Blindness: What Do People Think

            Blindness; it seems to be a topic that is rarely understood. I became curious as to how much those around me knew about the condition that I and the others faced. Thus, I surveyed several individuals about the subject. However, since the topic of blindness is too broad, I decided that the best course of action would be to restrict my survey to six basic questions. Tall together, I believe that these questions can further my paper in the long run.

            The survey consisted of fifty seven people wandering about on the Dixie College campus. I thought I knew what their responses to my questions would be, but I was proven surprised on more than one account. For instance, when asked if they believed the blind to be independent, I found that 75.4% believed that blind individuals were independent. Now, since this is such a small survey, one would be hard pressed to come to an accurate conclusion. That, and college campuses are a melting pot of people from multiple locations. Nevertheless, I can use these results to show that independence of the blind is something to be maintained, which brings up the topic of properly training the blind.

The results concerning this particular topic didn’t surprise me in any way other than how many people had heard of a blind training center before. Even though the percentage was greater than I’d anticipated, the fact that 68.4% of those surveyed hadn’t ever heard of a blind training center, and even fewer knew their purpose. I can use this data to push the point that awareness of blind centers and what they can do needs to be made more widely known.

            However, it’s going to take more than just one person’s voice to make the matter heard. That’s why I got the public’s opinion on the subject. All total, 94.7% agreed that knowledge of centers for the blind should be made more commonly known. This fact brought me quite the surprise when I followed it up with whether or not people thought that having blind individuals go through these centers would make them more capable of living productive lives in society. 98.2% of individuals thought that the blind could become an effective part of society if given the specialized training in a blindness center. I can use this particular piece of information rather well to further my cause. The idea that it isn’t just the blind that want the blind to succeed in life helps to bring my argument into a better position on the battlefield.

Lawyers

             I recently gained the privilege of interviewing my uncle Tut about what a lawyer does. For most of my life, I thought lawyers did nothing but yell at each other in a court room and try to take advantage of the other party. But now that I’ve talked with my uncle, I know that the stereotypical lawyer makes up a small portion of their total population.

              Since my uncle Tut lives in Orlando Florida, I had to speak with him over the phone. Noise was rampant throughout my house, so I went to my room and closed the door. Doing this didn’t stop the noise from penetrating my line of hearing, but having the door shut did allow me to hear my uncle’s words. Turns out, uncle Tut is the type of lawyer that helps legal transactions move along smoothly. Like other lawyers, they attend law school for three years after obtaining their Bachelor’s degree. However, a lawyer must be licensed before legally entering their practice.

              My uncle’s insights into the life of a lawyer provided me with a small glimpse into a world that I would have otherwise remained ignorant towards. There was ring my argument out more fully in my up coming research paper. one thing however, that made me decide never to become a lawyer. I never want to spend forty to fifty hours a week at work. However, having my uncle dispel the shadow of distrust surrounding lawyers from my mind, uncle Tut has givwn me a way to further my argument in my argument in my up coming research paper.

              I plan to use what I’ve learned to deconstruct several of the misconceptions about blind individuals, and to show how this reality is possible. Gibing an example that everyone can identify with will allow me to draw my readers’ attention to an argument that would normally be brushed off as a topic that only concerns those it generally brings to mind.