The Jungle v. Fast Food Nation Brenton Beardsley Illinois Valley Community College In the book‚ The Jungle and Fast Food Nation‚ there was several points that were brought up about the values‚ beliefs‚ political ideas‚ and institution. These topics played an important role in both of the books‚ as many people just like the family in‚ The Jungle‚ face several hardships in our country to this day. During these hard times people find several ways to get to their inner self and overcome these
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Fast Food Nation – Essay Questions (try to keep < 3pgs) Choose 3 questions to answer. You must choose at least one question from Group A & B. Paper should be typed‚ double-spaced and indicate which question you are answering (i.e. A.3. …..). Make sure to answer the WHOLE question as some questions have multiple parts! Grading Breakdown: • Cover page……………………….10pts • Essay question………………….30pts Group A A.1. How did the early automobile industry influence & shape the
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In Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser expands on why Americans should ditch fast food restaurants. He explores the origin of the most successful fast food chains‚ including McDonalds‚ Taco Bell‚ and Burger King. Split up into different sections‚ Schlosser describes the unsanitary kitchens‚ the underpaid employees‚ and the unsafe meatpacking industry. Above all the common theme found throughout this nonfiction book is the underlying greed found throughout the entire fast food industry. Schlosser starts
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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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Maltreatment of Slaughterhouse Workers In the book Fast Food Nation‚ Eric Schlosser talks about the working conditions of fast food meat slaughterhouses. In the chapter "The Most Dangerous Job‚" one of the workers‚ who despised his job‚ gave Schlosser an opportunity to walk through a slaughterhouse. As the author was progressed backwards through the slaughterhouse‚ he noticed how all the workers were sitting very close to each other with steel protective vests and knives. The workers were mainly
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2014 The fast food industry has impacted the lives of many. Cultures have changed throughout the introduction of these fast food places‚ such as the American culture. At first the changes that Americans experienced were not so bad‚ but as the fast food industry strived; the effects that it had on American culture grew to be problematic. The effects of the fast food industry on historical‚ economic‚ and health factors are something that needs to be paid more attention to. The fast food industry
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in order to stay healthy. That one step in regulating the ingredients‚ the awareness of health risks by consumers‚ and the type advertising used is believed to be invading the freedom of America. Some also believe that though fast food is a main cause of obesity‚ fast food is not the only cause of obesity so therefore our American public should not have to deal with a change by regulation of the government. “What has changed is the nation’s way of eating and living”(Schlosser 240). Our public today
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nearest eyewash and continue to flush your eyes with WATER for about 15 minutes holding the eyelids open. b) What devices can you use? Note their location. Use the eyewash located on the front lab table‚ or the eyewash bottles located at the entrance door‚ or the eye-face-body spray located next to the front lab table. Make sure you familiarize yourself with operating these devices before you start working in the laboratory. 4) a) What should be immediately used for a large chemical spill on the
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According to Fast Food Nation’s author‚ Eric Schlosser‚ Hungry Planet: What the World Eats is a “beautiful and important book about one of the world’ s most important subjects.” This book‚ written by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio‚ takes on the topic of food. Yet‚ the authors don’t simply talk about different foods around the world‚ they go in depth into the cultural‚ social‚ and economical aspects of eating. They display‚ through the use of pictures‚ a week’s worth of food for numerous different
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ambiguity of manner. 8. Anachronism – Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time‚ esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword in an anachronism in modern warfare. 9. Anaphora – A rhetorical device in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginnings of successive phrases or sentences. Compare this to epistrophe‚ where such repetitions occur at the ends. (lesson 10. Analogy – A similarity between like features of two things‚ on which
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