"Dumpster Diving" Digging

The author Lars Eighner may have a been a bum, but he definitely was not an uneducated bum. When he wrote Dumpster Diving he knew how to affect an audience via Logos, Pathos, and Ethos. And by doing so, he put his essay in a college English book as an example of how to properly use these methods.

He has many examples of Logos in the essay; He references two poisons, Botulism and Pathogens, both common food poisons. He explains that "botulism is a possibility" when dealing with canned foods, and that pathogens are rarely found in candy. So be sure to remember that when you're a starved college student and have to dumpster dive for food.

He also effectively uses the method of Ethos. First of all, he claims he dumpster dived for years. Which means he is very credible and has learned the tricks of the trade. He can also write fairly well, which is accredited to being educated.

Lars, I have to hand it to you. You brought even the last and sometimes most respected part of the method of argumentation. You used Pathos brilliantly with a correct, humorous and pleasing tone. Using terminology such as Scavenging, and looking deeper into something that really is not that important.

Journal 1/23

Televators is obviously about some one taking his or her own life. I believe that the music video represents the difficulties the lemur (the man) had to face which eventually lead to the ending of his life.

To tell the the truth, I am sort of indifferent to the music video. Sure, the symbolism is interesting but it is interesting in the way a historic painting is interesting. I can not relate to it on an artistic level, but I know it took talent.