Phantom

The Lubbock Moonlight Musicals in partnership with Texas Tech’s School of Music definitely did not disappoint with their amazing performance of Phantom of the Opera. This is one of the most well know and classical musicals but doesn’t fit into any specific category. It is not exactly classic musical theatre due to the music being for classically trained singers, but it is not exactly an opera either because it has dialogue while an opera is traditionally completely sung. This makes for a…

body is a phantom, one that your brain has temporarily constructed purely for convenience.(Ramachandran) The brain. A three pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of never ending space. This book gives an interesting look at how the brain works and the beliefs of people who had damage to their brains, or who had their brains remapped due to amputations. Ramachandran is a professor at the University of California. The book “Phantoms in…

The Phantom Tollbooth ” But what a pleasure to lead my violins in a serenade of spring green or hear my trumpets blare out the blue sea and then watch the oboes tint it all in warm yellow sunshine.” Pg. 125. In the book The Phantom Tollbooth, a young boy named Milo found himself in a strange and bewildering land. After a time, he gained friends and accepted an important task that turned into a long journey. Along the way he and his friends, Tock and Humbug, came across a place called the forest…

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons written by Sam Kean is a collection of stories throughout history that depicts the discovery, symptoms, and shifts in the fundamental understanding of the brain and brain injuries. Within the pages of this book, Kean does a masterful job explaining the intricacies of the brain, providing captivating stories to stimulate the reader, all while encapsulating valuable information on the brain. The book is written from a scientific perspective, invoking brain…

Ramachandran begins his book with snippets of peculiar medical cases. The stories are fascinating because the brain is fragile, yet strong; damage to a particular part of the brain can lead to the expression of an odd behavior, yet the person can remain rational. Ramachandran (1998) expresses that these type of cases usually do not get much attention from doctors (i.e., neurologists and psychiatrists) and there has not been much investigation about the causes of their behaviors (p. 2). However,…

Not so poor Erik “With that sob attached to the man I suspected when saying goodbye to him. Poor Erik! Poor Erik!” (Leroux 150) The Phantom of the Opera, a horror novel written by Gaston Leroux explores a forbidden love triangle between a young Swedish opera singer, a French viscount, and a mysterious man known only as “the opera ghost.” The opera ghost, whose name is later reveled to be Erik, is both the protagonist and antagonist of the book. He is reviled among normal society, even though…

The Phantom of Love Love, an endless phenomenon that lasts even after death, entwines itself into a being at the first sign of life. Whitman and Dickinson, two famous poets of the 19th century, have similar views on the love of a child to its mother, the love of a friend, and the love of a spouse always being omnipresent and blossoming within oneself. These famous poets portray the common ideal of omnipresent love through the works labeled as “Love is anterior to life” and “As if a Phantom…

People may have experiences the feeling of vibration when the phone was not vibrating. According to an article, “Amazing Facts About Phone Addiction” by Jessica Jayden in 2015, this phenomenon is called phantom vibration syndrome. A phantom vibration is one of withdrawal symptoms that people, who are addicted in smartphones, practice while they are not using smartphones. The brain gives people an illusion of receiving notification from their phones. Separation from smartphones…

The tone in the novel The Phantom Tollbooth is full of fun and great spirit. Even though there are some moments where it could be gloomy or sad, such as Tock’s background story or when they stumbled across with the “Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs”. The main tone of the novel is fun and exciting, like when Milo directed the orchestra the author describes the colors and tone exciting: “Milo was overjoyed because they were all playing for him, and just the way they…

defined as the “wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain” (Definition of Fraud in English by Oxford Dictionaries). There can be many things that can indicate or give a trigger to fraud some examples of fraud are, Phantom Billing which is billing for services that were never performed to that patient Inflated Hospital Bills: overcharging for procedures and /or equipment used on that patient. Service Unbundling or Fragmentation: billing for the procedures…