Random Analogies
Learning Greek As Washing An Elephant
a: Greek ~
b: washing an Elephant
What: "Take one step at a time, do not move to the next lesson until you are certain that you have mastered all of the previous ones, and remember that taking Greek is like washing an Elephant: it can only be done one spot at a time, but eventually you will finish the whole thing!"
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Writer: Jim West, ThD.
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Date: Dec 13 2011 11:56 AM
# 1567 Critique Analogy
a: same-sex marriage ~
b: calling a tail a leg
What:
"So said Abraham Lincoln, thus showing a greater grasp of the reality of things than many in our culture today, including not a few Harvard law school graduates and possibly even a majority of the Supreme Court should they decide to overturn DOMA and California's Proposition 8 and thus effectively impose "same-sex marriage" on the nation."
A very reasoned opinion on this issue.
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Writer: Most Rev. Thomas G. Wenski
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Date: Mar 2 2014 12:50 PM
# 5164 Critique Analogy
a: Methylation ~
b: a series of paperclips
What: "If the genome is like a genetic cookbook filled with recipes for making all of the cells in a plant or animal, the process known as methylation is like a series of paperclips pinning certain pages together to render those recipes unreadable.Methylation tailors gene expression, allowing every cell in the organism to carry all the recipes, but permitting access only to the instructions each specific cell type needs."
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Writer: Mary Gehring
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Date: Aug 19 2014 4:50 PM
# 6123 Critique Analogy
