Summary Of ' Living As A Dumpster, `` Senior Editor From The Atlantic ' By James Hamblin

Melvin Udall lives a secluded life in his apartment among the busy streets of New York City. A middle age man of approximately 50 years, Melvin is currently

The details of Wilson’s description of the set itself is very significant because it gives the reader a visual of what was home in the Maxson’s household. It is an

“The home is the wellspring of personhood. It is where our identity takes root and blossoms, whereas children, we imagine, play, and question, and as adolescents, we retreat and try. As we grow older, we hope to settle into a place to raise a family or pursue work. When we try to understand ourselves, we often begin by considering the kind of home in which we were raised” (Desmond 2016, 293). Evictions! The root of poverty? Matthew Desmond’s novel “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in America City, portrays the lives of tenants, landlords, and house marketing on the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee. Desmond gives the reader overwhelming evidence and revealing testimony illustrating the major impact of inadequate housing on individuals, local, and national level. Desmond’s analysis and observation of his case study enables him to portray the reality of poverty, and to persuade the readers that evictions are a major consequence, and primary contributors in the relentless cycle of poverty. Desmond build his argument using two Aristotelian rhetorical appeals, ethos, logos and inductive reasoning to illustrates the importance of ending the cycle of poverty.

While attending the convocation festival today we were open to the opportunity to be enlightened by Jay Erzkine Leutze, author of Stand Up That Mountain. While he spoke I was not enlightened about items in the novel, however I was enlightened by his views on values. His views on what values make a person better. He spoke about his belief that if someone wanted to be a good person they needed to focus on the environment. If someone treats he environment well and pursues the rest of their life and values surrounding the environment that person is able to do much good. I do agree with Mr. Leutze in this regard. If someone is willing to take care of the environment and the materials within their surrounding area then they are willing to care for the organisms and people living within that environment. Those people are able to plan ahead and focus on future generations and are less likely to be selfish individuals.

The essays The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt and The Experimental Life by Randolph Bourne present conflicting views on the ideal lifestyle. Roosevelt suggests that the only acceptable life is one that involves progress through struggle and perseverance while Bourne claims that because life is filled with uncertainty it is best to prepare and embrace it. While Roosevelt’s and Bourne’s arguments greatly differ from each other, both offer valid pieces of advice on how to live a more ideal lifestyle.

As a young child, I was always on the edge–the edge of the forbidden forest that cast my backyard in shadow, the edge of the high-rising countertop that threatened to falter my steps, and the edge of the North American continent on the old dusty map spread across my bedroom floor. I was adventurous; I loved to seek all that was unknown in the environment by which I was surrounded. The curiosity within me has bloomed as the years have come to pass; it has taken me to places I had once dreamed of and has been my guide through the inception of discovering the veins of glorious life that pump restlessly through the world and me. This yearning for sagacious knowledge has fueled my desire to follow along a scientific path; with that said, my professional goal is to negate the mundane and explore the world (and preserve its beauty) through work as an environmental

71-year-old volunteer David Webb is hard at work a McKenzie River Trust site; pruning and stomping on a thick patch of invasive blackberry which threatens to overtake a clearing of vulnerable native plants. Sweat dribbles down from under his faded Husqvarna baseball cap. He stops to briefly wipe the sweat off his brow. Between the beating sun and the physical exertion he starts to show signs of fatigue. It is clear however, that being outdoors and taking care of nature is what he wants to be doing.

His brown boots hit the earth as he ran forward, pushing his legs far past what they were capable of. His lungs burned in his chest, sweat socked his skin causing his auburn locks to stick to his cheeks annoyingly, no matter how many times he pushed them away though they always came back, but he couldn’t stop, he had to keep running. His white shorts, which ended just past the knee, had patches of dirt from the times he fell from the twigs and roots in the forest he was weaving his way through. His blue and tan striped blazer, along with the long sleeve black shirt underneath were restricting his movements, making running a difficult task, and he wondered why he chose this outfit at all. He wasn’t so sure what he was running from he couldn’t quite remember, but the fear of whatever it was pushed him forward. Soon he came to a large clearing, halting his movements. He couldn’t see the others face only his back, but he clearly held himself with confidence, and had an air of power and danger around him. He stood before a throne, it looked like it could

If a writer would like to learn how to negate the positive effect useful information could have on an audience, reading Alex Shoumatoff’s article “An Eco-System of One’s Own” could help learn how to make valid arguments fall on deaf ears. This article was written to draw attention to or inform individuals in modern society that nearly every decision that is made -- from the time a person gets up until the time a person goes to bed -- is destroying the environment. Shoumatoff does this by organizing his essay following the unfolding of an imagined typical day, beginning with the “morning juice,” he continues with conceivable uses of energy and resources that one consumes before one even eats breakfast, the drive to work, lunch decisions, the drive home, and ends with the relaxation that should take place after a day’s work (269-276). The organization of this essay is very effective at showing how much destruction an individual may be doing to the environment in a typical day. However, the negative presentation of the material and barrage of sarcasm undercuts the applicable suggestions made to help resolve these issues.

Wilson uses personal connections in both pieces in order to spark an emotional flame in the heart’s and minds of readers. In lines 15-17 of the first piece,which is against the work of “environmental

Lately, I have been asked to participate in the local event focusing on environmental issues. The general idea behind projects like that is to be aimed at people who grapple with the problem of an ecological unawareness. Whereas the purpose is worthy, the involved have to face a common

I was extremely inspired by this article I found on a photographer named Benjamin Von Wong and how he transformed his projects into something very meaningful to benefit this planet. He wanted people to be more aware of how harmful plastics in the oceans affect the life there. Wong then thinks of how he can turn a not so interesting topic into something mind-blowing and eye-catching. He makes his fantasy come to live by creating these BEAUTIFUL photographs of mermaids that are dying from all the plastic in the ocean to get the audiences attention on how bad we are killing the oceans. I find it fascinating that you can turn trash into something significant and powerful or even create appealing art! You guys should definitely check out the full

The dump prior to a massive dump fire served as home and work for thousands of families and individuals. Those who inhabited the toxic dump made it their home, source of income, and meals on which they survived. Some of the more fortunate who depended on the dump for income lived in tattered settlements surrounding the dump, built by the trash collected. Life in the dump on the account of one resident was a “living hell”.

Delighted, I watched as a class of elementary students and their fearless teachers departed from the Nature Centre on a well-planned expedition. Excitedly, filled with awe and wonder, they were off collecting soil samples for further study. I could only imagine what these youngsters might find. Natural connections were forming before my eyes. As I continued along the trail, it struck me, our next generation of environmental stewards and scientists were at play in

This quote by Richard Louv is a powerful statement that not only speaks the truth, but connects to the reader, as all humans have lived through this statement. Based on my personal experiences with nature before this project, I wasn't what people would call an outgoing person. My life consists of a lazy technology person that become trapped through an endless loophole of technology. But I cannot reverse the time I had wasted, nor blame technology for this cause. I can blame no one but myself for the trap I had built for myself. During the events of this project, yes, I had originally become super stressed out about all of this work and all of the rest