William Wong : Sight

Sight is the power or faculty of seeing; visual perception of objects. For humans, the organ of vision is the eye where light rays reflected from objects are passed first to our cornea where it will be slightly refracted into our pupil. Our pupil can then control the amount of light that can pass through to help maintain image quality. Then the light rays are further focused by our lens into the rods at the back of the eye. These rods help process the light rays into electrical impulses to be sent to the brain. This makes the eye with no doubt the most complex sensory organ.

In the modern world of today, sight is perhaps the most important sense of all as I believe it is needed to get on with every day life. However there are people who cannot see because of various reasons such as sickness or genetic defects. Fortunately, most societies with its moral beliefs and values has helped and allowed the blind to contribute to society.

Source: http://www.nfb.org/, Encarta 2005, http://www.wikipedia.org/

WoK2: Language -- Romeo&Juliet

Drawing on your sensitive appreciation of the Act II, scene ii passage viewed in class and handed-out, you are now to post a brief response (250 words) that:

1. retells in one or two sentences what's going on (i.e. setting, characters, action) in terms of the central issue for Juliet (and what Romeo is prepared to do);
2. relates this passage to our introductory class activities/discussion on language; and
3. reflects what it's taught you about 'language' and 'words', in particular.

Make sure to include your first name in your post's title.

Please post your response by 8pm Tuesday night (Nov. 2oth) -- and please comment briefly on some else's post before our next ToK class on Thursday, November 22nd. (Tell them what you liked about their post... and what they got you thinking about).

To view the 1968 Franco Zeferelli version of this famous balcony scene, please go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jas0DT-mtPA