Chapter 4 describes the horrific consequences of pre-1991 landfills. Humes writes, “Trash, sometimes with hazardous chemical waste mixed in, had been buried carelessly all over the country for decades without installing plastic barriers and other protections now deemed essential to containing landfill pollution”( 2013 p.92). Humes describes a tragic incidence near Niagara Falls, New Jersey in the 1970s. “In the 1950s, there was a residential community near Niagara Falls in New York. The community was built on what had been at one time a toxic chemical disposal site” (Humes, 2013, p.92).
In the essay it seems the author wanted the audience to stop being so wasteful but on the other hand it seems Eighter is trying to explain the way to live out of dumpsters. In a way both purposes counteract each other. One is saying people need to stop being so wasteful and the other is saying that people are always going to be wasteful so here’s a guide to help you make it.
In “Amazing Grace”, Cliffie, while eating a chocolate chip cookie, shows Kozol a waste incinerator “burning ‘red bag’ products, such as amputated limbs...bedding bandages.” (l. 74-76) Cliffe calls these products ‘burning bodies,’ relating to how bad the air is around them thanks to the products being burned and how people get sick and can die from not breathing enough good air. If the cities found a new, cleaner way of disposing of trash, like recycling, then we would have cleaner air for everyone. Second, we can brighten the world by sharing extra goods with people around us that don’t have what we have.
This shows his readers that he respects all dumpsters which is completely opposite of how we view them. To show how unglamorous Dumpster diving was, he quotes the words “scavenging” and “foraging”. In a way, it was very capturing how the author described in full detail, yet in an educated way, that Dumpster diving is not bad and shouldn’t be looked down upon. For example, he uses the word “de-emulsified” which not a typical English word a person will hear every day. This can also show the reader that not all people who end up digging through a dumpster means they’re not well-educated.
In Wendell Berry’s “Waste” the author argues that the centralization of industries is the reason for the wastefulness of the people in the US. Since these industries are centralized we are forced to buy food from places filled with plastics and mass produced foods. In the essay Wendell Berry uses logos in order to convey the message that both corporations and people in the US play an equal role in the creation of waste. In the essay,Berry is able to use clear reasoning in able to develop the cause and effect relationship found in this article.
The trash found in the streets of the city symbolized as pay for the people. Of paragraph three, a person brings a bag home and separated things he would usually find on the streets; rags, bones, and old metal. Although it does not seem much of a big deal in today’s society, during 1854, many people were having it hard. The author used imagery describing many items. Again, in paragraph three, the individual is said to travel from twenty to thirty miles with a heavy bag on his back during the summer.
Boyle uses some symbolism too. All of the people there that leave their trash on the ground harms the experience for other people as well as harming the environment. Boyle shows the dramatic impact that littering can cause to the surroundings. The broken glass presents the danger of cutting your feet when walking on the bank of the shore without shoes on. The water of the lake, which was once clear, is now murky and putrid.
This is shown especially in the short article "Hey Come on Out'' by Shinchi Hoshi. The village was looking into the hole in the morning and noticed something in the sky: "The man, however, was gazing in idle reverie at the city's skyline growing ever more beautiful, and he failed to notice" (Hoshi 45). This suggests that the waste is going to fall on them. This quote shows that since the people of the village were dumping all the trash in this hole, they did not know about it; nature noticed that it was not right and knew something had to be done. This is explaining that people do things to destroy the environment.
The saying, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is quite known to everyone. Many people know and are aware of this saying, but may interpret it very differently. In the essays, “The Town Dump” and “On Dumpster Diving”, the authors, Wallace Stegner and Lars Eigner agree that some things people throw away do actually have value. Though the authors agree on the sense that “trash” may be valuable, and things should be appreciated, they agree for entirely different reasons. Wallace Stegner grew up in a young town named Whitemud, in which he described as exciting and full of wonder.
‘The trash bags come together. Piles and piles of it, and it all ends up here with us. It’s a place they call Behala, and it’s a rubbish-town.’ In this quote by Raphael, Andy Mulligan uses
Nalo Hopkinson’s story “A Habit of Waste” takes place in a society where bodies are interchangeable, the main character is Cynthia, a Caribbean woman who discards her body for the figure of a white woman. When analyzing this fictional tale from a post-colonial lens, it is clear that the author is focusing on giving a voice to the experiences of those born after colonization and the history that was crushed along with it. The author uses an emotional appeal to express the struggles people of colour, specifically Caribbeans, face post-colonization. Cynthia's desire to belong outweighs any logic or ethics, and as a result of white supremacy, this sense of belonging comes in the form of internalized racism. Living in a society filled with racist ideologies often leads to internalized racism, as shown in this short story.
What’s that smoke smell? It’s the smell of The Angel of Death burning in the bonfires in the bonfires of anyone that has read this book. This literary piece of garbage by Alane Ferguson is the most predictable thing since The Simpsons predicted Donald Trump becoming president. This book, as bad as it is, does have some redeeming qualities, the accurate portrayal of many things led to lots of different connections in real life, but in this book the bad outweighs the good and males for a confusing, predictable novel.
Gregory Hague’s Strategies of Winning in The Real Estate Gregory D. Hague of Scottsdale Arizona is aggressively transforming how business residential real estate industry is being run. Hague is an accomplished author, law professor, attorney and business partner with bestselling author, Harvey Mackay. According to a Forbes Entrepreneur report by Josh Steimle, Greg Hague’s new marketing strategies have changed the way homes are sold in America. The report explains that the modalities of selling a home have not changed in 75 year because aggressive marketing strategies similar to those used by Apple and Amazon are lacking in the real estate sector. The inefficiencies being experienced in the housing sector are believed to cause 3% - 8% drop in home prices.
Imagine spending one year of your life living in a dumpster. Not just the average, everyday dumpster, but a customized dumpster suited to meet all of the essential needs for one to live in. Professor Jeff Wilson, also referred to as “Professor Dumpster,” is engaged in a one year project in which he will be sleeping in a dumpster every night. His future plans consist of making the dumpster even more appealing by adding a toilet, solar panels, a second floor, and several other amenities. Wilson says in the article, “‘We could end up with a house under $10,000 that could be placed anywhere in the world, fueled by sunlight and surface water, and people could have a pretty good life’”
There are many ways that Trash can be related to the elements of culture. The three most apparent elements of culture demonstrated in Trash are the social, technological, and economic elements. All three of these elements are represented differently throughout the book as there are multiple viewpoints of characters throughout the story representing the culture and showing insight into different parts of the culture. To start the most apparent element of culture represented in trash is the social element of society.
