to cover and protect the surface of the eye. It also lubricates the eye as it moves in the socket. 2- Cornea- the corneas structure is a transparent front window through which light enters the eyeball. It is made up of 3 main structures which are the epithelium‚ stroma and endothelium. Its function is that it performs much of the initial focusing of the image by bending or refracting the light onto the lens. 3- Sclera- its structure is the white of the eye and it is the tough outer layer and it
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The Bluest Eye In her novel The Bluest Eye‚ Toni Morrison emphasizes three major events that are both personal and historical because they affected her at the time when she was writing the novel. She writes about a personal event about a childhood who wanted blue eyes to be beautiful‚ which puzzled her and changed her perception of what real beauty really was and who were the ones considered beautiful or ugly. There were also a couple of historical events that she mentions in the novel that affected
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“The Bluest Eye” are exposed to social standards and norms. The book opens with an excerpt from the book “Dick and Jane”. This excerpt represents the perfect‚ ideal‚ suburban‚ white family. Each chapter in the book also begins with a quote from this book. This makes the lives of the black families in the book seem worse. The comparison of Dick and Jane’s family and life to that of the black families in the book demonstrates how the black families would compare themselves to the white families. The
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loves the head of a dandelion" (Morrison 35). "They are ugly. They are weeds" (Morrison 38). Pecola‚ the main character from the novel The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ compares herself to the dandelions: ugly and unwanted. Pecola is raised with no sense of self-esteem or self-value. She is a black girl with nappy hair and dark eyes. She yearns for blue eyes‚ the mark of beauty in the United States during the 1940s. She lives a life of tumult and ugliness. Pecola portrays happier versions of her life
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quote from the book symbolizes what real "beauty" should look like. White beauty standards take over the lives of black girls and women. Implicit messages that whiteness is superior are everywhere‚ including the white baby doll given to Claudia‚ Shirley Temple‚ the concept that light-skinned Maureen is cuter than the other black girls‚ the concept of white beauty in movies‚ and Pauline Breedloves preference for the little white girl she works for over her daughter. Adult women have learned to hate
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" The Bluest Eye Everywhere we go there are going to be stereotypes that can affect us in our daily lives. Even stereotypes from years ago are still sometimes present today. For years Caucasian blue-eyed dolls was considered the best and most perfect gift for every little girl. For this time period it was considered perfect but many girls did not have the features that the doll had. This in some cases would affect minority’s‚ who would come to think that their features such as dark skin‚ and
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Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: A look at Sexism and Racism Toni Morrison‚ the author of The Bluest Eye‚ centers her novel around two things: beauty and wealth in their relation to race and a brutal rape of a young girl by her father. Morrison explores and exposes these themes in relation to the underlying factors of black society: racism and sexism. Every character has a problem to deal with and it involves racism and/or sexism. Whether the character is the victim or the aggressor‚ they
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Human Eye The eye is a wonderful and the most complex organ of the human body. It is strange to learn that such a small organ has so many parts. The human eye provides us with the ability to visualize the world around us. Light enters the eye through the cornea and excites special neurons on the retina. The brain receives this information and interprets it so that we are aware of what we are seeing. The parts of the eye contribute to its proper function. A. Parts of the Human Eye A1
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Bluest Eyes In The Bluest Eye‚ author Toni Morrison uses a combination of race and beauty as factors that contribute to a culture’s creation of artificial scale of beauty. An establishment of an artificial scale of beauty showing how a race and culture values are easily being disallowed by the ideology of being the perfect beauty of a human being. Morrison uses characters such as Claudia Macteer‚ Pauline Breedlove and include child star Shirley Temple to demonstrate how the hegemonic white culture
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The eye is a rather small part of the body that makes up seventy percent of the humans total sensory ability. That is why we chose to describe the eye. Each part of the eye works together as a whole. Within and outside of the eye there are many working parts functioning around the clock.. The cornea is a very important part of the eye‚ but you can hardly see it because it’s made of clear tissue. Like glass‚ the cornea gives your eye a window in which to view the world. The a cornea is a
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