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Allow me to light up your world by telling you that Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb. You should know that there were at least 20 different inventors across the globe that drafted various patents on it. Why call someone the inventor of something when that person is not the first creator of an invention?  There is a big difference between a person that creates something from zero to a person that improves it. In the case of the lightbulb, Edison did just that, he only improved on it. History tells us that as early as 1806, a man named Humphrey Davy introduced an electric lamp to the Royal Society in England. He is historically the first person to talk about a light bulb. His problem was that he couldn't make it stay lit for very long at all. After Davy, in 1841, Frederick DeMoleyns enclosed his burner in a glass bulb. Followed by an American, J.W. Starr, who actually got a patent using a vacuum and a carbon burner. History repeats itself with Joseph Swan, who e...

Presidential Race Poster for George Edwin Taylor, 1904 100 years before Obama,  George Edwin Taylor  blew the doors off the presidential race of 1904 by becoming the first black man in American history to run for the highest office of our land. And he couldn't have done it without an amazing education. Even considering the hardships blacks endured back then, Taylor had an extremely hard upbringing, harder than most. He was orphaned and homeless at a very early age, even forced to live in boxes on the streets at times.  The court system fostered him to a man named Nathan Smith, a politically savvy black farmer, who insisted that Taylor would obtain a superior education. From that point forward, he invested a lot of his time pursuing learning and held different high-level jobs as editor and writer of various newspapers for both whites and blacks. Taylor understood that in order to influence his world he needed to prepare himself with educationally. He drea...

U.S. House of Representatives In light of current events, should we be concerned about impeachment being the new way to get even with our president? Is impeachment going to become the way how we handle disagreements in our government policies? It seems like impeachment is definitely drawing more and more attention in the last twenty years of our government's history. The first American president to be impeached was Andrew Johnson, in 1868, to be exact.  After him, history does a big jump to 1998. That year, president Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives. And right now, we are facing the impeachment of our current president, Donald Trump. I find it interesting that there is a time lapse of 130 years between the first impeachment in our country and the second one, but between the second and our current situation, we only have 21 years.  This fact makes me wonder if this is a result of how we are dealing with situations in our government in more rece...

It has been said that less than one-third of students who start out at public colleges will graduate within 6 years. As I read this, I feel a little overwhelmed. I am after all, one of those students that the fact is talking about.  I am a freshman this year in a public college. To make matters worse, I am a nontraditional freshman at the age of 40.  Facts are very important in our lives because they help us shape out our reality. They also guide and motivate us towards the truth. Now, what I find most relevant about a fact is to know that is supported by evidence and good resources from which the data has been extracted from. In this case, I can't help to wonder if they have an accurate account of these students they are talking about. Does it include Non-traditional freshmen students, how about students that have transferred to other schools? After researching a little farther, I realized that I was right! Reading the article " Federal Government Publishes More Comple...

Me at a sunflower farm I'm a Costa Rican girl that loves God, family and life. I love traveling, languages and baking. My goal with this blog is to share personal experiences in my life as a college student at the age of 40. That's right! I'm what you would called a non-traditional freshman. I hope to grow in this new journey and inspire someone along the way.