Heres to the end!

     Mr. Dunn has asked us to find two different quotes that go along with the theme of the book.  He wants the quotes to have importance to them and keep coming up in the book.  One quote that I found that went along with the theme of the books is, "The harder you work, the luckier you become.” Carl Karcher’s father gave him this advice when he was a child (p 13). This quote seems to have a theme through out the whole book, since the majority of the book talks about how to work hard and become rich.  Karcher was a kid who dropped out of high school, and worked at a bakery, and then somehow made it big in the world and opened up a fast food chain and make millions.  The book seems to talk about many of these kinds of kids and there stories to fame.  


     Another quote that I found that fit the book was, "Nobody in the United States is forced to buy fast food. The first step toward meaningful change is by far the easiest: stop buying it. The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are business men. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit….The real power of the American consumer has not yet been unleashed… Even in this fast food nation, you can still have it your way.( p 269-270)   This is a long quote, but everything was important in it.  This quote pretty much states that the only reason that all of the companies are doing these bad things is for us.  They do it because most of us don't care and we just want the food.  It trying to tell us that if we want to change the way fast food is made, we can.  The company will do what ever they have to so they can make money.  Not very many people realize this so they go along. But in reality its true, we can really have it our way.   


Our teacher also asked us to take one step farther into understanding the book.  He wants us to look for news articles or videos that are about the fast food, and link them to the book. Fast food is brought up a lot in our society since we tend to care about what we eat, and how we look.  One article that I found interesting was an article asked is, "Is Fast Food Killing Us?"  It talks about how the meat is made for the hamburgers just like in the book.  It gives many statics about how much fast food in consumed in their life time as an American.  It really just summarizes generally what the book was about.  
http://my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/articleid/475542/newspaperid/4702/Is_fast_food_killing_us.aspx

I read an article that was called, "Fast Food Nation: Expands its Borders."   This article didn't really talk about much that the book talked about, but it is still generally the same.  It focuses on fast food outside of the country.  It talks about when you go visit a new country and you are not for sure how the local food is going to taste, where are you going to go?  Well of coarse you are going to go to the McDonald across the street since you know exactly what is being sold their.  It also talks about road trips you take.  We all know while we are driving we talk about which fast food place we are going to stop by.  It think its the same for everyone.  Know one is going to pack their own food, or go to a nice restaurant, we are all going to go for the fast food so we can get back on the road.
http://www.cwruobserver.com/opinion/fast-food-nation-expanding-its-borders-1.2695728