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Jennifer Price’s view of American culture in her essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, is communicated through quite sarcastic and accusing tones with how she crafts her text. As you read through the piece, Price delivers many facts about the influence of the “pink sensation”, or the flamingo image, in American culture during the 1950s. The way she delivers this, however, gives the impression that she doesn’t particularly favor American culture and her views of the topic aren’t…

flamingos’ ascension in American culture. The image of a bold pink flamingo seemed to appear on lawns across the nation seemingly overnight. Price’s consideration of the flamingo’s role in American history and in contemporary times, alongside its flashy colors paints a clear picture of the American mindset. Price initiates her essay by bringing attention to the significance of America’s favorite lawn adornment specifically being a flamingo. Interestingly, the flamingos past treatment at the…

In “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” Price uses examples of how flamingos changed America’s culture to create a jocular tone that satirizes the culture within United States. Flamingos were creatures that had little significance in American lifestyles. However, as Price describes, people were “flocking” to Florida just to bring a flamingo back home. A hotel and casino had been built using the concept of the flamingo and soon after that more hotels were open that were that were…

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…

“The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, written by Jennifer Price, talks frequently about the bright and daring colors that represented America’s culture in the 1950’s. Most industries and products all included flashy shades and vibrant hues, designed to impel light on the past for those that lived in the dreadful era of the Great Depression. It did fulfill its purpose; or at least it seemed to. The way she truly felt about the actual American culture, wasn’t necessarily expressed…

Michelle Williams got paid less than 1% of her male co-star just because she was a woman. In the reshoot of the movie “All the money in the world”, Michelle Williams got paid less than $1,000 while Mark Wahlberg got paid about $1.5 million. Williams even admits to missing thanksgiving to work on the reshoot of the movie. “I had to break the news to my family and tell them I wasn’t going be home [for the holidays] and make alternate arrangements for them,” she told Vulture. “But everyone was so…

INDUSTRY OVERVIEW The Lawn Care Services (NAICS Code 333112) is the industry of making powered lawn mowers, and lawn tractors as well as other lawn care equipment (Naics 2014). This equipment makes maintaining a lawn, or garden more convenient to the user. It makes the consumer do less work, as well as do it in a shorter amount of time. A few well-known brands are John Deer, Toro, Honda, and Kubota. All of these companies manufacture machines that make the lawn easier to maintain every single…

How To Mow A Lawn: Simple Steps To A Beautiful Lawn Have you ever gazed out the kitchen window and realized the grass is getting extremely long and beginning to get a bit out of control. It is way past due to mow the lawn, but you haven’t had much experience in lawn keeping. You might see breathtaking lawns on television or in gardening magazines and wonder, how can I get my lawn to be a show stopper? Here are five simple steps and tips on pruning your lawn and making it look like a…

Maintaining a large lawn can be a tedious and tiring job, not to mention the fact that it will take up a great deal of time that may have been spent elsewhere on something far more pleasant. In order to simplify your life and maximize your time, you may want to check out the riding lawn mowers that are available today. A riding lawnmower is very popular acquisition among consumers with large areas of grass to cut, citing ease and efficiency as the most important factors. Many people cite cost…

Swisher Mower and Machine Company (SMC) had set the industry standard for adding mechanism into riding mowers. Located in the heart of Warrensburg, Missouri, SMC produced a total of three types of lawn mowers. The most successful of the three mowers was the riding mowers followed by their trail mowers, and last was SMC’s push mower kits. Swisher Mowers was also the first to introduce the “zero turn radius” mowers, which later become known as the “the Ride King”. The riding lawn mowers…