Today in Human Geo, we talked about the passage A Message to Garcia and the way the author Elbert Hubbard wrote this passage is like it was from decades ago, like the 1800's. Today we talked about the way he wrote this passage and what he was trying to say throughout the passage. He would word the passage like it was in the 1800's, for example, "By the Eternal!" Which eternal means God, but instead he used eternal. The passage was really confusing in the beginning because he used names that we didn't know who these people are and what their background is or what the reason was that they are in this passage. Later on, after reading the passage we learn that the passage was trying to prove something, that people will make excuses and complain about their job and this passage was basically a test for Rowan. It was in the middle of the Spanish- American War and Rowan was asked by President McKinley to go and find General Garcia and Rowan passed the test and did what he was told without any excuses or complaining. President McKinley basically called Rowan a hero because he passed the test and didn't make excuses or complain about what the President was asking of him.

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