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  On page 16 in Stephen Hall’s “I, Mercator,”, he wrote “It is hard to look at a map without sensing, in our bones, private hopes and secret fears about change.” My first paraphrase is it is difficult to see a map and not wonder what could be different about it. Another would be it…

My relationship with writing is pretty normal I feel for an athlete. Most of the time when I write something it is because I have to for one reason or another. Majority of the time it is school related with a dead line. I am a procrastinator and usually wait until the end to even…

~250 wordsPeter Turchi’s chapter “Metaphor: or, the Map” from his book Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, dives into the intricate relationship between writing and mapmaking. Turchi begins by establishing that maps, like stories, are constructed representations of reality. Although they are different, they emphasize certain aspects of the world while omitting others.…

“‘That’s the whole drama,’ he said. ‘I don’t have such a technique.’” (p 18 Turchi). I found this quote interesting because he is trying day after day to try to express how he sees things, but he simply can’t because he doesn’t have the technique to do it. Lacking the correct technique leads to new…

◊ Mapping is an interpretation not just a representation  ◊ The connection between cartography and the human body ◊ Mapping was used to discover the globe This significant idea of how mapping was used to discover the globe is portrayed in “Mapping the Body, Mapping the World: Mercator’s Atlas”, this interests me because while we…

When I read a chapter in a book I usually read it straight through once while breaking it down along the way. My brain usually starts wondering while I’m reading so I have to make it a focus to pay attention and analyze what I just read. If I don’t do this, the information tends…

One thing that I want to do next with maps is to look at maps of imagination such as we did today and dig deeper into them. I find it very interesting to look at a map and find the real meaning behind it while it looks like there isn’t much to it. Almost every…

Have you ever thought of learning life lessons from a map? While discussing maps, it is often thought that a map is no more than a piece of paper that brings you from one place to another. In reality, there is much more to a map than just that. The overall purpose of a map…