Month: January 2016

Associative Trails Exercise: “Zora Neale Hurston”

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So, today is the 125th birthday of influential author Zora Neale Hurston. So, I looked her up. http://time.com/4160190/zora-neale-hurston-birthday/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406265/ http://www.imdb.com/media/rm378181120/tt0406265?ref_=tt_pv_md_1 http://time.com/vault/issue/1937-09-20/page/87/ https://twitter.com/search?q=zora+neale+hurston&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch http://time.com/4160190/zora-neale-hurston-birthday/?xid=tcoshare These links start with an essay about the impact of Hurston’s works, as they’ve been made into movies and other adaptations. This also led to my looking at another influential novel by … Continue reading Associative Trails Exercise: “Zora Neale Hurston”

Associative trails

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E-commerce In this generation, the technology are so advanced that our fantasies and imagination can become reality. We live in the era where technology rule our everyday life. Everything about the world can be find using our finger tips on that small screen. We used technology on everything we do, especially in United States and […]

Module 2: “Nugget” Assignment

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“The Internet is like sensation. The World Wide Web is like thinking. Or: The Internet transmits data of all kinds: text, images, sounds, moving pictures, etc. The World Wide Web is a newly powerful word (or medium of symbolic representation, or language) that allows us to imagine and create newly powerful n-dimensional representations of the […]

To friends…

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Hi all, My name is Nguyen Nguyen (or you can call me May) – an undergraduate at Austin College (AC) in Sherman, Texas. Originally, I am from Vietnam which is on the other half of the Earth… not to far. I am majoring in Communication and Business Finance as I am interested in becoming a wedding…

Nugget Assignment.

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  Iran’s blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web  by Hossein Derakhshan   Reading Hossein’s article one thing that bugs me is why Hossein wants the web to be powerful enough to throw you into jail. I am a curious person and so I visit tons of websites every day, I visit websites like AOL, … Continue reading →

associative trails

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Hello! So for my “Associative Trails” assignment for How the Web Works, I had absolutely no idea where to start. I Googled “behavioral neuroscience” and could only find journals and the Wikipedia page, so I decided to start at Wikipedia to see where the external links took me. I wound up at a news page for biopsychology, […]

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