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The Fun Ship Cruise is a line of cruises offered from Carnival Cruise Lines. Since the 1970's, Carnival has been advertising their cruises as Fun Ships, which are vacation destinations in themselves. The focus of Carnival is not only on the ports of call they take guests, but ensuring their ships are packed with fun and activities, as they were the first cruise line to implement this into their ships. Fun ships have live entertainment, a full and varied list of activities daily, and even the option to relax. The idea is that the guest on the ship will have enough options to never feel bored, but to always feel entertained. The “fun” is manifested throughout the journey including the way staff leaves towels for guests in their rooms, which is to fold them into origami animals daily.

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This illustration is likely a fan drawing of Snoopy as the Flying Ace. First appearing in a Charles M. Schultz comic strip on October 4, 1950, Snoopy is an iconic beagle passionate about writing and imagination. The Flying Ace is one of Snoopy’s most recognizable personas in which he often imagines himself battling the Red Baron. Introduced in 1965, Snoopy, dressed in a flying leather cap, goggles, and scarf, transforms his doghouse into a Sopwith Camel biplane and takes off into the skies battling against the Red Baron, based on a real German flying ace, Manfred von Richtofen. Snoopy’s iconic phrase, “Curse you Red Baron!” is often heard throughout the aerial battles. The journey of the Flying Ace exaggerates the life of WWI aviators to delight the readers’ hearts and imaginations.

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Gum ball machine prizes, including humorous pinback buttons, were popular throughout the 20th century. Machines originally intended for distributing round candies became commonly used along with small round capsules to distribute tiny toys to friendly passersby.

“Nnnyahh,” is an idiom referencing a popular children’s taunt, either derived from None of your business, a popular deflective saying associated with the comeback, “Mind your own business,” or derived from the sing-song chant ‘Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah’ or even the word ‘nyah’ alone as it is now considered in itself an expression of contempt or superiority.

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Following the 2013 murder of 18-year old Hadiya Pendleton in Chicago, the Pendleton family asked that activists wear orange to raise awareness of gun violence. In subsequent years, orange became the color of National Gun Violence Awareness Day in June, and is widely recognized as the color of the gun control movement. The nonprofit group Everytown for Gun Safety sells merchandise with the slogan "wear orange" to finance their work towards building awareness and passing legislation to regulate gun sales and use in America.

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Blue Island is a city in Illinois with a population of around 24,000, It is notable for the whole community being made a designated preserve America community in 2007. The city is one of the oldest in Cook County, being established in 1835. It grew in prominence as people settled there while traveling on the Vincennes Trail, which connected Illinois to Indiana. 

Throughout the 19th century, Blue Island was also a major manufacturing powerhouse of the area, bringing jobs, wealth, and prosperity to the city and surrounding region. The city helped to support both the brick and railroad industry before eventually being outpaced by larger cities in the 20th century. In 1894, railroad workers organized the well-known Pullman Strike, which caused the United States infantry to come in and impose martial law.

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Wildlife Artists Inc. is an organization that supports conservation and sustainability. They are strongly anti-poaching. Members of this organization travel to rainforests all over the world to partner with locals, help provide a source of income for remote villagers, and do their part to reduce their footprint. 

One of the ways the organization raises money to support their goals and raise awareness is to feature an endangered animal in their marketing campaigns. The creators, Gerry and Diana Ward, were also the artists for this tiger and others including pandas, dolphins, seals, and elephants.

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In the 1988 book If Women Counted, Marilyn Waring spoke out against a United Nations economic study which defined traditionally female work (homemaking, caretaking, etc.) as “of little or no importance.” Though this new fight came during the transition from the second to the third wave of feminism, it sparked what would be known as the Mommy Wars, a cultural and emotional arena which pitted working mothers against stay-at-home mothers. “Every mother is a working mother” was not only adopted as a quick retort to those who undervalued home and parenting work, but was also taken on as the name of non-profit advocacy groups, batted around in political discourse around the welfare system, and even in campaigns for pay equality, access to reproductive care, childcare and more.