Isaias' Blogs

  General Information on George Edwin Taylor We have our first ever African American president candidate Georgia Edwin Taylor, he did not have the best start but he did succeed on what he wanted somewhat in 1904's election. Taylor became an orphan at the peak of the civil war and because of it he remained homeless as a child.One day he got onto a riverboat that left him in La Crosse, Wisconsin, from there he got adopted by an African American farm family. Then his life was starting to get better, he went to university to get an education and then after he got into the newspaper business. His word quickly rose up in popularity at that time, where there were tons of people who were following his articles. Many African Americans were blindly following the Republican party at the time because they wanted to abolish slavery, Taylor was not fine with that since he saw there was an issues with labor and he wanted to fix that. He then proceeds to start his campaign as president with t...

 Why are graduation rates so low & diverse? General An article on cappex shows that graduations rates seem to fluctuate a lot depending how long you go to school and what kind of school you are attending. For example public college have a general graduation rate of 33% for a four year and 57.6% for 6 years but at a private institution four year has 52.8% and six year has 65.4%.Really seems odd that the percentages can change so much between being private to public or just from four to six years. I wonder what could cause this? Government Well it all seems odd because it is odd. The government have not been including all different kinds of students until recently. Students which have transferred schools and students who are under pell grants have not been included with that percentage and the list goes on as well. But hey what about the other percentage you may be asking, since it still isn't a pure 100% graduation rate. Finance There are more things that affect graduation rate ...

Introduction Howdy, my name is Isaias Larios and it is nice to meet you! This is going to be a post about myself, seems a bit selfish for my first post but that's what's going to happen. Alright onto myself.... College I am a freshman at Georgia Gwinnett College(GGC) and my major there as undeclared STEM. I am currently 18 years old, so yes I am fresh off of high school as well. I can't wait to see what my time at GGC will become, I was extremely nervous but after my first day everything seems to be perfectly fine. Seems to be that it is going to be mostly online which I am worried about but I know it will be fine as long as I put effort. Hobbies Let's see, what do I enjoy, what do I enjoy..... hmm. In my free time I enjoy playing games. Games are pretty fun but lack most of their energy to me when they are single player. They are fun just not extremely. Multiplayer games with friends is where I spend most of my time, my friends make up most of the great experience in m...