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    After reading both great essays on the Guerilla Street Art and Freegans, I gained a new understanding on both subjects. Both readers were very descriptive, opening up a compassion in me that I never explored. I enjoyed reading about the Freegans the most due to the fact that I have friends that live a relatively similar lifestyle; however, I call them dumpster divers. I never knew there was an actual definition for someone that lived off of another’s trash. Now I can understand why they do what…

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    There’s something about strapping your body into the seat of the helicopter simulator knowing you will drop into the sea survival pool to sink and roll upside down. All while remaining calm enough to extricate yourself from the underwater test module. Oh, by the way, let us not forget to mention doing all this while dressed in numerous layers of heavy clothing under a survival suit to lower your risk of getting hypothermia. Certainly, there are a quite a few dudes that get-off on, that kind of…

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    Octopus Observation

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    The Observational Octopus We’ve all heard some variation of a story in which an octopus has escaped its enclosure, gone about its business, and returned to its tank, all without leaving any evidence for the staff or guards. These types of tells are what piqued my interest in cephalopod intelligence and led me to a study conducted by James B. Wood and Roland C. Anderson where the goal was to identify the differences in escape behavior between various types of octopuses. When searching for an…

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    article on Dumpster Diving, Lars Eigner, was trying to make people aware of the usefulness of the items that were so often discarded as garbage. For example, you may have an old pair of shoes that you no longer wear because you have so many. You don’t see a need for them any more so you toss them in the trash. Someone who dumpster dives finds the same shoes and can see the usefulness in them. We often take things for granted because they are so easily replaceable. Dumpster diving is the act of…

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    information on the subject. I was so difficult for me to complete because I was an expert of coral reefs. So I finally through that topic out and choose to do a speech on Scuba diving. Which I am no expert, but I do have some knowledge about the subject. The week of October 6 I was supposed to being giving my speech on Scuba diving but due to work I was sent to Jacksonville Florida to aid the team during Hurricane Matthew. I heard everyone did very well on the speeches and I am sorry I…

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    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.…

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    Healox Case Study

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    About HealOx About HealOx HealOx is the supplier of equipment used in hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Our goal is to be the leading and preferred provider of HBOT. Through our innovative oxygen treatment, we make sure that your hyperbaric experience is safe and beneficial for your health and beauty. When you use an oxygen chamber for healing, the air pressure is increased to three times that of normal air pressure. During the process, the lungs are able to accumulate more oxygen than it can…

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    of materialism; Home is a place which not only provides and sustains one's lifestyle, but one which he can return to everyday filled with contentment and satisfaction. Lars Eigner began Dumpster diving a year before the eviction of a "home", has found a fondness, a fulfillment, a justice in Dumpster diving. Frankly, Eigner has no physical "home", but nonetheless he has a life, one which he pleasures himself, and in this life he finds true tranquility intertwined with prosperity. Eighner's…

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    University of Texas-Austin. Some of his articles were published in magazines like Threepenny Review, the Guide, and Inches. Lars Eighner became homeless in 1988 when he left his job as an attendant at a mental hospital. Eighner’s essay “On Dumpster Diving” (627) explains how our society is becoming a throwaway society, and how people throw away a lot of perfectly useful stuff. Our society has the huge problem of not taking advantage and not benefitting from the dumps wasting with a great…

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    An experience i had like this was when i went scuba diving for the first time. My dad has been diving for a very long time, and i convinced him to take me with him when i was 10. I had always loved the ocean, so it was a very profound experience. We were staying at in a resort in Mexico, near Cancun. I’d been asking my dad to take me for years before, so they got me diving lessons at the UofA over the summer before. I was so excited when i got there, because i…

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