Category: Free Writing
-
Maps We Need
I think a map we need in life, or that is interesting is to see how all the people that I know are connected. Could be relationship wise, family, distant family because ultimately we all come from one single starting point and seeing how everyone is connected would be interesting. What sparked this idea is…
-
GIS Mapping
I would map all the places where women are CEOs in the world compared to men. Maybe this to combat the glass ceiling theory or the glass escalator theory to show how it is still so unfair that women are not able to climb the workforce ladder as fast as men in this day and…
-
10 on 1
Map Pg 116-117 expanding on point #10 Russia is seen to be an octopus and it looks like its tenticles are going all over the place. This might be shown as a metaphor as it is trying to conqor more countries to make as thier own because they are an already large countrie them self.…
-
Summary of Class 10/24
We first started out by talking about how indigenous maps are different than those that were drawn by the European. We also looked at how the Spanish relayed heavily on the indigenous maps and there was an aspect of interreliance. The people percieve native as higher because they spoke spanish. However, while getting futher into…
-
Maps before 1400: A different look at the red gash
Map on page 22 Expanding on point 11 The red gash that tears the circle in the middle of the map and breaks the circl’es flow maybe is the Red sea. The discription below on the bottom of the map says “Europe” and “Africa” in maybe the language Latin, which one can infer that this…
-
What about maps to study next?
In class, I feel that we should touch upon maps that are older in the sense of the types of maps that were made during mesopotamia times or those during the ice age. I think it is cool to see how people formed their maps and why they chose to draw it the way that…
-
How do I read: The Process of Reading
While reading, I like to use methods of annotating and highlighting, that is if i own the books, because it really allows me to engage with what I am reading. I believe that it helps you better understand the text and writing down my thoughts can help me in the future remember what I specifically…
-
Reflecting on Turchi
“The plan that guides our exploration may or may not be the structure-defining intention of the map, the document that leads the reader; experience reminds us that there is often a world of difference between what we hope to find, or think we might find, and what we discover[…] our vehicle for discovery is the…

