Essay On Mcdonald And Gloria

Having established the purpose of strict liability, it is evident as to why it can be seen as a controversial area in law making and this essay will outline some of the arguments for and against it that are commonly put forward on the effective enforcement of the law and the maintenance of standards.

To sum up, based on the law of negligence, the issues and precedents, Rebecca could win this case by legal process. Because the defendant ‘Zorba’s’ Restaurant owns a duty of care to Rebecca, the restaurant has breached that duty of care;

The way that Burger King and other fast food restaurant chains do business and markets their products to consumers is due to the change in our society to where the consumer wants the biggest, fastest, and best product they can get for their money. This change in society can be attributed to a process known as McDonaldization. Although McDonaldization can be applied to many other parts of our society, this paper will focus on its impact on Burger King and Taco Bell restaurants. My belief is that the process of McDonaldization has lead our generations toward a more a much more efficient lifestyle, with much less quality. From my observations and studies of these fast food resturants, several themes have become

It is likely that Ms. Gonzales will be found liable for Mr. Sutton’s injuries under the Dram Shop Act as the evidence shows both that Mr. Sutton had been “obviously intoxicated”, in a readily apparent manner, when he was served alcohol at Ms. Gonzales’s art show, and also because Mr. Sutton’s intoxicated state had been the proximate cause of his injuries. Tex. Alco. Bev. Code Ann. § 2.02 (LexisNexis, Lexis Advance through the 2015 regular session, 84th Legislature). There are two elements, within the Texas Dram Shop Act, that must be met in order for a provider to be liable for a patron’s injuries. The first element that must be met is that the patron had been served alcohol, even though “at the time the provision occurred it was

In part 1 of this essay, we will examine the difference between factual causation and legal causation. In part 2, we will examine the judgements in both cases and how the courts applied the material contribution test to both. In part 3, our analytical section, we will examine how both of these cases have blurred the distinction between legal and factual causation and argue that the material contribution test has changed the path of the law for future cases.

However, as Cole et. al. notes, the potential reasons for the perceived decrease in the effectiveness of no-fault law includes: changes in the compensation of accident victims, problems with the interpretation and levels of thresholds, over-utilization of first- party

"I went through so much with these kids. I'm just ready to call it quits," said Patricia Holdaway, the first parent charged under the curfew law of Roanoke, Virginia. Her 16-year-old son was arrested at 5 a.m. for his fifth curfew violation and for driving without a license. "I just left. It's not her fault. She shouldn't be held responsible. I know right from wrong," replied her son (Leo). So who should be held responsible, the parent or the child ? As cases similar to Patricia's continue to increase, states are starting to hold the parents responsible for the crimes of their children. As a result of this matter, John Leo presented the benefits of

In the case, Ryan v. Friesenhahn, the plaintiffs are Sandra and Stephen Ryan who are suing the defendants, Nancy and Frederick Friesenhahn. Nancy and Frederick’s son, Todd Friesenhahn, provided an “open invitation” to a party hosted at the Friesenhahn’s household that included a “bring your own bottle” invitation. Sandra and Stephen Ryan’s daughter, Sabrina, was in attendance at the Friesenhahn’s residence during the “open invitation” party. During the time that Sabrina was at the household, she became intoxicated. Sabrina Ryan operated a motor vehicle upon leaving the Friesenhahn’s property intoxicated and was then involved in a fatal accident.

Mr. Werman is not likely to be found liable for Ms. Carlson’s accident. There are four elements for social host liability, (1) the host knew the guest was intoxicated, (2) the host furnished alcohol to the guest even after the guest was intoxicated, (3) the guest negligently drove intoxicated, (4) the host knew or should have known the guest would have driven. McGuiggan v. New York Telephone & Telephone Co., 398 Mass. 152, 496 N.E.2d 141 (Mass. 1986). Mr. Werman knew the guest was intoxicated. However, he did not provide Ms. Carlson with alcohol. Ms. Carlson negligently dove, but Mr. Werman could not foresee that Ms. Carlson would drive.

Imagine yourself behind the counter or in the drive- through window at McDonalds. You are programmed how to act and what to say. You have been working there for three years and earn a salary of $5.50 an hour. You have never exceeded 29 hours while working there. These circumstances are true for over 40 percent of six million people employed in restaurants today. The reason for these circumstances are due to the change in our society by which the consumer wants the biggest, fastest, and best product they can get for their money. This change in society can be attributed to a process known as McDonaldization. Although McDonaldization can be applied to many other parts of our society, this paper will focus on its impacts on the inequalities

George Ritzer, in his book The McDonaldization of Society, has given a good understanding of the kind of world we live in. He describes the concept of McDonaldization, which is the process in which the principles that form the basis of McDonalds are greatly influencing the rest of society. McDonalds runs its business on the following key elements: efficiency, calculability, predictability and control by non-human technologies. A fifth element, which Ritzer perceives as a disadvantage of McDonaldization, is the irrationality of rationality. This is the idea that a society which is based entirely on rationality is not a normal human society because humans are not

According to George Ritzer, bureaucracy completely dehumanized the social institutions in America. He sees the bureaucracy as having four components: efficiency, predictability, control and quantification. He terms this dehumanization of an institution as "McDonaldization". One of the most prevalent examples in modern society is the health care institution. In the past, health care was more simplistic in nature. House calls were not unheard of, and doctors knew all of their patients and their families on a personal level. The doctor who delivered your parents would deliver you as well as your future children. Follow-ups were quite normal; doctors were concerned with your progress for their own peace of mind. It is only recently that the

McDonaldization is becoming the new wave of job types where workers are being deskilled, dehumanized and exploited. Machines are taking over tasks which the employees used to do such as bank machines (interact). The McDonaldized jobs now instead of making the employee do all the work they have the customer working too, for example when the customer cleans up after eating. These jobs are becoming less interactive and personal because workers are becoming dehumanized and only allowed to follow a script, there is also the fact that fast food Company’s use drive through, where limited interaction occurs and are many restrictions. These types of jobs which the author George Ritzer labeled

George Ritzer describes McDonaldization as “the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world”. McDonaldization is the idea that our society is becoming more efficient and more fast paced. Rational systems can be defined as “unreasonable, dehumanizing systems that deny the humanity, the human reason, of the people who work within them or are served by them”.1 Today there are many types of businesses that are increasingly adapting the same values and principles of the fast-food industry to their needs. Rational systems are dehumanizing our society and seem to be even more irrational than convenient. “Almost every aspect of

McDonald's has had a global impact on the food industry. McDonald's developed a revolutionary idea known today as fast-food. This impact began in 1930 when Maurice and Richard McDonald left New Hampshire seeking to make a fortune in Hollywood, started up a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino. Unlike so many other food-service operations at the time, McDonald's came up with new ideas that turned the usual slow paced dinner into a finely tuned engine.