Sam is bored
I'm doing a problem set in which we have to summarize in 500 words - not critically analyze, just summarize - a sppech of Milton Friedman's. I thought using that many words to just summarize something was a waste of my time, so I decided to have a bit of fun. Here's my first paragraph:
"Any fan of the book/movie Requiem for a Dream who subsequently reads Milton Friedman’s 1967 speech “The Role of Monetary Policy” should immediately be struck by their similarity. Hubert Selby Jr., in his pathos-filled masterpiece, portrays a woman, Sara Goldfarb, becoming addicted to methamphetamines. Though originally she enjoys the experience, we see her forced to double, triple, and quadruple her original dosage to maintain her original artificial high. As a result, she eventually suffers a complete mental and physical breakdown. Milton Friedman in this speech describes monetary policy in parallel if less graphic terms."
"Any fan of the book/movie Requiem for a Dream who subsequently reads Milton Friedman’s 1967 speech “The Role of Monetary Policy” should immediately be struck by their similarity. Hubert Selby Jr., in his pathos-filled masterpiece, portrays a woman, Sara Goldfarb, becoming addicted to methamphetamines. Though originally she enjoys the experience, we see her forced to double, triple, and quadruple her original dosage to maintain her original artificial high. As a result, she eventually suffers a complete mental and physical breakdown. Milton Friedman in this speech describes monetary policy in parallel if less graphic terms."