Day Four

09.3.14

For the first part of the class, again, we got our blogs all together and made sure everyone had them. Next, Mr. Schick took the grades for having a composition notebook for our notes.


Today we talked a little bit about "A Message to Garcia".
We learned that during the Spanish-American war, President McKinley desperately needed to get a letter to the head of the insurgents, Garcia.

Elbert Hubbard, the writer of this essay, was using this story as a metaphor. He was trying to get the point across that, we need to know how to do things without questions asked, without laziness, or trying to get out of it. Don't complain, just do what you're asked to do and thank God you have the ability to still do it.
Elbert Hubbard's essay was recognized and, later reprinted virally 80 million times.

Next, we were talking about voting.

We learned that one year, only 53% eligible voters voted in the USA. Then the next four years, 61%, the next 63%, and the next 59% and so on and so on. That's only a little over a half of the population on eligible voters. In other countries like, Peru, Iran, and Rwanda had 86%, 75, and 89% vote every year. So what's wrong with us Americans who have a right to vote? Even if you don't like the people that are running, you still should vote. Voting is very very important. It's important because the people that don't vote (usually 18 to 35), are the ones that are going to live to have to deal with that president or person in any office. People like to complain about the President and or the people in office right now, and those same people are the ones that said "Oh, I don't feel like voting." "I'm not going to vote."