In Working at McDonald's, Amitai Etzioni portrays reasons why young people don't profit by McDonald's sort of job. His perspective is that low maintenance occupations meddles with school participation and association and don't grant aptitudes fundamental for future life. Furthermore, they skew the estimations of young people, especially concerning the financial estimation of cash, as indicated by him. He watches that McDonald's sort of occupation is very no instructive from various perspectives. Aside from giving chances to enterprise, self-supervision, self-restraint, and self-planning, adolescent occupations are exceedingly organized, profoundly routinized. Etzioni states that they don't advance ability securing and improvement. On further examination of McDonald's sort of occupations, he takes note of that fast food employments meddle with school work. He noticed that in 33% of cases young people work for over 30 hours a week, leaving little time for homework. Moreover, high schoolers discover the cash earned from part- time vocation more luring than credits in instruction courses, he watches. He consequently presumes that folks ought not see occupation as naturally instructive and that youngsters ought …show more content…
I would concur that working is not something worth being thankful for teens under a few circumstances however at different times it is great. First and foremost, employments influence school contribution and participation in terrible ways. Second, employments frequently give "at work experience," yet a significant part of the time the experience taught is pointless. Third, fast food occupations may give a hindered status. Fast food occupations can likewise give an advantaged status. At long last, laborers can figure out how to deal with their cash by profiting before they get into the Real
Yasemin Besen-Cassino’s essay “Cool Stores, Bad Jobs” highlights why affluent teens get certain jobs. Many of the reasons she wrote about in the essay, I have seen while working at the movie theatre. Hiring managers will try to hire specific kinds of people; people that will fit in with the current employees. While being selective about hiring, the low starting wage offered deterred many, often more experienced, people from accepting the job. Lastly, work is seen as a place to hang out by some of the employees.
“My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop”, by Naomi Shihab Nye, conveys the cultural experience of an immigrant by connecting it to an immigrant’s relative who first came to a new country and was describing his initial experience by using repetition and symbolism. The character in the poem has trouble with initially trying to fit in with the new culture in the country he came to. The author uses anaphora by repeating “Immigrant” in lines 19-20, “Immigrants had double and nothing all at once. Immigrants drove the taxis, sold the beer and Cokes.” This shows that immigrants arrived in a new country with barely anything, and started from the bottom. Saying that “Immigrants drove the taxis, sold the beer and Cokes,” was inferring that immigrants began their
The problem with the useful skills he is speaking about is that they usually require some kind of background, but he does not think of the useful skill learned from a fast food restaurant such as communication, problem solving, and management. Other points Etzioni had such as undermining school attendance, not being able to be creative, and “blind obedience” with the boss. As for students skipping school to attend work, that has to do with the discipline of the student, if they are going to skip they are most likely going to skip school and work. Or they will skip school and wait till school ends to attend work. Also most places that employ students know what time school is released and have the scheduled to work after that. As for creativity, work in a fast food restaurant is not the correct place to express it. Etzioni even contradicts himself with his story about the “severance pay” that workers would take and the “blind obedience” with the boss. Most workers don't usually even agree with what bosses say, workers tend to group together and help each
Juveniles are being taught that in order to have a nice car, branded cloths and the house of their dreams, by getting into an expensive mortgage, they have to be an employee of a huge corporation. In addition, they have to undergo to a prestigious school, study hard, have excellent grades in order to become popular and respectable in the world. However, many people would not become those super leaders, but these majority of people have a great role in the capitalism society of the US. As Gatto says, “We buy televisions, and then we buy the things we see on the television. We buy computers, and then we buy the things we see on the computer. We buy $150 sneakers whether we need them or not, and when they fall apart too soon we buy another pair” (38). Such results are in part of a wrong education that teenagers have received trough many decades. In addition, Gatto highlights that modern educational system has been working in a six basic functions methods that makes the system strong and unbreakable: The adjustable function, indulge students to respect authorities. The integrating function, which builds the personality of the students as similar to each other as possible. The diagnostic and directive function, which allows a school to set permanent scholar grades in order to determinate his or her future role in society. The differentiating function, which gives to the student a good education and after his or her role is diagnosed, they prevent any educational progress. The selective function, function that the system has used to prevent academic growth for the non-selected students. The propaedeutic function, which works in the selection of specific groups of intellectual adults to keep perpetuating the system all over again making it a continuous sequence. (Gatto 34). Gatto’s facts revealed the survival of the educational system for decades,
Gatto argues that the staying in the American schooling system for so long has supplied him with every reason to refer to it as a childish and “ 'a disablement '” program for students. He supposes that he can bring out the best qualities in children by giving them the autonomy to make decisions and manage themselves, rather than confining them to school. According to Gatto, people may see the key problem of schooling as boredom. To clarify his point, Gatto believes having an education in school is considered as “a daily routine in a factory of childishness in order to make sure not one of them ever really grow up”.
Obesity is a global medical issue where people are confused between eating and dieting. I am an Omani student, and back in Oman, it has the same issue as the United States does. Both society try to stop their people from having obesity. However, “What You Eat is Your Business” written by Radely Balko explains how government allow unhealthy food to spread out over the country, and in return the government tries to push people to focus on health care systems where people may not be able to do it. Beside on that, American people try to reduce their meals or eat just a few amount of food without differentiate between health and unhealthy food, and that is because they want to become healthier, which Mary Maxfield clarifies that on her article “Food
“We must start thinking of students as workers,” a high school official states (334). In the article, “Preparing Minds for Markets”, children had been asked what they wanted to be when they grew up. When asked, it seemed as though they had
He says that it is hard to get students to learn because they have more freedom than they had when they were in school. Students do not have their parents with them to motivate them. Students are more focused on having fun than they are with learning. If students do not learn then they will struggle when it’s time to actually get a job. The author says that they will exhibit the same lack of motivation in their careers.
In the essay, “Working at McDonald’s” Amitai Etzioni states that working at McDonald’s for teenagers is not a good for their current studies and future. I agree with him that working for teenagers in McDonald are not good under some circumstances and in the long term. Working in McDonald’s affect on the individual academic performance and also it affects on their attendance.
Throughout the novel, I read about two young girls that left their family at a young age to improve their life. When the author describe the horrible working condition and the unfair salary of the factory girls it made me afraid. I wonder if my situation will be the same if I were born in China, and if I can overcome the hardships. On the other hand, it made me grateful for what I have, and that I have proper education. Chang stated, “Guimin came home for the 2003 lunar new year holiday and took Min away with her when she left” (Chang 10).
Students spend four years of their lives attending high school. Going through high school is mandatory as it prepares them for college and strength to face “the real world.” Having part-time jobs has become the phenomenon among high school students and many students follow this trend as well. Moreover, there are some pros and cons attached with it. Though it may seem like working throughout high school is a bad idea, it could better prepare students for “the real world.” Although some people believe that the primary duty of a student is studying, I am of the opposite position. I strongly support the idea that high school students should work throughout high school. This is because they can earn money, become responsible and get experience.
Ever since the creation of the golden arches, America has been suffering with one single problem, obesity. Obesity in America is getting worse, for nearly two-thirds of adult Americans are overweight. This obesity epidemic has become a normal since no one practices any type of active lifestyle. Of course this is a major problem and many wish it wasn 't in existence, but then we start to ask a major question. Who do we blame? There are two articles that discuss numerous sides of this question in their own unique way. “What You Eat is Your Business” by Radley Balko is better than “Don 't Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko due to its position in argument, opposition, and it’s reoccurrence in evidence.
As one young person was heard to remark, “You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job.” That dilemma can be overcome, however, by starting work early in life and by accepting simpler jobs that have no minimum age limit and do not require experience. Jobs Teens Can Do Begin early at jobs that may not pay especially well but help to establish a working track record: delivering newspapers, babysitting, mowing lawns, assisting with gardening, and the like. Use these work experiences as springboards for such later jobs as sales clerks, gas station attendant, fast-food worker, lifeguard, playground supervisor assistant, and office staff assistant (after you have developed basic office skills). As you progress through these work exploration experiences, try increasingly to get jobs that have some relationship to your career plans.
Students’ wouldn’t be able to hold down a job is the second reason they shouldn’t dropout of high school. Many employers would like to have someone who has been too high school and that have been educated so they can handle money and add things p...
Working teaches students about responsibility and also reinforces what they are leaning in school. Having a job while in high school is a catalyst for future responsible actions and thinking. Teens are accountable for work attendent, job perfromance, and customer satisfaction. The attendence is very essential in a work place. Teens will demonstrate the skills they acquire from work whenever they go to work, and it will be evaluated on their evaluation worksheet by their employers. For example, if teens have missed class, they would be mark for absence and it will later affect their grade. Being resposible in early ages is not very easy, some of them need to take time to work on what they are lacking of. Working will make teens feel more confident in life especially in their job performance. Having responsiblity while performing the task is important because teens know what they should and should not do that will help them avoid making mistake at work or it will lead them to satisfy the customers. In fact, students can use what they have been taught in class and apply it to their job skills because studying and practicing always come along way. The more the teens practices, the more they learn from work experiences. No matter how old they are, as far as student...