Shovel

can no longer be friends with Gerta. A few days later During class Anna slips a paper to Gerta. During lunch Gerta unfolds the paper to see a drawing of an old building. Gerta went to look for the building and found it. The next day Gerta took a shovel too the building and found her way in. Gerta noticed that in the basement the dirt wall that is soft enough to dig and if she dug in that wall she would go farther into the death strip and end up…

Cormac McCarthy crafts a post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, through the eyes of an unnamed man and his son as they venture through the “barren, silent, [and] godless” land, ravished by an unknown cataclysmic event (4). Along this forsaken journey to find a safe haven, only hope and love for each other keeps them persisting through the grievous world they once knew. Cannibals, famine, and disease chase them throughout their desperate attempt to find a place where they can survive and “carry the…

that were vital to them. The types of hunting weapons that they made were blowguns, spears and bows and arrows. The fighting weapons were guns and axes, more arrows, and tomahawks which is a light ax. Various tools they used everyday were knives, shovels, stone adzes (tool similar to a hammer), and fish hooks that were assembled out of sticks and…

Two great African-American leaders of the 19th and 20th century were W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington. These two men are similar as they both want educational equality for African-Americans. Washington wants rational education for African-Americans, but to continue living separately from whites. Though DuBois thinks that African-Americans should have the best education along side with their equal rights. Booker T. Washington was born April 5,1856 as a slave on a small farm in West Virginia…

“Bond-villain you,” Veronica sighed, looking anywhere but near him. “Spray paint on my car, nasty notes in my locker, calling me things to my face and not my face, oh, the flat tires, the dedicated social outcasting, when does that Logan come back? I’m not- I’m not that stupid, that we’re just gonna start saying hi to each other in the hall, having casual sleep-overs, and then that you is gonna-” Veronica exhaled an exhausted, shaky breath, and ran her hair behind her ears. “Gonna what?”…

premises. “If the workers aren't building the deck who is?” I asked perplexed. He chuckled at me and gave me a look that cut through my soul, “Why you, of course!” the Duke of Chillington replied. My whole body sank with those words, “Where`s the shovel?” I made my way downtown walking fast to get to the local wood store. I had to make it back before the sunset or else I would have to face the local goons. They were as intimidating as Mount Everest. As I walked into the store the smell of…

At the time of his arrest, he possessed non-golf related items such as $15,000 cash, four cell phones, multiple credit cards belonging to various family members, camping equipment, several pairs of footwear and clothing, a dagger, a shovel, two ropes, sleeping pills, etc. He had altered the color of his hair and goatee claiming the lightness was due to the chlorine from a friend’s pool. However, its’ owner later testified that Peterson had never made use of his pool or hot tub (Ryan…

grocery store for a job offer with family owned landscaping company to work snow removal, the job was simple enough, me and two other workers could get called in at any time to go get in a company truck, drive to different stores we were assigned, and shovel the sidewalks, and the walkways leading up to the store. We were paid hourly, and the two men I worked with I’d been close friends with since grade school, so it would have been very easy to just go to a stop and take a nap in the truck, or…

a simplistic life. In chapter two Nick introduces us to the land between New York City and the West egg, he refers to it as the “Valley of ashes”. The valley of the ashes is a desolate plain where New York dumps its ashes, the men who work there shovel up the ashes. Unlike the other settings of the book this one shows us a picture of absolute desolation and poverty, it doesn 't have the glamorous appeal of the other settings. The valley symbolizes the moral decay that is hidden beneath the…

with the summer’s grape crop, and it would mean less wine, and a downturn in tax collections and the market. In addition to the grapes, linen and pottery production had been decreasing as well. The very earth rejected cotton plants and the miner’s shovel; these were events that told of the god’s disfavor…