Case: Aravind Eye Hospital * What is Aravind’s mission? How successful is Aravind at achieving its mission? The mission is to bring eyesight to the masses of poor people in India‚ Asia‚ Africa and all over the world. To provide quality care as a non-profit eye hospital. To spread the Aravind model and offer hope in all parts of the world. Aravind has grown from a 20-bed hospital in 1976 to 1224 beds in 1992 as one of the biggest hospitals of its kind in the world. The Aravind organization
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Oedipus does not see that he is caught up in a web of cruel destiny that he can not escape. The gods demonstrate foresight and insight into the play. In addition to this‚ Tiresias has physical blindness but also has prophetic insight. Finally‚ both Oedipus and Jocasta portray types of mental blindness and shortsightedness. These are all examples of different uses of sight in the play Oedipus the King. Oedipus is a hero‚ but sometimes he can not see the reality of this. He goes into states
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well with it. They also say that they have no facilities for us to use. And so‚ they immediately conclude that they are not yet ready to accept a blind student. To address this issue‚ I would like to explain to them myself‚ with the help of some blindness organizations‚ that though a blind student really need special facilities as they call it (screen readers‚ note takers‚ and an embosser‚ to name a few)‚ it is not really necessary for them to provide such things to us‚ if they don’t want to‚ or they
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Braille was devised in 1825 by Louis Braille‚ a blind Frenchman. He was blinded in an accident while playing with one of his father’s knives. As a boy he developed a mastery over that blindness and as a young man – still a student at school – he created a revolutionary form of communication that transcended blindness and transformed the lives of millions. After two centuries‚ the braille system remains an invaluable tool of learning and communication for the blind‚ and it has been adapted for languages
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The technology currently available to assist children with this exceptionality was a pleasing discovery for me. It has made classroom learning much more accessible to many students. The various assistive technologies for visual impairments and blindness are too numerous to list. One of note is the Henter-Joyce‚ JAWS for Windows (JFW). It is a screen-reading package with speech output and Braille access to Windows newest operating systems. The software produces a synthesized voice to read text and
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The movies “City of God” and “Blindness” were two films directed by Fernando Meirelles ‚ a Brazilian film director‚ producer‚ and screenwriter. “City of God” was his best known film‚ released in 2002 in Brazil where Fernando was nominated for an “Academy Award for Best Director”. While “Blindness”‚ a Brazilian-Canadian film‚ was released in 2008. Although both of them were related to violence‚ inhumane and harsh behaviour but they were different to the extent in film location and editing. The film
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Play writers and authors commonly use blindness to symbolize ignorance or the refusal to see the truth‚ and Shakespeare was no exception. In King Lear‚ Shakespeare brilliantly uses the blindness of characters to symbolize ignorance. In the play‚ there are two main characters among the main plot and the subplot; Gloucester and King Lear. Both Gloucester and Lear lead troubling lives‚ one is a narcissistic king‚ and the other a bad father‚ which blinds them to the truth because they somewhat neglect
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different people when they face blindness as adults. Sacks explores a new perspective and creativity of the brain when people lose their sense of sight. People would gain a new ability or reshape their identities when they face darkness. In some aspects‚ those girls who live under
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Theme of Blindness and Sight in Oedipus the King: • Also Darkness and Light. • Irony – the blind man can see the truth (inner vision); the sighted man can see nothing but believes he knows (Oedipus is really blind). • Main pt: Oedipus can see but is really blind. Tiresias can’t see but has inner vision (gift from the Gods). • Blindness and Sight (physically and reality). • The old man is physically blind but he has inner vision‚ the gift of Apollo. • By the end of the play the Kings
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Thebes. And because of his acceptance to the truth he blinded himself to not see all the bad things he caused. 2. Discuss the images of blindness and vision in the play. To what extent is this play about human blindness? What is significant about his and perhaps our own blindness and the language of seeing and blindness? In the play we see blindness from different perspectives‚ from the family side to even the domination of the kingdom. The relationship between Jocasta and Oedipus was
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