The author starts off the chapter by writing about a man named Carl N. Karcher. He is known as the founder of the fast food restaurant called Carl’s Jr. He dropped out of school at the age of 14 and a few years later, his uncle offered him a job in a city in California called Anaheim. One of the themes is workforce because he was an employee for his uncle. He was a very good worker at his uncle's work place. He once spotted a woman who he was attracted to and he asked her out for ice cream. He soon changed his job and started to work elsewhere. Carl married the women (Margaret) a few years laters and they had their first child. Later, Carl heard about a hotdog cart for sale and since many of them had been successfully opened he decided to buy it. His wife was not very fond of this idea. He borrowed money from banks and some from his own wife just to start up his business. About 5 month later, World War II had started and since his hotdog cart was located right across Goodyear Factory, it got pretty busy. Soon he had enough money to buy another hot dog cart …show more content…
which his wife decided to run. In 1920, General Motors started to purchase food carts just to completely dismantle them. In 1944, Carl owned 4 carts and was up to buy a restaurant that was going on sale. He bought the place and decided to fix it up a bit and start up his own fast food restaurant. He opened up the restaurants on his birthday. It was a huge success and after World War II, it even allowed him to buy a house not far from his restaurant. The restaurant was called Carl's Drive-In Barbecue. McDonald’s was one of the new restaurants and it was self service. The McDonald brother were tired of washing and replacing the dishes so they decided to try something new. They instead started to put the food into paper or cardboard boxes. After Carl visited this fast food restaurant he decided that he will go back and make his own restaurant into a self service fast food restaurant. Another theme is industrialization because Carl introduced his restaurant on a large scale. In 1976, Carl's new headquarters was built and he even had a party for the opening. A few years later he decided to open up a restaurant called Carl’s Jr in Texas. When the places Carl had gotten loans from went bankrupt, he has fallen into debt. He was under the pressure of paying the loans. The worker decided to vote and they voted to make Carl leave. They thought that if he left that they would not have to worry about shutting down. No one bothered to listen to his plan but instead decided to “fire” him from his own office. Later on, he decided to repay all his loans and brought his plan in action. He used his Green Burrito plan, which is where he would seek Mexican food with a chain called green burrito. He got enough money and bought his own office back and became one of the 4 largest fast food restaurants. Chapter 2: This chapter is about two men names Ray A. Kroc and Walt Disney and how they advertise to kids. These two men have a few things in common like their birthplace and the fact that they dropped out of high school. They both market their products to kids and also took a part in the World War I. They were geniuses in selling their products to children since they were successful with this process, it lead other marketers to do the same. Kroc was took over the McDonald brothers service system and decided to spread it nationwide. This is an example of workforce because Kroc is engaging himself in the McDonald’s service system. It was a huge success in his case. As a freshman in high school, he worked at his uncle's soda fountain and he discovered that he liked to sell products. In 1954, Kroc started to sell milk-shake mixers when he decided to finally visit the McDonald’s first self service system and he wondered why the McDonald brothers needed eight machines. Later he could imagine putting McDonald’s in the middle of busy roads all across the nation. The McDonald brothers were not for the idea at first but Kroc finally convinced the two brothers and they let him franchise McDonald’s. Kroc wrote a letter to Walt Disney and asked if there may be a opportunity to make a McDonald’s in Disneyland. Disney declined the offer due to the fact that Disneyland was under construction and was going to open up to children and Disney thought that Kroc may have kept his hope a bit too high. Disney and his company asked Kroc if he would raise the price for french fries for profit but Kroc denied the request. In 1955, Disneyland opened up to children all over the nation, they had food stands from many places but none from McDonald’s. In the 1940’s, Walt Disney had to rely on fund to keep his business up and running. This is an example of economics since he is concerned with his production and consumption. During World War II, Disney worked with the military to to great propaganda films and even after the war they continued woking together. Since Disney had a passion for science, they opened up a new section in the theme park called “TomorrowLand”. TomorrowLand had everything to do with science such as space travel and household appliances of the future. The author researches more about Disneyland and discovers a few things. For one, Wernher von Braun helped co host and produce multiple of Disney T.V shows. During that time, Wernher von Braun was in the Army and also served for the German during World War II. In the 1930’s, Disney approved the offer of using Mickey Mouse as an ad for other companies products. A few years later, Snow White toys and many other things went up for sale. In the 1950’s, Disney had his very first broadcast air on T.V. During McDonald’s rough years, Kroc decided to improve their marketing. He picked the perfect time due to the fact that the number of children had increased after the World War II. He explained that since children will see their commercials on T.V they will beg their grandparents to come to the restaurant and not only will they get one customer who wants to be there but also to others that brought the child to the restaurant. In 1960, McDonald’s decided to sponsor a children's television show which will get them even more customers. In the end, the restaurant created images inside children’s heads about the playground, toys, clown and many more amazing things. The chapter ends with talking about how fast food has not only affected children who watch T.V but also children who go to school.
In 1933, District 11 in Colorado Springs was one of the first to advertise Burger King on buses and hallways. Dan DeRose is the founder of the Minor League Football System who raised $250,000 from sponsoring the school’s teams. A article in the “Beverage Industry” explains that influencing children in elementary is important because that is the age that children are becoming used to their taste buds, what they like now is what they will be buying for their entire life. Fast foods run their ads on a certain channel that is shown to children their classrooms. John Bushey is known as “the Coke dude” because he suggested to the principal to let students bring in Coke products to their classes. He left Colorado Springs in 2000 to move to Florida and became the principal of a high
school. Chapter 3: One of the themes of this chapter is population since the author is talking about how Colorado Springs is one of the fastest growing cities all across the nation. The population increased by a lot which also increased the pollution. The author describes the past history of Colorado Springs and what it was like to do a certain thing at a certain time. Colorado Springs today is similar to what Los Angeles look like half a century ago. Another theme is diffusion of culture because in this chapter, one of the main topics is teenagers who work. The teens who work have spread the culture to other teens who are now beginning to work. Elisa Zamot is one of those teenagers who likes to work to earn money and buy the products that they want or need. She wakes up early in the morning to get ready for work so she can earn some money. Teenagers under the age of twenty are usually the ones to open the fast food outlets in the morning and lock them up at night. Also they have to make sure that the restaurant is up and running smoothly during business hours. Most teenagers work at fast food restaurants because they are the only ones who will take up the offer of the low paying job. They live at home and need time away from parent and school work so their only escape is work. Since a lot of the teens weren't experienced, it was easier for the managers to control them and do everything the way they wanted. In Colorado Springs, majority of the fast food restaurants are showing the “Now Hiring” banner. The reason behind that is because the restaurants are trying to outdo the others. Most teen that live on the Cheyenne Mountains babysit or teach a sport in the summer but during the school year they have to find another job to do after school. Some students in Harrison High School work at a fast food restaurant to help their families, however other are using the money to save up for a car. Teens like Elisa had dreamed of working at McDonald’s but after getting yelled at by customers, she isn't very fond of the idea anymore. A lot of teens got hurt while working at fast food restaurants. Every year, about 200,000 teens are injured at the restaurant. Around four or five employees get murdered each month and there are a lot of robberies. These events cause the restaurant to get media attention which is so common now that it goe unnoticed by many people. To conclude this chapter, the author talks about the thirty eighth Annual Multi-Unit Food server Operation Conference where the president has a panel and he asked about his opinion and answers questions.
In the Chinese detective novel, Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, a view into the Chinese judicial system during the Tang dynasty is provided. After reading the novel, one finds that the Chinese judicial system worked in similar but also in different ways compared to modern day judicial systems around the world. In order to notice this correlation, this paper will analyze the responsibilities and measurements the judge had to undergo in order to solve the crimes that occurred in his district. The judge or magistrate during the Tang dynasty had a lot of power, “this government official united in his person the functions of judge, jury, prosecutor and detective” (IX). Judges had full responsibility and authority over all phases of the life of the
In reading this chapter I came to acknowledge a lot facts that I didn’t realize about the British Zulu war. The battle at Rorke’s drift, and the battle at Isandhlwana are the chapter main focus in book Carnage and Culture. It gave multitudes of information that went well in detail about the battles. After reading the chapter, and researching the information on the war, and comparing the information presented by Victor Davis Hanson I found the information insightful and correct. He backs up his statements with facts and explains how western military forces were so dominate because of tactics, discipline and technology.
“My name is Sadie Frowne. I work in Allen Street (Manhattan) in what they call a sweatshop. I am new at the work and the foreman scolds me a great deal. I get up at half-past five o’clock every morning and make myself a cup of coffee on the oil stove. I eat a bit of bread and perhaps some fruit and then go to work. Often I get there soon after six o’clock so as to be in good time, though the factory does not open till seven.
Ooka Shohei named the last chapter of Fires on the Plain “In Praise of Transfiguration.” Through the whole novel, readers witness the protagonist Tamura transform from an innocent soldier to a killer. Readers watch him go from condemning the practice of eating human flesh to eating human flesh for his own survival. At the end, Readers see Tamura’s redemption as he shot Nagamatsu who killed and ate his own comrade Yasuda. What was the difference between two men who both killed and ate human beings? To Tamura, the guilt of eating human flesh distinguished himself from Nagamatsu who cold-bloodily killed Yasuda. As Tamura recalled, “I do not remember whether I shot him at that moment. But I do know that I did not eat his flesh; this I should certainly have remembered.” (224) The fact of him shooting at Nagamatsu had no importance to Tamura. However, his emphasis on not eating
Although, Conventional wisdom dictates that the age at which children started work was connected to the poverty of the family. Griffith presents two autobiographies to put across her point. Autobiography of Edward Davis who lacked even the basic necessities of life because of his father’s heavy drinking habit and was forced to join work at a small age of six, whereas the memoir of Richard Boswell tells the opposite. He was raised up in an affluent family who studied in a boarding school. He was taken out of school at the age of thirteen to become a draper’s apprentice.
In the story "A&P," by John Updike, the main character Sammy makes the leap from an adolescent, knowing little more about life than what he has learned working at the local grocery store, into a man prepared for the rough road that lies ahead. As the story begins, Sammy is nineteen and has no real grasp for the fact that he is about to be living on his own working to support himself. Throughout the course of the story, he changes with a definite step into, first, a young man realizing that he must get out of the hole he is in and further into a man, who has a grasp on reality looking forward to starting his own family. In the beginning, Sammy is but a youth growing up learning what he knows about life in small town grocery store. His role models include, Stokesie, the twenty-two year-old, supporting a family doing the same job Sammy does yet aspiring to one day have the manager's position, and Lengel, the store manager who most certainly started out in the same place that Stokesie and he were already in. Stoksie, the great role model, continues to be as adolescent as Sammy, with his "Oh, Daddy, I feel so faint," and even Sammy sees this noting that "as far as I can tell that's the only difference (between he and I)." Sammy whittles away his days looking at pretty girls and thinking about the ways of people. He hardly realizes that this is how he will spend his entire existence if he doesn't soon get out of this job. During this day that will prove to change his life, he makes the step towards his realization. He decides that he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life working at an A&P competing for the store manager's position. Sammy thinks to himself about his parent's current social class and what they serve at cocktail parties. And, in turn, he thinks about what he will be serving, if he stays at the A&P, "When my parents have somebody over they get lemonade and if it's a real racy affair Schlitz in tall glasses with 'They'll Do It Every Time' cartoons stenciled on." He must get out and the sooner the better. He is still just an adolescent who hasn't completely thought through his decision and yet his mind is made up.
of Philip Morris, said “People could point to these things and say, ‘They’ve got too much sugar, they’ve got too much salt […] well, that’s what the consumer wants, and we’re not putting a gun to their head to eat it. That’s what they want.” (Moss 267) However, consumers are being unconsciously forced to fund food industries that produce junk food. Companies devote much of their time and effort into manipulating us to purchase their products. For instance, Kraft’s first Lunchables campaign aimed for an audience of mothers who had far too much to do to make time to put together their own lunch for their kids. Then, they steered their advertisements to target an even more vulnerable pool of people; kids. This reeled in even more consumers because it allowed kids to be in control of what they wanted to eat, as Bob Eckert, the C.E.O. of Kraft in 1999, said, “Lunchables aren’t about lunch. It’s about kids being able to put together what they want to eat, anytime, anywhere” (Moss 268). While parents are innocently purchasing Lunchables to save time or to satisfy the wishes of their children, companies are formulating more deceiving marketing plans, further studying the psychology of customers, and conducting an excessive quantity of charts and graphs to produce a new and addictive
Furthermore, schools have become a paradise for fast-food franchises . Vending machines stocked with candy and soft drinks are unacceptable: nearly 19 out of 20 high schools in the U.S. have vending machines that sell pop, while almost 60 percent of elementary schools do. More than 70 percent of high schools sell can...
One of the most shocking books of the generation is Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation. The novel includes two sections, "The American Way" and "Meat and Potatoes,” that aid him in describing the history and people who have helped shape up the basics of the “McWorld.” Fast Food Nation jumps into action at the beginning of the novel with a discussion of Carl N. Karcher and the McDonald’s brothers. He explores their roles as “Gods” of the fast-food industry. Schlosser then visits Colorado Springs and investigates the life and working conditions of the typical fast-food industry employee. Starting out the second section, Schlosser travels to the western side of Colorado to examine the effects presented to the agriculture world in the new economy. Following Schlosser’s journey across the nation, he leads everything up to slaughterhouses and the main supply of income for fast food franchises – the meat. After visiting the meat industries in America, Schlosser explores the expansion of fast food around the eastern hemisphere – including the first McDonalds in Germany. Throughout Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser presents in his point of view and informative tone, a detailed disscussion of the conditions using various examples imagry and flowing diction/syntax to help support and show his audience the reasoning behind the novel.
The master caught Sarny trying to learn how to write on the dirt. He asked “what are you scribbling in the dirt?” She thought she will be better of lying. Therefore, she said “Nothing. Something I saw on an old feed sack. I didn’t know it was wrong to make it in the dirt.”
The subject of this chapter is the author. It is similar to Chris because he was as stubborn as McCandless since he was a nonconformist and didn’t obey what others told him to do. Next, he traveled to Alaska since he wanted to feel what it was like to get out of the country that he was living in. He also valued the life where he can do whatever he wants instead of conforming to the society. He said, “The world was suddenly rich with possibility” (Krakauer 136).
Chapter seven is very short,we go back to MacDonald Critchley who had gained a huge interest about the third person phenomenon and he believes it was a presence from within. John then goes on to chapter eight, he tells about stories where the victims of this presence were in a crisis of losing a loved one by any type of cause or they were almost going to lose them. John had noticed that in most of these situations, when there is a time of crisis the presence appears before them when they are losing their companions, even to those from chapter one through 6. John called this “the widow affect” which is the moment in which a presence of the third man would aid those with loneliness.
Americans are constantly facing obstacles to healthy eating. Obesity is something that is growing rapidly in the United States. Some Americans argue that fast-food restaurants play a major role in obesity. In “Preventing Obesity” Barbara Mantel states, “Four of the companies — Cadbury, Coca-Cola, Hershey and Mars — pledge not to advertise any food and beverage products on programming for children younger than 12, and the remaining firms pledge that 100 percent of their children's advertising would be for self-designated ‘better-for-you’ products ” (805-806). Whenever children see a junk-food or candy commercial they are instantly attracted to it, it might be because of how colorful they are or the usual toy they receive when they buy kids
For example, Moss spoke to Bob Drane, inventor of the Lunchables, on how they started adding sugar to the packaging by including Kool-Aid, cookies and other extras when customers started to get bored with the plain packages. Moreover, they started targeting younger kids. When the company shifted focus to the kids, the ads started showing up in the Sunday morning cartoons which announced: “All day, you gotta do what they say, but lunchtime is all yours.” In their ads they generated a feeling of empowerment to kids who now want to eat lunchables as an act of independence. They don’t make it about what is inside, but they form it into a psychological aspect.
Corporations push their products toward students all day and then when they go home, they feel the desire to buy more of these products. Students begin to form strong bonds with these corporations, such as McDonalds or other fast food restaurants, and then they end up continuously buying and eating their food because they see it everywhere, even at school, making them believe that buying their products is the right choice. Chick-Fil-A sponsors Austin High School Theater and although Chick-Fil-A is not as unhealthy as some other fast food restaurants, Theater doesn’t get a lot of profit from this sponsorship, which doesn’t give their organization a lot of money. This shows that although schools believe that corporate sponsorship gives them a lot of money, this isn’t always the case and sometimes you end up losing more money than you began with in the first place. Also, in Fast Food Nation, Coca-Cola gave an awful deal to a school, so when they tried to sponsor Coca-Cola, the school didn’t meet the certain amount of sales they had to