On the small screen Star Trek franchise, he appeared as an alien captain who communicates in metaphor in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Darmok ".

In the popular 1863 story " The Children of the Public ", Edward Everett Hale used the term pork barrel as a homely metaphor for any form of public spending to the citizenry .< ref > The story first appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Jan. 24 and Jan. 31, 1863.

By the 18th century, usury was more often treated as a metaphor than a crime in itself, so Jeremy Bentham's Defense of Usury was not as shocking as it would have appeared two centuries earlier.

* It has appeared in the musical version of Peter Pan with Mary Martin and is danced by Captain Hook and his band of pirates, illustrating the above mentioned occasional association with swordfights vis à vis the metaphor of pirates.

The Rutans also appeared in the BBV audio play In 2 Minds, which used the idea of Rutans detached from the Host as a metaphor for the treatment of Gulf War Syndrome sufferers by the UK and US military.

* The metaphor appeared in the lyrics of Green Day's song Good Riddance ( Time of Your Life ).

Aside from Star Wars fiction and merchandising, the creature has appeared in critiques of the Star Wars films as a sexual metaphor.

It was both a metaphor ( the place appeared to the painters to resemble a lunatic asylum ), and simultaneously a jest at the expense of Fletcher of Madeley ( 1729 – 1785 ) a then famous Methodist preacher in whose parish the ironworks were located.

Brand argues that " hese panoramic spaces, containing the entire multiplicity of the world and presenting it as a spectacle to be consumed, appeared to spectatorial narrators to be the most representative spaces in their respective cities, the one true metaphor for the whole.

The number of satellites projected in the early stages of planning was 77, the atomic number of iridium, evoking the metaphor of 77 electrons orbiting the nucleus.

There are, however, many historians such as Martin Broszat and Hans Mommsen who dismiss this " intentionalist " approach, and argue that the concept was actually an " ideological metaphor " in the early days of Nazism.

In the book, the room is itself significant, and is strongly emphasised early in the story ; Mrs Thompson's room is noted as being at " the top " of Warley geographically, and higher up socially than he has previously experienced, and serves as a metaphor for Lampton's ambition to rise in the world.

The term broadcast was first adopted by early radio engineers from the Midwestern United States, treating broadcast sowing as a metaphor for the dispersal inherent in omnidirectional radio signals. Broadcasting is a very large and significant segment of the mass media.

The greeting card metaphor was employed early in the life of the World Wide Web.

From the early 1960s onwards, Kapuściński published books of increasing literary craftsmanship characterized by sophisticated narrative technique, psychological portraits of characters, a wealth of stylization and metaphor and unusual imagery that serves as means of interpreting the perceived world.

Spiegelman took advantage of the way Nazi propaganda films had depicted Jews as rats and vermin, though he first was struck by the metaphor after attending a presentation by Ken Jacobs in which films of minstrel shows were shown alongside early American animated films, abundant with racial caricatures.

His Australian novels are important for their pioneering use of the desert as a metaphor for the Jungian subconscious, and prefigured aspects of the works of such Australian writers as Katharine Susannah Prichard, Patrick White and Randolph Stow, particularly in their early sympathy with Aboriginal and environmental interpretations of the landscape.

It is easy to envision the movie as a not-so-subtle metaphor for Allen's real-life struggles during the 1990s to regain ( or retain ) his early momentum in the film-making milieu.

" Clearly, as early as the 1960s, Cohen had expressed the metaphor that led to formalization of agenda-setting by McCombs and Shaw.

Satan is also used as a metaphor for the ideas connected with the early Christian view of Satan or the serpent: wise, defiant, questioning, and free-thinking.

The song is often interpreted as a metaphor for the English, Scots-Irish and general British experience in western early and colonial America, with nods to their earlier experiences on the margins of Ireland, Scotland, and the Borders.

" Draper's presentation was an early example of applying a Darwinian metaphor of adaptation and environment to social and political studies, but was thought to be long and boring.

Since the early 1990s, Horizon has developed a distinctive narrative form, typically employing an underlying " detective " metaphor, to relate scientific issues and discoveries to the lives of its viewers.

The evolutionary process early became and always remained the central metaphor of Pratt's work.

One of the more revolutionary aspects of Ezra ’ s poetry that have been debated over is his definition of poetry as metaphor and how it fuses Aristotle ’ s early ideas.

Probably the dominant figure in the early years of the race was Seabiscuit, as the race proved to be a metaphor for his career.

Simply put, he considered riding in a train as an internal metaphor for early sexual excitement found in movement, such as a child swinging on a playground swing.

The early SK8 graphics system used a metaphor slightly extending HyperCard ( e. g., cards but with multiple layers instead of single fixed backgrounds ).

The portrayal of Uchida in the film might be interpreted as a metaphor for Japan of the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa periods, trying to cope with the fast changing world of the later Shōwa period.

One of the earlier uses of the concept of “ black ” as a metaphor for race was first used at the end of the 17th century when a French doctor named François Bernier ( 1625 – 1688 ), an early proponent of scientific racism, divided up humanity based on facial appearance and body type.

Grosseteste reflected a period of transition between the Platonism of early medieval learning and the new Aristotelianism, hence he tended to apply mathematics and the Platonic metaphor of light in many of his writings.

In chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.

A good metaphor for this is searching for a book in a library without the reference number, title, author or even subject.

Richard M. Steers and Luciara Nardon in their book about global economy use the " two cows " metaphor to illustrate the concept of cultural differences.

The biblical book Song of Solomon is considered a romantically phrased metaphor of love between God and his people, but in its plain reading, reads like a love song.

Natural capital is described in the book Natural Capitalism as a metaphor for the mineral, plant, and animal formations of the Earth's biosphere when viewed as a means of production of oxygen, water filter, erosion preventer, or provider of other ecosystem services.

The term and metaphor were first used by E. F. Schumacher in his book Small Is Beautiful and are closely identified with Herman Daly, Robert Costanza, the Biosphere 2 project, and the Natural Capitalism economic model of Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins until recently, when it began to be used by politicians, notably Ralph Nader, Paul Martin Jr., and agencies of the UK government including the London Health Observatory.

Lakoff's original thesis on conceptual metaphor was expressed in his book with Mark Johnson entitled Metaphors We Live By in 1980.

In 1933, Consumers Research founders F. J. Schlink and Arthur Kallet wrote a book entitled 100, 000, 000 Guinea Pigs, extending the metaphor to consumer society.

The original Russian title of the book is Arkhipelag GuLag, the rhyme supporting the underlying metaphor deployed throughout the work.

In his book, The Dying Animal, Philip Roth uses Las Meninas as a metaphor for the distracted attraction of courtship.

American rock critic Robert Duncan used cargo cults as an organizing metaphor for the social dislocations in 1960-1970s America in his 1984 book, The Noise.

Author Naomi Klein wrote in her book The Shock Doctrine about a recurrent metaphor of shock, and claimed in an interview that the Bush administration has continued to exploit a " window of opportunity that opens up in a state of shock ", followed by a comforting rationale for the public, as a form of social control.

In addition, Ship of Fools was used as the title of a book by the Irish journalist Fintan O ' Toole on the causes of the financial crisis in Ireland, the metaphor being used to describe the Irish political establishment and their self-deception regarding the economic situation in the country.

Adam Smith first used the metaphor of an " invisible hand " in his book The Theory of Moral Sentiments to describe the unintentional effects of economic self-organization from economic self-interest.

The book metaphor could also be applied in the following passage, by the contemporary philosopher of science Ian Hacking:

Although he doesn't revisit or attempt to answer the question, it becomes clear by the end of the book that the axe is merely a metaphor for a much stranger supernatural incident he was involved in.

His book of poetic philosophy Vis à Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness, details many of McKay's beliefs on metaphor, wildness, and the homing instinct.

This idea was summed up in the title of the book, the Tantric metaphor of " Riding the Tiger " which in general practice, consisted of turning things that were considered inhibitory to spiritual progress by mainstream Brahmanical society ( for example, meat, alcohol and in very rare circumstances, sex, were all employed by Tantric practitioners ) into a means of spiritual transcendence.

Speculation suggests that Andersen was the illegitimate son of prince Christian Frederik ( later King Christian VIII of Denmark ), and found this out some time before he wrote the book, and then that being a swan in the story was a metaphor not just for inner beauty and talent but also for secret royal lineage.

According to the book Skeptics Dictionary, Chopra's " mind-body claims get even murkier as he tries to connect Ayurveda with quantum physics .” Chopra also participated in the Channel 4 ( UK ) documentary The Enemies of Reason, where, when interviewed by scientist Richard Dawkins, he admitted that the term " quantum theory " was being used as a metaphor and that it has little to do with the actual quantum theory in physics.

Importantly, if one accepts this reading of the book, the alienation experienced by the soldiers on returning to Earthhere caused by the time dilation effectbecomes a clear metaphor for the reception given to US troops returning to America from Vietnam, including the way in which the war ultimately proves useless and its result meaningless.

Hillis ' 1998 popular science book " The Pattern on the Stone " attempts to explain concepts from computer science for laymen using simple language, metaphor and analogy.

The term " The Law of the Jungle " is also used in a similar context, drawn from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book ( 1894 )-though in the society of jungle animals portrayed in that book and obviously meant as a metaphor for human society, that phrase referred to an intricate code of laws which Kipling describes in detail, and not at all to a lawless chaos.

Horace alluded to them in his fourth book of Odes, describing the eagle's first flight, a long metaphor that reveals itself at last as a compliment to Drusus:

Throughout the book, the image of the entire human race standing shoulder-to-shoulder on a small island is a metaphor for a crowded world.