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This 4 page paper examines the baby boom generation and what they had accomplished financially. Social security is touched on. The book Fast Food Nation is used as a springboard for discussion.
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have more children than in past generations ("Baby boomer," 2005). As the boomers grew up, they left their hippie ideology behind and turned into the movers and shakers of the
1980s. They would alter the economy as they melded into what was dubbed the "me" generation. Michael Douglass in the 1987 film Wall Street said it best, when he as
the successful protagonist uttered the phrase "greed is good." Indeed, what the children of the 1940s and 1950s grew up with in terms of values had suddenly vanished. The flower
children were in charge and everything changed. Fast forward to the early part of the twenty-first century and one sees remnants of the change in respect to fast food.
In his work called Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2002) talks about the fast food industry in America. In fact, the author presents a rather
dismal picture. Most people just take fast food for granted, and this is part of the authors point. He contends that the industry is a revolutionary force and is quite
American. He sees it both as a "commodity and as a metaphor." In other words, it is a commodity because fast food is a thing that is sold.
It is a physical substance or an article of commerce. People think of commodities as corn or grain but in todays world where things are manufactured quickly and dispersed
immediately, commodities can be a sauce, cheese, lettuce, special sauce burger on a sesame seed bun. It need not be something as simple as hogs or milk.
While its status as a commodity is rather acceptable, the author also claims it is a metaphor. What does he mean by this? It seems that the fast
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