Summary:
In the essay 'Working at McDonalds' the writer Etzioni has expressed his opinion about teen employment and specifically those who are working at some fast food restaurants like McDonalds. The writer has stressed on the negative outcomes of teenagers working at fast food restaurants. He says that the parents need to understand that teen employment is not always the solution for them to free themselves of the responsibility to pay for their child's college education. By using the metaphor of delivering newspaper in relation to teens working at McDonalds, the writer claims that there is more to their abilities than just working at some fast food restaurant. He says that when teenagers see themselves earning money and getting hold of their
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There are a lot of unclear things about this article which makes it almost look like something people would not read because they already feel like they know these things. He is very unclear about a lot of things which have been mentioned in this article like in developing countries half of the teenagers work but do not necessarily work so they learn a skill they can master any time they want. His article includes a lot exaggeration and contradiction. There is no clear vision of how the writer wants teenagers to act their age instead of just pushing it too hard for them to see how working as a teenager is a horrible thing to do and how it can affect teenagers and give bad results. Teenage employment has become one of the biggest reasons to why teenagers drop out of high schools and develop a different kind of habits. This statement is really big for there is a lot of a teenager's life when he can lose his focus. The author has encouraged this idea that student who work at fast food restaurants like McDonalds they are more likely to lose their focus since they have now every reason to avoid studies. However, he used all his arguments against the teenage employment without any proper reference and that makes this article very unclear for the reader to believe