January 30‚ 2001 In the story of Oedipus the king‚ Sophocles beautifully demonstrates the imagery of sight versus blindness through the use of tragedy and ignorance. Oedipus is ignorant to his own incest‚ therefore causing the first instance of his blindness. The second instance of Oedipus’ blindness is the ignorance of his true parent’s identity. The third instance of Oedipus’ blindness is a literal one‚ in which he physically blinds himself after finding the body of his mother‚ or wife. Sophocles
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Stake for Vagelos as CEO and for Merck as a company in deciding whether to invest in Dr. Campbell’s idea Although Dr. Campbell’s idea of a drug (Ivermectin) that could cure River blindness was a path-breaking opportunity for Merck‚ the company was faced with a number of ethical‚ financial and moral issues that forced its CEO to undergo deep thought and contemplation before investing in this idea. * Feasibility: There were concerns about the use of this drug on humans and the potential adverse
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In the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex‚ blindness is a reoccurring theme which is used in many different ways in the play. Blindness is used quite often and is emphasized with the prophet Tiresias who is literally blind can see the truth unlike Oedipus who is blind to see the truth about his past and the crimes he has committed. It is ironic that the prophets Tiresias who is blind can see better then Oedipus in a metaphorical sense. The prophet Tiresias is physically blind but is able to see much more
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the introduction‚ is to assess change blindness in real life with direct participants rather than through television‚ photographs and computer screens. The experiment tests the hypothesis that people are more likely to detect changes in a scene when directly participating in the experiment. Due to the results of the initial experiment‚ the aim of the study evolved to assess the effect of social groups on change blindness. They hypothesised that change blindness would increase if the participant viewed
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Blindness plays a two-fold part in Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King.” First‚ Sophocles presents blindness as a physical disability affecting the auger Teiresias‚ and later Oedipus; but later‚ blindness comes to mean an inability to see the evil in one’s actions and the consequences that ensue. The irony in this lies in the fact that Oedipus‚ while gifted with sight‚ is blind to himself‚ in contrast to Teiresias‚ blind physically‚ but able to see the evil to which Oedipus
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Furthermore‚ change blindness has been detected in many other studies. In most cases‚ observers do not notice changes that are introduced‚ particularly when these changes occur during disruptions such a blank screen‚ a blink or an eye movement (Simons). Change blindness occurs whenever attention is diverted from the change signal. Additionally‚ changes to objects that are significant to the meaning of the scene or changes to visually distinctive objects are detected more rapidly than other changes
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Simons & Ambinder (2005)‚ is ‘change blindness’‚ i.e.‚ the inability to detect change in a visual stimulus. Jensen et al. (2011) differentiate this from another phenomenon‚ ‘inattentional blindness’‚ in which an unexpected object is not detected within the field of view. Though both phenomena are fundamentally failings of visual awareness‚ each has its own set of cognitive influences and potential implications (Jensen et al.‚ 2011). Moreover‚
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reading or viewing this play‚ it is apparent that there are a few different themes‚ though the one which will be discussed in this essay is the theme of blindness. The theme of blindness is shown through the blind prophet‚ through Oedipus’s blindness in realizing the truth‚ and finally through Oedipus stabbing his own eyes to the point of blindness.
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Introduction and Situational Analysis Merck and River Blindness ethical dilemma is whether to pursue research that may or may affect the profits‚ or to choose a safer choice and go for profit rather than researching the drug. The outcome from researching the drug could possibly lead to healing the deadly and dangerous disease known as River Blindness. This drug is known to kill the parasite that has caused the disease. The problem with this situation was that the consumers of the drug could not pay
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4…………………………………………………………………………………9 Section 1: Introduction and Situational Analysis Onchocerciasis‚ known as river blindness‚ is caused by parasitic worms that live in the small black flies that breed in and about fast-moving rivers in developing countries in the Middle East‚ Africa‚ and Latin America. The disease‚ if untreated causes extreme discomfort and eventually‚ blindness. In 1978‚ the World Health Organization estimated that over 300‚000 people were blind because of the disease and another
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