Today in class we talked about a very interesting topic and it is time. We talked about the circadian cycle. How we all kind of have our own clocks and we go by the sun being up or if we are tired or not to wake up or go to sleep rather than what the clock actually says. We talked about Flemming in 1879. We talked a 24 hour clock located at the center of the earth. It was around 1900 that almost all times on earth was in the form of standard time. We talked about the Past, present and future and how we live in the present but there isn't really a present. Today was a very interesting lesson.
Excellence Notes
Today in Mr.Shicks class we looked at a power point based A message to Garcia. A Message to Garcia was what we read on Friday. I learned A Message to Garcia was a inspirational essay in March 1899. It got popular and published over 40 million copies. They even made versions in 37 languages. A Message to Garcia was made into a movie two times. The setting was the Spanish American war. The person who delivered the message was Rowan. Rowan was an army officer from West Point, class of 1881. The person the message was delivered was Garcia. Garcia was a revolutionary seeking Cuban independence from Spain. We also learned some "odd" vocabulary. Perihelion is the point when a planet is closest to the sun therefore it is at its brightest. Slipshod means careless, lackadaisical, slapdash. Imbecility means feebleness, stupidity. Stenographer is a person who takes dictation in shorthand. A missive is a letter. We then learned the word the ancient Greeks had a word for excellence calle...
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