Category: FYS Power of maps

A summary of Peter Turchi’s book Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer. Ch one “Metaphor: or, the map” Summary One  Circa 250 words  The first chapter starts with a brief history lesson of Maps.  Turchi ends this first section with the sentence to ask for a map is to say tell me a…

In the last thirty years, mapping has come a long way. p16 Hall In the last 3 decades advancement in mapping has been significant   In the last thirty years  mapping technology has changed drastically Three decades ago maps looked very different.  My mother, I should note, has always been fastidious about our family’s recordkeeping. p1…

As I walked into the fair you see a long the main Concourse is it stretches through the street and continues out past the fair into the rest of Allentown you see all these bright signs flashing with colorful pictures and large words designed to draw you in invite you you’ve arrived to the great…