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or a Hat As a child, I watched Alfred Hitchcock Theater, The Twilight Zone and other science fiction or horror shows. Often times the storyline was based on a victim’s mental problems or their skewed perception of the world. Looking back, I remember the fas ....

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.... new technology. The chapters discussing “Losses” and “Transports” sparked my interest the most. The first story that caught my attention was about the sixty year old Madeline J. who was suffers from being “congenitally blind” and has “cerebral palsy”(Sack 59). She was a very bright and intelligent woman that gained all her knowledge and learning from listening to books and from talking to people. She had never learned Braille because her hands were “Useless godforsaken lumps of dough…” Through simple tests, Sacks discovered that her hand recognized light touches, pain, and temperat ....