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Billy Essick
Mr. Neuburger
Eng. Comp 102-104
31 August 2011
Single Paragraph Essay
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Dumpster Diving may be frowned upon by most Americans, but yet it is a very popular maneuver done by many of our nation’s homeless. Lars Eighner describes in his piece “On Dumpster Diving” how he digs through dumpsters and is able to collect enough of life’s necessities to live off of. Since Eighner is able to do this proves the point Americans are wasteful people and really does not realize how fortunate they may be. Eighner talks about eating pizza out of a dumpster and states, “Because help seldom stays long at these places, pizzas are often made with wrong topping, refused on delivery for being cold, or baked incorrectly.” (Eighner 256) Although Eighner is eating out of the dumpster, the food was perfectly fine. American citizens are just picky and waste perfectly good food. Also, not being a necessity but for personal entertainment Eighner states, “Drugs, pornography, spirits, and the like are often discarded when parents are expected-Dad’s day, for example…Wine and spirits, of course, keep perfectly well even once opened, but the same cannot be said of beer.” (257) This goes to prove one can live off another peoples’ trash, showing that Americans are wasteful people. 216