In Amitai Etzioni’s essay, “Working at McDonald’s”, he boldly opens with “McDonald’s is bad for your kids. I do not mean the flat patties and the white-flour buns; I refer to the jobs teen-agers undertake, mass-producing these choice items.” His essay, through an eye-opening perspective, convincingly outlines how McDonald’s and fast food restaurants alike are bad for teenagers. With his strong use of comparing and contrasting traditional thoughts of teenagers in the fast food workforce versus his perspective of the effect of fast food restaurants, evidence based studies with statistics, and organizational flow, he clearly shows a perspective rarely touched on by many.…
The article “Cops Who Covered Up Laquan McDonald’s Death Back on Chicago Payroll,” by Michael Harriot, connects to the theme of Justice in Ghettoside because in the article, the police officers who tried to cover up Laquan McDonald’s death were not punished for anything they did and were even put back on the city’s payroll. Which shows that law enforcement isn’t concerned with trying to stop the violence in their cities. This is similar to Ghettoside because at one point in the book it is said that many officers just sit and do nothing acting like they’re important, and the people supervising them don’t punish them for it. These officers sitting around and doing nothing leads to fewer crimes being solved on the streets of L.A. This article “13 shot, 5 fatally, in Monday violence across Chicago,” by Chicago News, is a report of the number of deaths on Monday, June 12 in the city of Chicago. Thirteen were shot and five were killed within the thirteen.…
In “Working at McDonald’s,” Amitai Etzioni argues that McDonald’s is “bad for your kids” and doesn’t provide essential skills that they can utilize in the future. The author states McDonald’s is not educational and kids are not participating in school activities as working part time at McDonald’s is diverting their attention away from essential learning experience. The author goes on to explain teens are working long hours and supervision is often “tight and woefully inappropriate.” For example, to keep costs down “teens are supervising teens with often no adult on the premises.” Etzioni suggests parents should not assume teen employment is educational and can be easily abused.…
The author states that fast food places are marketed to children and most fast food workers are only teenagers. The fast food industry mostly depends on the young. There was a period when a lot of babies were born; the period was called baby boom period. This was great for the franchise stores, soon those babies would grow up to become kids. The author informs that fast food workers in the nation that are under twenty is about two…
People might think of fast food as a benign convenience of modern times. The food is good, cheap, plentiful, easily accessible, filling, and the restaurants are clean. What could be wrong? Reading Eric Schlosser’s groundbreaking study Fast Food Nation, one learns that just about everything is. Schlosser uncovers a history of corruption, greed, and disregard for the welfare of workers and customers in franchises such as McDonald’s, Burger King, and Jack in the Box, to name a few.…
Working at McDonald’s: A beneficial work experience for America’s youth The employment of high school students has been a widely discussed topic. This particular issue gives rise to many debates on the positive and negative effects of teen employment. Amitai Etzioni, author of “Working at McDonald’s,” details his stance on this particular issue.…
Teen jobs can be an excellent a thing if you have the right mindset. Most people look at teen jobs and think that they are an awesome idea, but that’s only because they only know half the truth. Amitai Etzoini, author of Working at McDonald’s claims that teen jobs are not beneficial because they aren’t educational, escapes from school and distorts the…
Fast food had made people who are living in the present lazy, dependent, and unhealthy. Though it is popular, fast food has an overall bad influence on society. Initially, it is very unhealthy. As stated in “McJobs”, all of the food that is delivered to fast food restaurants is pre made and frozen when it arrives.…
Throughout this entire article, “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko, Zinczenko tells his readers how we as a society shouldn’t put all of the blame for young adults and children getting fat on them. We need to put more of the blame in this situation on the fast food restaurants not the “eaters.” Zinczenko admits he was one of these kids, his father was out of the picture trying to fix his life, and his mom was having to work a full time job to pay the bills. So lunch and dinner for him was an option between McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza. He admits that times have still not changed much since then and still in today’s society these are the only options for younger people to get affordable meals that are left…
Eventually everyone has to do some sort of work. However during high school, getting a job can be distracting, and avert a student from focusing on their education. The ways employment can harms a student’s schooling are, the time needed to do work, a lack of sleep through staying up late doing homework, the excitement of earning money, and drugs and alcohol use as a result of extra spending money. Steinberg finishes the article by referencing the belief that a job in adolescence builds character.…
Eric Schlosser, the author of Fast Food Nation, used techniques of persuasion through ethos, pathos, and logos and they help him become credible when it comes to uncovering the dark sides of the fast food industry. Schlosser’s audience are the people who eat at fast food establishments and who buy their products without knowing what it takes to serve it. By analyzing the book we can see how the author’s use of rhetoric analysis supports his argument. It not only benefited his purpose, but it also helped the reader understand it and take a stance on his argument. Pathos is an appeal to emotion and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response.…
I support both of these claims, and from personal experience, fast-food industries care more about their product getting out there and having more money incoming rather than how their employees are doing. They target teenagers because they don’t know any better than what they are first given.…
First, teenagers are unskilled and they need to learn marketable skills that can help them through their working career. However, fast food jobs do not teach many job skills and require very low-skilled workers. Schlosser noted how the fast food industry collects millions of tax dollars to train employees (p. 77). The second way that I believe the two are at odds is the teenager’s desire for social status within their community. Fast food jobs do not have the benefits or status of more desirable jobs.…
Parents should’ve been aware already of how unhealthy fast food is before giving their children money constantly to buy fast food. Parents shouldn’t be that mad at the fast-food industry when they’re also part of the reason why their child is…
People always thought working at McDonald’s is lame, but it depends. For teen-agers, who go to school regularly and don’t have any working experiences, McDonald’s won’t be a bad choice. However, there are some arguments against it due to the long hours and highly structured job without any creativities. In fact, this fast-food chain has flexible schedules, teaches youngsters responsibility and can help teens develop skills which are beneficial for their future career. McDonald’s gives its staff very flexible schedules.…