On Dumpster Diving, written by Lars Eighter, which is about a man dropped out of the university, and he began a dumpster diving before he became a homeless. He and his wife acquired many things from the dumpster began with his necessities like food, cloths, bottle, bed sheet, etc. Eighter expressed his feelings and his interested through scavenging. At the beginning of his story, readers could see that Eighter was very fascinated with his daily “job” when he mentioned scavenging or scrounging. Dumpster Diving described descriptively about the college student on discarding many functional objects such as food, clothes and furniture and how wasteful they were. I agreed with what Eighter’s opinion about people’s wastefulness; however, his lifestyle
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I am sure there are many homeless can find goods that have perfect condition in the dumpster, but picking food from a dumpster is giving them the potential of getting a food poison or worst if they do not aware of it. Like Eighter said, he used his senses to identify the items he had found. This is a superficial performance which is not safe for their health and the environment. Picking and dicking this garbage up can also release unhealthy bacteria and virus that affected from other spoiled food and beverages. Most divers came to realize that they must restrict themselves to items of relatively immediate utility but they could not control themselves. In some cases, things that glisters, divers would think that’s might be gold or diamond cause them mental illness like psychotic or illusion. In addition to their activities, imagine people were picking up trash and garbage is not a good image for people to look at.
Lars Eighter had many positive and rational thinking about scavenging and it’s not a bad thing. However, there were also differences between his mind set and my perception. Eighter did not embraces his opinion, he said “I can hardly think of without picturing a big black snail on an aquarium wall”. He liked the way he lived with a comfortable life. He identified himself as a scavenger. In my opinion, his though about people’s wastefulness is true but I do not agree with his
I am sure there are many homeless can find goods that have perfect condition in the dumpster, but picking food from a dumpster is giving them the potential of getting a food poison or worst if they do not aware of it. Like Eighter said, he used his senses to identify the items he had found. This is a superficial performance which is not safe for their health and the environment. Picking and dicking this garbage up can also release unhealthy bacteria and virus that affected from other spoiled food and beverages. Most divers came to realize that they must restrict themselves to items of relatively immediate utility but they could not control themselves. In some cases, things that glisters, divers would think that’s might be gold or diamond cause them mental illness like psychotic or illusion. In addition to their activities, imagine people were picking up trash and garbage is not a good image for people to look at.
Lars Eighter had many positive and rational thinking about scavenging and it’s not a bad thing. However, there were also differences between his mind set and my perception. Eighter did not embraces his opinion, he said “I can hardly think of without picturing a big black snail on an aquarium wall”. He liked the way he lived with a comfortable life. He identified himself as a scavenger. In my opinion, his though about people’s wastefulness is true but I do not agree with his