Norton Reader Answers from On Dumpster Diving (pg. 28) 1. Eighner organizes his essay by breaking down how and why scavengers do what they do to survive. He begins his essay with how he became a scavenger and follows that with how to scavenge the best‚ safest way possible. He communicates how to choose the right dumpsters to dive into‚ how to determine if food is edible‚ and whether items are worth holding onto. I believe Eighner chose this type of organization throughout his essay to ease readers
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long time. 3. Eighner typically stays away from any game kind of food. For example: poultry‚ pork and egg based foods. It doesn’t matter whether he finds them raw or cooked he does not try to tamper with it because he does not have the luxury of cooking his finds and decontaminating food from salmonella or any other harmful sicknesses. He also stays away from ethnic foods because he is unfamiliar with when the food is in good condition or bad condition. 4. The drawbacks that Eighner talks about in
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Process Analysis THE STRATEGIES The process-analysis essay is an elementary but essential writing strategy. Most teachers prefer to teach it as the first expository form because all students have had experience giving and following directions and because composition students can use the skills that they have already studied in narration and description to explain the stages in a process. Like the chronology of events and the pattern of details‚ the stages in a process provide a plan for the process-analysis
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Cited: Eighner‚ Lars "Phlebitis: At the Public Hospital." Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years On the Road and on the Streets. New York: St. Martin ’s Press‚ 1993. 141-172. Fadiman‚ Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child Her American Doctors
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on the streets? In the text book‚ Lars Eighner‚ “On Dumpster Diving”‚ tells about when he was homeless out on the streets. He told that students usually had the best things because they threw out whatever they did not want because they have their parents to buy everything for them. He had two rules while living out on the street. Rule number one was‚ take only what is of use. The second rule was‚ material things that are not required are not necessary. Eighner states that while he was dumpster diving
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In “on Dumpster Diving‚” Lars Eighner describes the experience of being homeless and explains some key knowledge to dumpster dive for a support. Eighner shows some important rule that any dumpster diver has to assume in order to survive while dumpster diving. The first rule is knowing a good place and time to look for food at certain places and other items that can be useful for living. For instance the author says‚ “Students throw out canned goods and all of their studying material at the end of
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mind. These characteristics are true in some cases‚ but in others it’s just a way of stereotyping people‚ like the notion that blonde girls are dumb or Asians are bad drivers. In the two articles “On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner and “The Lady in Red” by Richard Lemieux‚ Eighner provides for himself free of cost by dumpster diving‚ but Lemieux is simply at what most people would call “rock bottom” of his life at the time‚ so he resorts to begging people for money. These two men are not your typical
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Eighner claims he has “no special knowledge” and that he has “been wrong before” with his assumptions on what he deems safe‚ but consider that he learned how to live off of the scraps people would not toss to their pets. That is something that no school would
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Analysis of Ehrenreich and Fuentes Ehrenreich and Fuentes "Life on the Global Assembly Line"‚ World Views‚ Third Edition‚ is ineffective because the witness testimony cannot be validated‚ the use of illustrations is illogical‚ their examples are based on unfounded information and their statistical data is often not substantiated by scientific data. Ehrenreich and Fuentes’ article is ineffective because witness testimony cannot be validated. Often Ehrenreich and Fuentes supply titles but no documentation
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provoking novel‚ Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich explores the life of low-wage workers in America’s society. While speaking with an editor one day‚ the question of poverty and how American’s survive off six and seven dollars an hour played in Ms. Ehrenreich’s mind. So as a journalist‚ Ehrenreich goes undercover working several minimum wage jobs and tries to survive off the earnings. Seeing and living the lives of these poverty-stricken workers‚ Ehrenreich learns that hard work doesn’t always lead
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