met·a·phor
[met-uh-fawr, -fer]
–noun
1. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our god.” Compare mixed metaphor, simile ( def. 1 ) .
2. something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol
"Of course he does.....YOU go-a-stick'n-em in the BUTT!"
I cringe every time a see a college age girl with a brand new pit bull puppy; this one growling ever since I've entered the exam room.
It will end,
sooner or later,
one's gotta go,
sorry to say.
It will end,
sooner or later,
last one's left,
sorry to say.
I have nothing against pit bulls, except in the hands of stupid people. Unfortunately, it's the breed that gets stuck with a reputation disproportionate to it's temperament.
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Connections are being drawn between animal abuse
and
other forms of violence animal abuse.
On a late May afternoon last year in southwest Baltimore, a 2-year-old female pit bull terrier was doused in gasoline and set alight. A young city policewoman on her regular patrol of the neighborhood of boarded-up row houses and redbrick housing developments turned her squad car onto the 1600 block of Presbury Street and saw a cloud of black smoke rising from the burning dog. She hopped out, ran past idle onlookers and managed to put out the flames with her sweater. The dog, subsequently named Phoenix, survived for four days with burns over 95 percent of her body, but soon began to succumb to kidney failure and had to be euthanized.
Wasn't too happy hearing they tried to save this dog. Not because it was a pit bull.
Because there were so many healthy one being euthanized!
The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome
“With traditional law enforcement,” Sgt. David Hunt, a dog-fighting expert with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in Columbus, Ohio, told me, “the attitude has been that we have enough stuff on our plate, let the others worry about Fluffy and Muffy. But I’m starting to see a shift in that mentality now.” Hunt has traveled to 24 states around the country in order to teach law-enforcement personnel about the dog-fighting underworld, often stressing the link between activities like dog fighting and domestic violence. “You have to sell it to them in such a way that it’s not a Fluffy-Muffy issue,” he said of teaching police officers about animal-abuse issues. “It’s part of a larger nexus of crimes and the psyche behind them.”
par·al·lel·ism
(pār'ə-lě-lĭz'əm)
n.
1.The quality or condition of being parallel; a parallel relationship.
2.Likeness, correspondence, or similarity in aspect, course, or tendency.
3.Grammar The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases.
4.Philosophy The doctrine that to every mental change there corresponds a concomitant but causally unconnected physical alteration.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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