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Thursday, May 3, 2007
Blindness
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Blindness certainly serves as a powerful and effective theme and plot device. Our senses have a strong impact on our behavior and who we are...
Religion as a Great Idea
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Though there are many different religions and many differences between religions, there are certain common factors that make religion a grea...
Modern Science
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Someone mentioned in class that modern science is a much more global enterprise, and this is partially true. Scientists have come together o...
Natural Selection
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Throughout the science unit, we have discussed in class humans’ role and interaction with nature. However, some things we did not touch on i...
Friday, April 27, 2007
Bioethics
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In class, we talked about the fact that religion and science have often and still do come into conflict. However, that may be stating things...
Thursday, April 26, 2007
The power of a princess
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I know that pretty much everyong is done posting, but this video was on the front page of Yahoo today, and I thought it was very relevant. S...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Epidemic Blindness
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Can you read this? Or is it rather that you choose not to really see it? Many people around the world are facing what I like to call the ...
Beautiful women and Bratz
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Jessica already detailed most of the main ideas in Beauvior’s essay so I would like to focus more on some of the contemporary connections we...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
____ is blind...
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When someone in class brought up the phrase justice is blind, it made me start thinking about how many different sayings that we have that h...
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Blindness symbolism
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Blindness, written by Jose Saramago, has made me think about the abundance of symbolism available with the term “blindness.” It seems to me...
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Blindness=Fear
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Jose Saramago’s novel, Blindness, gives readers a lot to think about and examine in society. The characters loose their sight and must adap...
Revenge: an animalistic action
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Why do humans continually seek revenge? Is it of our human nature, or does it revert back to our animalistic habits? In class some said that...
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Revenge
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“You killed him to avenge us, only a woman could avenge the women, said the girl with the dark glasses, and revenge, being just, is somethin...
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Monday, April 23, 2007
The Doctor's Wife's Tears
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“It is possible that we have come to the end of our blindness, it is possible that we will all recover our eyesight, hearing those words, th...
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Blindness
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I wanted to comment on the quote at the end of the book that we briefly talked about at the end of class today. It was said on the last pag...
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Thoughts on the end of humanity
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During class today, I read the back cover of Blindness and wanted to comment on the end of the summary. It says “Blindness is a powerful por...
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
To Kill?
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This is more of a question really than anything else. But I'm wondering others' thoughts on this. Right after the wife kills the g...
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Blindness thoughts on Humanity
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This last section of Blindness was filled with a bunch of collisions between the two groups of the mini-society of the asylum. First there w...
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The Myth of Equality of Opportunity in America
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There is a myth in the United States that anyone can get ahead if they work hard enough. It is implied that anyone who fails to succeed is ...
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Blindness
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The novel, Blindness, depicts the adventures of people who are struck with sudden blindness. The government insists that the blind be put i...
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Sobe, Jon Stewart, Blindness, and The War on Terror
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I was sitting in my dorm last night (4/18/07) drinking a delicious Sobe: Energy and watching a little show known as The Daily Show with Jon ...
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