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Anything from a different time period can serve as a valuable example of perspective, maps exemplify this beautifully. Whenever a new map is created a new world is born, a world that exists in its own sphere of reality. Although this world may look very similar to our own it is important to remember that it […]

Tomorrow is a big day.  Last day of the semester, lots of tidying up and just general life stuff to deal with.  By general life stuff I mean packing and returning text books and all that jazz. I actually really like that kind of stuff.  Doing things where you can see a clear before and […]

As the end of the semester approaches I have spent a lot of time thinking about how I have grown.  When I come home I know that family, friends, past teachers, etc. are going to be asking about my first semester at college.  Do you like your classes?  What are you learning?  Do you like […]

I think that what jumped out to me the most was that I felt much more comfortable in Trexler vs. the Allentown Public Library.  Part of this has to do with a sense of belonging that I have established within Muhlenberg and have yet to find with the city of Allentown.  Both libraries were pretty […]

I think that the surveying article should have been read earlier in the semester.  We’ve talked a lot about “why” maps or the social significance of maps but we’ve been missing key information about how maps are made.  I think this info gives us greater insight into why/how maps developed the way that they did.  All in […]

What do we want to further dive into in this class? I want to look more in this course at maps from other cultures. More specifically, do they have different definitions of what a map is? How do their maps differ from ours visually? Do they read maps differently? Do maps perhaps reveal similarities between […]

Again, what is a map? I know that it is expected that since we have been in this class for 6 weeks now that my understanding of a map might have changed.  Frankly, it hasn’t that much.  A map is a visual presentation of information and that can take on many forms.  I am thinking […]

I was watching Sex and The City this week and a quote that really jumped out at me was, “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”.  Well, it’s true isn’t it?  And yet we get so offended by the idea of a copy cat.  It’s very instinctually engrained in us too.  I remember in 2nd […]