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    Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser is a nonfiction book that examines the effects of fast food on society and this mind map attempts to illustrate the important details. This media mind map was created by hand with construction paper, paint, printed words, and actual packaging from various McDonald's products. The font of the words is simple as the novel raises serious issues that require a level of professionalism. The colours I chose are like the ones you find in a McDonald’s restaurant to engage

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    Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, used ethos, pathos, and logos to get his readers on his side of the argument. Schlosser understood how to use rhetoric when writing this book, he knew how to appeal to our emotions, how to maintain his credibility, and he had clear motives throughout. He made it pretty clear that he didn’t like fast food, using words like “mundane” or “unexceptional,” those words are almost never used in good context (3). Schlosser used many facts and statistics to amplify

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    Fast Food Nation Essay In the business world, many people have prime focuses which determine what actions they should take in attempts to achieve their goals. Sometimes this drive can be beneficial, ensuring one’s path to success. Everyone’s motives are different as they are ultimately produced through one’s life experiences and attitudes. The same could be said about Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald’s Corporation. In his book, Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser discusses Kroc’s journey through McDonald’s

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    Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, is a stark and unrelenting look into the fast food industry that has ingrained itself in not only American culture, but in many cultures around the world. There is almost no place on earth that the golden arches has not entered. Aside from Antarctica, there is a McDonalds on every continent, and the number of countries that have fast food restaurants is growing on a daily basis. Schlosser describes in detail what happens behind the scenes, before the hamburger

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    Fast Food Vs Food Nation

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    Fast Food Nation Vs. Food Inc. (Body Paragraph) 1. The Fast Food Nation Novel and the Food Inc. stress/focus on two different things. The Fast Food Nation Novel stress more on operating fast food industries. While, the Food Inc. documentary talks more about the secret that food industries hide from its consumers. For instance, the novel tells more on the history of famous fast food restaurants such as McDonald, Carl’s Junior, and Domino Pizza. Besides that, the novel also mentioned about the process

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    November 24, 2014 Are We a Fast Food Nation? Over the past few decades the way Americans eat breakfast, lunch, and diner have change. In the past we used to track our food that involved a lot of physical activity, but now Americans regular routine is to get in the car, drive to drive thru, receive food in a instance, and it has become a habit. Since the recession the fast food industry has recover and it’s doing better than ever. The burgers being the most popular fast food sold in America. America

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    Throughout the novel Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser was able to incorporate the use of multiple examples of rhetorical devices to better enhance the meaning and structure of this piece. In doing so Schlosser opened the door to enormous amounts of possibilities in terms of the lessons the readers gain from reading the novel. Without embedding these rhetorical devices into the book all meaning would be lost and would simply be words on a page, however Schlosser was able to provide the opposite of

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    Fast food is very popular amongst today’s society. Fast Food Nation has reasons for the explosion in popularity of fast food restaurants in the mid-1900’s. It also explains negative effects on American Culture in today’s society. The fast-food industry has multiplied across America and changed the food industry. Eric Schlosser describes in Fast Food Nation the way people think about what they eat and what people think of the fast food industry, and also its impact on society. 2 ND There are many

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    Carl N. Karcher was one of fast foods innovators. Carl was born in Ohio in the year 1917. After the eighth grade, he quit school in order to help his father with their farm. At the age of twenty, Carl's uncle offered him a job in his business named "Feed and Seed" store located in Anaheim, California. After thinking about it, Carl decided and then proceeded to move to California where he met his wife Margaret and then continued to start his own family. Carl and Margaret bought a hotdog cart; while

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    In the novel Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal, journalist Eric Schlosser investigates the influence of the American fast food industry. One of the most prominent rhetorical devices that Schlosser utilizes throughout his writing is Logos. Logos is one of three rhetorical appeals and, as defined by Aristotle, is the appeal to logic and is a way of persuading an audience through reason. By presenting facts and statistics on nearly every page Schlosser subconsciously causes the

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