Scott Erickson
Mr. Neuberger
English Comp. 102-104
31, Aug 2011
Single Paragraph Essay
From Dumpster Diving
The excerpt “On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner, talks about his life living from dumpster to dumpster and the best way to efficiently survive from it. Even though Lars is homeless he is able to sustain life due the waste of other people. Lars, a homeless man who lives on the streets of Austin, Texas scrounges the dumpsters of the local college living off their waste which become his new found possessions. Eighner says, “I am an accomplished needle worker due to sorority girls buying embroider-by-number kits, working a few stitches, getting frustrated and throwing out the lot.” He tended to stay close to the college because the students wasted more than any other group of people “due to not knowing if the food was bad or not and just because they didn’t have to pay for it,” he says. If Lars is able to get along through life but eating other peoples garbage wouldn’t more people benefit if Americans were not so wasteful and putting a stop to hunger could possibly be a result?
Eighner, Lars “on Dumpster Diving” Power of Language: Language of Power, New York
Pearson Learning Solutions, 2009 357-69 print
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
A Case of Assisted Suicides
Scott Erickson
Mr. Neuberger
Comp 2
September 14, 2011
A Case of Assisted Suicides
Dr. Jack Kevorkian was doing right by medical standards, in his mind. He had a woman with Alzheimer’s contact him to assist her in killing herself so she wouldn’t have to suffer in the coming years “I decided to accept her as the first candidate- a qualified , justifiable candidate if not “ideal”- and well aware of the vulnerability to criticism of picayune and overly emotional critics” (Kevorkian 436). Kevorkian was trying to bring the idea of human euthanasia to a reality. For Kevorkian he was trying to help people that no longer wanted to deal with the pains of life. For centuries we have been putting animals down because they were no longer useful in their position or were in too much pain to carry on. But just because we are humans we have to carry on in life even though we are either useless or a burden on society. Human euthanasia could help out many families that have to deal with their loved ones day to day that just have to suffer when they could just be put out of their misery.
Works Cited
Kevorkian, Dr. Jack. A Case for Assisted Suicide. Detroit 1990
Mr. Neuberger
Comp 2
September 14, 2011
A Case of Assisted Suicides
Dr. Jack Kevorkian was doing right by medical standards, in his mind. He had a woman with Alzheimer’s contact him to assist her in killing herself so she wouldn’t have to suffer in the coming years “I decided to accept her as the first candidate- a qualified , justifiable candidate if not “ideal”- and well aware of the vulnerability to criticism of picayune and overly emotional critics” (Kevorkian 436). Kevorkian was trying to bring the idea of human euthanasia to a reality. For Kevorkian he was trying to help people that no longer wanted to deal with the pains of life. For centuries we have been putting animals down because they were no longer useful in their position or were in too much pain to carry on. But just because we are humans we have to carry on in life even though we are either useless or a burden on society. Human euthanasia could help out many families that have to deal with their loved ones day to day that just have to suffer when they could just be put out of their misery.
Works Cited
Kevorkian, Dr. Jack. A Case for Assisted Suicide. Detroit 1990
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Hi I’m Scott Erickson I Have lived in Springfield my whole life. I'm a sophomore at OTC and went to Glendale high school here in town. While I was in high school I competed on the swim team and we placed second in state my senior year I go to the lake almost every weekend in the summer and most weekends in the winter. My favorite things to do down there are wakeboard, fish, and just chill with my friends. When I’m not at the lake on the weekends I like to go camping or driving around in my Jeep. I work at the O’reilly Warehouse on Chestnut, where I load a truck five days a week. I have two older siblings my brother Robert and my sister Melissa. Robert got married 3 years ago in Mexico and Melissa is a Spanish teacher in St. James Missouri. My family went to Jamaica at the end of July. It was amazing down there and I would go back in a heartbeat. I am going to OTC to get my associates of arts transfer degree than hope to transfer down to Florida Atlantic University to finish my schooling and get a degree in Naval Architecture. After that I want to start my own business manufacturing and selling yachts.
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