McDonaldland

In a world dominated by mortals striving to be fit and making only people with the best physical features to be socially accepted lived a man different than others in a gigantic way. But let's back up a couple of years, back 3 years to be exact. The world was in a dark place, air filled with harmful gasses, people dying of untreatable diseases, wars across the globe destroying the human race, yet people weren't accepting the facts and they were lying to himself. Nobody wanted to accept that they were all faking and that they are ruining their own home, somebody needed to take a stand. In Irvington, New Jersey a 20 year old man named Tyriq Thomas Kimbrough was on his way up to success in order to provide a good quality life for his family in a rough world. Tyriq was always different looking than the people you would regularly see in the streets due to his size. Tyriq didn't listen to the people who inflicted hatred upon him, society wanted him to be skinny with abs but Tyriq lived his own life and got large in size. Tyriq went on to go by the name of Fatboy to establish confidence and appreciation of his size, his new name didn't catch on so quick but he worked hard everyday to make his name known everywhere. Fatboy needed a power source for all the extraneous amounts of work he had to do to become successful, so he ventured far around New Jersey, through the murky waters, over the filthy city grounds littered with trash and wrappers, over the tops of expensive shiny…

In the essay, “Your Trusted Friends,” Scholsser talks about the comparison between Walt Disney and Ray A. Kroc, the founder of the McDonald’s company. In his essay, Scholsser explains how the company was opposed to Kroc’s idea of building a large theme park. Scholsser later explained, “Instead of buying or investing in a large theme park,...[the company] built small Playlands and McDonaldlands all over the United States”(Scholsser, 12). This way, the company would not have to focus on bringing…

responsibility never ends and corporate responsibility only begins when laws are broken. The way Klosterman does this is by reviewing and criticizing the popular health documentary, ‘Supersize Me,’ in which the main star of the film examines the many health problems one encounters on a diet solely consisting of McDonald’s food. It is through the use of rhetorical appeals that Klosterman is able to convince the readers of his ideas. To begin, Klosterman starts his argument by providing his first…

opinion of a restaurant inculcated in them when they lacked any critical ability to distinguish advertisements from regular programming on television. In the same vein, as other important studies of multinational companies, such as Anne Klein’s No Logo (2001), Fast Food Nation is very concerned with the effects of marketing. These books seek to deprogram those susceptible to advertising’s claims, demystifying logos and brands that have developed a cumulative force over the years. Schlosser…