creative writing #2

This thing that McDonald's has had going on for the last 70 years is really annoying me. Honestly, you wouldn't believe how bad it irks me. Everything on their menu and everything that they own begins with Mc infront of it. McChicken, McRib, McShake, McFries, McCheese, McEverything. I guarantee you, you can think of anything, and they can put a Mc infront of it. But that's not really the point here. Go behind the counter. Everything seems peachy king, but you should see where and how and who they get their meat supply from. The packing factories they get their meat from, will never be looked at the same. I was watching this documentary on fast food places and where they get their material from. It's just awful. They keep their cows and chickens in confined places, feed them corn (which they are not bred to eat), and they are covered in their own and other animal's feces. Not counting the germs the meat packing workers carry and the unsanitary conditions in the factories that are packing the meat. It's just awful man. Well that's it for tonight. Tune in next time.

Creative timed writing #1

Okay, so there is this guy named Carl N. Karcher, who is considered one of the fast food industry's pioneers. His story is that of the American dream. He basically started this fast food industry that we know today. Carl was born in 1917, on a farm near Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He was born to a German-Immigrant family, and had 6 brothers and sisters. His parents were both industrious workers, farmers, and devout Catholics. His father would say, "The harder you work, the luckier you become." He dropped out of the eighth grade, and worked 12 to 14 hours on his parent's farm. In 1937, Ben Karcher, offered him a job in Anaheim, California. He had never left the state of Ohio. He had seen the opportunities for jobs and to start his meat packing buisness in the state of California. He also came up with this drive thru idea, which allowed you to order what you want from the stand, and pick up from the next window. He didn't come up with it though, his collegues did. Then he became this multi millionaire.

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I chose to read this book because I'm quite curious about the way the fast food business operates. If so, I would like to get a much better understanding for how and why this nation runs on fast food. It seems very interesting and I also chose to read this book because I would also like to get a little "Behind the scenes" look at how these fast food restaurants get their supplies and who and where they get it from. I think it will probably be about the rise of fast food restaurants in the U.S. Maybe the origins of a very famous fast food place called McDonald's, a place that every one loves. I've wanted to know for quite some time.

I also chose to read this book because it seems like a good challenging book to read. I wanted to read this book because it seems like it's got a lot of facts about the fast food industry. I also wanted to see if they would provide any reasons for why us Americans (I say us because I just have to) are so freaking fat. It looks like a book that would point out the pros and cons of having fast food places in the U.S. I cant wait to see what's in store for this awesome looking book.

I think this book is going to be interesting.

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Technically, I really didn't want to read this book this was like my fourth choice or not my choice at all. lol. I didn't want to read it because it was really long and their word print is a size 3 or something. But then again what book isn't gonna be long, right? The book is called Fast Food Nations and the author is Eric Schlosser who is an investigative journalist. It was written in 2001 and is about the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry. When I first got the book I read the introduction because I figured it would give me a good idea of what the book is going to be about. The introduction starts off with Eric talking about nature of American society and about the mountains and valleys. Just reading it doesn't sound like its going to be about fast food but that was a scene of where he grew up in. Thats where his fast food industry started. He began in the meat packing industry and then McDonalds. It sounds pretty boring to me though because just throughout the whole book its going to be talking about fast food, fast food, and more fast food. Even if it shows out the effects and maybe even the goods of fast food places, its still about FAST FOOD! When I was doing research for the book it basically just gave a summary about the whole book and what nt and I decided not to read it because it will just spoil the whole thing for me. There is no quote that the author came up himself but there is a quote that I think inspired him to write this book and it also starts off the book before the introduction. It is, "A savage servility slides by on grease," by Robert Lowell who is a poet and the founder of the confessional poetry movement. This book takes place in a farm at first and then expands to industries in the city. Probably the only part so far int he story that drew me to it was the intro because it was pretty much laid out about what the book is about and a little bit of how it effects us now and what not.
-Kayla Santiago

Connective Timed Writing Post2

Quotation "This is a book about fast food, the values it embodies, and the world it has made."

This book I find very interesting because I used to watch a whole bunch of movies last year on how to stay fit and about how they would brudally murder animals to make meat yada yada yada. Then this year I'm actually reading a book about what its doing to our world and where it all came from and how it has impacted us as a whole. So far in the story, Jim Hightower reviewed emerging fast food industry as a threat to independent buisness and demanded to do something about it. Then they start talking about on page three how fast food has taken over the world nation wide and made BIG people. This story so far reminds me of the movie Super Size Me. I say this because in that movie a guy sees how fast people grow as they keep eating fast food. Hes a really in shape guy and he wants to do a project on where he eats only McDonalds for a couple weeks or months and sees what happens to him. After eating McDonalds for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, everything about him changes. Physically, mentally, and emotionally. When the whole process of the project is over with he then starts to work out everyday and become healthy once again. He then starts talking about why so many people in his opinion eat fast food restaurants. Our economyt is going down hill when it comes to money and the only thing people can afford now and days to feed their whole family including themselves is a most likely a fast food place . For example McDonalds, A large drink, a huge burger, and fries would cost you a little over five dollars. If you went to another place to get lets say salad, it would cost you around seven dollars or so. Since were all having money issues we would all probably go with the McDonalds meal. If it were me I would get the McDonalds but don't eat the fries or the buns on the burger. Sounds funny but people will do anything to eat and stay healthy at the same time and this book isn't talking about ways you can stay fit and healthy while eating at fast food places. Its talking about how fast food places originated from, how much money do these fast food places make, how it has expanded nation wide and what is the effect from it all.
-Kayla Santiago

Connective Timed Writing Post1

Quotation "They perfected the art of selling things to children," page 33

Why should we fall for fast food advertisements? It just pursuades us into wanting crap. They start to sell t-shirts, pants, dolls, robes, mouse pads, lunch boxes, etc. It makes us interested but for what? The whole concept of it doesn't make sense. On page thirty-one and thirty-two, it talks about about how they just advertise all these things just to be on top of the pyramid as in to be the best and in some cases it is working and in others it is not.
Why should we give our money to something that isn't worth it? First of all its not healthy. Second some people just like the buisness because of the stuff that they sell that is everything except their food. They come up with these crazy, random characters to represent their company to get children to be interested, but most kids are actually scared of the characters.
Why should we even care about fast food especially at this time? We should actually be using all the fast food places to create places that are actually healthier to eat. Have you seen our society? Yea its not looking that good, AT ALL. We have people getting bigger and bigger by the second. Its not a bad thing but don't you want our society to be looking good in shape? Yea thought so.
But as I said in my other connective writing our economy is going so bad as for money that we have no other place to eat except these fast food places. Even when you go to the grocery store, you can buy atleast 10 doughnuts or a little bag of salad. Which would you pick? Some stuff just doesn't make any sense at all in our society anymore.
-Kayla Santiago

Quote

"A savage servility slides by on grease"
                                          - Robert Lowell