Summary In “Working at McDonald's”, Amitai Etzioni argues that working at fast-food chains such as McDonald's has more disadvantages than advantages for teen-agers. First, Etzioni claims that there is no additional skill for teenagers to learn because these jobs are doing uniformed things every day. Furthermore, he thinks that most of those skills will not be used in later of their life. He gives a statistic research example states that people who has worked in fast-food chains is harder to get a high skill job after they grow up. He further argues that working at those franchising stores also takes up teen's time for schools.
Summary of “Working atMcDonalds” by Amitai Etzioni In "Working at McDonalds" Amitai Etzioni argues that the jobs undertaken by teenagers in this fast food franchise are bad for them. In as much as they contribute to the aims of education by making the teenagers self- reliant, these jobs have a myriad of negative impacts in their lives. These positions do not teach any entrepreneurial skills, self-supervision, self- discipline and even self- scheduling. In order to justify his arguments, Etzioni provides a number of worrying facts including; twenty-one percent of all employees in America are the minority and that most teenagers do not pay attention to school work as they should. As such, the quality of education that they receive is quite poor and degrading instead of building.
ENGLISH 200 NAME 28, JUNE, 2013 PART 2: Personal Response to "Working at McDonald's" In "Working at McDonald's," Amitai Etzioni, the professor at the George Washington University argues that McDonald is bad for teenagers. The particular concentration of the author lies in the shortcomings of jobs in McDonald for teenagers. In my point of view, I am in agreement with the author’s core idea for two main reasons. At the beginning, the disadvantage exists in the poor attendance and involvement of students who have part-time jobs in McDonald. Logically, after these youngsters earn their own money through working hours and days, they will begin to feel that earning money may directly bring them profits compared with baldness learning which gives
Kelly Grant English 100 11/12/2012 In Amitai Etzioni's "Working at McDonald's” She argues that that although McDonalds does more than just provide calorie filled foods and hold responsibility for millions of clogged arteries but it’s bad for teenagers in another sense other than health. She states “McDonald’s is bad for your kids. I do not mean the flat patties and the white-flour buns; I refer to the jobs teenagers undertake, mass-producing these choice items”. Then she goes on to discuss the negative effects on high school students working in fast food restaurants such as McDonalds. She feels that they show teenagers no real skills that they could use elsewhere in the work field, that they promote kids to drop out by distracting them from focusing on school and their studies, and also ruins their value of a dollar.
There should not be open campus at schools. The school would lose profits from the lunches, the food consumed by the students outside of school will most likely be unhealthy, and the students would not be under any supervision. Open campus would have a negative effect on schools and its students. The students would leave during lunchtime to get themselves McDonalds or Burger King to eat. Meanwhile, our already poor school loses profit to these fast food restaurants.
Prof. Neuman ENC 101 March 10, 2014 “Don’t Blame the Eater” Summary “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko points out how easy it is to go and buy unhealthy food. Due to the growing expense of the fast food industry, unhealthy food can be purchased at any fast food restaurant, but the numbers of nutritional restaurants are declining. If you drive down any street, you will find more than one fast food restaurant, but if you drive back up the block you will not find a place to buy healthy foods. As an obese child, David recalls the limited options of nutritional food in and outside of his household. Parents today are allowing their children to eat more fast food because it is fast, convenient and seemly affordable.
They Deserve More Fast food industry has many Federal, state and local laws. Employers in the fast food industry don’t follow the currently enacted laws which cause workers to be treated as employees of inferior category. A big number of employees in the fast food industry is made up of youth under 18 years of age. They often have no experience at work which makes them easy targets to manipulate; they are more vulnerable to assault from criminals, co-workers or managers. There are laws for youth employment; these laws determine the number of hours which youth can work, length of the shifts and type of work they may perform.
In his article, “Don’t Blame the Eater” (New York Times, November 23, 2002), David Zinczenko asserts that fast food industries need to manage the weight because it is leading to obesity among people who are visiting them. He begins with his personal experience; how he used eat from fast food places. Zinczenko’s parents were split, mom was working long hours a day, and he was fed on fast food every day twice. The author uses statistic and example as an evidence to prove the down side of fast food industries therefore; the reader can understand and have sympathy for him. Initially, Zincenko is declaring that fast food companies are contributing to obesity because of lack of alternatives.
Essay responding to the articles of Radly Balko and David Zinczenko In the reading “ Don`t blame the eater “ David Zinczenko talks about obesity, growing as a result of fast food eating and he argues about whose responsibility this is . Is it the food company`s responsibility for not providing accurate nutrition information, or is the costumer`s responsibility, especially teenagers, for eating fast food meals on a daily basis ? David Zinczenko relates himself to these kids by telling about his personal experience and how the separation of his parents affected his lifestyle by making fast food his only available option to get affordable meals. Another reason that makes people become more addicted to fast food, other than
In Dead End Kids by Michele Manges, she talks about how every teenager who works in fast food; also known as a “Mcjob†is setting themselves up for a job that is only wasting their time. A Mcjob only uses skills that a person already knows just from common sense. Michele argues that teenagers are overworked and the fact that most are asked to work late hours, means less sleep and no time for homework. Teenagers can only do so much while they’re in school. They have assignments to worry about, and they are supposed to be able to enjoy the time the have to socialize and be young.