Taste

While reading the chapter on where fries get there flavor from I learned many new things. I was unaware of the flavors that are produced in factories. I had always believed that McDonalds fries tasted the way they did because of the way that they were cooked. To be informed that their flavor is acutally just an additive completely shocked me.

Franchise

I found the presentaion on franchises very interesting. I believed that the success rate of the franchisee's would be much higher than that of starting any business. I was shocked when I heard that their success rate was actually lower than the others. Another fact that I found quite shocking and also disturbing was that the franchisor is able to close down the franchisee's business as they see fit. I learned many new facts, interesting and shocking, about the franchise industry.

Thesis

I found the information that we learned in class about a paper's thesis quite helpful. I had been used to thesis' that would be explaining what the paper was going to be about and putting the headings into order of when they would be spoken about. The thesis type that we were shown in class in my opinion will be much easier and better worded. The new thesis is actually the base of the paper and once you have a working thesis the rest of the paper will fall into place.