Shovel

The poem is about a group of seven young boys, seemingly African American as the poem is spoken in African American Vernacular English, who have left school and are hanging out at a pool hall called “the Golden Shovel”. The poem illustrates the issues of a “herd mentality” in society which dictates how people act and what they do in a certain society. In the poem, the speaker’s voice is the collective group of boys saying “We real cool. We left School. We die soon”…

walking down a dirt road in Oklahoma. Joad encounters a man driving a truck and he asks for a lift. The man takes him as far as he can and on the way Joad explains that he was a convict for homicide. It is later learned that he killed a man with a shovel, which is explained to the former priest that baptized Tom. Tom explains that he is heading back to reunite with his family after being put on parole 4 years into his 7 year sentence. The priest goes with him and Tom come to find his farm home…

moment he is let out of prison to the end of the book, Tom is never able to stop moving and settle down. However, through all the shifts in his life, Tom overcomes the hardships that are brought along. Tom “smacked [a guy] over the head” with a shovel and killed him (Steinbeck 36). When he got out of jail on parole he packed up his bags and moved to California. Once in California, he joins a movement advocating for worker’s rights. This transition from a “bad boy” to an activist…

supposed to function, i.e. their priorities and needs. However, experiences I encountered in India, Thailand, and the Dominican Republic (sleeping on a concrete floor, showering with collected rainwater, and digging a six foot leach pit without a shovel) changed my perception of other…

he was on a boat that sailed and fished the coast of Africa. The old man loves the lions like he loves the marlin. Since his youth-filled days are long past, the old man can only see the lions in his dreams. The third symbol in the story is the shovel-nosed sharks. They represent violence and destruction. Unlike the marlin, they are not graceful or admirable. The fourth main symbol is the mast on the old man’s skiff. The old man bears much pain when carrying it to his shack, but also…

copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.” (page 3 stave one).…

It connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Suez, which is a branch of the Red Sea. The construction of Suez canal began in 1859, the initial construction took place by hand with picks and shovels and after a while the process and the technology was upgraded. The Suez canal was supposed to get completed in 1865 but it was delayed for 4 years because of the labour was short and some political issues, and it finally got completed in 1869. On…

Holes is a book about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. His great- great- great- great-grandfather stole and he was cursed and his descendants. So Stanley and his family were cursed. Now Stanley is a normal boy that goes to school, but when Clyde Livingston’s shoes fall from overhead. Stanley picks them up and takes them home so his dad could see if he could recycle them. It’s something his dad has been working to earn money, and get a better house. Later that day police have arrested him, and the…

Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Genocide happened in the past, and is still happening today. Although it seems like the worst ones happened in the past it can still happen today. The U.N was brought together as explained for that reason which is show in a cartoon. In the cartoon, one of the boxes shows the logo of the U.N saying how any conflicts are unacceptable. In the other picture it shows the U.N saying…

H.I.T.S Symbolism According to Wikia, a deer symbolizes peace, beauty, gracefulness, and love.(Wikia) In the short story, "Hunters in the Snow" by Tobias Wolff, a deer is the main goal of Tub, Frank, and Kenny's hunting adventure, but there may be something else that they are hunting as well. The characters all carried guns on the hunting trip. The reason they carry these weapons is obvious, but there is a deeper meaning as to why they carry them. Snow is reoccurring in this story, it's…