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Is She Pretty Enough?

This image shows a girl as a contestant in a beauty pageant. The girls that compete in these pageants are often very young. Parents can make their children compete in pageants since they are able to sit up on their… Continue Reading →

“Why we have an emotional connection to robots?” by Kate Darling

This TED Talk discussed how humans formed emotional connections with robots. Kate Darling explained how people have make connections with robots specially if they have humanistic faces or if they look like animals. She explained how she ha a dinosaur… Continue Reading →

Elon Musk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdTTeR4TyMc I chose a video where CNBC interviewed to Elon Musk about his perspective on the development of artificial intelligence. While Musk is talking, you can tell that he is coming up with some answers on the spot because of… Continue Reading →

A Study Shows That…

Andy Kessler’s perception on research introduced in essays is very interesting. I had never thought about how an author could bias an informative paper by including certain studies. There are so many studies being done and published. The public’s first… Continue Reading →

Would You Trust A Self-Driving Car?

Can you believe people actually talk about self-driving cars everyday nowadays? Take yourself back about 10 years; the idea of having self-driving cars back then was real but it was still developing. People knew we would eventually have self-driving cars… Continue Reading →

Paradigm Shift

The increasing presence of smartphones has changed the public greatly. Before 2007, when the first iPhones were released, the public wasn’t that attracted to phones. The only utility cellphones had was to call other people and text some people from… Continue Reading →

Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign

My artifact speech was about Marca Peru, the branding of Peru. For my essay I chose to compare Marca Peru to Obama’s 2008 political campaign. In 2008 Barack Obama entered the race for presidency with his campaign that focused on… Continue Reading →

Bumper Sticker

  As I mentioned in my last post, the feminist movement keeps growing every day. A lot of times this growth makes other people want to be sarcastic or just mean about it by joking. An example is this bumper… Continue Reading →

Feminism in Disney

  Feminism. The movement that started years ago and continues going strong. The fight has evolved a lot since the beginning. From protests, to social media movements, to trials. These bringing changes including giving women the right to voting, education,… Continue Reading →

Terrible Ad

On 2013, Hyundai made a commercial showcasing their new ix35 car. This commercial shows a man failing an attempted suicide due to the 100% water exhaust emissions of the car. The company’s “joke” was that the man couldn’t commit suicide… Continue Reading →

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