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Introduction

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Hello my name is suchana I have no pets unless you count egg-laying chickens. or my brother. I've lived in the Dover area for about a decade, and this will be my third year at UNH. I initially thought I would switch majors at some point, but I guess I never hit a point where I disliked English. I love making stuff - woodworking, ceramics, painting, drawing, videos, collages etc. Making is a process I really enjoy and I love doing it digitally. I would say I am most excited about the new programs we will use and how I can apply those skills in my future career. I think this class will be fun!  When I'm not in class, you will find me binge-watching television in my room, and if the weather permits it, outside with my friends. I also like podcasts, fat cats, aquariums, lime-flavored sodas, and pocket knives.
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Sharing Digital Texts - Cameron Whitney

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  Post Secret Ted Talk Post Secret Website Post Secret reminds me a little bit of the Yellow Arrow Project. It involves anonymity and sharing words with others. Thinking about this website and project warms my heart and simultaneously makes me feel like I could cry. It started with Frank Warren, a man who printed out 3,000 pre-addressed postcards in 2004 and randomly handed them out on the streets of Washington, D.C. He included instructions on one side and the other was blank. The instructions told the people who received the cards to “anonymously share an artful secret they’d never told anyone before.” Some people send in deep secrets and others send in funny ones. It is a beautiful form of digital literature as he posts them on the website so people can view new ones every Sunday. I’ve always wanted to send one in and I know that eventually, I will.
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Hypertext: Week 2 - Cam

When trying to read "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s" by Donna Haraway, I found the body of work to be quite convoluted and intricate. My favorite description of the Cyborg is Haraway describing it as a reconstructed being of "post-modern collective and personal self.” One of the most interesting parts of the essay was reading about Haraway tackles the concept of the Cyborg as being able to break the barrier of human gender and identity, rendering itself being its own existent being. Reading the perspective of someone writing about hypertext from a socialist-feminist perspective was quite intriguing, and I definitely have not read an essay about a facet of literature quite like this one. I feel the reason why the essay slowly became less convoluted was the helpful footnotes on each page, and scanning them as I proceeded through the piece added additional insight that made the points Haraway was making feel more succinct. ...
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