Essays Tagged: "Fast Food Nation"

Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation attempts to explain chapter material and compare and contrast using Marxist and Weber concepts.

kings of the structure.This concept is very instantly recognizable in Chapter 8 of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation. Chapter 8 deals with the commodities and conditions within beef slaughterhouses an ...

(3 pages) 213 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The Effects The Fast Food Industru Has had on Are society.

In the book, "Fast Food Nation" Eric Schlosser, gives abundanceon information about the Dark- side of an all Ameri ... ser, gives abundanceon information about the Dark- side of an all American Meal. Scholsserviews the fast food industry from a Functionalist perspective and insome points and conflict perspective also. ... perate. The employee's don't feel like there being treated equal.Schlosser gives details on how The Fast Food industry embodies the bestand the worst of American capitalist of the 21st century. I will ...

(7 pages) 363 0 3.9 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser: Opinionative book report

Surprisingly, Fast Food Nation has totally changed the way that I view the fast food industry. In this all to real ... stry. In this all to real work by Eric Schlosser, the reader is taken on an exploration through the fast food industry and its many aspects. Despite the fact that many arguments are based on the borin ... r, such as myself. Schlosser tells the reader about the many steps that go into the production of a fast food meal. He also deals with the many topics that we, the fast food consumers, never even real ...

(9 pages) 292 0 4.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Fast Food Country

Fast food workers take customer orders at counters or drive-through windows and serve food like hamb ... served, such as filling cardboard or paper containers with foods like French fries or onion rings. Fast food workers serve the foods and beverages to a customer, usually at a counter, and accept paym ... . They are also often responsible for cleaning tables, making sure condiments are filled, etc. Most fast food workers work only part-time. Depending on the hours the establishment is open, they may ha ...

(5 pages) 185 0 4.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. Book report and critique.

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Eric Schlosser. New York, NY: Houghton Mif ... Schlosser. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001, 383 pp. Notes. $13.95."This book is about fast food, the values it embodies, and the world it has made," writes Eric Schlosser in the introduc ... ues it embodies, and the world it has made," writes Eric Schlosser in the introduction of his book, Fast Food Nation. His argument against fast food is based on the premise that "the real price never ...

(2 pages) 161 0 3.3 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

This essay is an investigative report on "Fast Food Nation".

Many people blindly go to fast food restaurants without thinking "what lies behind the shinny happy faces of every fast food t ... ehind the shinny happy faces of every fast food transaction" (Schlosser 10). Eric Schlosser's book "Fast Food Nation" looks to change that. Schlosser's intentions when writing this book was to inform ... hat. Schlosser's intentions when writing this book was to inform the reader of the dark side of the fast food industry. Schlosser pulls from numerous sources to support his arguments. While he neglect ...

(3 pages) 145 1 3.5 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

"Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser: Chapter 3, "Behind the Counter", summary/response.

Behind the Counter.In his book "Fast Food Nation", Eric Schlosser shows how the fast food industry has infiltrated every corner of A ... nning in California and spreading throughout the entire country, Schlosser gives the history of the fast food industry and the evils and changes that developed with it.In Chapter three, Schlosser begi ... ast twenty years as you come to the new spread out. The houses are the "architectural equivalent of fast food;" thousands of houses that are near identical line each street of each subdivision. Academ ...

(6 pages) 124 0 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Fast Food Nation: Policies to curb risks in Food Purchases, Based on reading the book "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser.

n:If there is one comment I would like to make right at the get go, based on my readingof the book "Fast Food Nation", it would be that Eric Schlosser's commentary was boringbut in the ultimate analys ... ry was boringbut in the ultimate analysis a revelation to consumers like me, who blindly indulge in fast food without even inkling as to what lies beneath the surface. Indeed what troubled me most was ...

(6 pages) 124 0 5.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

The Fast Food Epidemic

"The rise of the fast-food industry transformed American eating habits in the second half of the twentieth century" ( ... ieth century" (Schlosser 8). Almost everywhere you look you'll see a familiar sign symbolizing our "fast food nation." You find them in airports, malls, schools, and gas stations, on the corners of st ... ans spent over $110 billion (Gingras np). During any given day of the week, 3 out of 4 children eat fast food meals (one or more) times a day, which is the foundation of harmful effects to mind and bo ...

(13 pages) 228 1 3.8 Apr/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

The Meat Packing Industry

rstand these conditions look at two sources- Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1900 and Schlosser's Fast Food Nation that verify that conditions in meatpacking plants are atrocious. Though they were w ... in the meatpacking industry; if fact, some conditions are even worse nowadays.Though The Jungle and Fast Food Nation were written almost 100 years apart, many similarities can be found in the meatpack ...

(2 pages) 84 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

How is the importance of technology constructed in "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser?

Technology, in my opinion is one of the biggest factors in the success of the fast food industry. Without technology it would simply not exist. The very production of fast food u ... ing humans to their next task. The most ironic thing about it is, which Schlosser makes obvious in "Fast Food Nation" is that all the latest technologies in the world can not stop the worlds biggest k ... nveyed - repetition and use of imagery being the strongest. In chapter three, Schlosser states that fast food is an impulse buy, which occurs when driving past huge illuminated signs.Automobile techno ...

(2 pages) 56 0 0.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Values of American Society (from a fast food perspective)

In the book "Fast Food Nation", America's infatuation with fast food is described in striking detail. Also mentio ... st food is described in striking detail. Also mentioned in this work are the values embodied by the fast food industry: conformity, affordability, convenience, and materialism. Interestingly enough th ... fordability, convenience, and materialism. Interestingly enough these values are not limited to the fast food industry, but can be found in various other areas of American culture such as music, art, ...

(5 pages) 126 1 3.8 Nov/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Fast Food Nation

Karen Smith 05 April 2002 Dr. Hunter Book Review Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser, the author of Fast Food Nation, sets out to explore the ins and out ... e fast food industry from slaughter to consumption. Each chapter goes in depth to one aspect of the fast food industry. He begins with the basics of the industry documenting the accomplishments of the ... ur company against the exact things that you are doing to the public and your employees. The entire fast food industry revolves around oppression and the capitalization on other people's suffering and ...

(5 pages) 80 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

The Seamy Underbelly of the Fast Food Industry

The Seamy Underbelly of the Fast Food Industry In the few hundred years that it has been its own independently established natio ... s changed people's mind about the world around them. One thing that has adapted to the times is the fast food industry. Eric Schlosser, a muckraking journalist and author of Fast Food Nation, Reefer M ... list and author of Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Chew on This, writes about the dark side of fast food. So far, he has received a National Magazine Award and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award f ...

(3 pages) 32 0 5.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

FAT America

rsMrs.BalagueroMonday December 9th, 2013The American Culture- and America's FutureThe popularity of fast food in America is based upon the people of America and their everyday needs. It's sad to say t ... obesity. Personally, I think many factors contribute the reason why American's buy dunkin donuts or fast food in general, but the main cause is because American's have this 'need for speed'. For examp ...

(3 pages) 1 0 0.0 Jan/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers