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The mid 1950s was a grand time for American culture. During this time period, American culture grew and thrived. However, it did have a lot of faults. In the essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History,” Price criticizes the American culture as being fake. Price’s heavy use of irony, exaggerated diction, and historical context suggests that she has a negative view of the United States culture and considers that the pink flamingo represents a flaw of the United States culture. Price utilizes

It says a lot about a country if it can relate more to a fake bird than anything else. In her essay “The Plastic Flamingo: A Natural History,” Jennifer Price indeed provides history on the plastic and live bird, but moreso than anything she argues the connection of the commercialized flamingo to the United States culture. The pink, plastic flamingo acts as a metaphor for the greedy and superficial ground America was built on, as well as learned idolization for the fake bird. By critiquing the pedestal

Frohe Weihnachten. This means Merry Christmas in German. I am greeting you as my ancestors would have when they lived in Germany. I am much like my ancestors, visually and personality wise. Most of my German heritage comes from my great- grandmother Mary. If you had a picture of all the generations of haverty boys, we all are like a big bunch of twins. Starting with me, marcus, dad, grandpa, and great-grandpa. We all kind of have a sweet tooth. I have never tried it, but I think I would really

In American society, wealth has played a particularly significant role in shaping the culture and standards set for our country. With every dilemma that has occurred, money was been an underlying deciding factor in the end. John.F.Kennedy makes this very clear in his statement on lowering the prices of steel, all the way Jennifer Price's take on people being obsessed with a money, even Scott Russell’s article on the status quo Americans believe determines one's happiness and success. All of these

Like the Rubik Cube in the 80’s or smart phones of today’s generation something has caught the attention of citizens, even a plastic pink bird that took the 50’s by storm. In the essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History,” Jennifer Price uses multiple rhetorical devices to demonstrate how American culture has been influenced. Firstly, Price starts off with a slightly critical tone stating, “First, it was a flamingo.” Making it seem like this could be possibly be the worst thing ever,

Brennan French 10/22/14 Mrs. Yeates 3 Red Flamingo In the essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, the author Jennifer Price provides a brief history of the flamingo, but she does more than just describe the bird. She creates a far more significant insight through her tone, word choice and use of examples. Which leads her to analyze the American mindset along with the culture. Price begins the essay with a sense of thrill due to her use of the words “boldness” and “splashed”. Although

Sandra Arace AP English Period E 12/2/14 “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” In Jennifer Price’s recent essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History,” Price uses the idea of the plastic pink flamingo that is strangely popular throughout America to criticize the present United States culture. As expected from the contrary words “plastic” and “natural” in just the title of her essay, this passage is driven by irony. With that said, Price uses a satirical tone to criticize the

In her essay, "The Plastic, Pink Flamingo: A National History," Jennifer Price provides brief history regarding both plastic and living flamingos so she can experience her views on the American cultural while, still, describing the desire to display the flamboyant, pink bird. Through the use of tone shift, diction, and irony. Price conveys that she views the American culture as one that is unnatural, immense/ flashy and that many believe they are entitled to change anything. Price begins the essay

The Plastic Pink Flamingo by Jennifer Price In her essay, Price’s emphasis on the plastic pink flamingo and the symbol it has of wealth and style in the 1950’s, along with the irony of the importance of the pink flamingo to the United States culture implies that Price views United States culture as fake and bold, as a way of ridiculous or strange. Price uses the plastic pink flamingo as a symbol of wealth and style throughout the passage to prove her view of American culture being fake. Fake as

In Jennifer Price’s “The Plastic Flamingo” she illustrates the cultural impact the pink flamingo had on the United States. Price conforms her idea of the United State’s culture by providing important historical details to better portray and reveal the true passions of America during the rapid rise of the plastic flamingo. Price’s overall view towards the United States would be that Americans are self conceited and obsessed with wealth. In the first passage Price describes the growing population