The addictive and yet fattening qualities associated with fast food leave people constantly craving one more bite. However, Schlosser makes a decent point in the epilogue section of his book when he states that under no circumstances is anyone actually forced to purchase and consume fast food products and those who desire change should simply "stop buying it" (Pg. 269). No matter how many excuses the fast food industry or average consumer comes up with, consuming fast food is just not worth the endless list of consequences
MLB Should Apply a Mandatory Steroid Test for All Players In today’s sports world, there have been many problems with players cheating the game by using drugs to make them perform better. Many sports today have not applied testing for all players and have regretted not doing it awhile back. The drug problem is mostly hurting Major League Baseball the most but has an effect on all sports. There are players that are playing the game without using steroids therefore whom are being cheated out because players are making more money by performing better because of the use of steroids. Furthermore, this is hurting the reputation of the MLB because fans have lost respect for their heroes who have always thought they were playing the game correctly.
There is people committing crimes. That is only natural for people to become desperate and rob each other when it comes to survival and you have basically nothing you are going to fight to survive. There are people moving in groups and crowds to the north looking and hoping for a better life. In Earth 2100, it talks about rich oil companies not wanting to give up their power; in Parable of the Sower she talks about whole cities being run by companies. Natural causes, no active government, shortage of food and supplies due to depleteion of natural resources, are all reasons for society collapse in both Parable of the Sower and Earth
Mercenaries should not be used to form the base of your army for they are unreliable in battle. The use of mercenaries is not what a prince should do because mercenaries are "brave among their friends and cowards among their enemies." All military arms should be under the power of the prince or of the republic. Mercenaries are to wild and power hungry that will either flee the moment you are attacked or they will not fight hard because the little pay they get is not enough for them to throw their lives away for you. The biggest danger from mercenaries is cowardice.
We are so absorbed in this materialistic idea of the American Dream that we do not know when to stop buying and eating. Americans will buy the latest cell phone even if the one they already have works perfectly fine. They will gorge themselves with food even if they are not hungry anymore just because they paid for it. This overconsumption is the reason that America has some of the troubles that it has. It leads to things like obesity, hoarding,
This would create a vicious cycle of the poor against the rich and the perfect against those unable to reach perfection. This would never allow anyone to fight for their dreams or to try to seek a better future for them or for their families. In Conclusion, the genetic technology that we see in the movie “Gattaca” would be very harmful for society and have bad effects on how people live. It would stop those who aren’t born as planned from fighting to achieve something out of what is expected. It would be very prejudicial and people would stop caring for who you care and just look at what your hereditary traits say.
The greed that people have is one of the themes in The Devil and Tom Walker. People are willing to wage just about anything to make quick, easy, money. Back then, not a lot of people had money so it was like a treasure everyone envied. Even though in today’s society we like to say, “Money isn’t everything” we all know it’s a great proportion of everything. If we start looking toward romantic and transcendentalist ideas maybe that will change though I highly doubt it.
Identifying the Ways That Americans are Wasteful The United States of America is a beautiful country but some Americans are very wasteful; they throw away things that should be recycled, buy things that they don’t need, get more food than they could consume and they do not respect to the nature for wasting water and gas. Many people in this country don not consider anything or anyone but themselves and they confuse waste with quality of life; “the more things I have, the better I enjoy the life”, they want new things for every change of season and we do not care where our old things go, instead of donating these possessions to a foundation or Salvation Army. Some of us throw belongings out that can still be used. Most people are in debt
There are endless economic policies that the politicians agree on which fail the libertarian test of both the axiom of non-aggression and basic economics. Many of the politicians and politically active people of the left and right are economically ignorant. They do not consider each and every policy's long term effects on not just one groups of people but all the people. One of the well accepted economic policies of both the right and left is the minimum wage. The minimum wage is a form of coercion in which it forced employers to hire at an arbitrary price that otherwise wouldn't be used if not for the government's intervention.
The obsession with social hierarchy drives people to be selfish and greedy- never happy with what they have. At the same time, there are many people like Gatsby today who feel they have to cheat their way to the top to be happy, like so many corporate giants who have schemed for years and stole billions of dollars from innocent, but maybe slightly naïve taxpayers. Both kinds of people have lost the sense of the American dream. Originally people just wanted a perfect but humble life: a loving, close-knit family, a steady paying job, and ultimately pure happiness. But once people see that it is possible to have much more than that, they begin to get covetous and only want more.