Random Analogies
Plastic Surgery Is Like ...
a: Plastic surgery ~
b: hurting your parent's feelings
What: "Just a recommendation. But you know, if you also love your own parents, and you don't want to hurt them, then don't get plastic surgery. Plastic surgery is like hurting your parent's feelings after what they have given you at birth. :("
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Writer: Lixa
LCC: R
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Date: Aug 23 2011 10:15 AM
# 1210 Critique Analogy
The Federal Tick?
a: The federal bureaucracy ~
b: a huge, blood engorged tick
What: "The Federal bureaucracy is like a huge, blood engorged tick, with its head buried deep into American society, sucking up gross amounts of tax dollars while growing ever bigger and stifling American life. One after another, Presidents have found it impossible to change the government bureaucracy, or reduce its size. "
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Writer: Peter Marshall
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Date: Sep 29 2011 11:34 AM
# 1368 Critique Analogy
a: vaccine ~
b: a disease
What:
"A vaccine is like a disease but a like a half active/weak one, which doctors inject into to you. because its weak, the body can overpower it and you can be cured. what this does is prepares the body for when the real disease does come so it knows what to do and get rid of the disease faster and be more prepared for it. "
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: May 13 2014 6:36 PM
# 5686 Critique Analogy
a: membrane protein ~
b: trying to wash greasy dishes
What:
"Proteins like CcsBA that are embedded in the cell membrane are difficult to work with, Kranz explains. The membrane is a lipid, or fat, so trying to extract a membrane protein is like trying to wash greasy dishes in cold water. Frawley had to use detergents to separate the protein, he says, and even then it took her a year or two to purify enough protein to work with. "
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Writer: professor Robert Kranz
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Date: Oct 20 2014 5:36 PM
# 6532 Critique Analogy
