Today in class, we learned more about the essay A Message to Garcia. We learned about how popular it was and how it was made into movies and books. In fact, over forty million copies were sold worldwide. We also learned more about its backstory and the people in it. Another thing we learned was the odd vocabulary used in the essay. Some of these words included perihelion, missive and stenographer. We debated a bit about a comic a cartoonist made about the essay. We talked about how older generations criticize the advancement in technology and the increasing simplicity of doing things that took much more work back then. Finally, we discussed the word arête and its meaning. The word means the act of living up to one's potential. We also talked about how the highest human potential is knowledge and that the highest human knowledge is the knowledge of knowledge itself.
Political Geography
Today in human geography we talked about Political Geography. The world is organized by country, nation and state. A country is an identifiable land area and a nation is a population(group of people) with a common culture. A state is a population under a single government. This term can be synonymous with country. Nation as a status means a group of people with a shared identity, like a culture group. Nations are groups of people larger then a single tribe or community, which may share a common language, institutions, religion, and or historical experience. An independent, state has space or territory which had internationally recognized boundaries, has people who live there on an ongoing basis, has economic activity, an organized economy which regulates foreign and domestic trade and issues money, and has power in social engineering such as education.
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