The strict regimentation at fast food restaurants creates standardized products. it increases the throughput. and it
gives fast food companies an enormous amount of power over their employees. "when management determines
exactly how every task is to be and can impose its own rules about pace, output, quality, and technique," the
sociologist robin leidner has noted, "[it] makes workers increasingly interchangeable." the management no longer
depends upon the talents or skills of its workers-those things are built into the operating system and machines.
the testimonial evidence in this excerpt is effective because it
makes an emotional protest against the fast food industry's treatment of employees
includes an expert opinion supporting the claim that the fast food industry resembles the manufacturing business.
describes a personal experience of what it is like to work in a fast food restaurant
provides a technical explanation of the standardized procedures and equipment used in fast food restaurants

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning

Which one event in the story almost caused them to turn back and give up? losing their donkeysthe descent into the volcanorunning into their first dead endlack of water

Read the excerpt from david foster wallace’s infinite jest. my silent response to the expectant silence begins to affect the air of the room, the bits of dust and sportcoat-lint stirred around by the ac’s vents dancing jaggedly in the slanted plane of windowlight, the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer. the coach, in a slight accent neither british nor australian, is telling c.t. that the whole application-interface process, while usually just a pleasant formality, is probably best accentuated by letting the applicant speak up for himself. in this excerpt, the narrator is providing a, both objective descriptions and subjective commentaries. b. only objective information about people, setting, and events. c. only subjective responses to the things he sees and experiences. d. a compromised interpretation of events due to his unstable condition.