Concentration camp survivor story finally revealed

Today a story about a Jewish survivor of World War II camp has been revealed in the comic book Maus by his son in the city of Washington during the 50th aniversary of Holocoust.

                Vladek Spiegelman, men with a million moments of luck during his 10 month captivity survives the war and tells his story to his son. Art Spiegelman, a cartoonist, after many years of silence between him and his father finally finds the courage to ask about war. “I always knew I want to create a book about World War II. So one day, I finally decided to create a type of comics that no-one ever tried before”, says young Spiegelman. Even though he is very aware of the controversy it can cause, he wants to convince the readers that comics are not only a humorous medium.  

                Maus is a story about Vladek Spiegelman, the author’s father. A story about a man that World War II changed irreversibly to a stubborn and strict perfectionist. That time in his life was unimaginably hard. Every moment in the camps was a survival challenge. Vladek Spiegelman was a very resourceful man who grabbed every occasion to work, yet, he remained very rational. Maus represents him as a man able to rationally analyze the situation and make the best decisions. People in camps came to him for an advice because his intuition almost never fooled him. He was fighting with his indescribable hunger, leaving his food for his wife, collecting it to meet her or to exchange it for other things. Both he and his wife survived however for her, life after camps was impossible. She had problems forgetting all the images of death that happened in front of her.

                Many people knowing only the medium of this book and not its content claim it is highly inappropriate to show such a tragic and serious part of history of this world. What is surprising, after reading the Maus, most of them completely changed their minds. Despite the comic medium, the cover of the book is also quite controversial. It contains one of the most recognizable signs of that time which is Nazi Swastika. The inside drawings are not as cruel as the story told. Even when we read about cold, emotionless killing, what we see is very delicate.

                This book is very good not only for adults but also for teenagers to help them realize the history of World War II and all its cruelty.

First Moon Landing

This is a story about Johnny, a weird guy from Spain.

He was born in 1948 and had a smart brain.

He used to go to school in a very small town

And his skin and hair color where almost dark brown.

His very big interest in astronomy and space

Led him to a problem he had to face.

He always had the best scores at his school

But nobody even thought he was cool.

He had never had a girl, even a pack of friends

About ‘on time’ music he knew five disco bands.

What more should I tell you about this guy?

That wanted to be the first man to fly high…

Fly to the moon as he signed up for it

Be the first man in space eager to explore it.

No-one had ever done it before,

In his life, he wanted to do something more.

Half a million people came to see the rocket engines boost

The Apollo 11 crew fired the 200,000-pound-thrust.

Johnny was scared, would he survive?
Although he had nothing to lose, he cared about his life.

On the space rocket was a four person crew.

On 16^th of July, 1969, to the moon they flew.

It took them 4 full days to step on the planet

That is known for having on its surface a lot of craters.

On their way he and the astronauts monitored systems, ate and slept.

He learned and repeated what they did but there was one thing he could not accept.

They did not want to let him get out of rocket and step on the moon

Every angry moment he listened to a ‘disco boys’ tune.

The third day brought a huge fight between Neil and him

While Johnny’s friend trying not to lose muscle was in the gym

Our hero said: “I will step on the planet tomorrow.

Otherwise I will never stop my sorrow”.

He said he would regret it till the end of his life

Then he stood up and took out a knife.

He started to act crazy, but he wasn’t really serious

He sabotaged Neil while acting delirious.

Neil not knowing what to do agreed to Johnny’s request

He believed that it would be for everybody’s best.

This is how the third day of an historical journey ended

After all exciting moments that were never intended.

The fourth morning on the space ship began nervous and tense

Everybody was silent, they knew that conflict made no sense.

You could cut the atmosphere with a knife,

Today’s mission was the most important of their lives.

Johnny eventually told apologized for what he did,

“It was irresponsible and childish, I have to admit”.

They all forgave him and finished their breakfast,

What they needed and wanted to do was vast.

To remind you my reader, it is a story about the first moon landing,

Human knowledge on that day was supposed to be expanding.

 Three astronauts and our hero Jonny put on the special space clothes,

on life risk nobody wanted to be exposed.

One of the crew members had to stay inside,

important information and support he was to provide.

The rest prepared to leave the ship.

Their lives were about to flip,

because of this amazing trip.

He gave himself a last nip

and finally touched the grip.

They left the rocket and started to ‘fly’ into space.

The moon that was closer than ever they chased.

After a few moments they landed on the planet ground,

What they heard was the most amazing space sound.

They stayed for about 20 hours, most of the time exploring,

They knew that this would never become boring.

However they had too little fuel to stay there longer,

and they needed to go back to Earth, the command was stronger.

They came back to the space ship and arrived safe and proud,

There where billions of people watching them, quite a huge crowd.

They were clapping, waving and screaming.

When the spacemen saw that they thought they were dreaming.

From this story, that is a little bit unbelievable,

You can learn that anything is achievable.

An ordinary, simple guy from Spain,

that often was not even sane,

Breaking all the rules of his fear,

Thinking only about ‘now and here’,

Ignoring all the warnings he had to hear,

Flew to the moon, eclipsing all frontiers.

Lion

What I see is a light brown lion on a table

This colour remind me of a maple

It looks at me with its little sad eyes

It lies in its belly maybe he even cries

But wait? How? Toys can not cry!

It’s only a small, plush lion! Oh my!

His sweet, small, open widly eyes

Don’t make him angry! Take my adivse!

Dangerous, white mouth, tiny pinky nose

Four strong legs and long chocholate mane

But he is still very sad, look his pose..

You should hug him and make him brave!

But I am still wondering, why is he here?

Why wouldn’t he just run away, dissepear?

Everybody are whatching him, all day long today

So i wrote a poem about this cute little lion with a color skin hay.

Now this will be the last of my strophes about this lion

that was lying on a table all alone one day

I really wanna make him happier that he is right now

So we can all enjoy this sunny day. But how?

A quick description of deodorant.

What I see is a deodorant made by Axe. Its cover is mostly black and there is a silver part in the front with a title "Axe". It is made from plastic, has an oval shape and stands on its bottom. The cap of this deodorant is transparent but you can still see the white color of it. The whole area is very hard, flat, shinny and relatively small. When you open the dial the substance is blue, wet, smelly and gelly. If you touch it the texture turns out to stay on your hands. As the manual says it is supposed to be applied only to underarms. I am sure this deodorant is surely designed for men since its smell is very intriguing, interesting and it stimulates the senses. Fragrance of this deodorant is very hard to compare to any other realistic counterpart in the world. That is why this product is so unique and desirable. 

Quick Look Through Jonathan Safran Foer's Biography

• American writer
• Born in Washington D.C.
• Jewish
• One of the most controversial and influential writers of the last decade, not for the content of his writing, but rather for its unconventional writing style. 
• Jonathan was a very sensitive child, and at the age of 8 was injured in a classroom chemical accident that resulted in "something like a nervous breakdown drawn out over about three years", during which "He wanted nothing, except to be outside his own skin."
• Graduated from Princeton in 1999 with a degree in Philosophy
• Wrote his first book Everything is Illuminated before graduating, which was on the list of best books of 2002
• Everything is Illuminated was published in 24 countries
• Won the "National Jewish Book" award and many other literary prices
• Before he became a bestselling author, he was a receptionist, math tutor, ghost writer, and a jewelry salesman
• Foer lives with his wife, writer Nicole Krauss, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York

Annotated Bibliography

1.

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation. England: Penguin Group, 2007. 1-88. Print.

Eric Schlosser in Fast Food Nation talks about history of McDonald's. He argues that food is one of the  most important aspects to understand people's culture. There is lot information about partnership  between Disney and McDonalds. First 3chapters shows how world has been franchised, shows what's  hidden behind the funny and pretty face of fast food and how McDonald's made itself  so  efficient ,successful.

This source is helpful for me because there is lot information and points of view about McDonald's that  is not on McDonald's webpage. 

2.

McDonalds. McDonalds. Web. 27 Nov. 2009. <http://www.mcdonalds.com/

Main website of McDonald , to my surprise is not easy to read, colorful. However as I expected it talks  only about the advantages, how good the food is, how they help environment, children in need and how  it is easy to become an employee.

I think this is very useful source because it shows how Mc Donald's want to be seen in a public eye. There is a lot of information about history and food itself but also lot of stuff like "Amazing stories” or "McDonalds does good".

3.

SuperSize Me. Dir. Morgan Spurlock. Perf. Morgan Spurlock. Samuel Goldwyn Films Roadside  Attractions, 2004. DVD

   This documentary disguises mainly one question: Why Americans are so fat. Writer, producer, director  and main actor , Morgan Spurlock wants to prove that the reason is Fast Food. He decided to do that by  eating only McDonald's food , 3times a day for a month. He had to eat everything from the menu at  least once and agree to supersize it if they asked him. Morgan was regularly checking all the changes in  his health and body through this project and unfortunately it turned out that the consequences were  terrifying.

   I think this documentary is a great source for my research because it perfectly shows the 'dark side' of McDonalds, the backstage of the all happy commercials and smiles on supplier’s faces. In this source I can perfectly find what other people think about this corporation and what they don't want people to see.

4.

Haddow, Douglas. "Late Capitalism." big ideas of 2010December 2009: Print.

  "The big ideas of 2010". This journal is very interesting for me because there is a lot articles connected with advertisements. How the world changed and how we can't live without media's anymore.

The article I choose from this journal was about McDonalds, obviously. It disguises how this company is ready to stock everyone who dares to use the prefix "Mc". Unexpectedly, after eight years in court, ‘McCurry’ won the case and got back all money they lost. Since that the small restaurant on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur exploded with customers from around the world.

   This journal article is very useful for me. There isn't only one situation presented but it shows how McDonalds is ready to do everything to stay "unique" - if something like that is possible. They were ready to spend thousands of thousands in court just to not let some small restaurant grow. How scary is that? How unfair that would be if they would win? Maybe in some time people with names beginning with "Mc" will be in threat?

5.

"McDonald's Commercial 1967."http://www.youtube.com. Web. 6 Dec 2007.  <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFEkfipbI3Q&feature=related>.

"McDonald's is our kind of place, it's such a happy place, McDonald's is our kind of place". Catchy melody, moving, convincing lyrics – isn’t it an easy way to win hearts, souls and stomachs of millions of kids?  One minute video - how much information? It's clean, happy, what we can get there good food, quality, extra care service. One minute of video and we really believe that we should take our kids there before they know each other because why wouldn't we? It's our place!

This video is flawless for my research because it perfectly shows how this company has always wanted to be seen. This video almost forces us to see it again and convince ourselves how McDonald's is the happiest place we can go.

6.

"Old McDonalds Advert." www.youtube.com. Web. 7 Dec 2009. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwb9W51j7fo>.

In this video we see Ronald McDonald giving free hamburger to a young boy who eats it. But then he is trying to be obedient to his mother and not talk to strangers however when Ronald gives the boy next free burgers he suddenly starts to believe in his truthfulness. He forgets about mom advice to not excepting gifts from strangers and walk away with him to McDonalds.

This video presents the way of McDonald's want to be seen. Ronald McDonalds is presented as a good hero that gives free McDonalds food then kids take it and everybody are happy. However when I finished watching it and thought about it I started to be more and more terrified. I realized that if I were younger I would believe that it isn't wrong to take presents from strangers and go with them to the place they say they want to take us. How many kids are too blind and unconscious to see that it doesn't have to be Ronald McDonald but maybe a kidnapper? I hope the intensions of this advertisement were just to make the company look friendly but it ended up with a terrifying message.

7.

Love, John F. McDonald's behind the arches. United States of America: Bantam Books, 1995. Print.

McDonald's Behind the arches is a book showing aspects of this company that most of the people don't know about. Surprisingly it shows many about advantages. It argues that before McDonalds, hamburger meat was notorious for having the absolute worst quality in the industry, full of such appetizing parts as cow cheeks and tripe, and filled-out with decidedly un-meaty ingredients like water and soy. McDonalds cared about high quality of food and family atmosphere so that everybody would be happy.

This book is useful for me but since it is so long I can't read and use all the information from it. Despite that fact I researched about this book and found out some facts. This source is really important for me because it's all about McDonald's but shown from another side.

8.

Alfred D. CHandler, JR, Bruce Mazlish. Leviathans, Multinational Corporations and the new global history. United States of America: Cambridge university press, 2005. Print.

I find this source helpful but not as much as others. It gives me some information about the company but this book is written more generally and it doesn't contain as much useful information. However I find it useful because it has number of facts from McDonald's history.

Summary of 'Framed for child porn — by a virus'.

The article I have read describes new type of a virus. Collectors of child pornography are storing pornography like that on innocent, unconscious users of computers. Afterwards they use those infected computers to keep and view it what lets them easily surf on WebPages with pornography. Victim of a virus like that find it out what was happening when the police knock to their door. The article describes story about Michael Fioli whose computer was attracted by one of those types of viruses. It completely damaged his life, he lost his job, friend and family. Many threats that he has received caused stress and problems with his health. Hopefully the virus has been detected and Fioli was acquitted. Frequently, there are many viruses made to change the home page to a page with child pornography. This story happened to one man who has been sentenced to more than a week in jail and three months in a halfway house, also he lost custody of his 7 year old daughter. Many prosecutors argues that those viruses are often used to defend real pedophiles in court. Experts demonstrate that it is still hard to run away from the penalty because even careful child porn collectors tend to leave incriminating e-mails, DVDs or other clues. This article shows also the story about Ned Solon. His computer had child pornography, most probably downloaded by the virus because it turned out that his antivirus program wasn’t working properly which means five banned films were downloaded. This way of Solon’s defend wasn’t enough for investigators and forensic experts who argued that with his computer everything was ok and he is a pedophile. Specific expertise that could make this case more clear are very expensive. Even if court is able to pay for it , judges are not likely to do that. After  this very hard process Solon has been sentenced for 6years in jail.

This article should be a warning for all people to be aware of viruses waiting for as everywhere on internet and show us the progress in cybercrimanility. We should care about quality of our antivirus programs because in another way our life can escalate into one of those stories. 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/framed-for-child-porn-by-a-virus/article1356380/

" One size fits all phone chargers on the way " - summary

It has always been a problem if you forgotten your charger from home. But now companies in U.S came up with the idea of one universal plug. This article talks about firms like Nokia, Sony Ericsson and other industry majors which agreed to back an EU-wide harmonization of phone charges. 

I think this is a great idea and it will  stop wasting so much resources to make machins for so many different chargers.  Also now, if you just forgotten to take yours from home, everybody would have the same as yours. The article also ask a question if they will agree on one plug. Well, I heard that they already decided it to be mini usb plug.

There is also another asepect they didn't mentioned. Technology is improving so fast that we don't really know what kind of chargers we will need in few years so this idea would be good only if they  would 'be on time' with new technology - wich is quite obvious they will. So now we can see that maybe they finded a solution for this problem but for how long?Will the circle reel? There is no way to stop technology from moving further.

The huge amount of information we see everyday makes us listen but not think.

The huge amount of information we see everyday makes us listen but not think. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Montag's wife Mildred does not stop to think about the effects of the parlour on her life. The protagonist is frustrated by his wife's lack of curiousity, "Montag reached inside the parlour wall and pulled the main switch [...]. The three women turned slowly and looked with unconcealed irritation and then dislike at Montag. [...] The three women fidgeted and looked nervously at the empty mud-coloured walls" (102)  One switch and three women are angry. Why are they upset? Is TV really so nessary to meet with friends? This idea is further explored by the examination of poetry,"'As for poetry , I hate it'. said Mrs Bowles. 'Have you ever read any?' "(106).  We know Mrs. Bowles didn't read any books because she is not alowed to. But does she want to check it? Someone told her that books are a waste of time and she doesn't want to have her own opinion. In Fahrenheit we see women sitting the whole day at home. They don't do the housework and they don't work. They don't want to have children and if they do they barely see them. In this world it is normal that women watch television the whole day and when they are not, they have radio plugs in their ears. Maybe it is a suggestion to our future where we won't even have one moment of silence to think because of the advanced technology.  Fahrenheit 451 shows us the thruth about what can happen with people in the XXIcentury. Internet absorbes us so much that we forgot that real life exist.

The first and the last letter From Clarrise to Montag

             Dear Montag

      I am writing to you because I feel lonelier than I ever felt before. Usually I was watching nature, how flowers grow how they smell, I usually observed people and analysed their behavior but now I don’t know why I feel there will not be many occasions to tell you about me. That’s why I want to show you other aspects of my life.

      Our last few meetings were really great.I don’t remember many people which wanted to spend time with me besides my family. You know I don’t have friends because nobody wants to understand me. But you, you are different. When I first saw you I was afraid of you. Picture of a fireman in my mind was really scary but you changed it. You seem like you want to know me, know why I’m different, why I don’t want to be like everybody.
      In my family, we talk very often. I remember your face when you saw my house and all those people sitting-talking and living! I think you and your wife don’t do it. She is just watching TV all day and parlour is her ‘family’ right? Oh, poor Montag I really have to tell you so many things. I am hiding really important information from you. I… I… I have read many books Montag and I can help you. I want to talk with you about them. My uncle’s grandfather used to have many books in his house but I think you know what happened to them. For most of my life I thought that there are no books left in my family but I was wrong. Few years ago I wanted to hide under my uncle’s bad – you know – just for fun. In that moment I felt something hard. I took it and went to my room. It was a book. At the same time I was curious and scared but I have read it. I also read all of the others I found under the bed. It is really irresponsible that I’m telling you this through the letter but I just have to. I feel that someone is trying to kill me . Maybe because I’m different maybe because they are afraid I will ruin their 'perfect' and 'happy' system. I want you to feel Montag! I want you to live! Don’t be afraid of listening to your heart. It will always tell you the truth.

      I hope we will meet again before I will ‘leave with family’ or die in an ‘accident’. Never doubt in your new way of thinking It is good. I believe in you Montag – you can bring back the world of feelings and thinking.

                                                           Look forward to see you soon

                                                                               Clarrise

A vision of students today - Compare with yourself

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• My avarge class is 115        
• 18% of my teachers know my name
• I've completed 49% of readings assigned to me      
• Only 26% relevant to my life                                
• I buy hundred dollars textbooks that I never         
• My neighbour paid for class but never comes
• I will read 8books this year, 2300web pages,1281FaceBook Profiles
•  I will write 42pages for class this semester and over 500 pages of email
• I get 7hours of sleep each night
• I spend 1,5 h watching TV each night
• I spend 3.5 h on line every day
• I listen to music 2.5h a day
• I spend 2h on my cell phone
• I spend 3hours in class
• 2h eating
• I spend 2h in work every day
• 3hours of studying
• I'm a multi-tasker ( I have to be)
• I will be $20.000 in debt after graduation
• I'm one of the lucky ones
• Over 1bilion people make less than 1$ every day
• This laptop cost more than some people in the world make in a whole year
• When I graduate I will probably have a job that doesn't exist now
• I facebook most of my classes
• I bring my laptop to class but I'm not working on class stuff
  
  
   My life
  
• My avarge class is 12
• 90%of my teachers know my name
• I don't want to talk about it :)
• I don't know it yet
• I don't have to buy textbooks anymore (but I used to and I also used to open them)
• Usually everybody are in my classes
• I will read more books and I have no idea how much web pages and facebook profiles.
• I don't know how many pages I have write this semester but I think the number is quite similar
• I also get 7hours of sleep each night
• I spend 0 - 1 h watching TV every day
• I spend 4-8 hours on line every day
• I listen to music 2-4 hours a day
• I spend 0 - 5 min on my cell phone everyday
• I spend65min in class 3-5 times a day
• 1- 1,5hour eating
• I don't have a job but I spend about 1hour every day on housework's.
• 2-3hours of studying
• I'm a multi-tasker ( I don't have to be :) )
• I don't I will be in debt after graduation
• I didn't really know in what contexts she is saying that but I think sometimes I'm also a 'lucky one'
• I'm not on facebook aat class time
• I brig my laptop and I'm workind on class stuff :)

(lotto) Filling this out won't help me het there or deal with all these problems (in table) . I did not create this problems but they are my problems.
"Some have suggested that technology can save us….."

In a world where everything is quickly packaged and pre-packaged by the media, how can teens rebel?

Rebel. What does it mean? When you look into the dictionary you'll see a definition:
1.a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
2.a person who resists any authority, control, or tradition.

For me rebel means doing something againsts rules. In my age it means mainly against parents or rules in school. Usually coming back home later than I should or not doing my homework. Some people rebel by looking different. They are trying to stand out and be seen by society.
So can we really rebel? Even when I'll start wearing totally another clothes than I used to and start looking different - how can I know if it isn't already in some magazine recognised as a new trend? Or what is worse it have already been a trend and now it's out of date? In this times everything we do is not original. It’s hard to find something that someone didn't already do. But coming back to main question - How can teens rebel? I think that even if our way of rebel is not original it can still be rebel if we break our rules.

What is cool?

First thing I did was to ask my friends what cool mean. They usually were saying : " You don't know? Super, excellent, great "

And what is cool?
"Fashion, music, way you look, when you are different or when you follow the trends"

And why this is cool?
"Ehm….. Whyy???? I don't know… why you are asking?"

So I think saying what is cool is not so hard. We just don’t know why is it cool.
'Cool' is changing really often. Everytime when something stars to be cool , everyone starts to follow it . Than this thing is no longer cool so something else is now cool and so on. Finding it is not an easy challenge. Every firm which sell things to teens , keep looking for meaning of this word. 'Cool 'will always change. No matter what we can’t stop it. As long as time goes cool will be changing.

Logos of few selected company's that Disney owns

Walt Disney record

(category - music)

Walt Disney Imagineering


(category - Parks and Resorts)

Disney Magazine

(category- magazines)

ABC Day Time Press


(category - publishing)

Walt Disney World Resort

(category - resort)

Touchstone pictures

(category - film )

Miramax Films

(category - film )

Walt Disney Pictures

(category - film)

Pixar

(category - film)

Disney Toys

(category - Resort)

Disney Channel

(category - cable television)

ABC Radio

(category - radio)

ABC network

(category - Broadcast television)

Hollywood Pictures

(category - Film)

Disneyland Resort

(category - Resort)

Do you know many company's Disney owns?

We can divide them on few categories:
- Film
- Broadcast Television
- Cable Television
- Radio
- Music
- Publishing
- Parks and Resorts
- Others


Film

Walt Disney Pictures
Touchstone Pictures
Hollywood Pictures
Miramax Films
Pixar


Broadcast Television

ABC Network
Owned and Operated Television Stations
WLS - Chicago
WJRT - Flint
KFSN - Fresno
KTRK - Houston
KABC - Los Angeles
WABC - New York City
WPVI - Philadelphia
WTVD - Raleigh - Durham
KGO - San Francisco
WTVG - Toledo


Cable Television

ESPN (80%)
ESPN2 (80%)
ESPN Classic (80%)
ESPNU (80%)
ESPNEWS (80%)
ABC Family
Disney Channel
Toon Disney
SOAPnet
Lifetime Network (partial)
Lifetime Movie Network (partial)
Lifetime Real Women (partial)
A&E (partial)
A&E International (partial)
Jetix Europe (partial)
Jetix Latin America
The History Channel (partial)
Lifetime Real Women (partial)


Radio

ABC Radio
WDWD – Atlanta
WMVP – Chicago
WLS – Chicago
KESN – Dallas
KMKI – Dallas-Forth Worth
KRDY – San Antonio
WCOG – Greensboro, NC
WRDZ – Indianapolis
KABC – Los Angeles
KLOS – Los Angeles
KDIS – Los Angeles
KSPN – Los Angeles
KDIZ – Minneapolis - St. Paul
WKSH – Milwaukee, WI
WEVD – New York City
KDZR – Portland, OR
KWDZ – Salt Lake City
KIID – Sacramento
KMKY – Oakland
KQAM – Wichita
KKDZ – Seattle
WSDZ – St. Louis
WWMK – Cleveland
KMIK – Phoenix
KDDZ – Denver
WWMI – Tampa
KMIC – Houston
WMYM – Miami
WBWL – Jacksonville
WBYU – New Orleans
KDIS – Little Rock
WWJZ – Philadelphia
WWJZ – Philadelphia
WMKI – Boston
WDZK – Hartford
WDDZ – Providence
WDZY – Richmond
WGFY – Charlotte
WDYZ – Orlando
WMNE – West Palm Beach
WEAE – Pittsburgh
WDRD – Louisville
WDDY – Albany, NY
KPHN – Kansas City
WQUA – Mobile
WBML – Jacksonville
WFDF – Detroit
WFRO – Fremont, OH
WDMV – Damascus, MD
WHKT – Norfolk Radio Disney
ESPN Radio (syndicated programming)


Music

Walt Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Lyric Street Records


Publishing

Book Publishing Imprints
Hyperion
Miramax Books
ESPN Books
Theia
ABC Daytime Press
Hyperion eBooks
Hyperion East
Disney Publishing Worldwide
Cal Publishing Inc.
CrossGen
Hyperion Books for Children
Jump at the Sun
Volo
Michael di Caupa Books
Disney Global Children's Books
Disney Press
Disney Editions
Disney Libri
Global Retail
Global Continuity


Magazine

Automotive Industries
Biography (with GE and Hearst)
Discover
Disney Adventures
Disney Magazine
ECN News
ESPN Magazine (distributed by Hearst)
Family Fun
Institutional Investor
JCK
Kodin
Top Famille - French family magazine
US Weekly (50%)
Video Business
Quality
Wondertime Magazine


Parks and Resorts

Walt Disney Imagineering
Disneyland Resort
Walt Disney World Resort
Tokyo Disney Resort
Disneyland Resort Paris
Hong Kong Disneyland
Disney Vacation Club
Disney Cruise Line

Other
Disney Theatrical Productions
Disney Live Family Entertainment
Disney on Ice
The Disney Store
Club Penguins
ESPN Zone
Disney Toys
Disney Apparel, Accessories and Footwear
Disney Food, Health and Beauty
Disney Home Furnishings and Decor
Disney Stationery
Disney Consumer Economics
The Baby Einstein Company
Muppets Holding Company
Disney Interactive Studios
Walt Disney Internet Group

Summary of introduction

Food is one of the most important aspects to understand people's culture and such a wide change of Americans diet must be analyzed.
The multi-million dollar fast food industry didn't change only because what people eat but also because of franchising .Cities started to look the same. McDonald's "M" became a symbol of United States almost like the red Cross for the Christianity.
The motivation for such a rapid growth is the fact that fast food industry was born in a critical moment for American economy, which made it necessary for women to start working. This meant less people cooking at home and a higher need of restaurants, which was a perfect ground for the growth of fast food industry.
What was new in this kind of franchising was the focus on efficiency- making more things in less time and money- which meant using new technologies about food engineering and employ less qualified people who needed low wages.
That's what's hidden behind the funny and pretty face of fast foods.

According to the introduction, what will this book be about?

Fast Food Nation – you can read only the title and you know it’s going to be about fast food. The first thoughts after you read it are Mc Donald, unhealthy, tasty food. I’ve read the introduction of this book and I already know that it will be really authentic. I think I will know many new informations about what the food contains, how it was made, where the food came fromand so on. I knew that it’s not healthy but I always tried not to think about it. Just – you know – grab it and eat it. It’s soooooooooo tasty, and it’s not fair because healthy food is unfortunately often distasteful. With reference to my last post a have to say that I’m happy I don’t eat Mc Donald often. Maybe once a month or more rarely.
I think this book will open my mind and help me realize how fast food is bad for me and whole world. In my opinion it’s so sad that 96 percent of schoolchildren could identify Ronald McDonalds. And the only fictional character with a higher degree of recognition was Santa Claus! Only from the introduction I already know many facts about fast food nation.

For example
-‘Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education . personal computers , computer software, or new cars’

-‘On any given day in United States about one-quarter of the adult population visits a fast food restaurant. ‘ ( I’m so proud of them because I can’t imagine eating for example McDonald every day!)

-‘Mc Donald’s Corporation is the largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes – and the second largest purchaser of chicken’ (It actually shocked me. And I started thinking if not McDonald is the largest purchaser of chicken than who is? KFC! But in fact it’s pretty obvious because in KFC you can mainly it chicken.

-‘McDonald’s spends more money on advertising and marketing than any other brad. As a result it has replaced Coca-Cola as the world’s most famous brad’

-‘The restaurant industry is now America’s largest private employer, and it pays some of the lowest wages. […] The only Americans who consistently earn a lower hourly wage are migrant farm workers’ (This is so interesting and also sad . Can you imagine? The lowest wage? It is so unbelievable.)

-‘ One out of every eight workers in the US has, at some point worked at a McDonald's restaurant. ‘
(Why do they work there if they receive the lowest wage ? It’s funny.)

In conclusion I just want to say that I think this book will be really interesting on many ways. I will know many knew information and I am sure it will be really amazing.

What I Eat

FAST FOOD
I usually eat many times a day. I’m eating often but not too much. In my home everyone is shopping and prepearing. Unfortunately usually my mum and I are preparing whole meal. But on Sundays my dad always makes breakfast. So what do I eat? I eat everything what is on dinner or in the fridge. The only thing I can’t stand is mayonnaise and mustard. It’s owlful. I’m trying not to eat fast food but it’s so INEQUITABLy good. I’m telling my self it’s not healty and really fatty.So I’m really trying to avoid it.