...“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” –Anonymous. You can do anything with education. This quote ties with the theme because education is great fun and not boring. In this book Norton Juster does a marvelous job of making the Phantom Tollbooth an amazing work of art and creativity. In the Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster brings you to a foreign land where words are sold and bought, sounds are collected and evil demons are stalking in the distance. In the tale Milo has to save to two princesses from the Castle in the Air to bring back Rhyme and Reason to the kingdom. Milo, Tock and the Humbug have to overcome many challenges to reach the kingdom of Digitopolis to ask for the location of the Castle in the...
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...There are six parts to both inner and outer journeys as a hero, and Milo from the Phantom Tollbooth goes through all of these steps in his journey to find who he is. This journey is an outer journey because he physically leaves home and goes to an unknown place. It’s also an inner journey because he mentally leaves not knowing who he is or what he’s doing with his life, but when he returns, he is grateful for his life and realizes where he went wrong previously. Therefore, Milo seems to be a hero. Taking both an inner and outer journey which qualifies as a hero journey seems to make him a hero, but there are other reasons that are shown in the story that make him a hero. In the Phantom Tollbooth, Milo takes both an outer and an inner journey in the story, and there are qualities in the story that make him a hero. Before Milo leaves his home, he doesn’t know exactly what he’s doing with his life. If he’s one place, he wants to be somewhere else, or if he’s doing one thing he always wants to do another thing. When he finds an automobile and a tollbooth at his home, he sets it up because he has never had much adventure in his life. Therefore, he completes the first step of an outer journey: leaving home. Once he leaves home, he arrives at two towns— Digitopolis and Dictionopolis. He meets many confusing people on his way along his journey, and receives help from most of them, which completes step two of an outer journey. In this sense, he is travelling from known to unknown, and...
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...Milo ’s journey is one that I know he is bound to never forget. During this journey he endures much wisdom and knowledge as he visits many locations such as dictionopolis, the forest of sight, valley of sound, and digitopolis, where he is intrigued by the many facts forced upon him. Like Milo I would need to spend more time in dictionopolis which includes the market, the Which, and the gift of words. “We determine if we use a word correctly by the way it is stated to us, or how it is used in a sentence.” Those are the very words I was saying to myself, when I notice I was lost in the Doldrums and could not find my way out. Do I go left, right, up, or down? My god, how did I even get here? I want to go ……And before I could even finish my sentence the not so wicked Which stood before me. The first question I asked was “Where am I?” And she clearly stated “Well, you already know where you are, the question you should be asking is how you got here. I mean that would be the more logical question to ask if you indeed really want to get out of here.” Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mumbled…So what am I doing here in these unpleasant doldrums. She replied saying “This is where you end up when you don’t pay attention and don’t think. I cried out “Don’t Pay Detention…. Lady I pay to get out of Detention every time I get one.” And she quickly responded “My point exactly.” You see I said when you don’t pay ATTENTION!!!! Not pay DETENTION, You ignorant child!!!!! I felt so stupid...
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...“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.” Milo begins his journey in Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth searching for substance in his life. He finds meaning in the same place I have, through experiences that teach him how to better understand the things around him. I want my experiences, like Milo’s, to help me create change in my world. “You mean you have other words? Well, by all means, use them” Like Milo, I was undeservingly given the gift of education. Milo’s reception of an anonymous package that allows him to find excitement in the world seems random and mysterious. Although not tangibly wrapped like Milo’s tollbooth, my gift came from a similarly chance source. Given that I happened to be born in a suburb of Ohio, availability of public school seemed tantamount to my existence; I did nothing to earn access to the extraordinary nature of knowledge. Milo also accesses nature when he orders a “light meal” and is forced to “eat his words.” He receives a literal beam of light on a platter, thus discovering the intricacy of language and the importance of accuracy. I, like Milo, have developed...
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...Heidi was already in the commons when I arrived at 1pm and Abby arrived minutes later. We have not heard from Grace despite sending emails and text messages for the past week and a half. First thing we discussed was a brief synopsis of our books and how we felt our characters navigated our Erikson phase. Abby shared first about “The Phantom Tollbooth”, then Heidi over her novel “Wing Shooter”, and last I shared “Peace Like a River”. We each concluded that our characters had successfully managed to overcome their phase. After we each gave a thorough synopsis, we then put our heads together to decide how to organize our posters and workloads. We decided to organize the first board as a brief synopsis of our books and an identification/ description...
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...Aaron Sura June 2, 2014 Wiley plus exercise Question 1. (a). $181,500 (b). $41,200 (c). 38,000 (d). 19,200 (e). 9,500 (f). 63,400 Question 3. In its first month of operation, Maze Company purchased 100 units of inventory for $6, then 200 units for $7, and finally 150 units for $8. At the end of the month, 180 units remained. Compute the amount of phantom profit that would result if the company used FIFO rather than LIFO. The company uses the periodic method. FIFO: $1,410 150 units multiplied by $8 equals $1,200 30 units multiplied by $7 equals $210 $1,200 plus $210 equals $1,410 LIFO: $1,160 100 units multiplied by $6 equals $600 80 units multiplied by $7 equals $560 $600 plus $560 equals to $1,160 Therefore, the phantom profit would be $250 if the company were to use the FIFO rather than LIFO. Question 4. Compute the lower of cost or market valuation for O'Connor's inventory. 12,500(camera)+9,000(camcorders)+12,800(DVD’s)= $34,300 Question 5. Establishment of responsibilities: Only cashiers may operate registers. Segregation of duties: The duties of receiving cash, recording cash, and having custody of cash are assigned to different individuals. Independent and internal verifications: Daily cash counts are made by cashier department supervisors. Human resource control: All cashiers are bonded Physical controls: All over-the-counter receipts are registers. Question 6. Segregation of duties: 3 Establishment of responsibilities:...
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...However eerie and unpleasant Scrooge's midnight adventures have been, they are all fun and games until the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows up. This thing isn't even called a ghost any more—Dickens changes the terminology and starts referring to this super menacing cloaked figure as a "phantom." The text doesn't really explain this word change, but we're guessing it has something to do with the fact that the other two Christmas ghosts were a lot more human in their behaviour than this mutely pointing dude. The phantom's exit is a little more predictable than that of the other two ghosts. Sure, it's stressful when the thing disappears without telling Scrooge whether he'll get a do-over, but, hey, at least it's not birthing claw-footed babies in front him. It's the little things. Here is how the good-bye goes down: "Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only? […] Why show me this, if I am past all hope! […] Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life!" […] In his agony, [Scrooge] caught the spectral hand. It sought to free itself, but he was strong in his entreaty, and detained it. The Spirit, stronger yet, repulsed him. Holding up his hands in a last prayer to have his fate reversed, he saw an alteration in the Phantom's hood and dress. It shrunk, collapsed, and dwindled down into a bedpost. (4.151-166) Scrooge has gone from fighting the ghosts off to trying desperately to hold...
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...Merleau-Ponty analyzes the phantom limb experience using a framework that consists of physiological and psychological forces. Physiological facts, which he defines as those in space, and psychological facts cannot account for the phenomenon of phantom limbs on their own, instead the two must be fused together and work with other theories in order to formulate the true experience of the phantom limb. When diving into the exploration of the phantom limb experience, Merleau-Ponty discovers one of the most vital parts of non-personal, or pre- personal dimensions, of our existence. He starts his paper of by discussing how after an amputation, the patient will continue to experience the missing limb as if it were still a part of...
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...Phantom limbs are a phenomenon that those with missing limbs, either amputated or born without, experience. Phantom limbs can make the person with the missing limb feel as if there are movements, paralysis, or pain where the limb use to be or should be. The intended purpose of the experiments that were done is to explain previously unexplored subjects pertaining to the plasticity of the normal human brain. Researchers were interested in a variety of patients, focusing a lot of their interest in patients who faced paralysis in their phantom limb – being unable to move it prior to loosing the limb or because of limb loss. Some patients experienced involuntary movements in their phantom limb, the most common being the clenching spasm. The clenching...
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...Phantom Limb and the Brain Fatima Gutierrez Edward Rodriguez Santa Monica Community school Abstract Phantom limb is an effect in the brain that translates to the body after am amputation of a limb with interior or exterior, this phenomenon has been shown to present long term or temporary. When phantom limb occurs the part of the brain that play. Vital role is the parietal lobe and the central nervous system, sensory neurons sending messages to the central nervous system which gives sensations to the missing limb. There are three characteristics in phantom limb and there are currently three different types of treatments to reduce pain. Phantom limb is reaction to the rewiring of the brain due to an adulation of limb and reaction of the central nervous system. There are currently three types of treatment; immerse virtual reality, prosthetic usage and mirror box to help reduce or remove phantom limb. Introduction Phantom limb is a temporary or long term effect on the brain and body that occurs only post amputation of a limb for an intermittent period of time. Phantom brain can be categorized as a mental disorder, and is assumed to originate from the stem of the region of amputation. There are three types of characteristic in the phantom complex. The first is phantom limb pain (PLP) which emphasis on a painful sensation in the spatial area of the missing limb. Phantom limb sensation(PLS) which is anytype of sensation in relation to the absent limb without any pain. Lastly is...
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...After completing The Phantom of the Opera, I remained stunned! The novel was absolutely phenomenal! I fell in love with every single aspect of the story; the characters, the plot, the setting, the themes, the figurative language. Everything, all of it was (as I will say frequently) beyond compare. Now getting on to the story itself… Like I mentioned in my first reflection my predictions were wrong and as I read on I learned what was wrong with them. For example, I predicted a forbidden love although with whom it would be with, there was in fact, a forbidden love. The forbidden love was between the rich, aristocrat, Raoul, and the poor, peasant girl, Christine Daaé who was kidnapped by the phantom, Erik. The story basically goes like so: Erik...
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...“So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour a moment. We are utterly open with no one in the end- not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend.” Brian Doyle is widely recognized as a remarkable storyteller that depicts life lessons for young people. In Joyas Valadores, Doyle introduces us many aspects of writing. He uses a variety of details that help us imagine and feel real life situations. Joyas Valadores is a heartfelt short essay that has creative imagery, a variety of metaphors, and a powerful way of using repetition. Throughout Joyas Valadores, a great amount of imagery is used. When Doyle is describing the hummingbird in his story, he tells us to take a moment to consider the hummingbirds that did not open their eyes today. He goes on and says, “Each the most amazing thing you have ever seen, each thunderous wild heart the size of an infant’s fingernail, each mad heart silent, a brilliant music stilled.” Can you imagine the size of an infant’s fingernail? In reality, when we imagine the infant’s fingernail we get amazed by how small the hummingbird’s heart is compared to a human’s heart. Another way Doyle uses imagery in Joyas Valadores is in the last paragraph, “ You can brick up your heart... and down comes in an instant, felled by a woman’s second glace… a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother’s papery ancient hand in the thicket of your hair…” A...
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...A phantom limb is when a body part is amputated, but the brain still gives the person the feeling that it is still there. Most people who experience this have phantom limb pain. Phantom limb pain is pain that is felt in the amputated limb even though it is not physically present. This mind-boggling phenomenon is called phantom limb syndrome and most amputees experience it. Phantom limb syndrome was first discovered in 1500’s by a French military surgeon named Amboise Pare. He noticed that the amputee soldiers complained of pain or sensations in the limb that was no longer there. We now know that “virtually all amputees experience phantom sensations, painful or not, after limb amputation. Non‐painful phantom sensations rarely pose a clinical problem. However, in some amputees, the phantom becomes the site of severe pain, which may be exceedingly difficult to treat” (Br. J. Anaesth). How can a medical...
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...Well, as Chris pointed out, I study the human brain, the functions and structure of the human brain. And I just want you to think for a minute about what this entails. Here is this mass of jelly, three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity. And this peculiar recursive quality that we call self-awareness, which I think is the holy grail of neuroscience, of neurology, and hopefully, someday, we'll understand how that happens. 0:51OK, so how do you study this mysterious organ? I mean, you have 100 billion nerve cells, little wisps of protoplasm, interacting with each other, and from this activity emerges the whole spectrum of abilitiesthat we call human nature and human consciousness. How does this happen? Well, there are many ways of approaching the functions of the human brain. One approach, the one we use mainly, is to look at patients with sustained damage to a small region of the brain, where there's been a genetic change in a small region of the brain. What then happens is not an across-the-board reduction in all your mental capacities, a sort of blunting of your cognitive ability. What you get is a highly selective loss of one function, with other functions being preserved intact, and this gives you some confidence in assertingthat that part of the brain is somehow involved in mediating...
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...is phantom limb syndrome? The phantom limb syndrome is the perception of sensations in a limb or limbs that no longer exist. Phantom limb syndrome occurs commonly in amputees; about 60 to 80 percent of individuals who have undergone amputations have reported this sensation. There are evidences showing that patients have higher likelihood of experiencing the syndrome when undergoes traumatic loss, or there has been pre-existing painful conditions in the limb. Phantom sensation can be observed in those who are born without limbs and in those who are paralyzed as well. In some cases, patient will suffer in severe, debilitating chronic pain. Normally, the pain attack will ameliorated with time. What are the symptoms of phantom limb syndrome?...
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