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    200-acre farm in the Ozarks of Mansfield, Missouri. On Rocky Ridge Farm, as they came to call it, the Wilders built a farmhouse, raised livestock and did all their own farm work. The 'Little House ' Series In the 1910s Wilder 's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, by then grown up and a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin, encouraged her mother to write about her childhood. In the 1920s, Wilder 's first attempt at writing an autobiography, called Pioneer Girl, was uniformly rejected by publishers. Determined

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    Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote many books that we are familiar with today; in particular, the Little House series. Even before Laura Ingalls Wilder had the fame of the books, which were not published until later in her life, she would write short nonfiction pieces for newspapers and magazines (Hines). Laura Ingalls Wilder started first as a teacher, fell in love with and married Almanzo Wilder which caused her to quit teaching, and subsequently had two children - a daughter named Rose and a son who

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    Little House on the Prairie is one of the most beloved television series of all time and is based on the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder which were published between 1932 and 1943. In an interesting note, Wilder originally set out to write an autobiography aimed at an adult audience but couldn't find a publisher, so she ended up using the material from her autobiography to write the Little House books. Bringing Little House to Television Walt Disney expressed interest in bringing the

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    most reliable cars in its class. Toyota is a brand known for reliability. It has a maximum score of 5 when it comes to crash testing. The new Toyota Avalon comes with numerous safety and driver assistance features, including forward collision warning, lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control, and high-beam assist. Available safety features include rear cross traffic alert, rain-sensing windshield wipers, and blind spot monitoring. Only a few cars can compete with the Avalon when it comes to safety

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    Mcdonalds

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    Introduction The organisation we are going to look in this assignment is McDonalds. McDonald’s is the leading global foodservice outlet with more than 33,500 local restaurants serving approximately 69 million people in 119 countries each day. More than 80% of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local men and women. http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/investors/company_profile.html McDonalds has developed its operation to a very high level of efficiency over years

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    percent of fast food sales because of how convenient they are. For these reasons being drive-throughs should be banned from restaurants, so that people may not have to waste their time and money in a line. Even though thirty-two million gallons of gas are being wasted per year, we shouldn't get rid of them because fast-food places would go out of business. It all started in the 1930s, when the Grand National Bank in St. Louis, Missouri placed a teller in a window next to a traffic lane to let

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    control and screaming while the parents ignored them and ate, letting the children roam around. A pattern I noticed over the hour was more families and children coming in at first then, later on, mainly teenagers, couples, and young adults were in the fast food restaurant eating. I noticed conformity with the children

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    these foods can be to the body. In the past, most families did not really have the options of fast food that they have today. Now, instead of having a home cooked meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it is more convenient and easier for families to go get fast food. As women began to enter the working environment, they seeked out new ways for quicker and easier preparation which began the rise of the fast food industry. Society is seeking out the industries for blame but the consumer is to blame

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    healthy Mediterranean diet will continue to be under siege by fast food which could see the healthiest people in the world become fat and more prone to diet-based diseases. As noted earlier, the problem of health and culture go together not only in Europe, but also in the Asian markets. Various countries in Asia have seen very similar results of what is happening in the Mediterranean. Many Asian nations have been invaded by the fast-food industry and have seen their culture and health decline

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    American Urban Landscape

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    landscapes and its legendary urbanism: the Grand Canyon, the Manhattan skyline. But it wasn’t until visiting much later that I experienced what is truly the iconic American landscape: the strip, that stretch of multi-lane road leading off into the distance, surrounded on either side by fast-food restaurants, islands of retail lost in seas of asphalt.” It is against this backdrop, the “true” American landscape, that most of our citizens go about their lives. The suburban model won the hopes and imaginations

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