Essays Tagged: "eyesight"

Pictures by Jørgen Schytte & Lilian Bolwinkel

icture and you will see the totally opposite. Here the photo was taken from beneath the gentleman's eyesight so that he appears to be looking down to the camera. Also the man to the left was photograp ...

(3 pages) 55 0 3.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Johann Sebastian Bach

Fairly good all his life(I couldn't find any thing that talked about his health) Eyesight deteriorated in the 1740's Went completely bind in 1750 Die ...

(2 pages) 64 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Individual Rights vs. State's Rights

o investigate the health of the Planck children. In a preliminary check by the state of Indiana for eyesight, Lance Planck was found not to be in need of any service. Despite this finding, the Madison ...

(4 pages) 84 0 3.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

The car crash! This is a short story that i wrote for my GCSE this particular one got graded a B

rhythm, sounded amplified against the otherwise still silence. Trying to look round the room Joni's eyesight, which was not yet adjusted to the bright light, saw that her surroundings consisted of mai ...

(4 pages) 65 0 3.8 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Trench Warfare

gas attack on October 27, 1914 at Ypres. The gas attack consisted of chlorine, which would destroy eyesight, and make the victim couch out its lungs, unless the chlorine hits the brain first. The Ger ...

(1 pages) 46 2 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

personal interest topic: hypertension

not cause symptoms unless it is severely high. High blood pressure can damage your arteries, heart, eyesight, and kidneys (www.webmd.com).I have chosen hypertension as my personal interest topic becau ...

(1 pages) 108 3 3.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

"The Wild Duck" By Henrik Ibsen.

, a rich man, with Old Ekdal, a poor helpless man. Ibsen connects the colour green with the loss of eyesight of Old Werle. A possible affair between Old Werle and Gina, Hedvig's mother, may suggest th ... in the play Werle offers Gregers a partnership in his firm. He tells his son that he is losing his eyesight and needs his help in the business. The poor eyesight is an important point for two reasons ...

(3 pages) 33 0 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Leadership and its role in Project Managment.

picture of what they see their group becoming or doing in the future. There is a difference between eyesight and vision. Vision is the ability to get meaning from eyesight. Effective leaders have visi ...

(4 pages) 492 0 4.3 Aug/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication

Impacts of New Technology.

of research. It has been known that the subtle effect of light and colors with the human result in eyesight and that sound wave is energy transformed by the ear so we can hear. Tests have been done b ...

(3 pages) 239 0 4.6 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

The Internal Conflict.

s useless. The same uselessness of a burnt-out lightis what Milton conveys himself as being without eyesight. In lines 2,3 Milton uses theword talent to subtly hint at the parable described in the bib ...

(3 pages) 36 0 3.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Does trying to read in the dark harm your eyes? The truth revealed along with a personal account.

k harm my eyes?I've often been told, though I didn't listen, that reading in the dark can hurt your eyesight. Every time I was caught reading without proper light I would be lectured of how I was dama ... ed and I thought they were going to pound out of their sockets. Reading in the dark does not affect eyesight but it does have side effects. As a second grader who delighted in reading my judgment of t ...

(2 pages) 33 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Oedipus the King- Metaphors

Tiresias is physically blind, he sees the truth from the beginning, while Oedipus, who has physical eyesight, is blind to his fate."«"Oh, look upon the city, see the storm that batters down this ...

(1 pages) 86 0 4.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

A concept paper on body peiercing. Includes the history, risks, common piercing areas, and comments on why people choose to get body piercings

ons from getting inside the body. Sailors also had earrings because they believed it improves their eyesight. In some societies piercing the ears was a puberty ritual. Each parent would pierce one ear ...

(4 pages) 85 1 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

My Opinion on the Use of Atomic Weapons on Japan

ople who were near the blast acquired fatal burns. Many others attained severe burns and lost their eyesight due to the blinding light from the explosion.Innocent people's lives were turned upside ...

(3 pages) 33 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Analysis of "An Occurrence at Owl Creeek Bidge"

has many meanings and can relate to the story in different ways. Owl may represent the man's unreal eyesight in his last moments. It described through the story that he saw in great detail, just as an ...

(3 pages) 70 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Human Vision Defects,What is 20/20 Vision?

rt. This is usually 20 feet. The bottom number indicates the distance at which a person with normal eyesight could correctly read the line with the smallest letters. Normal vision is considered 20/20. ... ronic (primary open-angle) glaucoma is the commonest type, and dangerously it has no symptoms until eyesight is lost at a later stage. Damage progresses very slowly and destroys vision gradually, star ...

(3 pages) 74 3 4.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Sensory Adaptation Topic: Describe the phenomenon of sensory adaptation and show how it focuses our attention on changing stimulation.

cold. In a few minutes, the water becomes nice and you forget about the temperature altogether.For eyesight, however, sensory adaptation is different. Why is it that after staring at something for a ...

(1 pages) 40 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Triumps

a girl, we were on the same track team. She was deaf in one ear but that couldn't have affected her eyesight. She always harassed the other kids in the class for example: a girl walked in with a red s ...

(2 pages) 14 0 0.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Yearbook

a picture of an old man with a benevolent smile caught my eyes. Daydreaming about the incident, my eyesight became hazy, and I felt my hands becoming swollen, which always refreshes my memory of his ...

(3 pages) 13 0 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

How to be a successfull businessman

are birds that can often be found on very highaltitudes. There they soar and with their very sharp eyesightthey have a clear view on the world below them and especiallyon the prey they want to catch; ... ut they knowprecisely how to catch this one fish. Their flying skills, theirstrong talons and their eyesight are extremely well developedand fit for the job. Almost every attempt to catch a prey issuc ...

(3 pages) 26 1 3.8 Apr/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers