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Luther and the Reformation

So today we talked about the Reformation and how Lutherans and Protestants started. Lutherans started from a man named Martin Luther. He was a priest during the old days. He became a priest because on his way home during a thunderstorm he was struck by lightning and vowed to be a monk. The first college he went to was the University of Erurt, and he hated it. He thought that it was a place for partying not a place for partying not learning. He also went to law school per his father's instructions. He was very angry with the ways the church did things through indulgences and he had a list of complaints and problems with the church called the "95 Theses." One of the theses on the paper said that the church is so rich but they take money from random people to rebuild churches. So he started the Reformation, a bunch of reforms, and eventually had to leave town with the name Junker Jorg. After one year he came back and people followed his teachings. They were Lutherans. People...
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Friday

Today we reviewed what we talked about yesterday and in ancient Greece an idiot was someone who was self-centered. We also talked about the hurricanes and how dangerous they are and how people might have to evacuate certain areas. On the last slide of the excellence presentation was this quote by Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living." This means that if all your life is just go to work, go home, watch TV, and go to bed then why live that life, improve upon it. Mr. Schick really liked the quote.  We also reviewed about the death of Socrates and how he died by drinking poison hemlock. We didn't review the Socratic Method but we all needed a reminder on the synergy between democracy and excellence. Mr. Schick even mentioned a vocab word from English class, extraneous. Today was a very interesting and informative human geography class.
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Day before the test

Today in human geography we did a major review for the test and ask questions of what may or may not be on the test. Some of the things we went over involved "A Message to Garcia," the synergy between excellence and democracy, and the life of Socrates. Let's start off with "A Message to Garcia." In this story which takes place in the Spanish-American War, the president at the time, McKinley, wanted to send a message to a general named Garcia. Almost all of the people he found were slipshod people that had suffered from imbecility. These people also didn't take any initiative until a man named Rowan, who was an army officer that graduated from West Point in the year 1881, came around and took the initiative and finally delivered a message to Garcia. Let's talk about the synergy between excellence and democracy.  You can't have the democracy without the excellence from the people to form it. The democracy also compels people to be excellent. This syner...
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