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    On Dumpster Diving

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    In his essay "On Dumpster Diving", Lars Eighner discusses the practice of searching through dumpsters for discarded items that still have value. He argues that an inexperienced dumpster diver may mistake spoiled food or worthless trinkets as treasures. However, with experience dumpster divers learn skills like only taking usable items and only eating familiar, uncontaminated food. Eighner provides advice on where to find good items and how to dumpster dive safely. While it may seem impossible, he shows that even searching through the trash requires a certain level of skill.

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    In his essay "On Dumpster Diving", Lars Eighner discusses the practice of searching through dumpsters for discarded items that still have value. He argues that an inexperienced dumpster diver may mistake spoiled food or worthless trinkets as treasures. However, with experience dumpster divers learn skills like only taking usable items and only eating familiar, uncontaminated food. Eighner provides advice on where to find good items and how to dumpster dive safely. While it may seem impossible, he shows that even searching through the trash requires a certain level of skill.

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    In his essay "On Dumpster Diving", Lars Eighner discusses the practice of searching through dumpsters for discarded items that still have value. He argues that an inexperienced dumpster diver may mistake spoiled food or worthless trinkets as treasures. However, with experience dumpster divers learn skills like only taking usable items and only eating familiar, uncontaminated food. Eighner provides advice on where to find good items and how to dumpster dive safely. While it may seem impossible, he shows that even searching through the trash requires a certain level of skill.

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    On Dumpster Diving

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    In his essay "On Dumpster Diving", Lars Eighner discusses the practice of searching through dumpsters for discarded items that still have value. He argues that an inexperienced dumpster diver may mistake spoiled food or worthless trinkets as treasures. However, with experience dumpster divers learn skills like only taking usable items and only eating familiar, uncontaminated food. Eighner provides advice on where to find good items and how to dumpster dive safely. While it may seem impossible, he shows that even searching through the trash requires a certain level of skill.

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    Laney Calvin

    Mr. Larry Neuburger

    English-102-129

    1/28/2011

    One Paragraph Essay

    “On Dumpster Diving”

    In Lars Eighner‘s “On Dumpster Diving” he discusses the many things that are thrown out and

    left in the garbage that are well worth saving. He argues the well-known statement that one mans’ trash

    is another mans’ treasure, and illuminates the fact that not all Dumpster divers can differentiate

    between what’s trash and what’s treasure. He asks the question “why was this discarded?” (359),

    explaining in detail that the inexperienced Dumpster diver may eat something well past its prime or take

    trinkets and tokens that only “pack rats” (363) would be proud of. Most of these skills could only be

    learned over time as a Dumpster diver. In this single chapter about his homeless life, Eighner paints a

    picture for us describing the likely outcomes of what will happen to the inexperienced and one who

    knows what’s what. He goes into great detail on what and where to eat, giving three principals on how

    to eat safely from the garbage and where to seek it out. As time passes, most divers learn the skill of

    Dumpster diving and only keep what can be used and only eat what is familiar or appears

    uncontaminated. As impossible as it might seem, even something such as dumpster diving requires skill,

    and that, Eighner has taken great care to show us.

    Works Cited

    Eighner, Lars. "On Dumpster Diving." Power of Language; Language of Power: A Collection of Readings.
    Custom Edition ed. New York: Pearson Custom, 2009. 357-69. Print.

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