Random Analogies
"There are three kinds of unemployment - frictional, structural, and cyclical. Frictional unemployment is voluntary and temporary - ie, a college student who is focusing on his studies and doesn't want a job is "frictionally" unemployed. Structural unemployment is like the buggy whip manufacturers - necessary restructuring of the market due to changes in consumer demand. Cyclical unemployment is caused by fluctuations in the business cycle - there is a temporary drop in demand for your particular industry, as the economy enters a recessionary period, and so you lose your job. The only one of these that the State has a hand in is cyclical unemployment, and that is because cyclical fluctuations are largely caused (or at least exacerbated) by government in the first place."
"Literary analysis is like walking with crutches, because you're walking along on the shoulders of what others have said," explained Heather Griffith, who is pursuing a combined major in environmental studies and biology with a minor in literature. "I'm used to the formula, and I can whip it out. In this class, you have to do more thinking."
