Clouds Essays - Cloud, The Clouds, Serbian Folklore,

Clouds Clouds I'VE OPENED THE CURTAIN of my east window here above the computer, and I sit now in a holy theater before a sky-blue stage. A little cloud above the neighbor's trees resembles Jimmy Durante's nose for a while, then becomes amorphous as it slips on north. Other clouds follow, big and little and tiny on their march toward whereness. Wisps of them lead or droop because there must always be leading and drooping. The trees seem to laugh at the clouds while yet reaching for them with swaying branches. Trees must think that they are real, rooted, somebody, and that perhaps the clouds are only tickled water which sometimes blocks their sun. But trees are clouds, too, of green leaves--clouds that only move a little. Trees grow and change and dissipate like their airborne cousins. And what am I but a cloud of thoughts and feelings and aspirations? Don't I put out tentative mists here and there? Don't I occasionally appear to other people as a ridiculous shape of thoughts without my intending to? Don't I drift toward the north when I feel the breezes of love and the warmth of compassion? If clouds are beings, and beings are clouds, are we not all well advised to drift, to feel the wind tucking us in here and plucking us out there? Are we such rock-hard bodily lumps as we imagine? Drift, let me. Sing to the sky, will I. One in many, are we. Let us breathe the breeze and find therein our roots in the spirit. I close the curtain now, feeling broader, fresher. The act is over. Applause is sweeping through the trees.

Progressive movement essays

Progressive movement essays Black people in the past had a tie period known as the progressive movement. During this time period, they were setting goals and doing things for other blacks to make the world easier on them. The goals were set to better the opportunity of others. While progressive reformers were well educated and middle class, African Americans were not educated at all and they were low class which didnt have anything at all. Progressives didnt focus on black peoples needs because they were not considered important. When they were left on their own, they had to come up with ideas and find a way to live without them. The living conditions of blacks in the 1900s were not convenient. Many had to live in one or two room cabins. It was furnished with straw pallets, a table, a few chairs or maybe boxes to sit on, a fireplace, or wood stove. They were usually farmers who worked about 20 to 30 acres in the heat even when it was well over a hundred degrees with little or no shade all day from dawn to dusk. Sixty percent were farm laborers and the rest were farmers. Half a million children under the age of fifteen were part of the labor force. One Negro in two could not even read or write. The ones that could read would only get so much, but were able to read their Bibles. Booker T. Washington was born in 1856. He is a former slave that believed that Negroes belonged on the land rather in the cities and in the South rather than in the North. He did believe that blacks needed education, skills, and job training. They needed this for good jobs to earn the money they need for the world and for the respect that many long deserve. He is the founder of the Tuskegee Institute. After Theodore Roosevelt became President in 1901, he was the chief advisor on Federal patronage for Negroes. W.E.B. DuBois was a leader of opposition for Booker T. Washington. He is one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement...