Pink is ironic because it is usually associated with a feminine quality, but all bets were off in the fifties. America wanted pink and they liked it that way. Jennifer Price gave insight of how American culture transformed in the 1950's because of the flamingo. Through the use of allusions, sassy diction, and the use of irony, Price took
Jennifer Price, in her essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo,” suggests that the common population of Americans is too obsessed with objects that have money value to recognize those that have true beauty. In order to illuminate materialism, Price uses irony, alliteration, and contradictory diction. She adopts a mocking tone for the American community. Irony is used to highlight how Americans have forgotten to care for the important things and are focusing more on lavish things. Price says, “But no matter.” This is to mock the arrogance of the American community.
“The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”; the essay’s title alone exposes Price’s overall flippant tone on the subject. Her persuasive piece unfolds the ridiculousness of American consumerism using the example of the flamingo’s rise in the 1950’s. Price aims her writing right at those consumers that continue to purchase unnecessary things. The second paragraph kicks off with an ironic statement, establishing Price’s first tone shift. With her first paragraph being an informative persona, the second paragraph shows her true feelings.
Except C-list celebrities famous for flashing the flesh. The people that appear on these shows are just doing as a way to better their career prospects or for the fading stars to get back into the limelight. I don’t understand why people are so obsessed over these TV shows, maybe it’s for the backstabbing and the bitchiness these two faced idiots force upon us. Finally, I would happily put mis-behaving children and their parents in room 101. Now don’t get me wrong, some children are lovely, well as lovely as they can be with the constant tantrums and acts committed in a search for attention.
Although Price’s essay is fleeting, its audience will surely grasp a good idea of how she views American culture. Right off the bat Price recognizes the intrepid aspects of hotels, businesses, and their clientele’s choice to promote the flamingo as a sign of “…leisure and extravagance.” (Price, line 19) The bird represented pizzazz, and was bright pink. Further in she also ties the ripple effect from the great depression. Those marketing techniques may have only been so successful, because America had a generation emerging from the great depression that grew tired of dim, dysphonic, and depressing colors. A combination of flashy pastels and an expanding middle class eager to invest in new technologies previously reserved for the wealthy shot that generation in to a new culture.
James Haveron In the world people are attracted by looks, smells and body language. Someone would be wearing a low shirt with her bra showing and no matter how ugly she is she will catch a mans attention and maby a good night. But to the point is that all of these things can lead to the ultimate pleasure that every man and woman seach for form the age of like 12. This ultimate pleasure is scary some try to avoid it other embrace it, it can cause life or death but in the end it will always result in happiness. In the movie hitch this concept was crated and destroyed but the ones in search for it fought for it.
the laws of man cry out against it. the voice of God cries out against it- and so do I.”(284) This humorous approach of satire to pointing out society's general misconception of females is again present when Howe discusses a woman's viable options to get what they want and how to achieve there desires. She goes on to say “Women, we don't need vote in order to get our own way”(288), but rather cry ,“crying always brings them around. get what you want.”288) “Make a scene.”(288) “That is so much more dignified and refined than walking up to a ballot and dropping in a piece of paper.”(288)
He does true justice to the horrors the Spanish mission system inflicted on American Indians, and his chapter on the AIDS crisis is a sadness to keep. The largely forgotten role of influential women in the city’s early history is well told, though I wish one of the 49 views had been of Gold Rush-era Chinese and Anglo prostitutes made to serve dozens of men a day, or of today’s trafficked women, who are too often swept under the rug of the city’s sex positiveness. But then, in the best possible way, Kamiya’s book left me wanting more, both from him — perhaps a deeper dive into one particular era or neighborhood à la Luc Sante’s masterpiece “Low Life” — and from myself. My copy of “Cool Gray City of Love” is full of marginalia like “visit,” “!!! !,” “must see,” “read!” For while Kamiya’s symphony of San Francisco is a grand pleasure in its own right, it is also a vital challenge to not rest content with the knowledge anyone else provides of a city you
She finds the courage to rise up above societies expectation that she stay in this marriage, and walks out: “S’posin’ Ah wuz to run off and leave yuh sometime” (30). When Janie runs off with Jody, she knows that society will not approve, but she does it anyways because she is after that feeling of lust and desire that she experienced under the pear tree. Jody makes Janie feel good, at least at first. He spoils her with the finest treats and he treats her like a true lady. Also, he was perceived as “socially acceptable” by most everyone; he was a prominent businessman and Governor.
Lady Chatterley's Lover was the story of an upper-class woman and her affair with her gamekeeper, a story that some considered transgressed a number of social and sexual taboos. It was an absurd trial, and the jury found Penguin not guilty, and the whole ordeal made censorship seem out of place in a free society. Clearly, if Penguin books were not found guilty surely these views were not alien but instead they were accepted. Moreover, the source also mentions ‘it’s no better or worse than it has ever been’ surely society was changing as the Obscene publications act as the government saw these new attitudes as a threat. One of the objections of the act was the frequent use of the word ‘fuck’ and ‘cunt’ and derogatory language The reason for the Penguin books not being charged may be because films such as ‘Darling’, which was released in 1965, contained controversial topics such as sex, drugs and abortion.