...Price’s “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, the history of the popularity of pink flamingos in the United States’ culture is explained. Price’s historical knowledge of the pink flamingo and examples of its use in American culture reveals her view that Americans brighten and pizzaz the already beautiful in order to make money and exploit its beauty. In the first paragraph of the essay, the author describes the growing popularity of flamingos in the United States. Price utilizes historical details to convey this acclaim of flamingos. This shown in the name of “Miami Beach’s first grand hotel, the Flamingo” and the fact that “developers built hundreds more modest hotels” for the middle class so that they could experience the newfound pizzazz of flamingos. Americans are shown to almost worship wealth because of the want to appear as affluent as possible. As soon as flamingos became synonymous with wealth, everyone and their brother wanted to stay in a flamingo hotel or have the new playful Art Deco style. The next paragraph continues down the timeline of the flamingo while also exploring the dark side of the nature of its popularity. Price reveals the fact that “Americans had hunted flamingos to extinction in Florida in the late 1800s.” This historical detail illustrates the irony of the flamingo’s sudden...
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...The author of “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” Jennifer Price has very implicit views on the united states that is reflected in her essay. The author sees the U.S. to be very pretentious. They are worried about how the rest of the world sees them. Price uses diction, metaphor, and tone to reveal her view of the United States culture. Price’s essay mocks the U.S.’ ideals of the fifties and has a lot of irony. It shows the greed and corruption in the United states. Jennifer Price uses bold words such as “flamboyant, splashed, strikingly, flashy, passion pink, sunset pink, and Bermuda pink.” in order to mock how flamboyant the flamingos were. Price uses playful words in order to show she is making fun of the American culture. She makes it clear that the flamingo...
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...The Great Depression was a time of pain and suffering. People were not worried about “forward-looking” (line 36) fashion or excessive “extravagance.” (line 19) In fact, comparing the Great Depression to today’s society filled with greed could be considered insulting and degrading. Our society had come a long way (whether that be taken in a good or bad sense) since that period of misery. In the 1950’s the pink flamingo had an “outbreak” in the yards, stores, and lives of people from the average Joe to “Elvis Presley” (line 44). Jennifer Price’s theme of a superficial, self-centered society echoes throughout her essay. Beginning with the title “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, Price draws attention to the contradictory terms “plastic”...
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...In “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History,” Jennifer Price does more than merely describe a pink bird and its history. Through her use of allusion, diction, and irony, Price mocks the American people for its pretentious ideals; she is able to develop her view of the American culture. First, Price references many prominent people in this piece, Price references many prominent people in this piece for example. However, when reading the essay and recognizing the allusions, Price did not follow it with an appositive, a word or phrase that renames the noun. The reason for this was to add ethos and demonstrate that these people were most likely popular back in the day. The use of well-known people adds credibility to Price’s argument...
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...her essay, “The Plastic Flamingo: A Natural History,” Jennifer Price asserts that the United States culture is driven by the materialistic wants of society and the aspirations of the bourgeois family to surpass others, she uses Americans and their obsession over the pink flamingo to support her argument. Price uses diction, irony, and symbolism to additionally express her views of the culture of the United States. The generation that had been raised in the depression began to focus their attention on how to accumulate prosperity, and they began to find new and flashy ways to show off their wealth and success. Thus, creating their mania for the pink flamingos and other materialistic possessions. Her use of a sarcastic and sardonic tone...
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... 9-11-12 The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History By: Jennifer Price Jennifer Price reveals her true outlook on the famous plastic pink flamingos. She lays out her opinion by including one central tone, excellent word choice, and examples to explain her insight on the American culture and society. Throughout her entire essay, Price is informing her audience that she believes the entirety of the 1950s American culture and society was fake and “plastic”. Price displayed a very strikingly obvious sardonic tone, mocking everything about the1950s. Her use of “but no matter”, was an enormous indicator of her derisive comments and examples of the American culture. Another example Price used in her essay while analyzing the trendy pink flamingos was, “but no wonder”. With that being said, she was implying the pink of the fake flamingo was even brighter than that of a real one, after asking a rhetorical question pointing out the absurdity of the overly excessive bright pink. Price incorporated numerous analogies and examples to beat around the bush. She for example said, ‘The plastic pink flamingo is a hotter pink than a real flamingo’, trying to engage the reader to think deeper and have them correlate the ‘ hotter pink than the real flamingo’, to the fake and plastic society she believes in. Through these examples, she is forcing the reader to realize, American society is hiding behind this fake identity, just like those famous hot pink flamingos. Reading prices essay...
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...Majestic in nature freely roaming across land and water alike, the flamingo's luscious array of lightly shaded, pink pastel feathers has always been a symbol of beauty, hope, and overall uniqueness. However apart from nature, this profound lawn kitsch became a national icon throughout the American population. In the essay, "The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History," Jennifer Price immersively thrusts the reader into the vibrantly explosive 1950s where they are greeted by the extensive and avian cultural phenomenon known as the plastic flamingo. Throughout the essay, Price juxtaposes the tropical flamingo with its mass produced doppelgänger. Using terminology such as "When the pink flamingo splashed into the fifties…” she communicates the similarities between these two different specimen. As she vocalizes the history of the flamingo, as well as pecks around her own opinions, she refers to the artificial winged creature as if it is no different than the authentic one. The two creatures, though very diverse, are brought together in comparisons that apply to both in separate ways causing the reader to see that the sarcasm as well as the literalism that is present in the passage....
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...Behind the Pink Curtain Author, Jennifer Price, in her essay, The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History, establishes her thoughts on the plastic flamingo in the 1930s. Price’s purpose is to uses the horation style of satire in order to serve her point that American society is based on the impractical concepts of capitalism, and the American Dream. She adopts a humorous tone in order to appeal to the average American who may not be conscious of how ignorant they are on the subject of marketing and corporal influences. When the flamingo “splashed” into the 50s, it symbolized the beaches of Miami in the artificial world that was associated with the plastic yard decoration as well as the resort's destination (Miami). Price establishes humorous syntax to bring a joyful and jocular tone to her essay. The "wealth and pizzazz" is comparable to the American dream that died away long ago while it lightly mocks how Americans conceive that planting a pink plastic bird in the front of their yard can be a symbol of “pizzazz" or extravagance. Based on the fact that the flamingos were hunted "to extinction in Florida ", it is strange how the Florida tourist industry could market and build gigantic tourist attractions and tremendous amounts of money based on this long-lost idea, the (American Dream) the flamingo. It's like planting a dodo bird in your front lawn; the animal is instinct and does not fit in with the surrounding landscape, however for some apparent reason, it symbolizes...
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...Eric Hardage APE 3 7, October 2014 Pink Flamingos Over the past several decades, American lawns have been transformed, from the simple picket fence front lawns to the garden gnomes. Possessing a different persona, one with functionality in mind and the other with fashion and comedy in mind. They paved the way for an even brighter and more obnoxious yard accessory: the pink flamingo. Jennifer Price’s essay, “The Plastic Flamingo: A Natural History” is amusing, witty, and at times disparaging to American society. It is surprisingly informative and can surely cause even the most loyal Florida natives to rethink the plastic, pink bird strutting about their garden. Though Price may seem to be merely providing information about these flamboyant flamingos, her clever readers can easily sense a stronger voice lingering amongst the somewhat trivial facts. In her essay Price comments on the irony of the bright flamingo, stating that, “Americans had hunted flamingos…for plumes and meat.” Not only had early Florida natives hunted them, but also they had nearly driven them to extinction! It seems that Price finds the situation humorous. Are Americans so proud of ridding our country of flamingos that we feel the need to display their plastic replicas in front of our homes? Price dismisses this thought with a touch of sarcasm. The plastic birds were originally souvenirs from Florida. The energy of the colorful flamingos sparked new business across the state, something...
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...Acclaim for Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke “Just as dark and outrageous as his previous work. … His voice is so distinctive that he exists as a genre unto himself.” —The Washington Post “Palahniuk’s language is urgent and tense, touched with psychopathic brilliance, his images dead-on accurate. … [He] is an author who makes full use of the alchemical powers of fiction to synthesize a universe that mirrors our own fiction as a way of illuminating the world without obliterating its complexity.” —LA Weekly “Puts a bleakly humorous spin on self-help, addiction recovery, and childhood trauma. … Choke’s funny, mantra-like prose plows toward the mayhem it portends from the get-go.” —The Village Voice “Oddly, defiantly, addictive.” happily —Daily News “[Choke] shines a flashlight into America’s dark corners. … As darkly comic and starkly terrifying as your high school yearbook photo.” —GQ “Palahniuk is a gifted writer, and the novel is full of terrific lines.” —The New York Times Book Review “[Palahniuk’s] most enduring trait … is that marvelous quicksilver voice of his. … The exuberance of his language makes it still worthwhile to brave these often chilly and dark waters.” —The Oregonian “Choke is another welcome antidote to antiseptic consumer life, and you can’t blame it for grabbing you by the throat.” —Maxim “Palahniuk is a cult writer in the truest sense.” —Entertainment Weekly “His subversive riffs conjure a kind of jump-cut cinema of the diseased imagination, resulting...
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...Environmental Studies For Undergraduate Courses Erach Bharucha Textbook for Environmental Studies For Undergraduate Courses of all Branches of Higher Education Erach Bharucha for University Grants Commission Natural Resources i Preliminary Pages.p65 1 4/9/2004, 5:06 PM Credits Principal author and editor – Erach Bharucha Unit 1 – Erach Bharucha Unit 2 – Erach Bharucha, Behafrid Patel Unit 3 – Erach Bharucha Unit 4 – Erach Bharucha Unit 5 – Shamita Kumar Unit 6 – Erach Bharucha, Shalini Nair, Behafrid Patel Unit 7 – Erach Bharucha, Shalini Nair, Behafrid Patel Unit 8 – Erach Bharucha, Shambhvi Joshi Case Studies – Prasanna Kolte Co-ordination and compilation – Behafrid Patel Textbook Design – Narendra Kulkarni (Mudra), Sushma Durve Manuscript review and editing – Chinmaya Dunster, Behafrid Patel Artists – Sushma Durve and Anagha Deshpande CD ROM – Jaya Rai and Prasanna Kolte © Copyright Text – Erach Bharucha/ UGC, 2004. Photographs – Erach Bharucha Drawings – Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education and Research All rights reserved. Distributed by University Grants Commission, New Delhi. 2004. ii Environmental Studies for Undergraduate Courses Preliminary Pages.p65 2 4/9/2004, 5:06 PM Vision The importance of Environmental Studies cannot be disputed. The need for sustainable development is a key to the future of mankind. The degradation of our environment is linked to continuing problems of pollution, loss...
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...Helping Your Child Learn Science U.S. Department of Education Margaret Spellings Secretary First published in September 1992. Revised in 2004 and 2005. This booklet is in the public domain. Authorization to reproduce it in whole or in part for educational purposes is granted. While permission to reprint this publication is not necessary, the citation should be: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Communications and Outreach, Helping Your Child Learn Science, Washington, D.C., 2005. To order copies of this publication in English or Spanish, write to: ED Pubs Education Publications Center U.S. Department of Education P.O. Box 1398 Jessup, MD 20794-1398; or fax your request to: (301) 470-1244; or e-mail your request to: edpubs@inet.ed.gov. or call in your request toll-free: 1-877-433-7827 (1-877-4-ED-PUBS). If 877 is not yet available in your area, call 1-800-872-5327 (1-800-USA-LEARN). Those who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a teletypewriter (TTY), should call 1-800-437-0833. or order online at: www.edpubs.org/webstore/Content/search.asp This publication is also available on the Department’s Web site at: www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html On request, this publication is available in alternate formats, such as Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette. For more information, please contact the Department’s Alternate Format Center at (202) 260-9895 or (202) 205-0818. Children’s books and magazines are mentioned in this booklet...
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...Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Copyright © 2008 by Alloy Entertainment All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Poppy Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017 For more of your favorite series, go towww.pickapoppy.com First eBook Edition: November 2008 The Poppy name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The characters and events in this book are fi ctitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. ISBN: 978-0-316-04286-4 Contents 1: A WAVERLY OWL TAKES HER TUTORING DUTIES SERIOUSLY—REGARDLESS OF HOW SERIOUSLY HER TUTEE DOES. 2: A WAVERLY OWL KNOWS HOW TO TAKE CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM—EVEN WHEN IT HURTS. 3: A WAVERLY OWL ALWAYS ENJOYS A GOOD SURPRISE. 4: A WAVERLY OWL KNOWS HOW TO SHARE. 5: A WAVERLY OWL NEVER ACCEPTS A RIDE FROM A STRANGER. 6: THE WAY TO A WAVERLY BOY'S HEART IS THROUGH HIS… 7: A GOOD WAVERLY OWL IS NEVER ASHAMED OF HER FATHER. 8: A WELL-BRED OWL IS ALWAYS POLITE TO STRANGERS. 9: A WAVERLY OWL HAS FAITH IN HIS ROOMMATE. Page 1 Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html 10: A WAVERLY OWL IS ALWAYS READY FOR THE APPEARANCE...
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...500 extraordinary islands G R E E N L A N D Beaufort Sea Baffin Bay vi Da i tra sS t a nm De it Stra rk Hudson Bay Gulf of Alaska Vancouver Portland C A N A D A Calgary Winnipeg Newfoundland Quebec Minneapolis UNITED STATES San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Phoenix Dallas Ottawa Montreal ChicagoDetroitToronto Boston New York OF AMERICA Philadelphia Washington DC St. Louis Atlanta New Orleans Houston Monterrey NORTH AT L A N T I C OCEAN MEXICO Guadalajara Mexico City Gulf of Mexico Miami Havana CUBA GUATEMALA HONDURAS b e a n Sea EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA Managua BAHAMAS DOMINICAN REPUBLIC JAMAICA San Juan HAITI BELIZE C a r PUERTO RICO ib TRINIDAD & Caracas N TOBAGO A COSTA RICA IA M PANAMA VENEZUELA UYANRINA H GU C U G Medellín A PAC I F I C OCEAN Galapagos Islands COLOMBIA ECUADOR Bogotá Cali S FR EN Belém Recife Lima BR A Z I L PERU La Paz Brasélia Salvador Belo Horizonte Rio de Janeiro ~ Sao Paulo BOLIVIA PARAGUAY CHILE Cordoba Santiago Pôrto Alegre URUGUAY Montevideo Buenos Aires ARGENTINA FALKLAND/MALVINAS ISLANDS South Georgia extraordinary islands 1st Edition 500 By Julie Duchaine, Holly Hughes, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin, and Sylvie Murphy Contents Chapter 1 Beachcomber Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Aquatic Playgrounds 2 Island Hopping the Turks & Caicos: Barefoot Luxury 12 Life’s a Beach 14 Unvarnished & Unspoiled 21 Sailing...
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...Acclaim for Yann Martel's Life of Pi "Life of Pi is not just a readable and engaging novel, it's a finely twisted length of yarn— yarn implying a far-fetched story you can't quite swallow whole, but can't dismiss outright. Life of Pi is in this tradition—a story of uncertain veracity, made credible by the art of the yarn-spinner. Like its noteworthy ancestors, among which I take to be Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner, Moby Dick and Pincher Martin, it's a tale of disaster at sea coupled with miraculous survival—a boys' adventure for grownups." —Margaret Atwood, The Sunday Times (London) "A fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient, this novel is an impressive achievement. . . . Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master." —Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "[Life of Pi] has a buoyant, exotic, insistence reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe's most Gothic fiction. . . . Oddities abound and the storytelling is first-rate. Yann Martel has written a novel full of grisly reality, outlandish plot, inventive setting and thought-provoking questions about the value and purpose of fiction." —The Edmonton journal "Martel's ceaselessly clever writing . . . [and] artful, occasionally hilarious, internal dialogue . . . make a fine argument for the divinity of good art." —The Gazette "Astounding and beautiful. . . . The book is a pleasure not only for the subtleties of its philosophy...
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