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    Lars Eighner “On Dumpster Diving” Summary: In Lars Eighner’s short essay “On Dumpster Diving”‚ he describes his experience of being homeless and the art of dumpster driving. Eighner prefers being referred to as a scavenger rather than a dumpster driver. Eighner stated “I like the frankness of the word scavenging. I live from refuse of others. I am a scavenger.” (383) He describes scavenging as a full time job‚ that requires a lot of effort. He believes that if one follows certain guidelines and

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    “dumpster diving”. This technique involves rummaging through the garbage of retailers‚ residences‚ offices‚ and other facilities for useful goods. Society’s stereotypes about garbage‚ the goods recovered by freegans are safe‚ useable‚ clean‚ and in perfect or near-perfect condition‚ a symptom of a throwaway culture that encourages to constantly replace older goods with newer ones‚ and where retailers plan high-volume product disposal as part of their economic model. 2. Dumpster diving is legal

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    in scuba diving to describe the sharp‚ painful feeling that occurs when one surfaces too quickly. Although it is not very common‚ it can potentially be fatal if severe enough. The symptoms for the bends are easily identified and are simple to treat if it is caught in the early stages. Decompression sickness can be prevented all together if proper safety precautions are taken. If you pay attention in certification class and remember to follow the steps of surfacing from a dive‚ scuba diving can be a

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    Compare Contrast Essay "The Town Dump"‚ by William Stegner‚ and "Dumpster Diving"‚ by Lars Eighner‚ are both essays dealing with town dumpsters. They are both similar in the sense that they both have positive feelings about the dumpsters‚ but "Dumpster Diving" deals more with how the dumpsters help him live‚ while "Town Dump" tells how the dumpster constitutes a large part of the town’s history. In "Dumpster Diving"‚ Eighner tells his story of living off of the food that he finds in the

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    Professor Kaminsky Writing 301 June 22‚ 2013. Writing Project 2 (Final): Being Amphibious For A While Ever wondered when underwater diving began? Based on the archaeological evidence‚ people have been freediving since 2‚000 years ago (www.aidainternational.org). It first started in Japan‚ where pearl divers began collecting oysters to obtain pearls by diving into the ocean floor with just a single breath. Then‚ in 1943‚ Jacques Cousteau came up with his own invention called SCUBA‚ Self-Contained

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    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is written from the point of view of Jean-Dominique Bauby‚ a French journalist and former editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine‚ in Paris. Bauby suffered a severe stroke on December 8‚ 2005‚ leaving him with a rare condition known as locked-in syndrome‚ in which the brain continues to function normally‚ but the body is completely paralyzed. Jean-Do retained some movement in his head and left eye‚ and wrote his memoir through a tedious method of blinking. An interlocutor

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    He claims that his life is dull‚ miserable‚ demeaning‚ undignified and intolerable. With these negative thoughts constantly lingering within him‚ he believes that he has the right to die and his wife supports this crazy idea. In the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly‚ Jean-Dominique Bauby has the same condition. Although he is completely paralyzed with no hope of recovery‚ he’s able to move his left eyelid. This slight movement in his eye is very significant because it’s his one way of communication

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    greatest pearl in the world” ( Steinbeck 10 ). Consequently the pearl causes conflict for the fishermans family. In the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck‚ lived a poor family in a small brush house town‚ that lived and ate the same everyday. The husband Kino and wife Jauna lived with their son Coyotito‚ which they protected him as much as they could. One day their son get’s struck by a scorpion‚ making Kino seek help from the doctor rejected their plee for help until Kino finds the great pearl when

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    In "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck there are many characters that show out to be greedy after Kino got the pearl. For example: the priest‚ the doctor and Kino. The priest turns out to be greedy when Kino gets the pearl. When the news came to Him he started to wonder whether he had baptized Coyotito and if he married Kino and Juana‚ he also started to think how much the pearl was worth‚ and what repairs where necessary to the church. The doctor also turns out to be greedy after the news that Kino

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    In the short novel The Pearl by John Steinbeck‚ some people are willing to do some very bad things all because of greed. People are willing to burn down homes and even kill‚ all because of a poor man’s pearl. In the beginning of our story our main characters (Kino‚ Juana‚ and their son Coyotito) are Native Mexicans who are very poor and living in a hut village on the Gulf of California‚ near La Paz (otherwise know as the town of stone and plaster). They wake up one morning to find a scorpion on the

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