Today's Class Notes On The Message to Garcia

           Today's notes were about a lot of things. The main thing was The Message to Garcia. The Message to Garcia was a letter that was sent to the war general in Cuba fighting the Spanish from the US president at the time. This all took place during the Spanish-American war in 1899. Elbert Hubbard wrote all this down at the time and created a short story/booklet the share with the public what excellence is and what it looks like to work hard in life. His main reason for doing this is because at the time, people were slacking off at their job and not putting forth effort to do thing that needed to be done. This book sold over 40 million copies and was translated into 37 languages. One of the most famous quotes from this book was ''The world bestows it big prizes, both in money and honors but for one thing, and that's initiative"