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I thought one idea/example that Crampton talked about was the importance of mapping during (and after) Hurricane Katrina. It is easy to think about how maps play into our daily lives with examples such as GPS and mapping weather patterns but I hadn’t thought about the significance of a map that showed the changes in […]

I think the most significant thing that I took away from your comments was that my paper didn’t really find itself until the end.  I felt and agreed with the note that in my intro paragraph I asked some big questions which I never fully addressed and which didn’t directly relate to each other.  For […]

Okay, here we are.  Finals week.  Wow that is an intimidating thing to write.  I can’t lie I’m a little bit concerned.  Not gravely concerned (I’m dramatic but I know I’ll be fine).  The problem is that this is my first finals week.  I haven’t done this before, and I’m coming from a high school […]

Kristin:  I loved Kristen’s writing about the Allentown Public Library.  Specifically I appreciated the sentence: “What the Trexler Library lacks, the Allentown Public Library has, and what the Allentown Public Library lacks, the Trexler Library has” because I felt that it got right to the point and summed up the contrast between the two pretty […]

Fiona McGrath The Power of Maps 12/3/18 Professor Albert Writing Portfolio Reflection Throughout the course of the semester I have been publishing my writing, both creative and formal, to my writing portfolio. While there are parts of my portfolio that I felt have really worked, there are definitely also sections that I think I could […]

Fiona McGrath The Power of Maps November 15, 2018 Professor Sharon Albert Mapping Love Maps serve to guide us from Point A to Point B, they present logical and clear information to help guide us along our way and hopefully they don’t raise too many more questions than they answer.  As they attempt to explore […]

**this draft was published late due to my being locked out of my website, peer edit comments are at the bottom of the paper as I asked to have them emailed to me so I could continue to edit as I tried to get back onto my blog 🙂   Fiona McGrath The Power of […]

Last Saturday I attended the Muhlenberg Theatre and Dance Department’s Moving Stories performance.  The show featured student choreographed pieces as well as one faculty choreographed piece.  The show was entirely performed by students and ran for just under two hours.  The biggest thing that I took away from attending the performance was a better understanding […]

2,720 miles It didn’t seem so bad but it is too far for her sometimes now and then the distance breaks her heart but it does not change 2,720 miles away is a home 2,720 miles away is everlasting sunshine 2,720 miles away are her friends, family, the loves of her life Now and then […]

Maps: A Portal to The Past Maps are a beautiful example of perspective. 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 is not. A map presents […]