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After reading The Maze Runner and Fast Food Nation, I have learned a lot about the dynamics and importance of government and the fast food industry. Social contract and the ideas of Locke and Hobbes both relate to the two books and how government and corporations work hand in hand. The importance of addressing issues as they happen, instead of sweeping them under the rug or making small changes is another thing that was addressed in both book, both directly and indirectly.
The Maze Runner
“The Maze Runner” by James Dashner is the first in a young adult dystopian science fiction trilogy. The book was published October 2009. It is currently in the process of becoming a movie, set to be released September 19, 2014. The book takes place in the Glade, a mini society built by teenage boys who are brought there with no memory of their past life. When Thomas arrives, strange events start happening. Thomas feels like he holds the secret to finding the way out of the Glade, but must discover how to get his memories back in order to save the Gladers.
About the Author
James Dashner grew up in Georgia, but now lives in the Rocky Mountains with his wife and four kids. He got his Bachelors degree in accounting, and worked in finance. After the release of the first book in “The Maze Runner” trilogy, he quit accounting and works full time as a writer.
Dashner says that most of the ideas for the trilogy came at the very beginning. He always knew that there would be three books, and had a good idea on how the books would be divided. As an avid reader, much of his inspiration comes from the books he has read. James says The Maze Runner was influenced by The Enders Game by Orson Scott Card and also Lord of the Flies by William Golding. He say...
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...opportunity to use critical thinking skills and learn more about theories on government and society. The number one thing I took away from this project is that in order for a government to be successful, it needs to meet the needs of the people, not major corporations or organizations.
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Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Print.
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“Out of every $1.50 spent on a large order of fries at fast food restaurant, perhaps 2 cents goes to the farmer that grew the potatoes,” (Schlosser 117). Investigative journalist Eric Schlosser brings to light these realities in his bestselling book, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Schlosser, a Princeton and Oxford graduate, is known for his inspective pieces for Atlantic Monthly. While working on article, for Rolling Stone Magazine, about immigrant workers in a strawberry field he acquired his inspiration for the aforementioned book, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, a work examining the country’s fast food industry (Gale).
Schlosser, E. (2004). Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal (first ed., Rev.). New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers.
...es of cattle, which resulted in the increase of suicidal reports. Slaughterhouses and meatpacking companies have amplified the amount of cattle slaughtered each hour to fulfill the amount of meat consumed in the United States due to the cause of fast food. The damage that fast food had placed on illegal immigrant workers and sanitary workers that are employed in slaughterhouses are as much as murdering the men and women, minute by minute. The growth of fast food is too fast for our voices to be heard and fast food had implemented too much innovation in agriculture today for us to fix. We can still change the society that we live in today, as long as we withdraw our arrogant and selfish thoughts on fast food and think of ways to improve and recover what the fast food industry had done.
In Fast Food Nation, Schlosser goes beyond the facts that left many people’s eye wide opened. Throughout the book, Schlosser discusses several different topics including food-borne disease, near global obesity, animal abuse, political corruption, worksite danger. The book explains the origin of the all issues and how they have affected the American society in a certain way. This book started out by introducing the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station beside the Colorado Springs, one of the fastest growing metropolitan economies in America. This part presents the whole book of facts on fast food industry. It talks about how Americans spend more money on fast food than any other personal consumption. To promote mass production and profits, industries like MacDonald, keep their labor and materials costs low. Average US worker get the lowest income paid by fast food restaurants, and these franchise chains produces about 90% of the nation’s new jobs. In the first chapter, he interviewed Carl N. Karcher, one of the fast food industry’s leade...
Many books today portray a different world. Few books will make readers think they’ve lived in that world all their lives. The Kite Runner is a tale about betrayal, fear, and redemption. In the book, a young boy, Amir, lives in Kabul, Afghanistan happily, until one fateful day. After that, he’s plunged into fear and regret as his life gets worse and worse. Decades later, a man reminisces on his past mistakes and desperately tries to bury his old life. Khaled Hosseini has captured the minds of many with his book, The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner was published by Riverhead Books in 2003, after Khaled Hosseini had worked on it for two years. The book immediately became an international bestseller, becoming the number one New York Times Best Seller for two years, and its fame sparked the creation of a movie based on the book. The book was inspired by Hosseini’s childhood, and it features significant moral lessons that are embedded into the very text of each chapter.
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. New York: Perennial, 2002.
Fast Food Nation The Author and His Times: The author of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser, was born on August 17, 1959. Eric grew up in Manhattan, New York and also in Los Angeles where his father, Herbert Schlosser, was President of NBC. He attended the college of Princeton University where he studied American History, and soon got his degree in British Imperial History. Eric’s career soon took off when he became a journalist for The Atlantic Monthly, quickly earning two medals in a matter of two years.
The Maze Runner is a book about how teenagers were wiped of all their memories and sent up a box to a whole new life, without their family, friends,
“The Maze Runner” is a fictional book made by James Dashner. I was interested in this book because i really like the bases of the book.There are a bunch of kids trapped right outside of a maze,the only way to get out is too run through it. I also really enjoyed the maze runner movies and wanted to see if the movie was close too being accurate to the book.
Often people buy a book at a bookstore after reading the first few pages to make sure that the book is interesting enough to continue reading at home. That is why Amazon has a “Click to LOOK INSIDE!” button on each book. It is the most important part of a whole book in order to catch potential readers. One would expect that both In-N-Out Burger and Fast Food Nation must have strong hooks at the beginning since they were both New York Times bestsellers. Although they both focus on the fast food industry, there is quite a contrast in the way they are written. In the prologue of In-N-Out Burger, the author Stacy Perman writes not about the hamburgers or the company, but mainly about the phenomena that the burgers caused. On the other hand, in the introduction of Fast Food Nation, the author Eric Schlosser splits it into two different parts, a story about Cheyenne Mountain Base and a quick overview of fast food industry. Throughout the prologue of In-N-Out Burger, Perman successfully gets the attention of the readers by describing the facts in detail, which makes them want to turn the pages for further reading. On the contrary, despite Schlosser’s concise and precise narrative, the introduction of Fast Food Nation does not seem to make the readers want to read more due to his unsuccessful analogy and composition of the chapter. The introduction of In-N-Out Burger definitely draws more attention of the readers than that of Fast Food Nation due to the rhetoric and composition.
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Print.
The Maze Runner is a movie based on the young-adult novel of the same name, written by James Dashner. The movie, like the book, follows a young man named Thomas, who finds himself trapped in an enclosed area called the Glade, surrounded by an enormous Maze. All the people in the Glade are young men, and all, including Thomas, arrived there remembering nothing but their names. A few boys, called Runners, search the Maze daily for a way out, but to no avail. Horrible creatures called Grievers roam the corridors of the Maze, and chaos ensues among the Gladers when the first girl arrives, unconscious and bearing a terrifying note. I found this movie to be very entertaining; while it was not a perfect adaptation of the book, it retained many of the key elements, including the emotional factors. The actors’ portrayal of the characters added to my overall satisfaction upon seeing this film, as I have read the book and therefore had high expectations.
The maze runner by James Dashner is about a group of teen boys who are racing against the clock to solve a seemingly impossible maze, at the same time trying to stay alive while trying to uncover their past. As the plot develops, friendships are tested to the maximum. Their fight until the end proves that, with teamwork you can accomplish anything and it is always better to work together.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a heart breaking novel. It features events that bring tears to the eyes of its readers, as well as a look into the world outside our own. This book deals with tragic adult themes such as racism and child rape. The story takes place in two different countries, Afghanistan, and later the United States. The novel is in the point of view of the main character Amir and it begins as he recalls events from his childhood in Kabul, Afghanistan in a time on the brink of civil war, when the Afghanistan king is overthrown.
American culture is changing dramatically. In some areas it’s a good thing, but in other areas, like our food culture, it can have negative affects. It is almost as if our eating habits are devolving, from a moral and traditional point of view. The great America, the land of the free and brave. The land of great things and being successful, “living the good life.” These attributes highlight some irony, especially in our food culture. Is the American food culture successful? Does it coincide with “good living”? What about fast and processed foods? These industries are flourishing today, making record sales all over the globe. People keep going back for more, time after time. Why? The answer is interestingly simple. Time, or in other words, efficiency. As people are so caught up in their jobs, schooling, sports, or whatever it may be, the fast/processed food industries are rapidly taking over the American food culture, giving people the choice of hot