Essay 1.
My original defintion of Arete is Plain and simple, it means excellence. Arete is an ancient Greek word. Socrates, a great Greek philosipher, either showed or taught excellence. Socrates was a very great man but he wasn't excellent at everything, I'm sure he strived to be excellent at everything he did, but I think he got more joy out of teaching how to be excellent than doing it himself. Ancient Greek showed excellence because they created Democracy, an almost perfect form of government that we still use today, Greeks created the Olympics that are also still used today. If those things are not excellent then I don't know what is. Socrates created a form of debate which was excellent for trying to help people understand things. Arete is Knowledge and the best knowledge is of knowledge itself. Like Socrates said, “I know everything I don’t know,” he made people think, and when people thought , it gave them knowledge and knowledge is Arete.
Essay 2.
If Elbert Hubbard and Socrates were to time travel they would be amazed, by the technology and the behavior of our modern timed people. Elbert Hubbert would learn that people got even lazier. Back then lazy would have been not cleaning the kitchen table or not making your bed. Our generation has taken laziness to a whole new level. In "A message to Garcia," all he needs to find is someone who is loyal and willing to get the job done. Nowadays i can guarentee you, that if you were to ask someone to climb the mountains and deliver a message they would say no, just because they are to lazy to do it. Elbert Hubbard wwould be ashamed. Socrates on the other hand would be mindblown. I mean Elbert was only 100 years ago, Socrates was 1000's. Anyways, Socrates would get bored, because nobody would want to talk to him, no one would follow him around the streets asking him questions. This generation of people have great internet sources that do know the answer to all their questions.
Essay 3. My Plan is for every day to complete my work and complete at a very high quality. I want to have a successful 4 year, but to have a successful 4 years i need to be successful every single day. My first step is my strategy. My strategy is to come home from any type of sports and finish my homework on time and at a high quality, i also need to complete schoolwork and pay attention in every single classroom. I want to use the gifts God has given me to complete work at my finest and at the teachers requirement in order to become a successful graduate of The John Carroll school in the year 2016. I am responsible for all my work in the classroom and outside of the classroom. I am responsible for turning my work in on time and completing it at my teachers needs. The steps to be a successful graduate are, being at school every single day and if not making up work that needs to be completed. Also working as hard as I can in an outside of the classroom. Every quarter I want to end with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. I want to be into as many clubs as I can and be a part of the John Carroll community. I want to pass every single year and as a Freshman, eventually upgrade to be a Senior. These steps will be completed in 2016, my graduate year. The resources I need to complete this are, Teachers, Friends, Parents, My laptop, Other students, and myself.
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