Enlightenment on the Map

       In today's class we learned about a more accurate map of our world. Our enlightenment started with a few scenes from the show West Wing. The scenes portrayed a group trying to convince the president's advisors to switch to the more accurate map, and to make it standard in all public schools. We didn't find out if the president actually did this in the show, but we can only hope that he did. The more accurate map makes Greenland much smaller, and Africa much larger than it is in the other map. We learned that the old map was helpful for people crossing the ocean, but that was about it. The correct map is called Peter's Projection map and was created in the mid 1800's. I hope that all of the schools in every country switch to this map, instead of teaching with an outdated map. Maybe one day all of our textbooks will use the Peter's Projection map, until that day we can inform people on its existence.