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[Scorpion]

I've seen other people on here ask for similar help, so i thought why not. I'm doin this paper for english class, I have to write 5 pages about how the fast food industry repersents the american way of life. Its due tomorrow, and i've been sitting here for the past 7 hours and have only been able to come up wit a page. I cant think of anything else to write, so does anyone have any input or info on the subject, any help would be greatly appreaciated.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Fast food is fattening. It is estimated that 93$ of americans are eating the food that makes them fat. Grease intake at an alltme high. One thing that i would have people keep in mind is that Mcdonalds was founded in 1973 by a Randy Savage and his communist friends who wanted to eat and make the americans have heart attacks. They were working for the Soviet KGB and in cahoots with Ronald Reagan as part of his star wars plans.

 

[Brannon]

Fast Food and the American way of life. SUBJECTS

-ease of use, aquisition, and consumption
---how the menu is set up into nice easy blocks (I'd like a #4, 8, etc)
---convenience, location
---MTV generation (I WANT IT NOW NOW NOW) and how fast food is always trying to get faster (ever see those customer service clocks in the kitchen?).

-heavily commercialized/recognizable

-not very healthy but widely perused like TV
---contribution to sedentary effortless lifestyle (no need to cook a healthy breakfast just truck on down to McD for eggs 'n bacon)

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Get to work young sir. And I want that paper NOW NOW NOW!!!

 

[Miguel]

Procrastination rocks.

Time since project assigned (divided by) Time before project is due = grade



Assigned 21 days ago = 504 hours
Project is due = 6 hours from now

Grade = 84

 

[FnordChan]

Go read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser and you'll have plenty of material to work with.

FnordChan

 

[human5892]

Go read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser and you'll have plenty of material to work with.

FnordChan

And after that, you can read his book "Reefer Madness" -- not for a report, but just because it's so damn interesting.

 

[Brannon]

Sooooooooo.... how'd that report go?

 

[Loki]

I have to write 5 pages about how the fast food industry repersents the american way of life

It may or may not represent the "American way of life" (if such a thing can even be defined anymore), but I'll be the first to say that it's sad if it does. I'm not sure how much time you have, but even if it's not for the purposes of this paper, do yourself a favor and read "The McDonaldization of Society" (by Prof. George Ritzer; meticulously referenced and annotated; ~300 pages but a very quick reading book). It examines the impact which fast-food chains and the "fast-food mentality" have had on our society in various sectors. An updated version was recently released, iirc, and it has even more current examples and information drawn from the present day.


Suffice it to say that the the fast-food industry doesn't "represent the American way of life" so much as the American way of life represents the fast-food industry, if you catch my drift. In other words, the social trends ushered in by fast-food chains, which are now ubiquitous in society, have served to shape our society-- the industry has never been affected by the "American way of life", even before it held sway in society; the direction of causality (in the "strongly correlative" sense) was always the other way around. McDonald's never became "Americanized", in terms of adhering to the dominant strains of thought in our society; rather, America-- along with the rest of the world-- has become increasingly "McDonaldized".