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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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Carry a Message to Garcia

In "Carry a Message  to Garcia" a president wants to send a letter to a man known as Garcia. Yet the president doesn't want an incompetent person writing and/or sending it, he wants someone he knows will get the job done. In the story he finds a man named Rowan, who was sending the letter but didn't know where to deliver it. After that they learn that General Garcia is dead, but other Garcia's remain. He restates the fact that he wants someone who could act promptly and do the one thing he asked for, deliver a message to Garcia. he wants them to ask questions some which consist of "Who was he?", "Which encyclopedia?", "Where is the encyclopedia?", and many more. And finally he wants someone that when delivers the letter does not ask any idiotic questions. Now my five ways to make the best of my John Carroll years. First, meet new people. Second, follow directions. Third, go to John Carroll events. Fourth, don't bully anyone, and l...
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