Diving

The Extreme and Thrilling Dangers of Scuba Diving Have you ever been scuba diving or perhaps seen pictures of it? It is an amazing opportunity that should be on everyone’s bucket list. When most people look out at the ocean, they think of how beautiful it is. Although the ocean is marvelous on the outside, they’re only looking at the outside. The inside is when it really takes your breath away. When scuba diving, you are given the chance to swim in one of the world’s glories -- the ocean. The

In the story "On Dumper Diving" by Lars Eighner it's a retelling of his past exsperiences with dumpster diving, the best ways to do it, the things to do, the things not to do, and what its got him. A brief revealing passage from the story that has an important aspect of the entire essay can be seen on page ninty four when the author says "First lesson is to take what I can use and let the rest go by". This quote is very important because if you clutter your life up with things you do not need you

Eighner’s Attitude Towards Dumpster Diving Lars Eighner has a very professional attitude towards the act of dumpster diving and those who go forth with it. Eighner uses certain features of style and rhetoric to help convey his professional attitude. He uses forms of the rhetoric such as his diction, the irony used, and the tone to achieve the main purpose of maintaining the “professional attitude” towards dumpster diving throughout the piece. With the use of these rhetorical forms, he is able to

On Dumpster Diving 2a. Lars Eighner, the author of “On Dumpster Diving” describes his life of a homeless dumpster diver. He explains how it is a lot of work and certain principles to follow to be successful at the sport. One principle Eighner mentions in his personal memoir is knowing the right place and time to look for food and other things that would benefit the diver. “Students throw out canned goods and staples at the end of semesters and when they give up college at midterm” (Eighner 150)

Cliff diving is an exhilarating experience. You can’t focus on the rough rocks scraping your feet as you run towards the cliff, or the fear that creeps its way into your mind as the view of the ocean doubles, triples, and then quadruples in size. You can’t focus on the way your hair is whipped back by the air. Your mind won’t let you. Instead, your thoughts are racing, you’re concentrating on jumping at the right moment, on how your speed is increasing at about 20 miles per hour every second, and

the alley-ways. As humans we walk by smelling the odor coming from the trash, and continue walking. In Lars Eighner’s “On Dumpster Diving” he will inform us about what he thinks and believes on the subject of dumpster diving. The message that Eighner wrote for the audience was two ways: external and internal. His external message was a “how to guide” on dumpster diving. He wanted to help others that were in the same boat as him to find the best things in a dumpster and how to properly dive. Eighner’s

below details what I grasped from the reading assignment and the conclusion I came to. In Lars Eighner’s On Dumpster Diving, Lars describes himself to standout from others who are homeless. He goes as far as to relate several times to those who are wealthy by saying, “I think this is an attitude I share with the very wealthy…” (63). He describes the shame associated with dumpster diving when he says, “At first the new scavenger is filled with disgust and self-loathing” (59). In fact, Eighner’s essay

awareness for diving. Diving is an olympic acrobatic sport performed on 2 grounds, a springboard and a platform “Springboard diving is done from a flexible plank made of aluminum or steel and measuring 16 ft (4.9 m) long by 20 in. (51 cm) wide. It extends horizontally over the water at a height of 1 m (about 3 ft 3 in.) or 3 m (about 9 ft 10 in.). The flexibility of the board allows the diver to jump high into the air to execute various maneuvers before entering the water. Platform diving (also called

Dumpster Diving There are many popular sites in the world that can be well known for various reasons. One of those popular sites is located somewhere in an alley of downtown Denver. There, it is famously known for it’s known damaged valuables and trash. With that being said, and somehow by chance, these three young teens had gone to that alley looking for something the other had in their possession, and all it took was getting to know each other in order to receive what they wanted. It all begins

Americans will create environmental problem and outbreak of resource war if they continue wasting Earth’s source base on their lavish lifestyle, in which it is supported by their culture and the lack of appreciation. In the essay “On Dumpster Diving,” Lars Eighner, as a homeless person, used his own life experience as a dumpster diver to reflect on the wastefulness of American society. Eighner states, “...although if I could I would naturally prefer to live the comfortable consumer life, perhaps