I am currently a student at Delphos Jefferson Senior High School‚ and we recently read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser in our senior English class. It is a nonfiction novel that discusses the dark side of American fast food. As we’ve been reading‚ I’ve realized that a large amount of students at Jefferson Senior High drink soda purchased at school-offered vending machines. While these students are young adults and can make their own health related decisions‚ our responsibility as a school is to
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Fast Food Nation The first half of the book Fast Food Nation written by Eric Schlosser expresses the profound outcomes of fast food in America starting from its creation to today. Some of these examples include: more employment opportunities for teenagers‚ the creation of successful franchise owners‚ and a new revolutionary way to buy food. Schlosser talks about the major effect that fast food companies have made in the life of teenagers. According to Schlosser‚ “Teenagers have long provided the
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Fast Food Nation Obesity has grown into a rampant issue all over the United States‚ over the past few decades. Fast foods also have increased their outlets in the nation‚ in turn‚ depicting a success in the business venture. It is clear that fast foods have become quite cheap in comparison to healthy‚ homemade meals. Subsequently‚ people have turned to eat fast foods for economic reasons. Convenience is yet another reason behind people’s high indulgence in eating fast foods other than healthy‚
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Throughout Fast Food Nation‚ there are many topics and issues discussed that bring the reader to question one’s self and their eating habits. While reading through‚ I had a burning question that seemed like a reasonable thing to wonder. How was fast food evolved or changed since it’s upbringing? With a little research and some strategic digging‚ I was able to find some information that would lead me to a satisfying answer. With the start up of McDonalds in the late 1940’s‚ fast food was a new and
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don’t want to get out of them to eat!” This quote from the book intrigues me; the more I thought about this line from “Fast Food Nation” I realized that it was more and more correct. Ever since the invention of the automobile and the affordability of it us Americans have become lazy. We resort to going through a drive through then getting out or going home and making our own food. 2. “The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.” This makes me sick; the fact that we have
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Fast Food Nation Essay ! The food that we eat today is far different from what it was just a century ago. The way we consume our food has changed more in this last 100 years than it has in the whole history of humanity. Food is what fuels your body‚ so in a sense‚ you are what you eat‚ but it goes deeper than that. It is very important to know where your food comes from. Within these last 100 years‚ we have become disconnected from the earth. About 99% of what we eat is grown packaged and sold
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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser explains the historical growth of fast food chain and how they succeeded in dominating the industry for decades nows. Schlosser talk about many netriouse techniques use to lure children and other simple minded american to be addicted to fast food‚ like a drug. He uses success stories of how near world war two there are many misgiving of food shortages and how fast food industry started to boom in that decade due to their convenience. Furthermore‚ the author elaborate
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Outline I) Introduction: Fast Food Nation is a book in which Eric Schlosser did not hold any detail back. His ideas are very much similar to Hank Cardello who expressed his feelings in his best seller Stuffed and a article labeled Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. All of these topics touch upon the problem of obesity‚ low wages‚ and unethical issues. II) Topic Sentence 1: Obesity was on of the most talked about issues within all the texts. -Detail/Example- One out of every three American
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Chapter 5 REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. How did the described volcanoes in Iceland and the Philippines change the environment to lesser or greater extents? 2. Name and describe the attributes of the two categories into which all organisms can be divided based on how they obtain nutrition. All organisms can be divided into autothrops‚ which produce their own food‚ and heterothrops‚ which need to get their food from somewhere else. 3. Name and describe the roles of the three main trophic categories that make
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08 May 2012 “Fast Food Nation”: A Critique The essay‚ “Fast Food Nation‚” is effective in persuading audiences to think before you eat. Eric Schlosser‚ a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly‚ clearly has a point he wants to get across‚ but allows readers to make up their own minds. He provides many facts to back his point and has a willingness to present both sides of the issues. Schlosser is straightforward and clear in his writing. He also tries at times to make facts
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