Human Geo 9/5/17

Today during class we went over a presentation about the word excellence and how it was involved with the book A Message to Garcia which is also just an essay that Elbert Hubbard wrote to tell about how lazy people were and that when a man named Rowan was asked to take a letter to the leader of the resistance named Garcia, he did it with no hesitation and no questions. This book/essay took place during the Spanish-American War and Garcia was a revolutionary seeking freedom from Spain. The president at the time was William McKinley who was assassinated six months into his second term as president and he gave a message to Rowan who was an army officer and after he is done the Cuban revolutionaries eventually win the battle. The tallest mountain was also named after Rowan until 2015 when they changed it back to the original name. We also learned that the only thing that separates us from dogs is the fact that we know that all things will eventually die like dogs but in their lives the one thing on their mind is to make their person or people happy.

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