Dumpster

in the bank to not have to worry and stress about paying bills and basic expenses will go a long way in terms of reducing anxiety and allowing time to find a true source of happiness. Lars Eighner, a homeless man, writes in his personal essay “On Dumpster Diving” that he believes himself similar to the very wealthy, immune from the “desire to grab for the gaudy bauble,” and therefore happier and more satisfied than the middle class. Despite this ironic claim, he makes a good point about the…

“A butter fly flaps its wings at the coast of Brazil we get a hurricane at the coast of Florida”. Chaos theory is mathematical theory that describe the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to very small starting forces then get huge response which is called the butterfly effect. CSI is investigating the case of Paige Rycoff, who has been missing for four days since she dropped out of college and was going home, but never arrived. The investigators started by analyzing where…

day at work. Across the deserted street he sees a hooded lady throw a small black bag into the dumpster. Before dashing she does quick glances of her surroundings and runs from the scene. He hear the cries of an infant within the dumpster. What does he do? Does he intervene or does he mind his own business and goes home? Only a heartless soul would ever consider to leave the baby to rot in the dumpster. If he was ever to do such a thing, his conscience would be the death of his as he stands…

She got into the dumpster and started looking around. “Looks like you’re right,” she said as she was holding up a crowbar with blood on it. We went back to the station and had the forensic unit test the crowbar for fingerprints and to make sure that was the dead girl’s blood…

Burdick, Alan. “The Truth about Invasive Species.” 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology. 4th Ed. Samuel Cohen. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2014. 83-90. Print. Summary: In Alan Burdick’s essay, “The Truth about Invasive Species”, he discusses the theme of how living organisms can adapt fairly easy to different environments without causing harmful damage. There is evidence presented in the article that tells readers information about invasive species. An example is that the American gray squirrel…

Starving Children. I wanted to help the world and still do. I wanted to continue to help and began searching for new opportunities locally to do so. At my highschool they had an organized after school activity to take bins of recycle to the right dumpster to be reused. Every Tuesday and Thursday student volunteers including myself would meet up and discuss what hallways everyone was assigned to. I’d do anything I could every week to make sure I could attend between balancing school, family,…

Lars Eighner became homeless in 1988 after losing his job as a mental-hospital attendant, during this challenging time he began dumpster diving and later wrote about his experiences in his essay “On Dumpster Diving.” During his time scavenging the dumpsters he saw how people mindlessly consumed and threw things out. He describes how he learned two very important lessons from being a scavenger, “the first is to take what I can use and let the…

take in wild animals, no matter how cute they were. However, Chris being the wild eight-year-old boy that he was never listened to his poor father. Recently, he brought home a stray cat that he found digging through the trash in the massive green dumpster outside of his school. The time before that, Chris climbed up the largest tree in the backyard to “rescue” a squirrel. However, this didn’t turn out well. Chris only made it halfway up the tree before losing his grip and falling onto the grass…

the winter in groups in their dens, while the male dens alone. They have an excellent sense of smell but are poor with their eyes, making them particularly vulnerable to being killed while crossing roads. Do Skunks Bite? Due to their love of human dumpsters, or seeking shelter in garages during winter, skunks come in constant contact with humans living near their habitats. And these encounters are usually less than pleasant. Because though skunks do not normally bite humans or their pet dogs who…

Chuck van der Woodsen lives on the corner of 13th street. Not in a house, nor an apartment, but next to a dumpster on the sidewalk. His daily routine consisted of begging for spare change and rummaging through dumpsters for scraps. Barely making it by. Of course plenty of people walked past him everyday in the huge city of Chicago. Every once and awhile someone would generously throw a dollar or two in his tattered hat that he kept beside him. Other times they offered him something to eat.…