, and independently” [1]. Visually impaired people must rely on other senses other than their sense of sight such as hearing and touch to guide them. Visual impairment and blindness afflict a significant portion of the world population. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the estimated number of visually impaired in the world are 285 million, 39 million are blind and about 90% of them are people who live in developing countries [2]. This tells us that majority of the blind people come from developing nations which means they cannot afford expensive devices to assist them. It is important to understand the needs and requirements of that community before attempting to create devices for them. Considering the continuing progress of medicine and science, it is surprising to note that blindness is expected to increase in the coming years. It is predicted that the number of blind people will double by 2030 [3]. This is partially because “the proportion of babies born to mothers at the extremes of the child-bearing years is increasing” and because “medical advances have made it possible for many premature infants, who in the past would have died, to
When given freedom from adult supervision, kids tend to decide their own rules no matter what others say. The young adult fiction novel Lord of the flies by William Golding is about a group of British schoolboys that are stuck on an uninhabited island. After getting in a plane crash and remaining the only survivors, they have to work together and create their own system of rules to remain alive. With the use of characterization, the author, William Golding, succeeds in showing readers how seeing things from one perspective blinds individuals from reality as realized with Jack’s belief of always being right as well as being the rightful leader and Ralph only wanting to pay attention to the essentials. Throughout the whole book, the message of the blindness someone
Each one of us lives in our own unique world of perception. As individuals, we may experience life in an entirely different way through our senses and life experiences. Therefore, perception can be tricky since it is very personal to each one of us. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, perception has three meanings; (1) “the way you think about or understand someone or something,” (2) “the ability to understand or notice something easily,” and, (3) “the way that you notice or understand something using one of your senses” (2014, para. 1). C.S. Lewis said, “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are” (n.d., para. 11). In other words,
Blindness can be so much more than the state of being unable to see (Dictionary.com). Both the 2008 movie Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles and based on a novel by José Saramago, and the short story The Country of the Blind written by H. G. Wells in 1904, put blindness at the center of the plot. What can blindness mean in our society? And what can blindness mean regarding my future profession in design? In the movie Blindness, to be blind leads to losing all that’s civilized; in H. G. Wells’ The Country of the Blind, blindness can be interpreted as a symbol for ignorance; finally, in graphic design, blindness could be to only focus on the aesthetic part of designing and forgetting the practical aspect of the design.
The most common vision issues are the refractive errors, more commonly referred to as nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and presbyopia. Refractive errors occur when the shape of the eye prevents light from focusing directly on the retina. The length of the eyeball (either longer or shorter), changes in the shape of the cornea, or aging of the lens can cause refractive errors. Most people have one or more of these conditions. In these situations of refraction, the cornea and the lens bend (refract) incoming light rays so they focus precisely on the retina at the back of the eye (figure 2). Refraction is the bending of light as it passes through one object to another. Vision occurs when light rays are bent (refracted) as they pass through the cornea and the lens. The light is then focused on the retina, and then the retina converts the light-rays into messages that are sent through the optic nerve to the brain. The brain after that interpret these messages into the images we see.