Analysis of Ken Jenning´s Maphead: Charting the Wide Weird World of Geography

Globals, Locals, and Mobals: In the book “The Power of Place,” Harm de Blij introduces a new viewpoint of geography. Geography is much more than the terrain and physical makeup of the world. It is the culture, education, conditions, foods, politics, language, and opportunities. These things make people and places unique, and capture the true meaning of Human Geography.

Globalization- movement between people, ideas, and cultures. Moves people to interact on a global scale.

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

The Five Themes of Geography are: Location – Absolute points on a map or grid or Relative to where something may be; Place – The physical and/or human characteristics of a locations; Human/Environment Interactions – How humans have impacted the landscape or environment; Relationship between places Movement – How humans interact on the earth (i.e. how they communicate over distance (short or long)) and Regions – a unit of space that has commonalities defined by physical, human and environmental geography. The Explorers of the New World may have not known what the Five Themes of Geography were but they quickly learned. Of the five themes the ones that they all took advantage of was the physical Location and Place as they learned to navigate

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

In Ted Binnema’s “How does a Map Mean?” the author describes how maps are used as a way of understanding how a particular society functions. In Old Swan’s map, it is evident that it was done by groups of individuals and not just one particular person given there are places on the map that Old Swan was unaware of. Therefore, maps are a portrayal of an entire community’s knowledge of their land and not just one individual. Given this, it appears that it is not about what a map means but how it is used to establish meaning for those who wrote it. Each map is created in a different way and it is useless to try to understand it without first placing ourselves in the mindset of the cartographer(s) who wrote it. Furthermore, some indigenous maps are created using many others and to completely appreciate them, it is best to assume that they were created to be understood by the people at the time and hence, this can be why they seem puzzling to modern readers. For instance, in trying to understand Fidler’s map, because Arrowsmith was completely consumed with modern cartography, he was unable to decipher the cartographic style of Old Swan’s map (which Fidler based his maps on as well as others (five maps total) ).

Among my peculiar obsessions as a child was my ability to read maps. As a nine-year-old, I knew the names of, maybe, three towns in the country, let alone New Jersey. Despite that, interpreting maps and helping my parents navigate on family vacations were my way of learning. This trip wasn't our typical vacation, however: For the first time, I alone had been tasked with leading my mother to a town we had never visited before. During the car ride though, I succumbed to a bout of drowsiness and fell asleep moments after the car ride began. I had lost control of

In “Rongier Hill,” William Least Heat-moon introduces readers to a “giant map of the United States”. (10) He imagines the drawing of lines through the middle of the United States and how these two lines would cross together. His story is a place of comfort and peace, where he found himself. Yet we see how the story gets to making sense and bringing all the parts together; from the sighting seeing on the prairie to the town people and the lady driving on the road. By telling the story from his point of view, it allows us to somehow share his feelings and ways of thinking on his journey.

A 1650 map, created by Joan Vinckeboon, titled “ Map of California Shown as an Island," echoes the inaccurate belief of cartographers, whose early maps depicted California as an island, separate from mainland North America. The Dutch cartographer and engraver Vinckeboon was born into a Flemish family of artists and started out drawing for his father. About 1640, he started creating maps, and later was employed by the Dutch West India Company, where he spent roughly three decades creating maps that aided Dutch mercantile and military shipping. He was associated with the notable map and atlas publisher Joan Blaeu, and so, Vinckeboon is credited with compiling a series of 200 manuscript maps that were published in atlases, including Blaeu’s Atlas Major.

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.

Essential Maps for the Lost is kind of about Teen romance relationship between Mads and Billy. The stressful, family issues and suicide were all mention. How the two character meet and feel for each other. Mads living a life control by her mother. Billy mother had mental illness and such a bully grandma. Their emotional, painful deep inside and soul lost. Finding a way to escape for a carefree life. And the way they survived and support each other along the way. Audience could feel their determination, power of leading their own life and loving each other. This is a really tough book and you may find your soul in this

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.

By comparing both representations, one can see that they strongly differ in both form and purpose. In fact, Figure 1 depicts a given information and offers a graphic visualization of statistics. The figurative map was produced to convey a certain message and help the viewer understand data. Conversely, the county atlas is made of views and appealing images meant to be sold as personal goods and decoration. The producer of the county atlas appealed more to the "identity" strategy to increase consumption and targeted people more interested in seeing the environment than understanding it. Figure 1 and 2 are distinct, yet similar in many aspects. Both objects were made of paper and were the product of human-based knowledge. They both reveal the