Random Analogies
Cognitive Puritans
a: Academic ~
b: cognitive puritan
What: Who is a cognitive puritan? This is a person who allows only a certain type of conversation or thinking. Most prevalent amount computer and science types working with machines and things and not enough contact with human beings. This is attitude is very common in Universities. The key adjectives are literal and logical. These are the mental attributes that are necessary for computer programing and science.
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Writer: ????
LCC: L
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Mar 20 2011 2:55 AM
# 831 Critique Analogy
House Elf Is Like An Indentured Servant
a: A house elf ~
b: an indentured servant
What: "In a lot of ways, a house elf is like an indentured servant. They serve the person that owns them until they are given their freedom. Indentured servants usually worked for a set amount of time but a house elf only had one way to become free". The rest is in the linked article....
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Writer: Not Stated
LCC: JX
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Date: Aug 2 2011 12:38 PM
# 939 Critique Analogy
a: Diseased nerves ~
b: rusty wiring
What:
"Diseased nerves are like "rusty wiring" that impairs the impulse or message to the skin, muscles, and organs that they ordinarily regulate."
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Writer: C. Robert Adams, M.D
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Date: Feb 28 2014 4:12 PM
# 5154 Critique Analogy
a: Archaeology ~
b: the gateway drug
What:
"Archaeology is a science, people forget that," said Erin Goslin with the BLM Vernal Field Office in Utah. "That whole STEM education (science, technology, engineering, math) that's becoming more popular... Archaeology is like the gateway drug. Most kids get into Indians, Egypt, dinosaurs at some point. That's the initiation and tumbles them down a path."
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Writer: Lauren Blair
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Date: May 23 2015 11:52 AM
# 7677 Critique Analogy
