Over the last three decades, fast food has infiltrated every nook and cranny of American society. Which piece of evidence best supports Schlosser’s claim from the introduction to fast food nation?

'During a relatively brief period of time, the fast food industry has helped to transform not only the American diet, but also our landscape, economy, workforce, and popular culture'.

Explanation:

The book, 'Fast Food Nation', written by Eric Schlosser in 2001 narrates the infiltration of fast food in America. The evidence to support the statement that fast food has infiltrated the American society over the last three decades can be found in the quote above from the book. Three decades before 2001 began in 1970 which was just a short period of time. Also, the fact that fast food has infiltrated all the nooks and crannies of the American society is found in the fact that restaurants, airports, airplanes, trains, ships, gas stations, Wal-Marts, and even hospital cafeterias now sell fast food. These represent the diet, landscape, economy, workforce, and popular culture of the American society which were affected within a brief period of time.

More evidence is found in the spending nature of Americans which have seen a huge investment in fast food that in other important aspects of the American society such as education, software, films and literature.

- "about the claims : -

making a claim is just a fancy way of saying that you're stating your main point.' claims are not just opinions. a claim tells what you think is true about a topic based on your knowledge .

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a counterclaim is just the opposite of a claim. counterclaims are also provable and supportable by reasons and evidence. not just, 'because i said so.' when you're planning an argument, you need to know what the counterclaim might be so that you can make sure that you disprove it with your reasons and evidence your research." - (catherineroberts)

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

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