Analysis Of What Does A Map Mean By Ted Binnema

In the contemporary society, there are an increasing number of people paying great attention to child’s behavior. At the same time, a hot debate has also appeared, revolving around this topic. Some people believe that child’s behavior is a reflection of their home life. However, in the story “Burn Yours Maps”, was written by Robyn Joy Leff, he totally disagrees with this point. In his story, the protagonist, Wes wants to be a Mongolian and imagines his life as a nomad Mongolian. This idea from him doesn’t come from his family, neither from his mother nor father. None is Mongolian in Wes’s family, even his grandpa Firth was telling stories to Wes, but he never referred to Mongolian. It is clearly to see that Wes, himself wants to be a Mongolian without any reflection of his family. Leff uses two points of view and an emotional writing technique to support his arguments. The most important point is that the conflict between three main characters through the whole story. Wes’s father, Connor wants to prevent him to be a Mongolian and his mother, Allies kind of understands her son and tying to persuade Conner and protect Wes in her own way at the same time. Leff also uses conversation between Conner and Allies to express that Wes’s behavior is not reflection form them. In the end, Leff uses his unique emotion writhing technique to show that even Wes’s parents are not support him to be a Mongolian, he still insists his own idea to be what kind of person that he wants

In the article “Do Maps Create or Represent Reality?” written by Laura Herbert as a high school senior on March 2002 is about how maps can tell stories. No map is 100% accurate and is usually only accurate in shape, area, or distance. There are different types of maps and each has its own strong points. Maps are good at representing a place it self, but they don’t define that the place exists. Mapmakers when making maps can each put their own personalization, this is what usually causes them to be different. Even though maps are not completely right, they still influence the way we think about the world. Mapmaker cannot just make up random things they need to have some sort of reality

It can be argued that The Map Woman presents the persona's rage and frustration at the suppression of her identity. She is trapped in her map-like skin, with the adjective ‘looped’ and the adverb ‘repeatedly’ connoting that she cannot escape the cyclic nature of her life. No matter where she goes, her skin remains a ‘precis of where to end or go back or begin', reinforcing the idea that she is trapped in

When author used aids he did not use them to pad out space, but to convey more information on his topic he was discussing. The map (page 2-3) is used to expose us to the difference of maps from Europe in the 1500’s to the maps of natives in the 1500’s. The natives had maps on a much smaller scale and those maps were not one-hundred percent correct geographically, whereas the maps from Europe were much grander, and geographically correct. The usage of visual aids helps you to grasp how Europeans and natives alike didn’t know how expansive their ‘New World’ was. The authors use of portraits can show you how the colonizers saw the natives as ‘savages’ and to them proper clothes were a sign of civilized people, the portrait of Pocahontas (page 57) shows her in much different clothing than that of what she would wear if she still was with her tribe. These portraits like the one of Theyanoguin (page 110) canbe used as an example of how different the natives looked from the colonizers and how strange they were. It can also show the cultural hybridity of the the native chief after he had made a visit to England to negotiate with Queen Anne. The author also includes one political cartoon depicting one of the rich family in Charleston during the 1800’s (page 88), this family most likely owned slaves, so to me this cartoon could be a attack on how most of the richest families in Charleston made

He also quotes from Ondaatje p.37 to develop his idea about maps “whose portraits have nothing to do with surface.” This coupled with his narrative about the explorers in the Age of Colonialism

1) Some examles of a primary source document are diaries, manuscripts and letters 2) Political maps show the boundaries and locations of countries, states, cities, towns and counties. Topographic maps show information including roads, elevation, rivers andother water bodies and political boundaries. A cartographic map graphically represents a geographical area, usually on a flat surface and may involve political, cultural, or other non­geographical divisions of a geographical area. 3) A nomad is a member of a group that has no permanent home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water. 4) The key discovery of the Neolithic Revolution is agriculture andthe domestication of animals. This was beneficial becasue it allowed nomads to not

These maps show different elevation points, contours, mountains, valleys, bodies of water, and vegetation. You can only find the elevation and contour information on a topographic map, which makes it different from any other map. People use topographic maps for many different things. One reason people use topographic maps is for hiking. It helps people locate trails, and find there way back to where they started. Contour lines show the different elevations of the landscape. It also shows how steep the slope of the elevations are. Contour lines only show certain elevations. The lines are evenly spaced apart. It makes reading the map a lot easier to do, because it is not as

I believe that our actions and thoughts can and can not influence our future. We also can shape the things that happen to us and we are responsible for our own actions. In the biography, “Without A Map” by Meredith Hall, it tells a story about a young girl who grew up bonded to her insular New Hampshire community and comforted by the hallmarks of belonging. She had perfect attendance in Sunday school, classmates who seemed more like cousins, teachers who held her up as a model student, and a mother who loved her unconditionally. Then at sixteen, she became pregnant, and all at once those who had held her close and kept her safe turned their backs on her. The same day that Meredith was expelled from school, her mother told her “You can’t stay

An old map is a symbol for a bad memory. You would throw away an old map because it is of no use to you anymore, as you would try to do to a bad memory. Memories that have occurred due to a negative experience in ones life can leave “empty reaches” (17) that will never leave. Those “empty reaches” (17), can turn into “voids” (17) because it is a memory that someone will never be able to forget. Dealing with a bad memory is like having a burn.

In 1992, however, there were no blank spots on the map - not in Alaska, not anywhere. But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: he simply got rid of the map.” (Krakauer 174) Chris wanted to entrust his own sense of direction rather than whatever the map says. This also could have prevented his death because if he’d had a map he would’ve seen the cable and basket that spanned over the Teklanika River and he could have

Instead of maps we use navigation systems, which tell us where to go and what the

4. List three examples of things a map can show. Answer: A map can show you a legend or a key to explain to you what the different symbols mean like (roads, highways, railroads building and more things that are man-made) The second example is that the map can show you a compass rose and that will indicate directions, it will show the North, South, West, and East. Third example is Line symbols and that can show like boundary lines, roads, streets, or routes of trade and transportation.

Bruns, John. “The Map Is Not The Country: Cartography In Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country For Old Men.” Film Criticism 2 (2011): 2-11. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.

The first point of view from chapter one is by a man by the name of M. Scott Peck. In the section that he wrote he compares our lives to that of a map. He states that these maps need to be revised as we live our lives instead of following a map that may be incorrect. He goes on to explain that to revise a map people will have to face reality about one’s life experiences and it might be painful to face these experiences but it is necessary to achieve the truth. It is easier for people to hide their so called “maps” from the world than to put them out there to be challenged and seen by others.

Maps are summarized real word for particular purposes and humans read maps to make a decision in real world. The position of map reader is essential for finding relevant information through the map. Therefore, the map reader position was explicitly indicated in the