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    On Dumpster Diving Response Essay

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    Lars Eighner's essay "On Dumpster Diving" describes his experience dumpster diving to find food and items, seeing it as a way of life that can provide contentment despite difficult circumstances. He details how to identify edible food and risks, and explains there are ethics and lessons to be learned from scavenging. Eighner avoids judging those who discard items and writes basic rules are to take only what you need and understand the transience of material things. He also notes dumpster diving can provide unexpected perspectives, as he has found satisfaction regardless of situation by knowing he can always find more of what he requires.

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    On Dumpster Diving Response Essay

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    Lars Eighner's essay "On Dumpster Diving" describes his experience dumpster diving to find food and items, seeing it as a way of life that can provide contentment despite difficult circumstances. He details how to identify edible food and risks, and explains there are ethics and lessons to be learned from scavenging. Eighner avoids judging those who discard items and writes basic rules are to take only what you need and understand the transience of material things. He also notes dumpster diving can provide unexpected perspectives, as he has found satisfaction regardless of situation by knowing he can always find more of what he requires.

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    Lars Eighner's essay "On Dumpster Diving" describes his experience dumpster diving to find food and items, seeing it as a way of life that can provide contentment despite difficult circumstances. He details how to identify edible food and risks, and explains there are ethics and lessons to be learned from scavenging. Eighner avoids judging those who discard items and writes basic rules are to take only what you need and understand the transience of material things. He also notes dumpster diving can provide unexpected perspectives, as he has found satisfaction regardless of situation by knowing he can always find more of what he requires.

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    On Dumpster Diving Response Essay

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    Aleah Woodmansee
    Lars Eighner's essay "On Dumpster Diving" describes his experience dumpster diving to find food and items, seeing it as a way of life that can provide contentment despite difficult circumstances. He details how to identify edible food and risks, and explains there are ethics and lessons to be learned from scavenging. Eighner avoids judging those who discard items and writes basic rules are to take only what you need and understand the transience of material things. He also notes dumpster diving can provide unexpected perspectives, as he has found satisfaction regardless of situation by knowing he can always find more of what he requires.

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    Aleah Woodmansee Mr. Neuburger Eng. Comp.

    101-102 5 February 2012 Response Essay On Dumpster Diving On Dumpster Diving is an essay by Lars Eighner describing the process and items found when dumpster diving. There is more to dumpster diving than simply taking things people no longer want, it is a way of life where, despite seemingly dire circumstances, a person can find contentment. Eighners essay describes different ways to recognize good food and the risks of eating the bad, but he also writes there are many lessons to be learned, and actual ethics while scavenging. He states, I avoid trying to draw conclusions about the people who dump in the Dumpsters I frequent. Furthermore, describing basic rules for divers Eighner writes, The first to take what you can use and let the rest go byThe second lesson is the transience of material being. Dumpster diving also provides perspectives that would seem to be the most unlikely. For example, Eighners describes how he has found contentment in any circumstance when he says, I find my desire to grab for the gaudy bauble has been largely sated. I think this is an attitude I share with the very wealthy- we both know that there is plenty more where we have come from.

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