Powerpoint on Excellence Blog post

         A Message to Garcia was published in 1899, and it was used to motivate workers. It was made into two movies in 1916 and 1936. These movies made A Message to Garcia into a popular saying meaning taking initiative and is still used in the military today. Rowan was a real person and he was a Army officer at West Point class of 1881. President McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist six months into his second term. The mountain named after him was renamed in 2015 to Denali. Slipshod means being careless, slapdash, and remiss. A missive is a letter especially a long official one. Arate is the Greek work for excellence of any kind. Arate means moral virtue, fulfillment of one's purpose or function, and the act of living up to one's full potential. All human abilities are derived from knowledge, and the highest form of knowledge is about knowledge itself.