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ESSAY QUESTIONS - BOOK REPORT TOPICS

TOPICS FOR TAKE-HOME ESSAYS

Chapter 1
1. While Schlosser mentions the Ku Klux Klan in this chapter, he does not really consider the implications of racial tension in wartime/post-WWII Southern California. How might these issues have affected the economy and the fast-food industry? Is there a relationship between economics, race, and fast-food today?

2. What is the role of gender in the founding of the fast-food nation; consider Margaret Karcher for example? How did World War II affect Americans’ perceptions of gender roles?

Chapter 2
1. Look at the notes for Chapter 2 and consider Schlosser’s sources. How do you think these sources affect the conclusions he draws in this chapter? For example, he says that for information on Ray Kroc’s life, he relies mostly on Kroc’s memoir Grinding it Out, Max Boas and Steven Chain’s Big Mac (which provides the “dark side” of McDonald’s), John Love’s Behind the Arches (which tells the history of McDonald’s, but is not about Ray Kroc), as well as a visit to the Ray A. Kroc Museum. How might these sources construct a particular version of Kroc; how might different sources (for example, diaries or interviews) construct a different Ray Kroc?

2. Consider Schlosser’s concluding section about advertising in schools. Construct an argument for each side of this debate--i.e. why schools should advertise/sell fast-food, and why they should not. Find a recent newspaper article (there are many) about a school in the United States wrestling with these issues. What is at stake for this school district? Apply one of your arguments to resolve the dispute.

Chapter 3
1. Schlosser spends a large part of this chapter considering the obstacles to unionizing in the fast-food industry; he then concludes from his interviews with high-school students in Colorado Springs that none of them had...........

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