Author: Joseph Kudla

  • A Poem About Maps: Extended Edition

    We use maps in everyday life  In small ways and big ways to guide us  So we don’t have as much strife  So driving to your grandma to no fuss Maps are not all green grass  Maps are often found with error Often to disadvantage the lower class How could we make the maps fairer…

  • Reading Ourselves

      We must look at the beginning to understand the end. The most important thing as I work through my writing portfolio is that this semester was a progression in evolution so to speak of my  writing.  as you look at the beginning of my first piece of writing submitted to my last there are changes…

  • In class writing

    An ideal map would be one that is free from biases and impairments. We have talked at length in class about this. Something to consider is that making a ideal map not a prefect map as we the humans making or playing a part in it are imperfect so we can never make a prefect…

  • Falling into Eternity

    Falls of eternal Despair(Harmon 44) is a late 19th Century Lithograph depicting the Land of Sin and the river of Death and its tributaries modeled after the Ten Commandments. After the Land is the plains of regeneration. Now separating these two areas is the impenetrable hedge of sin. The only way through this hedge is…

  • Falling to Eternity DRAFT

    Falls of eternal Despair is a late 19th Century Lithograph depicting the Land of Sin and the river of Death and its tributaries modeled after the Ten Commandments. After the Land is the plains of regeneration. Now separating these two areas is the Impenetrable hedge of sin. The only way through this hedge is the…

  • Event: Diwali

    Diwali Is celebrated by Indian communities mainly Hindu and it is a celebration of light with religious ties about a story in Hinduism that follows a Great Hero when I got there at the event space where they were holding it I got there early enough that I was able to see some of the…

  • 10 on 1 with the Ten Commandments

    Weekly writing 6 The map I am using is Falls of eternal despair pg. 44 The nine tributaries to the river of death could be an analogy to the Ten Commandments (The commandments are out of order) The use of The Commandments as the basis for the rivers was perfectly aligned with the revivalist movements…

  • FYS:Power of Maps class 10/24/24

    announcements discussion interlace on each other value of relationship different norms of mapmaking Hudson really wants a physical copy How was the reading to read it was a easy read value placed maps differ for Natives to European then we talked about how to get to Chipotle we had different opinions this went on for…

  • This Map has many cool things about it

    Ten things we (me and Nate) found found cool about this map Discussion about the map point nine Figure 20 is really quite interesting not as a to map which was common for its time but what’s above the map which appears to be Jesus Christ with  the Halo around his head and in one…

  • A poem about Maps

    look up maps, they are multifaceted, maps are cool. This is a poem about maps weekly writing