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Adventure Time is a cartoon series, currently airing on Cartoon Network, consisting of eleven-minute-long episodes that follow the adventures of a human boy Finn and his magical dog friend Jake. The series started airing in 2010 and is currently on its seventh season. Adventure Time, although originally created for kids, has gained audiences from all walks of life and that is in no small part due to the show’s effective use of different media platforms. Adventure Time engages with all kinds of…

In the op-ed “Barack Obama: Self-driving, Yes, But Also Safe” published in Pittsburgh Sun-Gazette on September 19, 2016, president Obama states that autonomous vehicles will transfer many lives potentially. He also said, “American innovation is driving bigger changes.” America is changing every day and new invention is increasing. He points out how helpful it will be too many Americans such as “senior’s citizens and Americans with disabilities.” He then said that these autonomous vehicles will…

Can unequal treatment of a person due to gender bias lead to false assumptions of the person’s ability to complete a task? Males who perform a masculine task are more attributed to skill, whereas an equivalent performance by a female on the same task is seen to be more influenced by luck, the reverse does not hold true for performance on a feminine task (Deaux & Emswiller, 1974). Although Deaux’s research was conducted over 40 years ago, and gender-biases have changed over the past years, there…

Eero Saarinen (1910 –1961) was a Finnish-American architect, born in Kirkkonummi, Finland on August 20, 1910, the same day as his father, to acclaimed Finish Architect Eliel Saarinen (1873-1950) and Sculptress Loja Gesellius Saarinen. Saarinen (Jr.) spent the first 12 years of his life in Finland, constantly surrounded by strong creative influences. While he, his older sister Pipsan, and his parents lived in Finland, his parents would regularly entertain artists, musicians, sculptors,…