I chose to write about Tara Donovan because I find her work so beautiful. I was amazed that her pieces look so like natural forms, yet they are made from simple materials, including tape, plastic cups, index cards, and straws. Her piece made clear straws that resembles coral, must have taken a lot of time and patience to complete. Donovan must have a tolerance for tedious work because her sculptures are comprised of small materials that are sculpted to resemble nature. After viewing Tara Donovan’s
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Glare problems and poor night vision often occur together, and they create difficult situations in everyday life. For example, if you’re driving at night and oncoming headlights make you wince, or you can’t see well when walking through a dark room or driving at night, these conditions are the culprit. Because your eye health is so vital, Atlantis Vision Center, based in Indian Harbour Beach, FL, is devoted to treating many different eye conditions like glaucoma and eye injures. We have the following
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A cataract is a “clouding of the lens in the eye that affects vision.” 1 As I observed in my job shadow with Dr. Zeiter, many patients needing cataract surgery were elderly and this observation is supported by fact. Cataracts occur more often as people get older. A shocking statistic holds that by age 80, over a half of all Americans have a cataract or have had cataract surgery.2 Rarely, cataracts occur at birth, or are developed at a younger age by “ physical, drug, or chemical injury.” 3 How do
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Hickman, Richard., and ProQuest. Why We Make Art and Why It Is Taught. Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR: Intellect, 2005. Print. Richard Hickman is a professor of Aesthetic Development at the University of Cambridge. He has an MA, ATD, Certificate of Education, an MA, and a PHD. He has received several rewards for his teaching from different schools. He has taught in many schools and is still a practicing artist. In addition to Why We Make Art and Why It Is Taught, he has written seven other books and
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I drove take a look at eye health. Eye health is as often as possible neglected and seen as an issue once some individual grasps their eye flourishing is not set up. Our eyes are an essential for our body. Our eyes have key parts: cornea, iris, understudy, inspiration driving joining, retina, and photosensitive tissue. The cornea is wear light passes; it refracts the advancing toward light from our eyes. The iris is the bit of that eye that has shading, it manages the measure of light and the level
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Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness around the world and most common in people over the age of 40.1,2 There are more than 22 million Americans that are affected by cataracts.1 Cataracts are a clouding of lens in the eyes that can eventually cause vision loss.2 Cataracts can happen in either or both eyes. The eye’s lenses works just like a camera lens.1 The purpose of the lens is to focus light onto the retina to create clear vision, and to adjusts the eye’s focus.1 The lens consists of water
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For my visual project, I created a collage-like sculpture, named We Do Not Give Up. I assembled items I found specifically in my mother’s room. The three main objects I used were string, a plastic flower, and a pair of mismatched earrings. Although these were my main objects I also used other items such as loose fabric, sewing pins, and images from magazines. I placed all of the materials on top of a wooden canvas. In the center, I created a silhouette of myself with different color string and sewing
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Helen Keller, a woman most famously known for the fact that she was both deaf and blind, did not let her disabilities prevent her from receiving a full education and living her life to its full potential. Although she was quite successful despite the difficulties she faced, others are not as lucky. Many people worldwide suffer from blindness or some sort of vision impairment. Vision loss can affect the way one functions socially and economically, leading to drastic changes in one’s daily life. Blindness
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Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl born on January 7, 1943. Two years after her birth, on August 6, 1945, Little Boy was dropped approximately a mile from her house in Hiroshima, Japan. Despite being sent out of one of the windows of her home by the force of the explosion, Sadako survived the bombing and sustained no apparent injuries or illnesses at the time. Over the next several years she continued to develop like a normal girl, and she even became one of the best runners at her school by age eleven
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Fifth Ave: Fun for All Ages Fifth Ave is a place for people of various ages to all come together in harmonious coexistence. Through this collectiveness of ages on fifth we an example of Jane Jacobs “Street Ballet” 1. This, however, is not the best representation because, while this collection of different people come together within the space of the street there is still not much interaction that happens between them through the passing of strangers. Since it is a street on a college campus it
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