The Nation

In Fast Food Nation, the author, Eric Schlosser, creates an argument against the fast food business, how it affects people’s health or lives, its practices, and specifically exploiting how these businesses, blinded by income, overlook important issues. He details the business from its very beginnings, its evolution, and with an expansive afterword, describes what the business is like years after his book was published. Throughout his detailed descriptions and background, Schlosser uses several…

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser exposes the evolution of the fast food industries and the dangers and the negative ways in which it boomed. The first chapter, The American Way reveals the progressiveness of some fast food founders such as Ray Kroc. As the fast food industry grew and evolved, the way meals were served and made changed as well. The fast food restaurants started out having neon signs to attract customers cruising by on the roads and had waitresses known as carhops serve the food…

Does the United Nations (UN) care about women? This is a controversial topic because it examines if one of the worlds largest and most powerful international governance organizations considers women to be important. The assumption would be that the UN holds an obligation to women as half the world 's population, but Cynthia Enloe in her most recent lecture highlighted the ways women are working to be recognized and protected by the UN. Enloe began by describing the structure of the UN, which…

People have wondered for many years, why certain nations have succeeded, while others fall. This question has intrigued many people. From economist, scientist, to historians. David S. Landes an economic historian who was a professor at Harvard University, tries to answer the question of why some nations are wealthier than others, while others suffer from poverty. In his book The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor David Landes uses his background in economics and…

The United Nations Security Council is one of the six main organizations within the United Nations. Additional organizations within the United Nations are the General Assembly, The International Court of Justice, The United Nations Secretariat and The United Nations Economic and Social Council. Of the six organizations, only the Security Council is capable of imposing policies and sanctions on other members of the United Nations. Having this capability, they can decide to declare new policies…

numerous actors that play apart in international politics, I find that the most critical and vital is the state. It is the primary vehicle for diplomacy, stability, defense and cooperation in a world of anarchy with no other actor existing above it. The nation-state has existed since 1648 after the Peace of Westphalia. The two international theory paradigms I will be using to prove my point is Realism and Liberalism, both in how they conflict with one another, but as well, the common points…

There are multiple problems that the author of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser, mentions. Many people may disagree on Schlosser’s point of view on his stand on fast food companies, but there are other people such as myself that agree on many of Schlosser’s points. A few points that I agree with Schlosser are the working conditions that minors and immigrants have to work in, the mystery in the mystery meat, and the meatpacking industry. Schlosser loves to talk about how bad the working…

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser is a 288-page, non-fiction novel that divulges the ugly consequences which affect our culture when billions of people around the globe buy fast food every day. This book discusses both the origins of fast food after World War II in America and the ins-and-outs of the fast food industry which are not often considered, including unsanitary working conditions, tainted meat, corporate greed, and the harmful environmental…

since the mid 1900’s, the fast food industry has developed into something bigger than what it was when it started, this book, Fast Food Nation, was written by a man named Eric Schlosser. “McDonald’s French fries were once flavored with beef tallow, a processed form of hard white fat found on the kidneys and loins of cattle”. The fast food industry in this nation has grown fast and if it were not for the speedy service system, Automobiles, or teenagers then the fast food industry would not be so…

Eric Schlosser, in his book, Fast Food Nation, advocates for changes in how American food is recently being produced in meatpacking industries. Schlosser’s purpose is to end meatpackers ability to sell and raise their cattle as they wish even if it is less than acceptable. He argues against the corporate corruption using the devices of anecdote, logos, and tone. Schlosser begins chapter nine of his book by narrating the consequences of the industrialization of beef in america. He appeals to the…