Trailer trash Essays

  • Livin' in the Trailerhood

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    I have lived in the same trailer park my whole life. As a result, I have had to deal with people treating me differently after they find out where I live. Many people jump to the conclusion that I am poor. Although at times, money has been tight I would never classify myself as poor. My family has always been able to provide for me. Other people assume that my family must be living off of welfare. I can also say that my family has never received welfare. Despite the fact that some people match those

  • The Elk Hunt

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    camp trailer down to a nice wooded area about five miles before you get into town. The camp sight was about a quarter mile off of the highway. There were trees all around the camping spot; the only break in the trees was where the road came through. We set up our camp trailer the day before season started. We had set our alarm for four o'clock the next morning, and we went to bed early. I woke up the next morning due to the rays of sunlight coming through the windows of the camp trailer. This

  • The Hunting Camp

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    wake up feeling drenched with water. We had a new camp trailer that was big enough to fit five people. The trailer was white with a maroon stripe going down the side. It had a huge dining table that turned into a double bed. There was a bunk bed, which also has departments in for different storage. There was a hallway that lead to a king size bed where my parents slept. All of the sheets are grungy from all the dirt that was brought into the trailer. In the mornings, I could feel the moisture of the

  • Driver Observation Paper

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    On March 25, 2017 at approximately 1622 hours, I responded to a reported REDDI vehicle parked at the Woodys Gas station, located at 174 Hwy 160, within Montezuma County, State of Colorado. The call reference the driver exiting the vehicle and walking into the gas station, when the male spoke with the station attendant she could smell alcohol on his breath. When he left the store, he stumbled to his vehicle nearing falling several times. Upon my arrival at the above stated address, I observed the

  • Walmart Observation

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    On the above date and time I was conducting an area check of the Walmart parking lot. While conducting the area check, I observed a White male in a maroon, 4 door Buick. The subject's head was resting against the vehicle's steering wheel. I then conducted a registration check on the vehicle's tag (FL4709XK). The tag was showing expired as of 11-21-2017. However, the yellow decal on the back of the tag was showing an expiration of 08-18. Upon further examination, the decal had FL tag (795TMD) listed

  • The City of Tucson vs. Robert D. Kaplan

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    oversights and discrepancies that make his outsider standing obvious to any native reader. The article begins with Kaplan’s trek northward from Mexico City and describes many of the sights he sees along the way. He describes dirt roads lined with trash, and cinder-block houses with corrugated roofs. Then he goes into great detail about the economic divisions between social classes and the booming America-bound drug industry that causes the division. Kaplan spends a great deal of time discussing

  • Flaming on the Internet

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    take a herd of women into the restroom with me. Women do not do that. Men just like to think that we do. Who do you think you are exactly? Guess what! I know exactly what you are. You are a pitiful, pathetic excuse for a piece of poor white trailer trash man whose angry because he's an ignorant, chauvinist little prick who can not bribe a decent, intelligent woman into coming within a mile of him and has to resort to cheap, stupid whores to keep him company. What exactly is "this"? It's a

  • Ted Bundy

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    talking with Bundy year's later, that his grandfather was an abusive brute or even worse. As a young boy, Bundy had started becoming obsessed with females and obscure sexuality, "..as a boy, he was already roaming his neighborhood and picking through trash barrels in search of pictures of naked women" (Davis.) This seems to be the result of very poor to no parental guidance, he stated himself that he couldn't talk to his parents about many things. Ted Bundy had expressed feelings during an interview

  • Is Graffiti Art?

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    Is Graffiti Art? Graffiti has loomed between the borders of true art, mindless trash and a way of solely getting your name around. Is Graffiti the everyday scrawlings of misdirected teenagers or the well-laced masterpiece by a keen eye? For years the opinions have changed and shifted. Currently there is not a consensus about whether graffiti can yet be classed as art. Art to some people would be the great works of Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Bottachelli, Matisse, Van Gough, and Monet but

  • Innovative Waste Disposal

    911 Words  | 2 Pages

    environment. The most popular and inexpensive way to get rid of garbage is burial, but burying your problems does not necessarily mean getting rid of them. Landfill sites pose as severe ecological threats as these mass garbage dump yards overflow with trash and frequently contaminate our air, soil and water with hazardous wastes. About 400 million tons of hazardous wastes are generated each year1. A large-scale release of these materials can cause thousands of deaths and may poison the environment for

  • Kurt Cobain was Murdered

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    many to this day. It is plain and simple he was murdered. Kurt Cobain the singer and guitarist of the 90s band Nirvana which was an alternative rock band from 1988 to 1994. Cobain was born in the town of Aberdeen Washington. Aberdeen is a rural white trash town that borders Seattle the birth place of “Grunge”. Before them at record stores there were special sections for alternative music, they popularized it. However many grunge bands were around such as Mud Honey and The Melvins. Kurt had three times

  • adam smith

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    the world what it is today. I can’t imagine what the world would be like if there weren’t thinkers like Adam Smith. Our career as Pharmacists is a great example of this. What would we be working so hard for if we made the same amount of money as a trash man? He had many other views that were just as important. Adam Smith believed that a nation's wealth was not derived by how much they had in resources, or in an exchangeable commodity, but rather by the labor that its residents produce. "The annual

  • Intelligent White Trash in the Snopes Trilogy

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    Intelligent White Trash in the Snopes Trilogy William Faulkner's three novels referred to as the Snopes Trilogy submerge the reader into the deepest, darkest realms of the human mind. The depth of these novels caused the immediate dismissal of any preconceived notions I had toward Faulkner and his writings. No longer did his novels seem to be simple stories describing the white trash, living in the artificial Yoknapatawpha County, of the deep South. The seemingly redneck, simple-minded characters

  • Confidence vs Arrogance

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    high we had a very competitive block in basketball. One day we all decided that we would have a two-on-two tournament the next Friday to decide who was truly the best and to crush some over-inflated egos -- not mine, I was sure. People began to talk trash on Monday; all week long you could hear the taunts and the heckling. We dared each other to try this or that, threatened each other with monster stuffs and amazing dunks in the faces of our opponents. Finally Friday came. The tournament lasted

  • Independence, Egoism, and Achievement in The Fountainhead

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    playing off conventions, for the sake of shock value; they are just as dependent on others as the most abject conformist. And most of them, like the writer Lois Cook, have a smirking kind of awareness that they are getting away with something, foisting trash on a credulous public. (I sometimes think that Andy Warhol got his ideas from these passages of The Founta... ... middle of paper ... ...Greeks, for their part, considered wisdom a virtue, but their conception of wisdom always contained a conventional

  • Personal Narrative - Bad Things Happen to Bad People

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    from whatever atherosclerosis causing grease pit, doesn’t mean you can take your filthy napkin and paper bag and toss it out the window like your John Elway! It seems like the majority of humankind either does not care or does not realize that the trash is either going to sit there on the side of the road or is going to be picked up by some nature nurturing chump like myself. It is absolutely horrible that people litter the land with Styrofoam cups, plastic glasses, and beer bottles that would take

  • The Ultimate Fighter

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    other since they do live together. The teams usually stick together in the house. The fighters usually only hang out with their teammates in the house. People from opposing teams do talk to each other on occasion, though the talk usually consists of “trash talk”. This may also have an effect on who the team chooses to fight. The show is on Spike TV. This is a channel that claims to be TV for men. This show is targeted for men. The teams of fighters are coached by active fighters in the UFC. Th...

  • Descriptive Essays - The Good Old Truck

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    passenger side unless someone opens it from the inside. The driver's side door doesn't open all of the time, and when it does you can't possibly slam it hard enough to get it to shut all of the way. Most of the time the passenger side is overheaped with trash, mostly empty pop bottles and cans. Inside it usually smells like horses. My dad shoes horses for a living, so the smell is on him and then is transferred to the seats and anything else that he touches. Also, he keeps his apron in the cab of the

  • The Message of Moral Responsibility in To Kill a Mockingbird

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    and Grace-Ann Hovet, Lee’s work is important because she does not supply the normal assumptions most in America harbor regarding the origins of racism. To the contrary, they argue that “Rather than ascribing racial prejudice primarily to ‘poor white trash’ (qtd. in Newitz and Wray), Lee demonstrates how issues of gender and class intensify prejudice, silence the voices that might challenge the existing order, and greatly complicate many Americans’ conception of the causes of racism and segregation”

  • Liberated Women vs. Women's Liberation

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    Miss America Pageant, railing against the image of the "perfect woman" propagated by this contest. They urged other women to join them in tossing their "bras, girdles, curlers, false eyelashes, wigs...[and] any such woman-garbage" into a Freedom Trash Can (Takin' It To The Streets, 482). Miniskirts became popular as well, tied in part to the idea of sexual liberation. The advent of the diaphragm and birth control pill spurred the increased sexual freedom ... ... middle of paper ...