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There are three fast food restaurants that I chose as the businesses for this assignment; Sonic Drive-In, McDonalds, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. All three of these businesses are fast food restaurants. Sonic Drive-In is a curb side restaurant in which car hops bring the customer’s order to their car. McDonald and Kentucky Fried Chicken are both dine-in sit down restaurants that also offer a drive-thru window in car service. The three businesses have similar operations involved in their inputs

The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands What comes to mind when someone mentions video games? A lot of people will think of a waste of time or a device for creating lazy children. That very well may be in a lot of cases, but from a different point of view, video games have very important uses. Instead of creating lazy children, they eliminate boredom for them. We all know what types of activities children find when they are bored. There is also a huge job market in video games ranging from programming

It was hard for me to watch this movie and separate Napoleon’s behaviors from his friends and family members. Many of the things he does and says are like those of the people around him. His overall weirdness was not behavior that I immediately would have identified as Asperger’s, rather someone who is simply a little odd. However, as I continued to watch the movie I was able to find certain examples that could be red flags for Asperger’s. From the very beginning of the movie, it seemed like Napoleon

premise that flows through this story is that music is connected to the real world and weaves through Connie 's dream world. Connie is very much like many teenagers in our society today. Connie found joy in leaving and hanging out with her friends at drive-in restaurants, listening to music and daydreaming about boys. “The restaurant was shaped like a big bottle, though squatter than a real bottle, and on its cap was a revolving figure of a grinning boy holding a hamburger aloft”(370). Overall her pleasure

McDonald’s was founded in 1948 after Dick and Mac McDonald shut down the Bar-B-Que restaurant. Three months after shutting it down in December it reopens as a self-service drive in restaurant known as McDonald’s. In 1961 Ray Kroc purchases the interests of the McDonald brothers along with the rights to the McDonald’s name for $2.7 million. McDonald’s had continued to grow from a small restaurant in California into the world’s most recognized fast food chain. McDonald’s operates in over 119 countries

Visual Art Critique For my visual art critique, I attend the Texas State University Wittliff Collections on Tuesday, October tenth. During my visit I viewed works of art from the Lonesome Dove collection. The first piece of work I critiques was the photograph “Crossing the Rio Grande” taken by Bill Wittliff. This photo was taken on the set of the Lonesome Dove in 1988. What stood out to me was the significance of how real this photo is. So many slaves have tried to cross this river to escape persecution

does not always mean it is good for you. For example, fast food, even though it is at your fingertips whenever you would like it, you Taylor Morrison Sociology 4344 Section 04 Spring 2015 Dr. Jason Konefal actually may experience long lines in the drive-thru because it is such a hot commodity, plus fast food is generally very unhealthy for you. Work being performed by the actual customer is rationalization. The demand for

the fast food chain. Given that many of these fast food restaurants still are profitable and successful today, there is no doubt that these companies are doing something to insure their food continues to draw people into their many restaurants and drive in locations. At an attempt to study the four principles of George Ritzer’s “McDonaldization of Society”, I observed three different fast food restaurants. My observations included McDonald's and Jack in the box.. George Ritzer came up with the term

The 2000’s and 2010’s has become the most transformative age for video games and the gamers who make them popular. Within the last 15 years the amount of gaming devices in homes has risen to eighty-eight percent. This is a large leap from where the original “Brown Box” console created by Ralph Baer in nineteen sixty-seven, but video games didn’t just go through a cut scene and magically appear in everyone’s homes. They have had it rough from lawsuits, heavy competition between companies, and even

the FTL drive has been tampered with.” Harry stared at Steve for a moment, “Elle, have the FTL drives been tampered with?” “Affirmative.” “Elle, please describe the problems with the drives?” “FTL warp drive propulsion for factor three and four have been disabled.” “Elle, how have they been disabled?” “The White Couplers have been disconnected.” “What are the White Couplers?” Steve asked Harry. “They’re named after the NASA engineer Harold White that designed the first FTL warp drive. They