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Gather research for an essay about one of the topics explored in Fast Food Nation. Specifically, your assignment must show that you have a strong research question and at least five sources that might help you answer that question. You won't actually draft your essay until Lesson 2, however.

A research question will give your research a clear goal. Each source you find should have the potential to answer at least part of the research question and bring you closer to understanding the issue that you've decided to explore. Your assignment will list these sources on an annotated works-cited page.
Your assignment should include the following elements:
A research question related to a topic that Eric Schlosser explores in Fast Food Nation
A works-cited page that lists at least five sources with the potential to answer the research question
An annotation for each entry on the works-cited page that summarizes the source's purpose, evaluates its credibility, and explains how it is related to your research question
You should have completed a draft of this assignment in the activity before this one. If you haven't done so, go back and complete that activity now.

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Fast Food Nation is written to express the author's concern over the industry's influence on youngsters in the United States. The author's constant book has ten chapters divided into two sections: the American manner (American meat), meat and potatoes (meat and potatoes), and an epilogue. Eric Schlosser connects the emergence of fast food chains after WWII and industry for the genesis of cultural issues like obesity, classism, the United States of America's worldwide imperialism, and environmental devastation in the first half. He exposes the evolution of the tastes industry in the second section, demonstrating how they were identified in laboratories and hence are not "natural." In addition to describing in detail the working conditions of cattle slaughterhouses, the lack of security in them, and the lack of laws that protect these workers, who are mostly illegal immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala who live in fear of being deported to their countries, the report also highlights the lack of laws that protect these workers. The author's concern for what we eat and how it affects consumer health, as well as how the meat industry promotes lower salaries and bad working conditions for slaughterhouse workers, stand out in the book. It depicts the brutal realities of illegal workers in a subtle yet powerful manner. Despite the fact that the fast food business creates millions of jobs each year, they are of a temporary nature, with the highest employee turnover in the country and the least training.

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