Dumpster Diving Lars Eighner Essay

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    English 101 Final Essay Q1: Discuss the contemporary issues in every essay A) A contemporary problem raised in “On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner Is the amount of wealth spent by consumers, and the effect of that. Consumers spend too much money and waste even more when they throw food and clothing away. In the essay he explains the way of life as an scavenger and how to demonstrate how people are able to live by the minimal resources although most consumers continue to buy things they do not need

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    When I was young, my dream was to become a teacher in the future, but my parents tried to stifle my dream by describing how low a teacher’s income is. My enthusiasm was dampened until I met my English teacher in Senior One, who graduated from Columbia University with a dual degree. One day I asked her, “With such an extraordinary diploma, why don’t you find a high-paying job but teach in a public school?” She replied with Marian Wright Edelman’s sentence, “Never work just for money or for power.

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    trying to get his readers to learn. In “ On Dumpster Diving” Lars Eighner he tries to convey a message when he tells us a story about this person and how he became homeless . The context in which he writes is that he writes in a dark place where there hardly seem to be any hope and that was the tone for their entire story. But he tries to leave clues in the story to see if you pick up on and foreshadow something big about life in general. Eighner is writing from a place where everyone can feel

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    Consumerism and Materialism in America Essay

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    The economy is a very fragile thing; however it can have an enormous impact on people. Americans especially are affected because they are so greedy, they always want more. Because Americans are very materialistic, they can become overly arrogant and possessive since they are used to getting their way, on account of having money. Some people are never satisfied with what they have; they are always on the lookout for more money and more possessions. Man requires food, shelter, clothing and fuel everything

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    A time long ago, before there were large wars to battle and Louis Vuitton bags to murder for, before humans became numbers in the “larger” scheme of things, before there was a broader picture, there were people; families, friends and communities connecting. Connecting on a deeper level than the typical sense of our current era. Due to materialism running rampant throughout America (preferably in Louboutins), citizens are distracted from mankind, value life less, are ungrateful, greedy, selfish and

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