Shovel

or should I say jason” echoes from the pipes. You wake up from a bad dream and then you decide to go downstairs while you look at your mom watching news and go to the cabinet and get a sandwich. Then you go back up to get your shovel. Then you go outside banging your shovel against the ground and you hit the pipes. You fall back and try to scream but then you fall down into the dirt and get knocked out. When you wake up, you notice that the dirt is falling. You crawl through the dark dirty…

My Catholic education is pretty important to me, and it is not because I can do a multi step equation in math or get a hundred on a spelling test, however, it is because God is always here with us. Everyday I walk into school and feel the spirit. I feel the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and those are the things that make my life better. It is the little things we do in school, like praying before class and before we eat to thank God for what he gives us. I live a pretty interesting…

Telesforas uses the crowd leading to the funeral with the cross and the shovels as the works focal point. He uses the white outlining to put the focus on the situation at hand. It grabs us in almost instantly to focus on what is going on in the piece. The focal point of the shovels leads us to focus on the group from the funeral and the cross. It grabs you into the picture and invites you into the funeral the second your eyes…

with Correction of Perspective") a shovel, but in "6 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective" Jan Dibbets used a bulldozer instead. The differences between both works is the date, the technique and the materials that were used. Both of the works were made in Dutch coast beach and were named after the time that was spended making them. "12 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective" was done in 1969 and Jan dibbets worked 12 hours whit only a shovel and himself to get the work done…

for the future. Why try when they are constantly told they have no future. The start of the poem there are seven boys at a pool hall named the Golden Shovel. Seven is the number normally associated with luck. The seven can also be seen as a gang, who need luck, in order to survive their precarious endeavors. The pool hall name, The Golden Shovel, is the perfect name for those who choose to be criminals. The golden part of the title…

Freeda “Johana, wake up! You and me, and Emma are all alive!” Said Freeda. But suddenly Freeda felt something wet touching the her hand that was on Johana’s back. Freeda set her down face down on the coach. There was blood pouring from a spot on Johanna's back. They sat there staring at it. Freeda was crying and wailing. “Nooooooo! I promised mom and dad that I would protect you, I promised I would do everything I could to make sure that we all got back to america, together!” Freeda yelled.…

begins with the scene of seven boys at a pool hall known as the Golden Shovel. Traditionally the number seven is a number that is typically associated with being lucky. The seven pool players can also be seen to symbolize a little gang, who happens to have luck on their side, in order to survive their numerous economic and risky activities. The name of the pool hall that the group hangs in is the Golden Shovel. The Golden Shovel is symbolic and it indicates the short life expectancy of those who…

For the header of the poem, the poet uses the word “shovel” when the default word should have been “cue stick”: “The pool players. /Seven at the Golden Shovel”. This quote can be understood if we read the last line of the poem: “Die soon” (line 8). The imagery is that the youngster chose to destroy their lives by skipping school to play pool. The group represents…

Poetic Explication: “We Real Cool” We Real Cool, is a rather short poem written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1960, right in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Near the beginning of the poem it sounds like everything is quite alright with everyone, with “We real cool,” but by the end of the poem, everything is not ok, and the poem ends with “We / die soon,” which means that death will soon occur, if change does not happen (Brooks 3, 9-10). Through the use several literary techniques, Brooks…

A candy cane is a hard candy. The signature flavor is peppermint and they are painted with stripes. The candy cane is long, thin, and curved at the top to resemble a walking cane similar elderly people use. These candies are made using a mass production process, which involves mixing and cooking the candy batch, forming the cane shapes, and putting it in the appropriate packaging. Candy canes have been a favorite holiday candy for hundreds of years. First step in making candy cane is that…