the 1930's, plastic pink flamingos have been a trendy statement piece at hotels and in yards across the country. Jennifer Price, the author of "The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History", uses tone, satire, and diction to show her view on United States culture. Price's view is that United States culture is flashy, cocky, and that Americans tend to try and stand out to get attention. "The pink flamingo splashed into the fifties market, it staked" (Price lines 1-2). Plastic flamingos are unable
short essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History,” the author, Jennifer Price, uses this technique to speak out against conformity. Price cleverly satirizes the shallow and materialistic aspects of a consumerist society by using irony, incongruity, and parody to expose how ludicrous and easily manipulated people are in this commercial society. Throughout the progression of the piece, Price uses several subtleties to convey her point. Even the title, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History
the top dog. The title of the essay, The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History, juxtaposes natural with plastic and is the first hint that the piece will be highly sarcastic. The italicising of flamingo in line 3 expresses incredulity that the frivolous flamingo is exceedingly popular in a nation as powerful as the United States of America. Price explicitly states the irony in the situation, “This was a little ironic since America had hunted flamingos to extinction…But no matter.” This is where
The iconic Plastic Pink Flamingo lawn ornament was launched during 1957 in Leominster, Massachusetts and was sold beginning in 1958. The omnipresent flamingo became a cultural American icon over the years, and the inspiration for films, such as the campy smash success, 1972's "Pink Flamingos," produced by John Waters, and the Disney featured "Featherstone" in 2011. The pink plastic flamingo yard ornament also appeared in the film, "Gnomeo and Juliet." Let's look closer beyond the simple answer to
Jennifer Price, in her essay "The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History," highlights the American culture's ridiculous obsession with displaying wealth through her use of diction, tone, and simile/metaphor. She depicts American culture as nonsensical, and thus ridiculous, because of its disposal of normal standards or logic in order to fulfill its materialistic desires which is shown through the popularity of the pink plastic flamingo in the 1950s. Price's word choice emphasizes her feelings toward
Jennifer Price’s essay “The Pink Plastic Flamingo: A Natural History” draws upon a cornucopia of historical evidence, both of the United States and other world cultures, to reveal to the audience--readers in America who may harbor an affinity for pop culture history--that the seemingly innocuous American flamingo, perched calmly on the lawns of Americans both North and South, is actually the product of a rich, flamboyant cultural tradition in the United States and in other civilizations. By giving
Since the 20th century, bright pink flamingos have captivated the hearts of Americans as a representation of leisure and vacation. From decorative lawn ornaments to various themed decorations, the pink plastic flamingo has been idolized in American culture for decades. In her essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, Jennifer Price examines the history of the plastic pink flamingo in American culture, and how it became to be the symbol we see today. Through the appeal to authority
very different and many are confused within this culture. So many different beliefs within the culture it’s hard for it to combine to be what its truly supposed to be. In “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” Price illustrates the love of flamingos in the 1950s but talks about how they almost kill off the flamingos in the early 1800s almost as a use to mock the Americans. In “The Future of Life” critics argue over the environment. Wilson summarizes the two sides and what they like and feel
viewer is over come by the dramatic dark background present in all the works. Rutledge uses a very concentrated light on his still-lives which contain pink flamingo lawn sculptures or fuzzy dice. He paints these subjects in a very classical style showing all the detail and reality of what he is using to tell his story. By using pink flamingos and fuzzy dice Rutledge brings his subjects to the level of absurd sentimentality. These items take a person away to another place like a tropical island
Coming into this course I had no idea what I was getting myself into. It was simply the description of Dr. Bernard’s syllabus that held me interested and wanting to learn more. I was never a big movie follower, so I thought it would be interesting to see some of the films that do hold enormous fan based festivals and conventions. Throughout the past several weeks I have not only experience many films that I have not seen before, but I also gained the knowledge of the meaning behind what a cult film
second film i shall be analysing is, Pink Flamingos (Directed by John Waters) who is also responsible for films such as female troubles (1974) and Cry-baby (1990.) It is easy to see why John Waters ‘Pink Flamingos’ would be considered oppositional and in bad taste. With its crude and sickening sex scenes, full frontal nudity, obsession with bodily fluids and scenes depicting bestiality, animal cruelty and Nazi affiliation, it could be said that ‘Pink flamingos’ is the front runner for ‘Bad ta...
Ocean Plastic Pollution I chose to discuss Ocean Plastic Pollution. I retrieved an article from the LiveScience.com which is a website that covers scientific news. The author of the article I chose, “Plastic Trash in Oceans May Be ‘Vastly’ Underestimated”, is Jeanna Bryner who is the LiveScience Managing Editor. She is part of the LiveScience organization. This article was published April 27th, 2012. The mission of the report is to inform the general public that plastic debris in the ocean is increasing
Pectin is a complicated branched structure of acidic structural polysaccharides, established in fruits and bast fibers. Most of the structure consists of homopolymeric partially methylated poly-α-(1-4)-D-galacturonic acid residues, but there are substantial 'hairy' non-gelling areas of alternating α-(1-2)-L-rhamnosyl-α-(1-4)-Dgalacturonosyl sections containing branch-points with mostly neutral side chains (1-20 residues) of mainly L-arabinose and D-galactose (rhamnogalacturonan-I). Pectin is the
Plastic bottles are everywhere, whether they are soda bottles, water bottles or even reusable bottles. Each year the number of plastic bottles filling up landfills is increasing by a considerable amount, which is a serious problem and can result in grave consequences for the environment. The average time estimated for a plastic bottle to decompose is approximately seven hundred years. One way to solve this problem is to recycle plastic bottles into the polyester by a process called polymerization
would actually be pretty dangerous. After what happened to their client the bar decided to switch from glasses and glass bottles to polymer ones, which don’t shatter, they are so strong that they are bulletproof. “Doctors want drinks to be served in plastic to stop 'glassing' Up to 300 people a week are believed to be injured when glasses are used as weapons in pub brawls.” (BBC, News, Society, Health) So polycarbonate is definitely solving a big safety issue. Glass used in bars is not the only problem
essential role in our everyday life. For polymers range from plastics, PVC, and Styrofoam to key structures in the human body like DNA and proteins which are key components to the human body that makes it possible for each of us to live and be unique. So with out polymers in our body we would be dead, and with out them in our society it would be a drastically changed for the worse to say the least Polymers are also commonly referred to as plastics so now you can put in to perspective how much we use polymers
Where does all the plastic go. Every bit of plastic that has been created is still here. This is because plastic is one-hundred percent non-biodegradable! Even the most degraded plastic down to polymers cannot be digested by bacteria (Laist, 1997). If global issues like starvation and climate change are not enough to stress on, the weight of an issue literally churning in the Pacific Ocean is startling. For decades the majority of the world’s population has not been properly educated on the nature
Denture teeth can be made of acrylic poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) or composite resins. PMMA is a polymer - a material made the from joining of methyl methacrylate monomers. Properties of PMMA include resistance to abrasion, chemical stability and a high boiling point. (Jun Shen et al. 2011). However, weak flexure and impact strength of PMMA are of concern as they account for denture failure. (Bolayir G, Boztug A and Soygun K. 2013). Composite denture teeth are made of a three distinct phases
Stiffness The effect that this additive has on the polymer in terms of stiffness is that the fillers are very useful because it makes the polymers very strong and stiff. This makes it hard to break. Service life The effect of fillers on polymers is that they are very beneficial because they don’t get ruined for a long time. Glass fillers are
When comparing the rubber tiles used with other covering materials, it can be seen that the most feasible characteristics of the material are the high level injury protection and shock absorbing factors. Also the SBR tiles were coloured in their whole material and therefore cannot fade or be washed out as a result. The tiles are also known to be attrition and weather resistant. Finally, the rubber tiles do not require any maintenance works and do not need to be replaced after implementing and therefore