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Posted on July 24, 2016August 6, 2025 by admin

THE BIG CLOUD PICTURE SHOW

Jul 24, 2016 by

Jeffrey Pflaum EducationViews Contributor

Jeffrey Pflaum –

When I started teaching in the late 60s we set out to change public education with innovation and a whole lot of idealism, which describes the mindset of educators from this era. Lesson plans, for most subjects, always included, “THE MOTIVATION.”

And, as a teacher, I believed the motivation segment rocked the lessons because it not only inspired the kids to learn, but also myself. If I couldn’t get passionate about what I’m teaching, how would the class respond to that? Taking a psychology course in “Motivation” didn’t hurt either: it showed me the variety of, and surprising, as well as scary, ways motivation pushed people to act.

One of my surprise motivations was THE BIG CLOUD PICTURE SHOW where I presented color slides of clouds to the class. The purpose was ambitious: to trigger thinking, creative thinking, feelings, experiences, creativity, and writing in the form of free-verse poetry and haiku.

I thought the fifth grade inner-city children might be a little skeptical of a cloud show, but once they saw the images, mainly “clouds that look like things,” they turned out to be cloud enthusiasts like me. Students came up to the projection screen to point out, or really, trace with their fingers, what they saw or imagined in the clouds.

It was amazing to see how kids “analyzed” the Rorschach-like clouds and described the various animals, people, objects, places, scenes, and also, some “things” that were questionable to all of us. The images along with verbal descriptions of what they viewed became intense. The class dialogues kept building until the last transparency was shown.

Of course, the students had to “pay a price for admission” to the cloud show: I asked them, at the conclusion of the presentation, to write cloud poetry. Before they wrote, the class title-stormed titles for potential poems. The chalkboard filled with many titles the kids made up after looking at the cloud slides. From there they wrote…

Note: Prior to the cloud show, students were well versed in poetry reading and writing. The lesson using cloud transparencies became another trigger or motivation for poetry writing. Clouds, in this approach, were looked at as an art form, and not as much as a science lesson.

Please check out www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-poetry/ to find:

Betty Cottes’ cloud poem, “Deep Cloud,” combined with my cloud photo (5/25/16) at:

https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/from-betty-cottes-and-jeffrey-pflaum/.

Jimmy Berrios’ cloud poem, “Sound,” combined with my cloud photo (5/6/16) at:

https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/from-jimmy-berrios-and-jeffrey-pflaum/.

Michael Ruiz’s cloud poem, “Sky Panther,” combined with my cloud photo (7/7/16) at:

https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/from-michael-ruiz-and-jeffrey-pflaum/.

For those interested in clouds, from an artistic and scientific point of view, please go to the following websites for other amazing shows:

The Cloud Appreciation Society (Gavin Pretor-Pinney) at: cloudappreciationsociety.org/.

For Spacious Skies (Jack Borden) at: forspaciousskies.com.

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Posted on July 19, 2016August 6, 2025 by admin

47 BODIES LEFT IN WAKE OF HILLARY CLINTON

Jul 19, 2016 by

Donna Garner Education Policy Commentator EducationViews.org

“47 BODIES LEFT IN WAKE OF HILLARY CLINTON” – BY TAMI JACKSON – BARBWIRE.COM

(Introductory comments by Donna Garner)

Three years ago as Hillary Clinton was gearing up for her run for the Presidency, Tami Jackson started this highly documented series on “47 Bodies Left in Wake of Hillary Clinton.”

[In Parts 1-7 of this series, Tami has completed her research on 38 out of 47 of these bodies and is pushing herself to finish the last 9 because of the impending Presidential elections in Nov. 2016.]

Tami is the host of the Tami Jackson Show, the Executive Editor of BarbWire, is heavily involved with the Hugh Hewitt Show, is the editor of SavingOurFuture.com, is Editor-in-Chief of RightVoiceMedia.com, and does the Content/Media/Marketing for Robar Guns.

Tami’s hours and hours of investigative research have been made much more difficult because many of these 47 people were killed or died under unfortunate circumstances before Internet coverage. This means that Tami has had to scour the various types of media that were present at the time.

When Tami published her first article, she was overwhelmed with responses, some coming from law enforcement who warned her to be very careful. One sheriff has been so worried about her safety that he has asked her to keep in touch with him on a regular basis.

Here is Tami’s statement about her series:

Again I must emphasize: No one is asserting William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton ordered hits. I am only asking people to read the articles and ask themselves, ‘What are the probabilities that a normal person would have this many friends and employees die suspicious deaths?’

Those ‘casualties’ who were not friends or employees, often had inside information concerning the Clintons or some of the other ‘fortuitous’ deaths. Keep that question foremost in your mind as you take in these facts.

To make it easier to access the individual people on the list of dead bodies tied to Hillary, I have gone through Parts 1 – 7 and have placed the link beside each name. As soon as Tami finishes her research on the last 8 dead bodies, I will add that information to this list:

PART 1

1 — James McDougal — http://barbwire.com/2016/07/04/47-bodies-left-wake-hillary-clinton-part-1/

2 — Mary Mahoney — http://barbwire.com/2016/07/04/47-bodies-left-wake-hillary-clinton-part-1/2/

3 — Vince Foster — http://barbwire.com/2016/07/04/47-bodies-left-wake-hillary-clinton-part-1/3/

4 — Ron Brown — http://barbwire.com/2016/07/04/47-bodies-left-wake-hillary-clinton-part-1/4/

5 — C. Victor Raiser, II — http://barbwire.com/2016/07/04/47-bodies-left-wake-hillary-clinton-part-1/5/

PART 2

6 — Paul Tulley — http://barbwire.com/2016/07/05/47-bodies-left-wake-hillary-clinton-part-2/

7 — Ed Willey — http://barbwire.com/2016/07/05/47-bodies-left-wake-hillary-clinton-part-2/2/

8 — Jerry Parks — http://barbwire.com/2016/07/05/47-bodies-left-wake-hillary-clinton-part-2/3/

9 — James Bunch — http://barbwire.com/2016/07/05/47-bodies-left-wake-hillary-clinton-part-2/4/

10 — John Wilson — http://barbwire.com/2016/07/05/47-bodies-left-wake-hillary-clinton-part-2/5/