1st Term Response Paper In the short story Incognita, Inc. by Harlan Ellison, we explore the idea of topography and how it serves as a map. The story mainly focuses a man named Charles Trimbach who works for a company known as Incognita Inc. which had been acquired by an enterprise called Worldspan. Charles Trimbach is sent to his hometown Chicago to close down a small map shop owned by his corporation. As Charles Trimbach, goes to talk to the owner about closing down his shop, he takes a trip down memory lane and remembers coming to this shop when he was younger looking for something he had lost, and the shop owner gave him a map that helped him find his lost item. Maps have been around for a long time. They have served as guidelines to the …show more content…
In addition to that, it could be a map of the world, which may lead people from one country to another or it could a map to one’s life which may lead them to their final destination, whatever it may be. Maps are used as a technique to survive by finding or creating a path to find what you are looking for. This is demonstrated in the story, when the shop owner Mr. Wonacott gives Charles a map when he was young to help him find the bronze medal he had lost. Furthermore, the idea of maps those serve as guidelines come with questions such as, “Where do they come from?”, and “Who makes them?” (Ellison, 2). Who gets to choose which path we should follow to find what we are looking for? As human beings we create our own map to follow, using what we think is necessary. We classify the world based on the maps we create. The use of topography is exemplified through politicians. Currently, as the mayoral elections are taking place, each candidate in the race is creating a map of course of actions to present to the media and those who are eligible to vote, to focus on what they are aiming for and what they hope to achieve in the end. These plans which are provided to people are their guidelines as to who they should vote for
Steve Lohr, the author of How Privacy Vanishes online explains how people give out much of their personal information online, allowing the information to be used by anyone. The information, birthdays, family photos, personal gossip, and movie or book preferences, are able to be used for a recreation of a person's identification. Lohr, brings out examples of how this can and has happened by explaining the study done by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree analyzed more than 4,000 Facebook Profiles of students who said they were gay and were able to predict with a 78% accuracy on whether a profile belonged to a gay male."
Following that, the map is supposed to symbolize Amanita 's travels. Amniata has lived in numerous places. She not only sailed from Africa to America,
The book, The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage is a 1990 novel written by Clifford Stoll. Published by arrangement with Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc, the main idea of the book is a first-person account of the hunt for a computer cracker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkley National Library. Winding up on the front page of The New York Times, the astronomer trained and accidental computer expert, Cliff Stoll became an unexpected American hero. After catching his spy in 1989, Stoll been giving talks for the FBI, CIA, and NASA, as well as speaking to the US Senate and the World Economic Forum. Stoll is now making Klein Bottles for mathematics and rebuilds mechanical calculators, as well as being a family man. As a very realistic and interesting read, the book is definitely a read for those interested in the computer field. I find that an ordinary man found himself in an extraordinary situation, just by simply doing his job and finding a discrepancy, he was launched into intrigue.
Smokescreen is an “adrenaline-pumping adventure” by Nancy Hartry where nothing is as it seems. It consists of four parts which includes twenty-seven chapters and is two hundred and two pages long. There are 3 “books” in which transition based on the setting (book one is The bunkhouse, book two is The novel is told by the main character, a seventeen year-old girl named Kerry, in first person. The target audience is teenagers and young adults.
Ken Jennings was a map nerd from a young age himself, you will not be surprised to learn, even sleeping with an old creased atlas at the side of his pillow, most kids his age were cuddling with a trusted blanket- Jennings was not. As he travels the world meeting people of kindred spirits--map librarians, publishers, geocachers, and the engineers behind google maps. Now that technology and geographic unknowing is increasingly insulting us from the space and land around us, we are going to be needing these people more than ever. Mapheads are the ones who always know exactly where they are and...
When examining the content of Johnson's The Incognito Lounge in accordance with the historical timeframe in which it was published, there are a multitude of reasons why critics comment on his ability to capture the zeitgeist of his time. In his interview, Johnson states, "The person who really can't say anything about himself is often the one who fascinates me" (Hull and Wojahn 38). believe the character he described in The Incognito Lounge were directly related to the those who felt the effects of the Reagan-era the greatest. These would be the poor who were becoming poorer and those who had been incarcerated as a result of the "war on drugs." Individuals such as these were the ones who no longer had a voice because of the bills and initiatives implemented during the Reagan-era.
Surveillance is the monitoring of behaviour. In addition, surveillance system is the process of monitoring the behaviour of people, objects or processes within systems for conformity to expected or desired norms in trusted systems for security control (Cohen and Medioni, 1999). Video surveillance systems have existed 25 years ago whereby it started with 100% analogue system and gradually becoming digital system. The closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera is the most popular video surveillance because of its reliability and low price. The camera does not broadcast images but it records them, so that user can always check to see what occurred while they were away. It is widely used at public spaces and residences for security purposes.
Until the 1950s, Atlases were mostly comprised of maps that simply show space and place. However in 1953, the World Geo-Graphic Atlas, published by Walter Paepcke’s Container Corporation of America (CCA) with Herbert Bayer, changed people’s notion of what maps look like and what information they contain. Bayer believed, that maps were “a record of time and perhaps even a tool of prognostication.” By the use of Isotypes (International System of Typographic Picture Education), Bayer created an atlas that is universal, therefore allowed viewers to understand complex data more clearly and easily.
3. After the purchase of land (cookie) and equipment, the cookie was placed on the graph paper and its outline was traced. Then, the initial topography of the region was determined and recorded (Turn the cookie on its side and draw the side-view).
Geographers plan new communities, decide where new highways should be placed, and establish evacuation plans. Computerized mapping and data analysis is known as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a new frontier in geography. Spatial data is gathered on a variety of subjects and input onto a computer. GIS users can create an infinite number of maps by requesting portions of the data to plot.
Historical geographer JB Harley wrote an essay on Map Deconstruction in 1989, in which Harley argues that a map is more than just a geographical representation of an area, his theory is that we need to look at a map not just as a geographical image but in its entire context. Harley points out that by an examination of the social structures that have influenced map making, that we may gain more knowledge about the world. The maps social construction is made from debate about what it should show. Harley broke away from the traditional argument about maps and examined the biases that govern the map and the map makers, by looking at what the maps included or excluded. Harley’s “basic argument within this essay is that we should encourage an epistemological shift in the way we interpret the nature of cartography.” Therefore Harley’s aim within his essay on ‘Deconstructing the Map’ was to break down the assumed ideas of a map being a purely scientific creation.
‘Through identifying places and organizing them, we make sense of the world we inhibit’ (Unwin,
The claim being discussed here is that the only way a map or a way of representing things can be useful is if it simplifies the knowledge that the actual territory gives, that is, if it reduces the salient i...
To counter balance Cartesianism Hirsch puts forward Vico’s argument of ‘sensory topics’ which places imagery of shared identities and interactions at the heart of the landscape. The relationship between the physical and the metaphorical whilst very separate can be united. Only when the physical place or subject oriented (‘indexical’) place can be examined then the metaphorical space, non-subject orientated (‘non-indexical’) can begin to be understood (Gell, 1985). Thus the development of the indexical (e.g. maps) can lead to the understanding of the non-dexical (e.g. images). Mutually related.
The concept map made me better understand the social issue that I chose in many different ways. When using the concept map, I was able to view the social issue from different angles and different ways. Some people wanted school prayer in the schools because