On Dumpster Diving- Stigma

Hannah Neese

English IIIB

Mrs. Parkinson

13 April 2016

On Dumpster Diving works against the stigma of poverty. He spends the majority of the article talking about properly eating from a dumpster. He knows that chances are, you've never heard or even thought about this. He uses elevated diction and higher level thinking to explain his rules of dumpster diving. For example, on the topic of chocolate in dumpsters, he states, "Chocolate is often discarded only because it has become discolored as the cocoa butter de-emulsified," (Eighner 715). I had to look up what de-emulsified meant and I have probably never even heard the word. He slowly breaks down the stigma, piece by piece, by offering insight on what thinking actually goes into looking through trash. I, myself, thought that going through trash is just something disrespectful people do thoughtlessly and desperately. But, after reading the article, he now showed me that it is actually much more than that, even though he admits it is dangerous and still unfavorable.

Tableau

Hannah Neese
Mrs. Parkinson
English III
4 March 2016
Tableau Response
            Harlem Renaissance writers, such as Countee Cullen, are still very relevant to this day. To understand the change in culture and how the civil rights movement progressed most accurately, we should go to first-hand accounts of what happened. In “Tableau” by Cullen, he eloquently compared the normativity of blacks and whites:
 They pass, and see no wonder
That lightning brilliant as a sword
Should blaze the path of thunder (10-12)
            On the topic of a black and white boy walking alongside each other, we cannot look to modern sources to understand how this would be differently viewed back during the Harlem Renaissance, so we must rely on their accounts. Hearing the stories from African-American artists in that time is much more reliable than