Echo

Amazon Echo Print Ad In the online retail giant, Amazon ad in Popular Science, for the Amazon Echo. There is a large cylinder seen from a top down view. The ad has a dark blue background with a gradient that goes towards the cylinder in the center. The ad has large text above the cylinder that says just ask. While also having questions in a circular pattern around the cylinder. At the bottom of the ad there is small text that talks about how it can answer a questions hands free and the other…

Since we were discussing the story about Narcissus and Echo in Ovid’s poem Metamorphoses this past week in class, I saw it fitting to choose my painting based on this particular ancient myth. The story of Narcissus is one of the most prominent examples of myth created by a Roman author. The story goes that Echo, a nymph punished by Juno for her constant chatter, could only repeat the words that others have spoken to her. She crosses Narcissus in the woods one day and he rejects her sexual…

Greeks told and the messages they wanted to bring across. Such, as Ovid’s Metamorphosis “Echo of Narcissus, “really relates to the self-praise that goes on in today’s society over social media and television of the high class women and men. The story of “Echo of Narcissus,” of Ovid’s Metamorphosis also can be connected to the fault that is brought upon women in today’s society, such as when Hera punishes Echo for trying to protect Zeus’s wrong doing. This portion of the story…

Masa of Echo Park is a family run pizzeria that was established by Rob Rowe and Rhonda Reynolds in 2004. They created a menu with the idea of reflecting the diversity of the community in Echo Park, and they have certainly succeeded in putting together a varied menu of what they describe as “comfort style bistro food”. This quirky, local restaurant is famous for their Chicago style deep-dish and thin crust pizzas, pastas, fresh salads, as well as their bread puddings. Without a doubt, the…

In “Echo Defense” piece by Edward Abbey, the writer highlights the important of place of how the American wilderness is in danger due to corporate greed. As such, the lack of effort to preserve natural resources have immensely affected the environment, specifically animals and other life sources; such as, minerals, forest, and fertile land that frequently occurs more often than not for economic gains. The writer also pointed out that politicians are in bed with the corporations because they…

Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative political activist and a devout Catholic, who was involved in mobilizing women against the Equal Rights Amendment, passed away at the age of 92 at her home in St. Louis, Missouri. She was a vocal anti-feminist, who famously told Newsweek in 1979 that feminism "has caused a lot of women to have low self-esteem, to convince themselves [that they] are repressed." Her political activism helped steer the Republican Party to broadly adopt many of the conservative…

question Glen Echo amusement park why would you deny someone access because of their skin color?In this six paragraph letter we will be sending a letter to Glen Echo amusement park discussing this topic. It's wrong and inhumane so if you exclude one race you should exclude every race.Also you're losing a lot of business and money by excluding a whole race.And if people get mad that you're excluding certain races you could lose lots of business and go bankrupt.So heres my question Glen Echo…

stealing food is bad to the owner of the stores because they only want food but nothing valuable. Sometimes, people’s lives are messy because it is too difficult for people to distinguish whether things are right or wrong. The story “The Madonnas of Echo Park”, describes a driver named Efren Mendoza who works in one of the largest public transportation companies in America, and he drives a bus for twenty-seven years. Efren carries 1000 to 2000 passengers per day,…

Sierra Alfa Foxtrot Echo The sun was relentless. Heat blistered and overwhelmed my senses. A dry gale scratched my face, and swept moisture from my already chapped lips. I was ill equipped for the desert, and looked down to avoid drifts of sand. I took wary steps forward and steadied myself after each stride. I was a afraid of the sun; afraid of the wind; afraid I would not see the end of the desert; and mostly afraid of dying alone. The perspiration of fear formed and quickly dried on my…

this involvement, between the reader and the voice, the poems misleads the reader into being captured by their dream like state that makes the reader misread the inconsistencies within them. This essay will proceed to define these inconsistencies in Echo by Christina Rossetti and Echoes by Audre Lorde and reveal how they seduce the reader with their sensory components into having an interaction with them. To do this, this essay will compare both these poems alongside each other to reveal which…