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NY 'Times Article'

Washington Monument
That's one tall woman.
By Sam Anderson

In the article Anderson speaks on the height of first lady Michelle Obama. He states how her height has been debated for months. But, with that Anderson states how Mrs. Obama carries herself in a positive an well rounded manner. Michelle may be tall but she is able to still work what she wear with her height intacked. Anderson compares Mrs. Obama to previous first ladies like Eleanor Roosevelt. He states how she stood about 7foot with her boots on.But, he really displays information when he states how in ancient Egyptian statuary height was coordinated precisely with social status. This was proven correct with how positive Michelle is not because she is our first lady but because she is a positive woman in general.

Application: if Michelle was not as talk as she is do you think that people would talk about her as much without them knowing how positive she is or about her being an African-American?

Clarification: Soo is her height really important to what we think of her? Why do we realy focus on that?

Fast Food Nation Post 3

In concluding the novel "Fast Food Nation" Schlosser reveals a lot of valid information on meat. he reveals the making of our meat and what is in it. He also speaks on a deadly disease called "Escherichia coli O157:H7",a virulent and potentially lethal foodborne pathogen. Schlosser also gives insight on how a normal person found out that they had this horrible disease. A victim of the E. coli O157:H7 virus was a man named Lee Harding. But through Mr. Harding that they found out that this food posioning is found more so in ground beef and rarely found in chicken. And ground beef is continuosly used in the fast food industry as we know. Schlosser then warns us that the people that really can suffer from this disease is the elderly, children under the age of five, and the people with weak immune systems are the most likely to suffer from any illnesses caused by E. coli O157:H7. An example he gives is a young boy age 11 becoming ill with this virus after eatting a hamburger from his school. They then trace it back to the company and comfirm that this company's meat was infected with the disease. Schlosser hits a lot of these different asspects on the head and he willingly give the information without regret. He then states americans ways have rubbed off onto other countries who have just adopted our ways. This disease has really infected around 200,00 people and hospitalized around 900 this was very tragic. We as a nation need to find a way to put a stop to this.

{clarification:} From reading this chunk did it make you kind of want to be caution with your meat now? Did you feel any type of emotions toward this chunk??

{application:} Have you ever incounter a virus similar to this one but just not as severe?

Fast Food Nation Post 2...!!...

In the next part of the novel Eric Schlosser is talking about what happens in the kitchens of the fast food resturants. He gives us the insite of how they make their foods before they are served for our enjoyment. He gave well thought up information about how fast food resturants treat their employees also. He stated that every fast food resturant is mostly ran by teens. He also clarified that the employees are mostly all teenagers. Every fast food company feels that teens are the best to hire because they will work for low pay. They also felt this way about immigrants,handicape and so on because they wouldnt complain about it they would just work. the most exclusive information that was given was when Schlosser spoke on how the excutives felt about training their employees. They wanted to make all the machinery simple so that they would not have to train them and show them how to work the equipment. For example one of the executives stated "if there are instructions, make them very simple write them at a fifth grade level and write them in Spanish and English." The executives had all agreed to "zero training." The executives of the fast food resturants feel no need to train us they think less of us and do not really care about us as their employees.

Do you feel differently about the executives of these fast food resturants now that you know how they are behind closed doors?

What makes all these executives think that all people that need the money will just automatically work for low pay? Why would they do their employees like that? Do you see the ignorance in this?Does this highly offend you?

Fast Food!!!!!!

So far in Eric Schlosser's novel "Fast Food Nation" it explains how all fast food resturants are appealing not only to the adults but more so to the children. They believe that the children bring in the parents and the parents bring in the money. Eric Schlosser explains how they feel that when appealing to these kids they will soon become employees there. he also gives examples on how they appeal to these young ones. He states that they built playgrounds so that children will continuously want to come and eat there. Then they put toys in every child's meal this is the main reason children always wish to come back. He then gives us a personal point of veiw when he tells us how most of the employees are always teens. he says that teens working in fast food resturants get paid about 20% below the average wage. but eric is really pointing at howew these fast food resturants a munipulating us.


how do you personally feel about how fast food appeals to the world? do you feel that they need to change some things about their appeal?

do you believe that if fast food resyurants only sold healthy products would they appeal to us like they do now?