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    On Dumpster Diving On Dumpster Diving states both positive and negative things about diving into dumpster. I personally think dumpsters are disgusting and diving into them to scavenge is like taking a bath in manure. I do understand though that sometimes people have to do things they don’t like to do to survive. Lars Eighner wrote about his personal experiences with dumpster diving and its affects on him. He says it is a good way to find things to eat and wear when all else fails. What is…

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    amazing stuff you could find in other people’s trash. Dumpster Diving is something homeless people do when they want to find food, clothing, and anything else they could use to their advantage. Dumpster diving gave me a horrible impression. I couldn’t contribute to the idea of someone, much less myself, digging or scrounging in another’s dumpster out in the open, touching food and material that could easily lead to deadly diseases. At first, I saw dumpster diving as a disgusting and unsanitary…

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    using less, in an effort to better protect the earth. James Hamblin, a senior editor and journalist for the Atlantic, is a proponent of this movement. In his article, “Living Simply in a Dumpster,” Hamblin highlights the ideas and motives behind Jeff Wilson’s, a college dean and professor, choice to live in a dumpster. Through adequate details in the exposition that sets up an appeal in Ethos, interesting humor that keeps the reader hooked with Bathos, and anecdotal evidence creating Logos,…

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    In the year 2017, most modern societies have ultimately adopted an ideology of overconsumption and consumerism. This adoption of overindulgence and extravagant spending is the focus of journalist James Hamblin’s profile, Living Simply in a Dumpster. In this article, Mr. Hamblin writes about Jeff Wilson, the dean of the Houston-Tillotson University, and his message about rejecting indulgence and returning to a practice of living in deliberation and ecological awareness. This idea is communicated…

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    Education is not helpful when you work at a dumpsite Essay The author Andy Mulligan has introduced readers to the world of “Trash” about group of teenage boys Raphael, Gardo and Rat that all work at a dumpsite, the friends find a bag filled with money and an ID card of a man called Jose Angelico and they end up getting in a lot of trouble. The place where these kids live in is a fabricated yet close to reality place called “Behala” this is a place where the homeless and the poor must live and…

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    For example: “Being Brians”, “On Dumpster Diving”, and “Us and Them”. They really Inspired me because I realised that a topic like searching through the trash, as told in my favorite one that we read, “On Dumpster Diving”, would usually cause me to fall asleep. Because honestly, who is interested in reading narratives about garbage? To my surprise, “On Dumpster Diving” was extremely interesting to me, I practically had to peel myself from the papers…

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    eople require dumpster rental services for many reasons. For example, a landlord often needs to clean the apartment where the last tenants left garbage piled high. A professional home renovator often takes several trips to the county dump. Or perhaps, you just have a big cleaning task to do and you need a place to dispose all the waste materials. Usually, renting of these king-size garbage containers is the region of large construction companies, but there many dumpster rental companies that…

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    Lars Eighner, in his story “On Dumpster Diving” shows readers that things have different value to different people. It is about his life as a homeless, finding things in dumpster that people have thrown out which is trash to them. In the beginning he was living in the shack with his dog called Lizibeth. He was fascinated by dumpsters. He started dumpster diving as he would call “scavenging” when he began to run out of money from his savings. Throughout the story he talks about the objects, food,…

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    At the ends of each semester college kids are packing up to return for the holidays. They’ll pack their clothes, throw out old assignments they never turned in, and look through their food to see what needs to go. In ‘Dumpster Diving’ by Lars Eighner he talked about how college kids are throwing out food, giving it an unfair characterization. Only a few percent of college kids are the party-going, drug addicted, drinker types but there are determined college kids who stay away from all of that…

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    about poverty in their essays, “On Compassion” and “On Dumpster Diving.” Barbara Lazear Ascher focuses on the difference in interactions with certain people and Lars Eighner focuses on opportunities and convenience. With the help of relating to social classes and life lessons, the authors reveal messages about misfortune. Both authors express similar perspectives on homeless people and society,…

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