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 synergy causes these to unrelated ideas to feed off each other therefore making them related. Now on to Socrates and the ancient Greeks. Socrates was a philosopher who was one of the founders of Western Philosophy. He was eventually charged with two crimes. One was refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state and the other was for corrupting youth. He told the court that he was doing his job and instead of killing they should thank him with free meals every night. He could've saved his life by reaching a compromise but he stayed with his beliefs. His punishment was to drink a glass of poison hemlock which is a very horrible way to go. In the year 508 B.C. democracy was first introduced. This is a well-known quote by Socrates "The unexamined life is not worth living." This means that if your life is to basically do nothing than why live it.

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