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Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation", 2007.
This paper summarizes and critiques part of Eric Schlosser's now classic book, "Fast Food Nation", about the American fast food industry, its history, influence and effects.
2,766 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 2 sources, APA, AU$ 87.95
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This paper explains that Eric Schlosser, in his book "Fast Food Nation", states that what America enthusiastically and habitually eats explains much of the national psychology of the U.S.; thus, fast foods represent a national "craving" for sameness, predictability and conformity. The author points out that, in Chapter I, Schlosser reports that the "founding fathers" of the American (now very heavily-exported) fast food industry actually used their own originality, creativity, ingenuity, risk-taking capacities and entrepreneurial ways to create, ironically, the bland yet predictable sameness and conformity that has existed from the start within the fast food industry. The paper states that, because the book was easy to read and entertaining, the extensive list of well-written end-notes, thorough bibliography and index was surprising and indicated the far-reaching research upon which the book is based.
Table of Contents
Summary of Chapter I: "The Founding Fathers"
Schlosser: Fast Food is a Metaphor for the Nation
Chapter 10: "Global Realization"
Critique of "Meat and Potatoes" Section
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"Also within Chapter 10 "Global Realization" of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation (2001), the author discusses the targeting of children by fast food advertisers, and even of international conferences and marketing organizations like the Gepetto Group that study children's consumption tastes and habits, and marketing trends and techniques that appeal to children in particular. As a result of such efforts, though, childhood obesity, as Schlosser points out, has become an epidemic in America, and in other nations that have embraced the American-created fast food habit."
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Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation", 2004.
Summary and discussion of "Fast Food Nation" and its commentary on how the fast food industry has shaped and defined American society and the society of other nations.
953 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 35.95
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This paper explains the premise of Eric Schlosser's book, "Fast Food Nation", which argues that the fast food industry is representative of American culture and that this culture is exported abroad, often to the detriment of the target nations. The paper looks at Schlosser's discussion of the myriad problems in the fast food industry and the ways in which this industry has altered American society and may alter society around the world.
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"The icon that represents fast food culture for most people is McDonald's, though the fast food culture developed long before the creation of that restaurant chain and includes many other practitioners. Schlosser considers the impact of such fast-food chains but also considers the primacy of the hamburger in the American diet and some of the dangers it poses. The spread of McDonald's around the world has been decried by many as exporting some of the worst of American culture."
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"Fast Food Nation", 2004.
Analyzes Eric Schlosser's book, "Fast Food Nation", a powerful critique of America's obsession with fast food.
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 34.95
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In his thought-provoking book, Eric Schlosser argues that America's fast food franchises have played a major role in contributing to the obesity and ill health of Americans. This paper shows how Schlosser argues that fast food giants have contributed to urban sprawl, negatively impacted American culture, and have had a largely negative impact. The author of the paper shows that Schlosser's thesis is largely convincing, due to both his careful analysis and his powerful and effective writing style. The paper shows that the book makes the reader challenge many long-held convictions about the fast food industry in America and worldwide.
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"Despite his heavy thesis, and depressing conclusions, Fast Food Nation offers some hope for the future. He notes, "there is nothing inevitable about the fast food industry", and argues that careful legislation could help to lessen the impact of fast food advertising on America's children. At the end of the book, he calls Americans to action, and urges them to press for changes in the fast food industry, noting that Americans can still "have it your way", an obvious take on McDonald's famous advertising slogan. Further, his engaging writing style also helps to keep the book from becoming overbearing and depressing."
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"Fast Food Nation", 2002.
A review of the book "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser.
959 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 36.95
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This paper offers a brief review of Eric Schlosser's book "Fast Food Nation". The writer highlights the major issues in the book in 10 points. 1)Fast food is taken for granted in the U.S. 2)Americans spend billions of dollars on fast food. 3)French fries are the most common form. 4)Fries are the most fattening product. 5)The flavor industry is just as much to blame. 6)Fast food creates jobs. 7)Other health problems. 8)Worker safety. 9)Tainted food. 10)Impact on agriculture.
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"So much has already been said about Fast Food and its negative impact on Americans that you might fail to understand why Eric Schlosser would choose to write a whole book in the subject. Don't we already know enough? After reading the book, however the answers surprisingly turns out to be an emphatic No. Indeed we know very little about the real fast food industry and the way it carries out is operations. True it adds to obesity problem in the country but do we really know the truth about those French fries that have been criticized widely for their fat content."
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Eric Scholosser's "Fast Food Nation", 2003.
This is a critical examination of the Eric Scholosser's "Fast Food Nation".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 42.95
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This paper reviews Eric Scholosser's 2002 book "Fast Food Nation" and its portrayal of the dehumanization of the fast-food industry and losses to the American consumer. The author presents many aspects of the fast food culture.
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"We've all heard and most likely dismissed the adage that we are what we eat. Usually if we spend any time at all bothering to think about this, we have some vague idea that it means if we eat unhealthy things than our own health will suffer. While that's certainly ..."
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"Fast Food Nation", 2004.
A review of the book, "Fast Food Nation", by Eric Schlosser.
1,839 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 62.95
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This paper examines how, according to the book, "Fast Food Nation", by Eric Schlosser, fast-food chains have caused as much damage as they have added to American culture. It looks at how it raises several of the major problems with fast-food restaurants, including taking advantage of poor and unskilled workers in factories and restaurants, questionable preparation of meat, loss of small private farms/ranges, and increases in obesity.
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"It is true that fast-food restaurants have made it easy to get a quick bite to eat. However, there are tradeoffs. Franchises have multiplied so much over the past several decades that is difficult to find any major city without a strip of these establishments along the main drag. As Fast Food Nation states: "The fast food chains feed off the sprawl of Colorado Springs, accelerate it and help set its visual tone. They build large signs to attract motorists and look at cars the way predators view prey." St. Louis exemplifies this problem. Sprawl is rapidly devouring choice farmland and open space. According to the American Farmland Trust, the five counties around St. Louis lost over 170,000 acres between 1981 and 1996, which comprised nearly one-third of developed farmland lost statewide during that period."
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"Fast Food Nation", 2003.
A review of the book, "Fast Food Nation", by Eric Schlosser.
1,271 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 46.95
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This paper looks at how "Fast Food Nation" is a broad, investigative journalism work that describes, examines, criticizes, and attacks the American fast food industry on several levels. It is also an eye-opener that reveals to the readers the whole new facet of this industry and makes links that no one could have imagined existed. It shows how the fast food industry is a multi-faceted entity that is affecting lives of millions, usually in a very negative way, and how the most rewarding part of reading the book is the amount of new knowledge and insights it provides.
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"Understanding the history of each event or chain of events that led to the development of American fast food industry is a key in order to be able to grasp the whole picture of it. The book starts with describing the very roots of hamburger industry in the U.S. and the "founding fathers" of it. McDonald's Corporation and the Walt Disney Company were the two giant corporations that were developing simultaneously. Both had the same great impact in creating the American nation as it is now: controlled by giant corporations, interested only in making profits and in spreading "americanization" around the world."
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"Fast Food Nation", 2004.
An evaluation of the book "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser.
854 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 32.95
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This paper presents a critical analysis of Eric Schlosser's book, "Fast Food Nation". The paper examines the writer's thoroughness in presenting the fast food industry as one of the most corrupt industries. The paper contends that the book is one-sided, not illustrating the positive aspects of the fast food industry.
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"As a first criticism, one may notice that the author writes some 350 pages on the subject of fast food and the fast food industry finding almost no positive aspects whatsoever. It isn't much to say that, at the end of the book, you will be able to assimilate the fast food industry with some of the most criminal and degrading industries in the world, drug and human traffic, for example. It is not necessarily his vehemence (which almost doesn't exist throughout the book, as I will refer to further below), but the thoroughness with which he covers the disturbing aspects in the fast food industry, ranging from the managers and founders who barely have a high school diploma, to the "overworked and underpaid teenage workers" and to the chemicals that are behind the tasty flavors we find in fast food outlets."
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"Fast Food Nation", 2003.
A critique of book "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Scholosser.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 25.95
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This paper reviews and critiques the Eric Schlosser book "Fast Food Nation." The paper discusses Schlosser's contention that what a nation eats reveals its social, economic and technological values. The paper also lauds Schlosser's success in demonstrating that the business practices of fast food companies are neither communal nor wholesome.
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"Eric Schlosser announces early on that his book Fast Food Nation is about fast food, the values it embodies, and the world it has made. He believes that what a nation eats tells you more about its social, economic and technological values than..."
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"Fast Food Nation", 2005.
An examination and critique of Eric Schlosser's book "Fast Food Nation."
1,325 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 47.95
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This paper discusses the current debate in American society regarding the unhealthy eating habits of the nation. It examines Eric Schlosser's book "Fast Food Nation" in which the development of the fast-food culture is explained.
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"Schlosser's book is also persuasive because of the healthy dose of humor he brings to his subject, despite its serious implications. McDonald's after all, uses cartoons and bright jingles and funny advertising to lure people in. His book offers a trip down memory lane for many readers, learning about different songs used by the company to make the product seem more attractive, and how different products were introduced and became part of American culinary life. However, despite this humor there is always a worthwhile moral at the end of Schlosser's tale. McNuggets may now be ubiquitous, and created to answer the threat posed by Kentucky Fried Chicken-but even learning about the 'war' between fried birds, one is reminded that these innocent looking finger foods are highly processed, bad for the body, and even contain beef by-products in their construction. (139-140) The common call, but what can I do in the face of such corporate callousness, that one often makes when reading journalistic exposes receives a resounding answer in this text."
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"Fast Food Nation", 2005.
A discussion Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation".
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 50.95
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This paper firstly discusses how Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation" is subjected to a semiotic analysis. Secondly, the general conditions of the corporate state are enumerated with some historical context. The marketing of fast food to children is considered, criticized. In conclusion a solution is mentioned.
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"I will begin with some general observations in order to provide a background and context for the semiotic analysis of "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser. Next, I will discuss some of the major problems for which the fast food industry is ..."
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Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation", 2004.
Summary and review of Eric Schlosser's best-seller, "Fast Food Nation".
1,625 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 55.95
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This paper summarizes the main points of Eric Schlosser's book on the eating habits of many Americans. The paper reports on Schlosser's depiction of the french fry as ubiquitous in the American diet of fast food and how the french fry came to occupy this position. he paper also covers the effect of globalization and the changes in consumers' nutritional demands. The articles cited in the bibliography are appended to the paper.
Factory Farming
Globalization
Changes in Consumer Nutritional Demands
Financing Issue
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"Considering all the news about the problems with the American diet, it isn't surprising that Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation became a best seller. The chapters about how cattle become hamburgers are truly frightening reading, with graphic detail about little calves figuring out what happens at the end of the chute and trying to run, and the human toll, where cumulative trauma injury is "almost 35 times higher than the rate in any other American industry." (Schlosser, p. 173.) That sort of information is enough to put one off beef entirely, even without the new possibility of Mad Cow Disease. But Schlosser takes on the entire fast food industry, and arguably the most prevalent single item-or at least the best known-is the french fry. "Do you want fries with that?" has become something of a national anthem of dining. The impact of the french fry on the American diet, culture and economy is both a success story of major proportions and a quietly cooking national scandal."
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"Fast Food Nation", 2004.
Presents an overview of this book by Eric Schlosser, which deals with the results of the fast-food culture in the United States.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 52.95
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In his book, "Fast Food Nation", Eric Schlosser shows his distaste for America's fast-food culture, but perhaps more so for the business practices that have allowed fast food to become a way of life. This paper presents examples from Shlosser's book, which highlight the author's point that the fast food industry is wreaking moral, social, and medical havoc in the U.S. and the world. It also examines the author's use of logos and pathos throughout his book.
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"Schlosser does not use the health effects of food to convince readers that there is something wrong with the food industry, except at the end of the book when he discusses diseases caused by germs in the food, rather than the food itself. But failure to mention such things as the fact that cholesterol found in super-sized burgers can cause heart disease could be considered a rhetorical device. Schlosser assumes that his readers don't want heart disease, and he assumes they have heard that eating beef tallow might well produce heart disease. In this respect, he is also using ethos: as an award-winning writer for the Atlantic Monthly, he can bank on his reputation in subjects like this one."
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"Fast Food Nation", 2004.
This paper is an analysis of the critique of the modern fast-food industry by Eric Schlosser
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 44.95
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Schlosser's book, "Fast Food Nation", argues that the institution of fast food, originally trumpeted as one of the successes of modern capitalism, was really a triumph of American advertising. It was dependant upon the exploitation of low-paid American workers, usually for part-time and non-benefit-conferring hours, and seduced children into making poor food choices that take them away from wholesome family meals. The paper shows how Schlosser's main point in his book is that fast food was a uniquely American institution, but became something that pulled America apart. The paper also examines Schlosser's use of rhetoric, logic, and pathos in his book.
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"Schlosser has some respect for the founders of fast food. Like our nation's founding fathers, Schlosser admits Kroc had a vision. Kroc deployed capitalism and freedom to realize that vision in an energetic and individualistic fashion. However, the consequences of untrammeled capitalism and advertising that was attractive to American ideals of convenience, sameness, and product loyalty also created a nightmare for many individuals, particularly those whose health was damaged by the sanitary procedures common at many fast food establishments. Kroc's individualism and enterprise also put many 'mom and pop' businesses, out of business."
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"Fast Food Nation", 2005.
A brief overview of the history of the fast food industry as depicted by Eric Schlosser.
1,368 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 48.95
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This is a short paper following the fast food industry from its origins in southern California until it present status. Particular interest is paid to the political and corporate aspects of the industry as to how it has grown to its current dominance.
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"In his book Eric Schlosser investigates the origins and the dominance of the fast food phenomenon as it pertains to American culture. Schlosser makes a convincing argument exposing the large corporations and their dominance regarding the dietary choices of most Americans. Throughout the book a background theme of corporate manipulation of the American public provides subtle nuances into just how they grew as fast as they did. He eloquently iterates the progression of the industry from its modest conception in southern California to its now leviathonesque stature as a keystone of our modern economy.
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Fast Food: Fast Road to Health Problems, 2005.
A look at issues related to the fast food problem in The U.S.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 37.95
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This is a short paper discussing the issues related to the fast food problem in this country. Cited are references to the movie "SuperSize Me" which brought health related issues associated with consuming huge quantities of fast food to the public's attention. While the premise of the movie seemed exaggerated, it is shown that this habitual eating of fast food actually happens in the real world to many people.
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The Academy Award hoopla that surrounded the documentary SuperSize Me, 4th highest grossing documentary of all time, winner of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, served to bring a small budget attack on fast food to center stage. The film has been seen by millions. Soon afterwards, McDonald's Corporation unveiled their Healthy Living Campaign and began offering their fresh fruit Apple and Walnut salad as a new menu item. Fast food is quickly changing the face and body of our nation. Obesity, diabetes, cancer, High blood pressure, high cholesterol, even food addiction has been linked to fast food. We will present the health related issues related to the fast food industry, followed by legal and corporate actions and reactions taking place. Is there anything that can be done to correct these problems?
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