Shovel College Essays Samples For Students

Introduction

Shovel Bums is a comic book by Trent de Boer, which gives an excellent introduction to the live events of an archaeological field technician. The author’s choice of words creates a perception that this field is grimy, with several challenges. Not only does the shovel bum travel working for low wages, he does all types of jobs available in archaeological sites, in different weather conditions. De Boer brings out the Shovel bum’s life as being dangerous, difficult and dull (De, 2004). Shovel bums travel carrying their own field kits. The purpose of this paper is to give a review of ...

Gwendolyn Brooks’s 1959 poem, The Pool Players: Seven at the Golden Shovel, often referred to as “We Real Cool,” describes the daily life and expectations of seven young people. They are school dropouts who spend their days doing as they please with little thought for building a future. Brooks’s poem is short, yet very effective because of her use of diction, tone, form, sound devices, and imagery.
Brooks uses non-standard English as part of the diction and to establish the tone of her poem. For example, the speaker says “we real cool” instead of “we are very ...

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote, “We Real Cool” in the middle of the American Civil Rights Movement. It was 1959. Racial segregation was the norm and the African American people had had enough of it. During this time, the Supreme Court was being pressured to desegregate schools. It was a time of extreme racial tension with severe hatred on both sides (whites vs. colored people). Colored people were being physically and verbally assaulted, and their efforts at integration were constantly being frustrated. Many African Americans used these attacks as motivation to incite change. They staged peaceful protests and remained noble despite adversity. ...