The forgotten candidate George Edwin Taylor

     The 21st century has introduced many new achievements for the United States. In 2008 the first African American was elected president. But he wasn’t the first African American to run for office. In 1904 an African American presidential candidate by the name of George Edwin Taylor ran for office as a third party candidate of the National Negro Liberty Party.

     Taylor was born in 1857 to a free mother and a enslaved father in Little Rock, Arkansas. Already at a disadvantage for being black Edwin did not let that stop him for running in office for the 1904 presidential election. He didn’t campaign as a democratic or republican president as he found out none of their interests were in colored people. So he campaigned as part of the NNLP (National Negro Liberty Party) which is an all African American independent party. The NNLP nominated Taylor as their candidate to run for office.

     With George Edwin Taylor keeping in mind that his chances of being elected was low, he kept pushing and giving his best efforts during his campaign. No matter what obstacles that he encountered he kept moving forward like nothing was holding him back. George Edwin Taylor ultimately lost the 1904 presidential election to Theodore Roosevelt.

Donald Trump and Andrew Johnson impeachments

     With the current relevant news of the impeachment trial against Donald Trump in the media this wouldn’t be the first time the United States has impeached a president. That president is Andrew Johnson(Dem. 17^th) in 1868. Andrew Johnson was from the south as Lincoln was from the north. He use to be the Vice President but became president because of President Lincoln’s assassination barley into his second term as president. Donald Trump (Rep. 45th)  became president because he was originally elected president by the people of the U.S. in 2016 as Hillary Clinton (Dem.) lost the election. As both presidents were impeached at different time periods of the U.S. let’s see how similar or different the impeachments were. Andrew Johnson was impeached because of political conflict and the outbreak of ideologies in the aftermath of the civil war and violating the Tenure of Office Act (A U.S. federal law that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office holders without approval of the Senate. Donald Trump is being impeached for abusing the power of his presidency by withholding military aid to pressure Volodymyr Zelensky (newly elected President of Ukraine) to investigate the conspiracy theory that Ukraine was interfering in the 2016 presidential election.

     Both presidents were impeached because of some type of abuse of their powers as president. And both presidents removed office holders (A.J. did this while violating TOA Act) Andrew Johnson wasn’t removed from office after his impeachment. He still wanted slavery in the South and he vetoed a bill to help free slaves after the Civil War was over with the North winning leaving the South in ruins. Andrew Johnson should’ve been deleted from office after his actions after the war. (D.T. Did this without violating the Act). Donald Trump will most likely lose the election if his primary voters in the 2016 election change their views on him after his impeachment trial. Because people do not want a president that abuses their power over another country strictly for his own gain/pride. I don’t think he will be removed from the White House, but his chances of being elected again is severely damaged because of this fact. The amount of people that voted for him in 2016 will not vote form him in 2020.

Public University student Graduation Percentage

      There is a abnormally big number of students across the U.S. that attend Universities that do not graduate at their desired or expected time. Less than 1/3 of all students that attend college will graduate. That means that in a classroom of 30 students only 10 of those students will graduate within 6 years. 

     

     Most students that are just starting college as freshmen are not really aware of this fact. This article on Cappex (https://www.cappex.com/articles/blog/government-publishes-graduation-rate-data) is a discussion about the percentage of college students who stay enrolled for their 2nd year(Sophomore year) of college and it’s only at 52%. That is a very big amount of students dropping out of school after their freshman year of college. 

     And also on top of that 48% of freshman starting at any year do not end up graduating college. That’s a huge waste of time and money. At Clark Atlanta university about 50% of students drop out of college by their sophomore year. But the article says that students who transfers to Chicago State College have a higher success percentage at graduating.

     Most students that are a full time student usually graduate within six years. But that shouldn’t be the case for everybody. I strongly feel that if you are goin to college to learn and know exactly what you are going there for, the desire and willingness of the student determines if he or she will graduate on time or if he or she will drop out. Students have a better success rate not transferring to other universities and staying at the college they started their freshman year

Word count: 271

My name is Evan Hagan. I was born on a very hot summer day in the Pensacola Naval Air station on May 17th in the year of 2000. I was a little baby but i soon grew to what I am now. Today i am 19 years old, a biology major, and currently a full time student at Georgia Gwinnett College chasing down my Bachelors Degree so I can become an Anesthesiologist.