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.

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