Analogy

Singer’s ethical and economic model of the global village, while sympathetic, is strategically misleading, impractical and short-sighted. In his 1971 article “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”, Peter Singer draws in his reader with a simple analogy. The analogy states that giving money to help prevent starvation in foreign countries is like saving a child drowning in a shallow pool where the only cost is getting one’s clothes muddy. Singer supposes that this is an uncontroversial idea, one that…

The “False Analogy” tactic is used often in politics and culture’s perceptions on issues. “False Analogies” are comparisons made between two things, but the comparisons do not hold up. One example believed by many members of the American society is, “Public schools today lack in discipline and achievement,…

control over those who seem to be weaker than themselves. They do not feel they have a responsibility to anyone besides themselves. Although the wolves are a certain type of person that no one really wants to deal with, we need them to understand the analogy as an expression of the warrior ethos, and why we have the warrior ethos. This meaning the wolves help us to explain how a warrior also has a responsibility to his enemy (the…

the words sound the same. This device is effective because it lists symptoms that are all connected. This ties into the theme by allowing the reader to realize the problems that eating disorder people face. Analogy: the analogy is in the four paragraph third line (thin and attractive).Analogy a similarity between…

The analogy used compares sleep deprivation to drunk driving. The actual quote is spoken by Dr. Owens and states that driving while sleep deprived is similar to driving after consuming three or four beers. Owens sheds light on the fact that it wouldn’t be expected…

Drugs and relates it to the Old Jim Crow. However, in response to her analogy, James Forman, Jr. believes this comparison diminishes the real harm the Old Jim Crow has left in history. In addition, Forman, Jr. argues The New Jim Crow analogy is ignoring violence, obscuring class and diminishing history of The Old Jim Crow and uses convincing evidence to support his point of view. I) James Forman, Jr. believes Alexander’s analogy is mainly focusing On Drug crimes and ignoring violent and other…

to his notion of the soul in the Republic. His conceptions in each are similar on the grounds that he accepts the human soul as tripartite, with respects to the same parts that the soul is made up of. However, they differ in terms of the distinct analogies Plato uses to show how the three parts of the soul function individually, and together, as one unit. Plato asserts that the human soul is composite and tripartite as it consists of rational, spirited and appetitive parts. He explains these…

memory is the manifestation of behavior or the neuroscientist who would claim that memory is a brain state that is synonymous with synaptic activity, Clark and Chalmers acknowledge that memories have actual mental content. Despite this, the notebook analogy fails in many ways. As the psychologist would point out, the notebook does not account for long/short term memories and memory decay. Likewise, the neuroscientist would argue that the notebook may be functionally equivalent to the encoding…

During the cold war, the US intelligence largely recurred to covert actions against the Soviet Union. These actions were carried out within the Soviet Union, in its satellite and allied states, but also in those countries that were at a risk of infiltration of the USSR, through Communist political parties or trade unions, such as the case of Italy and France. Authorized exclusively by the President of the United States (as Kissinger involuntary had revealed), covert actions in the Cold War have…

Sharia, literally “the way,” is the legal code of Islam. Sharia essentially comes from Mohammed’s teachings. Therefore, the development of Sharia began in 610 CE, when Mohammed began prophesizing about Allah. Over the next thousand or so years, as Islam spread throughout the world, Mohammed’s words were written down and interpreted. Over time the teachings and interpretations became official legal documents called the Quran and Sunna, which act similarly to the Torah and Gemara in Jewish…