Questions to The Articles

On Dumpster Diving
1. Eighner is careful to offer definitions of the key terms he uses. List those key Terms and their Definitions.
the list of key terms Eighner uses includes dumpster, wino, hobo,, scavenging, scrounging, foraging, and dumpster diving. Eighner briefly describes these words in the beginning of the writing. The word dumpster means a trademark used for containers designed for receiving, transporting, and dumping waste materials. The word wino is slang for a chronic drinker. The meaning of the word hobo is a person who wanders from place to place  without a permanent home or a means of livelihood. Scavenging means one that scavenges, as aperson who searches through refuse for food. The definition of scrounging is to obatian (something) by begging  or borrowing with no intention on givving it reperation. Foraging is to wander in search of food or provisions. The noun dumpster diving is the practice o searching through dustbins for discarded but still usable or valueble objects such as food or clothes. The words dumpster, wino, hobo, scavenging, scrounging,foraging, and dumpster diving are the words Eigner uses breifly in the beggining of the article "On Dumpster Diving."
2Summeraize the practical stages a dumpster diver goes through. What does Eigner analysis  tell us about the larger experience of having to scavenge fro food? The practical stages a dumpster diver goes through include at the begginig a disgust feeling towards oneself. The diver trys to hide and lurks around and decides to do things at night. the diver realizes that diving at night does not work. Still in the beggining the diver feels disgust. He or she  cannot erase the stigma of eating from the garbage can. After experiencing the stigma  it soon disappears. He or she bigins to take pleasure in diving because he or she finds a lot of god stuff. eigners analysis tells us about the larger experince of having to scavenge for foofdby explaining and giving the reader a in depth undertanding of dumpster diving. Eigner begins by describing foods to eat and locations of foods. He then describes the process of becoming a dumpdter diver. Eighner describes the different ways to use less energy to get the resources he needs from the dumpsters. lastly he describes the process of appreciating everything he finds. The larger experince of dumpster diving is that it is more than just digging through garbage cans and gathering cans to earn a few dallars a day.
3What does his writing style tell you about his views on his way of life? Explain with examples.
his writing styles tells me about his way of life that he understands, accepts, and is comfortable with dumpster diving. He undestands the style of his life because he goes through the whole story describing to the reader the process of becoming a dumpster diver, he says "I have learned that there is a predicatable series of stages a person goes through in having to learning to scavenge." Eighner does not accept his life style becuase he trys to change it by writing stories.
4 How does reading Eighner make you feel ashamed about  your own material values? How do you relate to dumpster diving and to what he calls the "grab for the gaudy bowble"
Reading Eighner made me feel ashamed about how much materails I have. I feel sorry for him deeply. I would like to give hom some of the materials that I have to make him feel better. He states that his grab his grab for the goaudy baowble has been sated; meaning that he no longer desires to collect those valuable but meaningless objects because he knows that there are plenty more places that he can get those from.
Serving In Florida
1. Why Does Ehrenriech so dislike managment? Consider her response to the meeting at the beggining of th essay, and her confrontations with Stu throughout. Do you Think she's right to be untrusting of managment.
Ehrenriech dislkes managment becaiuse it ca be too tight and strict for the employees and to loose for managers.
2What are some of the ways that Ehrenriech fellow workers live? What kinds of homes do they have. (or not have)Write out at least three examples.
Some of the ways Ehrenreich workers live is by Sharing rent living in trailors, living in cars, and living in hotels. Gail one of the employees companies a flop-house for two hundred and fifty dallars a month. Marrianne also one of the employees has a trailor thatt costs on ehundred and seventy dallars a week. Joan lives in his own van. when he needs to take showers he goes to tinas motel.
3Does Ehrenreich's background (especially the way she grew up) contribute to whuy she does this project or how she belives about low-income workers? Give ome examples? I dont undrstand this question nor can I find the answer in the text or through online sources.
4Ehrenreich is working these jobs and attempting to live on a low income wages in spite of the fact that she has a "real job" (shes a biology proffessor at a university in Florida) at the time shes writing this (she tok a break for a few months to do this experiment) Can she really understand what it is to be a waitress? Why or why not?
Ehrenreich can understand what it is to be a waitress. she can understand thius by actually experincing what a waitress goes through. She would have to experince these experiences by fully ingraving herself into a waitresses lifestyle. This includes housing, bills, extra monry for any othe ractivities, food, gas , and clothing. if she can ecperince the lifestyle fully yes she can understand in-depth what it is to be a waitress.
5Towards the end of the essay, th emanagmnet gives a waitress the "gift" of being able to live out of her car on the motel property. Ehrenrich interprets this gift as cruel, and fells that the management should've gone more out of their way to help the waitress. others have critized ehrenriech for this view and and claimed that the amnager was giving more than he had to in thais case. What do you think? How Responsible should an employer be for aiding an employee?
The manger did not ahve to aid he employee. The manager could have given her a raise to help her get out of living in a car and into living into a hotel or apartment. The manager was very generous to give the employee a improved living situation. I think he did not have to do that for her though.