Big Questions!

The article "Big Questions" by John Hodgman really got me thinking about how the endless amount of huge questions we have each and every day! The article includes question such as "why do we sleep" and "what is the universe made of". It compares how much we know today versus how much we knew 100 years ago. The amount of progress we have made is unbelievable, and it is mainly due to technology! 

A "big" question I have once wondered about is how McDonalds got started. Perhaps the biggest and most well-known fast food chain, according to the McDonalds corporation website, they operate over 30,000 restaurants in 100 countries on six continents. I pondered on this question during my middle school years when a McDouble and chicken nuggets were among my favorite meals. Of course, to find the answer, I was able to type it in to the search engine Google, and tons of sites spit out answers for me to review. 

As an uninformed 15 year old, I did not yet know about the importance of "credible sources", so I am sure I believed anything I read online. Now, as I go back to research the history of this enormous fast-food chain, I have learned that it was started by a man named Ray Kroc, who, in 1954, turned a run down car-hop business into a small fast-food restaurant which served a basic menu of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fried, soft drinks, and apple pies. From that moment, this tiny business turned into what is possibly the largest chain in the world! The link provided is the McDonalds corporation website, which provides many more interesting facts and statistics! http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/McDonalds-Corporation-Company-History.html