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Justin Bieber=Power Drill to Your Head

a: Justin Bieber ~
b: Taking a Power Drill to Your Head

What: Dr. Melanie Canard, author of the study "Listening to Justin Bieber is Like Taking a Power Drill to Your Head", had this to say about the study."

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Writer: Dr_Zinn
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Date: Sep 29 2011 12:24 PM



a: Henry ford ~
b: James Madison

What: "Henry Ford is like James Maddison because as Henry Ford made one of the first cars as James Maddison was the primary creator to the first Constitution." This page is a graphic collection of similes associating the auto industry with the constitution. This gets an A grade for utility, B- for functionality.

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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Apr 25 2012 10:42 AM


Good Grief Grammar!

a: English sentence ~
b: the body of a dog

What: "The dominant metaphor of the book is that the English sentence is like the body of a dog: the head (subject) and the body (predicate) of the dog are essential while the modifiers (tail) are optional.

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Writer: Dr. Christine Robinson
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Date: Oct 16 2013 10:54 AM



a: Dopamine receptor ~
b: a fishing pole

What:

"The dopamine receptor, located on the cell surface, is like a fishing pole that catches dopamine."


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Writer: Dr Amy
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Date: Feb 12 2015 1:15 PM



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